Where are you going to college? Technically, this often is the wrong question to ask.
Most students seeking a bachelor’s degree attend a university, not a college. Although Americans use university and college interchangeably, they are starkly different in many respects. When exploring your choices, it’s important to understand the distinctions. To get you started, here are eight things you should know about colleges: 1. Colleges Focus on Undergraduates A huge selling point for colleges is their laser focus on undergraduate education. There are no graduates students at many colleges, which means the focus of these institutions is exclusively on teaching undergraduates. This represents a key difference from universities, where professor research and graduate education are the top institutional priorities. At universities, graduate students conduct much of the undergrad instruction as teaching assistants. Meanwhile, star professors often limit their undergraduate teaching to large, lecture-hall settings, if they teach at the undergrad level at all. 2. Colleges are Small Many colleges have less than 3,000 students on their campuses. This prompts skeptical teenagers to believe that colleges would be too much like high school. Smaller campuses facilitate a more intimate learning experience. The classes are smaller making it easier to interact with classmates and professors. There is a greater ability to participate in a class when there are two dozen students enrolled versus 200. Smaller classes can lead to more opportunities to earn a better grade. When there are few students in the class, it’s easier to give quizzes, take-home assignments, essays, class participation points and extra credit. In contrast, at a large university, it can be too labor intensive to test frequently, which can lead to just two grading opportunities – a mid-term and a final exam. Colleges also expect students to show up for class. When you are enrolled in a course of 20 students, it will be noticed if you skip class. That’s obviously not true when hundreds of students attend a class in a lecture hall........ Click below to read more from Cappex.
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How can you save over $20,000 on college costs? Graduate on time.
At four-year schools, only about 40% of full-time students graduate on time, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, part of the U.S. Department of Education. For some students, it is because they sign up for too few courses in certain semesters and don’t earn enough credits in time. Other students can enroll in too many courses that don’t count toward a degree. In still other cases, students have to work to cover their expenses, which sometimes interferes with studies. Such delays add up. An additional year of school in a public four-year college will cost $22,826, on average, according to the nonprofit Complete College America. Then there is lost income to consider. Students who stay in school an additional year miss out on about $45,327 in salary, on average. All told, Complete College America estimates that an extra year of college can cost as much as $68,153. More colleges and universities are trying to improve their on-time graduation rates. The move, some say, is a response to the rising cost of tuition and stagnating family incomes. But it also makes financial sense for the schools. When students are on track to graduate on time, dropout rates fall and revenues rise........ Click below to read the full article via WSJ |
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