The College at World University and School ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School
(and Admissions at WUaS ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School).
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"How to Choose a College" - http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=1013104 ...
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Helpful ...
How to Pick a College: What the New York Times Missed
Selingo asks the following, further questions in this article:
"Value
While there is no single way to determine if the school you selected is worth the price tag, by weighing various available measures you can better assess if a college is worth at least the debt you might take on to go there.
- What is the school’s graduation rate for students with family and academic backgrounds similar to yours?
- How many first-year students with backgrounds like yours return for their second semester and then for their second year?
- What is the job-placement rate of the college’s graduates? How is it calculated?
- Besides the famous alumni that every school likes to tout, where are last year’s graduates working? How about five years ago? Ten years ago?
Mobility
A third of students now transfer before earning a degree, and students in the future will earn credit in all kinds of ways. You should find out if the institution is open to validating various learning experiences toward a degree.
- What is the percentage of students who transfer in each year?
- What percentage of transfer credits does the college take each year? For those it denies, on what basis does it not take the credits?
- Would the college accept credits through the American Council on Education credit service if a student took a massive open online course (MOOC) approved by the association?
Priorities
Find out if the school’s priorities are more about gaining prestige or in educating students.
- What is the percentage of students who get A’s? B’s?
- What is the percentage of full-time faculty? What percentage of first-year classes do they teach?
- How much writing and reading is required in classes? What percentage of classes assign more than forty pages of reading a week or more than twenty pages of writing over the course of a semester?"
... and how to apply these good ideas to developing World University and School ...
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WUaS's STEM and MIT foci ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics ... which is a distinguisher ...
WUaS has a significant science/mathematics/engineering/technology focus, and it's online and free ...
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see, too ...
"As WUaS grows, studying in other countries and langues - 'a year abroad' - will take on new meaning, involving actually studying in that language, or perhaps eventually even in a virtual world of that country, "How to Choose a College," But WUaS is Creative Commons' licensed, and free ~~~ On-the-ground travel and study can be very fun"
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/01/tetramicra-riparia-as-wuas-grows.html
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