College Terminology

Midterm is an exam given approximately halfway through course that generally covers all lecture, reading and discussion

What season is optional for college?

How many semesters are there in a academic year?

Undergraduate degree that generally requires two years of full-time study

What is Higher education?

Represents the average of a student’s final grades in all their courses

A non-degree credential that proves knowledge or skill in a specific area

What are core courses?

If a student's parent or other relative attended the same school as them, they're considered what?

College vs. university what is the difference?

The knowledge, skills, lectures, assignments, tests and presentations that make up a course

This refers to the total amount of courses a student is taking per term

Undergraduate degree that generally requires four years of full-time study

A college publication that describes academic programs, their majors and minors, and required courses and their contents

A group of eight renowned private schools in the U.S., including Harvard, Yale, and Princeton

What is a Bachelor’s Degree?

What is Post-secondary education?

Teachers, employers, or others who can speak to a learner's preparedness for higher education

What is a nontraditional student?

How many quarters are in 1 academic year?

A full-time student has less than 12 credit hours in a semester

Classes students choose to fulfill a general education requirement or just because they’re interested in a topic

Internship vs. externship

What is considered a traditional college student?

What is a First-generation student?

What is the difference between a Public and Private College?

Programs that combine traditional learning on campus with online components

Comprising fraternities and sororities

The portion of a class when the professor teaches new information and the students take notes

A measure of a class time based on how many hours students spend in class, specific numbers largely depend on the school