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As per the College Board reports, the total sticker price of a year at a typical university increased by more than $1,000 in 2009, even though living costs fell.
The average price for tuition, room, board, books, and all other expenses at public universities jumped by $1,062, or 5.8 percent, to $19,388 for the academic year that has just started. The total student budget for private colleges rose by $1,638, or 4.4 percent, to $39,028.
The good news is that the Community colleges, which educate about 50 percent of all college students, are still at a good bargain. Their average tuition is just $2,544 a year, up only $172 from last year. Despite the reductions in state and private scholarship programs and increases in tuition cause by economic slowdown, the total amount of grants and tax benefits has been rising.
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The financial year 2009 (Oct08-Sep09) saw a dip of 25% in the Student Visas to the USA. The number of visas issued declined to 25,860, from 34,510 the year before. Experts felt the decline in numbers of Indian students choosing to study in the US was because of a fall in financial aid offered by institutions rather than visa structures.
“Going to the US for higher education is an investment decision and in India we’re now seeing all the markets reviving and investors coming back. I think that next year, the number of students going to the US will again increase as many are now making decisions to go and doing the required paperwork,” says Mumbai-based education consultant Karan
The US Consul General, Lisa Larson has issued a statement asking students not to approach Educational Agents for VISAs. These agents often charge students high sums of money for their services and for VISA related information. She added that all the information was available online on the US Embassy website, and the process was straightforward. Also, Lisa clarified that getting a US VISA has more to do with the VISA interview and less to do with the documentation that agents stress on.
This statement can actually put a lot of student concerns about US VISAs to rest. Also, it shows that students need not depend on Educational Agents for guidance on the VISA process.
Top B-Schools in the US are finding an increase in the number of female students and this should come as no surprise as the world renowned companies like Yahoo, Pepsi Co are spearheaded by the women CEOs.
According to Director of MBA Admissions, Wharton School, the latest class to enter the program – the class of 2011 – is an unprecedented 40-percent female, up from 36-percent female last year and 37 percent for the class of 2009. Just a few years earlier, the class of 2005 was only 33-percent female.
This number is especially high when compared to other top U.S. business schools. Harvard Business School’s class of 2011 is 37-percent female, while the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business is 35-percent and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management is 33-percent.
Yes….according to a ground-breaking study released last week by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Stanford University School of Education, University of Toronto and National Bureau of Economic Research if changes were made to streamline the complicated financial aid process more low-income students would make it to the colleges in America.
The new study conducted by these universities revealed that cumbersome financial aid forms and lack of information about higher education costs and financial aid prevented access to higher education. The researchers observed that once the financial aid process is streamlined it would open doors to more low-income students across the world to opt for the Study in America
Though the US economy is going through tough times, it seems that the Chinese Students are not worried about this. Carleton College has 18 new students from China this year, and they are paying about half of their own expenses. A handful of them don’t need any financial aid at all. While Chinese graduate students are no shock on university campuses, significant cohorts of undergraduate applications from China are a new phenomenon at most colleges.
Just a few years ago, Carleton had only three or four students enrolling from China, and it never enrolled students who could afford to pay their own way. In the past few years, the number of annual applications from China has grown to 300 from 50 or 60 most years. This isn’t the case only with Carleton. At Duke University, the number of undergraduate applications from China hit 500 this year, up from 175 three years ago.
As the Indian government prepares to allow entry of foreign education providers in the higher education sector, about 50 foreign universities – mostly from the US, UK and Australia – have expressed interest in setting up campuses in the country. The universities have approached the Ministry of Human Resource Development in the last three months, a senior official said.
To take forward the process of engaging their institutions in India’s education sector a number of foreign dignitaries, including British trade and investment minister Mervyn Davies and Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed, have visited India.
Foreign universities are currently not allowed to offer degree courses in India, although the country allows 100% foreign investment in the sector. However, nearly 150 foreign institutes offer courses with Indian universities under twinning arrangements allowed by the Education Department.
A 2,300-year-old gemstone delicately carved with a portrait of Alexander the Great was discovered by a University of Washington student on an archaeological dig in Israel.
“This is an incredibly rare find,” said Sarah Stroup, a University of Washington associate professor of classics who led a group of 20 Washington students who took part in the summer dig. “The carving is of the highest quality that could have been done in that period.” The carnelian stone, less than a half-inch long, was found at the Tel Dor archaeological site on Israel’s northwest coast. It is believed to date from shortly after 332 BC, when Alexander conquered the region.
