Lewisia: The College at World University and School, "How to Pick a College: What the New York Times Missed," Values, Mobility, Priorities, WUaS has a significant science/mathematics/engineering/technology focus, and it's online and free (and Creative Commons' licensed)

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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

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130110205116-17000124-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.

1. What is the school’s graduation rate for students with family and academic backgrounds similar to yours?
2. How many first-year students with backgrounds like yours return for their second semester and then for their second year?
3. What is the job-placement rate of the college’s graduates? How is it calculated?
4. 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.

1. What is the percentage of students who transfer in each year?
2. What percentage of transfer credits does the college take each year? For those it denies, on what basis does it not take the credits?
3. 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.

1. What is the percentage of students who get A’s? B’s?
2. What is the percentage of full-time faculty? What percentage of first-year classes do they teach?
3. 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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