What's the difference between American liberal arts colleges and universities?

The difference between American liberal arts colleges and American universities lies in four aspects: teaching atmosphere, talent training direction, scholarships and total resources.

First of all, look at the differences from the atmosphere of teaching and learning.

American College of Arts and Sciences teaches professors who focus on teaching instead of graduate teaching assistants, which can give students good guidance. Most of them are taught in small classes, and students are highly concerned, and the relationship between teachers and students is harmonious, which is conducive to eliminating the strangeness when they first arrive in the United States.

American universities have a strong academic atmosphere. There are often some related academic lectures and seminars on campus, and you can also get in touch with professors from graduate schools. These are of great help to the future postgraduate entrance examination and employment.

Second, look at the difference from the direction of cultivating talents.

American college of arts and sciences only provides undergraduate education, and the school mainly provides undergraduate education. The purpose of education mode is to cultivate high-quality people, the so-called educated people, rather than to cultivate people engaged in specific work.

In this college, students can get in touch with a wider range of knowledge, explore their potential interests and so on.

American university education is highly targeted to majors. If you study the knowledge of vocational courses, you will be exposed to more in American universities.

Third, look at the difference from the scholarship.

Scholarships from American colleges of arts and sciences are better than those from universities.

Scholarships from American universities are not as easy to get as those from American colleges of arts and sciences.

Fourth, look at the difference from the total amount of resources.

The total resources of American liberal arts colleges are not as good as those of American universities, but because of the small number of students, students can actually share many resources.

There are many resources in American universities, but there are also many students, so there are not many resources that students can actually share.

Extended data:

The difference between liberal arts college and other types of higher education is mainly the generality and small but precise scale of its courses. Class sizes in liberal arts colleges are usually much lower than those in universities, while teachers in liberal arts colleges usually pay more attention to teaching than research.

From the students' point of view, liberal arts colleges are usually different from other forms of higher education: students' overall satisfaction is high, professors' personal interest in teaching and educating people, and an atmosphere of encouraging participation in discussions.

Many students choose liberal arts colleges with these factors in mind. From the management point of view, the small scale of the college of arts and sciences contributes to its cohesion and ability to tide over difficulties. In the college of arts and sciences, the job satisfaction of faculty and staff is usually high. In addition, most liberal arts colleges are boarding schools.

What the College of Arts and Sciences needs to point out is that the art here cannot be simply understood as art, but should be soft abilities such as quality, ability and thought. Compared with specific vocational education, the goal of liberal arts college is not to teach students some specific skills to make a living, but to educate students in all aspects to make them become high-quality and educated people.

Liberal arts colleges will certainly teach classics, but most of them will not teach accounting. At first, all the students in the science school were descendants of aristocrats, so there is no need to worry about employment pressure. What they care about is how to improve their quality and self-cultivation.

Because the college of arts and sciences only provides undergraduate education, teachers can concentrate on teaching and don't have to spend a lot of energy on scientific experiments and papers.

At the same time, due to the small scale of the College of Arts and Sciences, there is close interaction between teachers and students. This is very helpful to cultivate students' communication and leadership skills. After four years of high-quality general education, students are very popular whether they enter the society or go to graduate school for further study.

The school is located in the famous embassy district in the northwest of Washington, D.C., which is 10 minutes away from the newly-built China embassy and university campus. It covers 95 acres. Most of the neighborhood is the residence of diplomats, not far from DC city center, and it is also one of the safest areas in DC.

The school has 65,438+04 classrooms, and more than 780,000 libraries are connected to the DC library. The school also has a 50,000-watt broadcasting center, a language resource center with cutting-edge technology, a science laboratory, a 24-hour computer classroom and two video conference halls. Most classrooms have the most advanced multimedia briefing function.

Performing arts hall, comprehensive gymnasium, etc. Students can join various student clubs, fraternities, sororities and various sports clubs.

Help provided by the school for international students: The school has full-time international student assistants, who are responsible for welcoming students at the airport, arranging accommodation for students, and providing uninterrupted help and services with academic consultants, psychological consultants and learning skills consultants.

It can be said that studying in an American university will make you feel the warmth of home. In addition, the open social form and reasonable price level in the United States have also become one of the important reasons for attracting China students.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-American University

Baidu encyclopedia-American college of arts and sciences