Community Colleges versus Universities

Introduction

Higher education in the United States is the responsibility of the state, not federal government. Therefore, with few exceptions (such as military academies), state higher education is recognized and managed by 50 states. Approximately 57% of colleges and universities, 23% of all enrolled students are private non-profit, most of whom - is the most prestigious colleges and universities, and public universities. The federal government has two important features that are equally applicable to both private and public institutions of higher education: providing students financial aid, which mostly takes the form of government guaranteed and subsidized loans, as well as providing the majority (but not all) of research funds, especially operating in the biomedical and physical sciences

Higher Education of the United States extensively, regardless of whether it is measured by the absolute number of educational institutions, the number of accepted students, costs, percentage of GDP, or the kind of global role it plays in American society. For example, the U.S. has about 4,000 colleges and universities awarding the degree, including the state in 1700, and 2300 private, most of which are private non-profit. In addition, there are about 400 universities, are not awarding the degree, which are private commercial. Educational institutions entitled to award a degree, are classified by the Carnegie Foundation as follows:

261 - Research universities (110 of which are classified as Special Study, based on the number and involvement in the doctoral program, as well as the volume of external sponsors)

610 - Colleges and Universities-Master's;

607 act as an undergraduate colleges (266 of which are non-profit, many of them elite with an emphasis on the humanities: history, political science, foreign languages, or scientific discipline, as opposed to vocational and technical specializations)

1699 - Associated Colleges (primarily a state college),

765 - Specialized colleges

In 2000 it was planned to enroll 15 million students, 57% of whom are women, of whom 77 percent must be enrolled in public universities and 57 percent planned to enroll at the day department. Of the 15 million about 38 percent will go to the associated colleges (primarily a state college), and 49 percent of students will study at colleges and universities enrolled over 10,000 students.

The first basic degree in the U.S. - a bachelor's degree, which can be obtained after training for about four years of full-time (although more and more American students are studying for longer, many of them drop out of high school, and then transferred to another while retaining the accumulated points earned in the first high school .) Each course is meant by a certain amount of work or the volume of the material, which the average student spends a successful 3 hours per week of work in class (lecture or seminar, or a combination of another), or twice the amount of time outside of class in the library, laboratories, independent work at home or in a dormitory that all together takes 15 weeks. By passing each course the student receives a certain number of points or ...