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Higher education

Post-secondary education at universities, academies, colleges, and institutes of technology etc.

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Higher education

doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.)

Education; Higher education

The highest earned degree awarded in the United States.

enrollment

Education; Higher education

(1) The process of registering for classes. (2) the total number of students at an institution.

exchange student

Education; Higher education

Individual attending a US institution by special agreement with a foreign institution. A visting student does not-matriculate which means that he or she is not engaged in a degree program. To ...

accreditation

Education; Higher education

A process of granting recognition to academic institutions and professional programs offered by those institutions for meeting established standards of performance, integrity and quality and which ...

professor

Education; Higher education

The common honorific for all university faculty members. But it is also the formal rank of senior (full) professors.

program

Education; Higher education

The body of courses and other formally established learning experiences which constitute a program of study.

drop

Education; Higher education

To withdraw from a course.

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