Higher Education in the USA. Many students, upon finishing high school, choose to continue their education

Many students, upon finishing high school, choose to continue their education. The system of higher education includes 4 categories of institutions.

The community college is financed by the local community in different professions. Tuition fees are low in these colleges, that's why about 40 per cent of all American students of higher education study at these colleges. On graduation from such colleges American students get “associate degree” and can start to work or may transfer to 4-year colleges or universities (usually to the 3rd year).

The technical training institution, at which high school graduates may take courses, and learn different technical skills, which may include design business, computer programming, accounting, etc. The best-known of them are: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Technological Institute in California.

The four-year college is not a part of a university. The graduates receive the degree of Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science. There are also small Art Colleges, which grant degrees in specialized fields such as ballet, film-making and even circus performance. There are also Pedagogical Colleges.

The university may contain:

· several colleges for students who want to receive a bachelor's degree after four years of study;

· one or more graduate schools for those who want to continue their studies after college for about two years to receive a Master's degree and then a doctor's degree. There are 156 universities in the USA.

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Задание IV. Ответьте письменно на вопросы по тексту

1. How many categories of institutions does the system of higher education include?

2. Why do 40 per cent of all American students study at the community colleges?

3. What does the technical training institution presuppose?

4. What may the university contain?

Контрольная работа № 4

Вариант 5

Задание I. Сопоставьте слово или выражение по тексту (колонка 1) с переводом (колонка 2).

Например:

a first year student	сдавать экзамен
to take an exam	студент первокурсник

a first year student - студент первокурсник

to take an exam - сдавать экзамен

public or private	абитуриент
a tuition fee	учебный план
an applicant	аспирант
a record	выпускник колледжа
a Scholastic Aptitude Test	плата за обучение
a curriculum	получить степень магистра
an undergraduate	выпускник университета
a graduate	государственный или частный
to get a Master's degree	тест на определение способностей
postgraduate	достижение