Archive for September, 2010
Education: College of Opportunity
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010Roughly 1,200 two-year community colleges in the United States offer more than 11 million students an opportunity to begin their higher education in a small, community-based environment, often at lower cost than a four-year institution.
More resources:
American Life : learn more about community colleges here
Free resource on community colleges in the United States of America here
Top 200 World Universities
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010For the 7th year Times Higher Education have published Top World University rankings. The 2010-2011 world university rankings represent the most accurate picture of global higher education they have ever produced.
The video below explains
- Why new rankings methodology is followed this year?
- Why 72 U.S. universities dominate the top 200?
Top universities by region
Top universities by subject
- Engineering & Technology
- Life sciences
- Clinical, Pre-clinical & Health
- Physical sciences
- Social sciences
- Arts & Humanities
For even richer and deeper analysis of more than 400 institutions, download their Times Higher Education World University Rankings iPhone application, which allows you to create your own methodology, filter results by country and region, and match your personalized rankings against cost-of-living and tuition-fees data.
