I agree with Jeffrey Brenzel, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions at Yale,when he explains that “We’ve reversed the equation–that the college is going to make something out of your life, when actually it’s the student who makes something out of college,” he says.He goes on to explain in an interview with the Huffington Post
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Best place for Vide Game design
GamePro offers up a listing of best colleges to study Video Game Design:
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University of Southern California, Interactive Media Division
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Degrees offered: Major/Minor
Number of students enrolled: 16,283
Student/Faculty ratio: 9:1
Annual tuition: $38,570
The Interactive Media Division of USC has graduated some pretty big names in the indie gaming scene. Jenova Chen of thatgamecompany (flOw), Matt [...]
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medical school options opening up
The AMA made a profound mistake years ago in predicting there would be too many doctors. This resulted in only 1 new medical school opening in a thrity year period. It, of course, proved dumb since the US population kept going up and up. Rural communities already go without doctors. Of course this scarcity has [...]
Northeastern adjusts coop to 4 years
Northeastern is renowned for its Coop education program. One thing that turned students off was that Coop otion would take five years. Now Northeastern has found a way to make it four:
Under the plan, students who want to graduate in four years would take more courses online to squeeze in two six-month stints of full-time [...]
Major study–quite literally
The UK and Australia provde direct entry to a major unlike say the USA, Canada and Scotland (although you can certainly start building your major immediately). One often wonders which method is better. I have always argue it depends on the student. But a new study actually suggest that committing too soon is not a [...]
Art school not so confidential
Steven Henry Madoff, who is senior critic at the Yale University School of Art, has a new book, Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century) (MIT Press). The book contains essays, questionnaire interviews, and transcripts of conversations by and among prominent artists and art educators, all of them addressing the mission and means of the art [...]
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Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly narrow areas of study, she proposes a truly cross-disciplinary education — one that dynamically combines all areas of study to address the great problems of our day.
Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of [...]
where do tech founders go to school?
You may be surprised to learn that the Ivies only account for 6% as this Techcrunch article illuminates:
We found that the 628 U.S.-born tech founders we surveyed received their education from 287 unique universities. Almost every major U.S. university was represented. The top ten institutions in this group accounted for only 19 percent of the [...]
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Annual pay for Bachelors graduates without higher degrees. Typical starting graduates have 2 years of experience; mid-career have 15 years. See full methodology for more.
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