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Understanding set-up of colleges and universities in USA
In the United States some institutions are run by the state, while others are
run by private owners. The State University is a public school. The state
government subsidizes the tuition fees to a large extent. However, most state
universities are very large. For example, the State University of New York at
Buffalo, University of Texas at Austin.
Some colleges are private institutions. Here the costs of tuition may be
comparatively higher than that of the state universities in that particular
state. For example, RIT, University of Southern California, Kellogg’s School of
Marketing.
 Ivy League colleges are well known for their rigorous program of study and their
excellence in sports. There are only 7 colleges that make up the Ivy League.
These are Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Dartmouth, Columbia and Brown.
These colleges have extremely stringent admissions criteria and very few
students make it to the Ivy League. However, not everyone can make it to an Ivy
League college and definitely not everyone can afford to pay the tuition at an
Ivy League college.
Most Universities are required to meet certain minimum standards of educational
quality. In the United States for example colleges that are accredited are
regularly monitored by accrediting agencies. This ensures that you will receive
an education that will be worth your money.
Independent institutions, magazines and agencies provides ratings and rankings
of colleges based on their cost, majors, academic caliber, student-teacher ratio
and a whole host of other parameters. Because there are over 3000 schools to
choose from at the undergraduate level and over a 1,000 schools to choose from
at the Graduate level, these ratings play an important role, though they are by
no means the final word on the quality of a university.
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