College Basics
What is the degree you earn after completing 4 years of college?
What is a bachelor’s degree?
This is the oldest university in the United States.
What is Harvard University?
Many college students live in these buildings on campus.
What are dorms (or dormitories)?
This is the most popular sport played during March Madness.
What is basketball?
True or False: College students can take classes about video games.
What is True?
This is the name of the test that high school students take to apply to college.
What is the SAT or ACT?
This university’s sports teams are called the Fighting Irish.
What is the University of Notre Dame?
True or False: Students in college can choose what time their classes start.
What is True?
The mascot for the University of Alabama’s sports teams is this animal.
What is an elephant?
Some college students study abroad. What does “study abroad” mean?
What is studying in another country?
This word describes the main area of study a student chooses in college.
What is a major?
This Ivy League university is located in New Haven, Connecticut.
What is Yale University?
This type of school schedule includes long breaks in summer, winter, and spring.
What is a semester system?
College football teams compete for this trophy every year.
What is the College Football Playoff National Championship?
This holiday is often the first big break for college students in the fall.
What is Thanksgiving?
This type of college is for students who want to spend two years earning an associate degree.
What is a community college?
This university’s nickname is “The Longhorns.”
What is the University of Texas?
These are clubs where students can meet others with similar interests, such as sports, music, or science.
What are student organizations (or clubs)?
This annual football rivalry is known as “The Game” between two Ivy League schools.
What is Harvard vs. Yale?
College mascots are usually animals. This college has a tree as its mascot.
What is Stanford University?
This is the application students fill out to get financial aid for college.
What is FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid)?
This university has won the most NCAA basketball championships.
What is UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles)?
In college, students use this place to study quietly or borrow books.
What is the library?
his is the name of the competition where college teams row boats to race each other.
What is rowing (or crew)?
The word “university” comes from the Latin word “universitas,” which means this.
What is “a community of teachers and scholars”?