Types of Colleges
These colleges offer the first two years of a liberal arts education, as well as career or vocational training.
What is a community college?
Name the official form used to apply for federal financial aid to pay for college.
What is the Free Application for Federal Student Aid or What is the FAFSA?
A two-year degree that some students earn to transfer to a four-year program while others complete this degree to prepare to go straight to work.
What is an Associate Degree?
Official record of courses taken and grades earned at a given institution.
What is a transcript?
Big Al is the costumed elephant mascot for which state school?
What is the University of Alabama?
These colleges are funded by local and state governments and usually offer lower tuition rates than private colleges, especially for students who are residents of the state where a college is located.
What are public colleges?
When does FAFSA open every year?
October 1
This degree requires completing a four- or five-year college program.
What is a Bachelor's (or Baccalaureate) Degree?
Staff members on campus that are assigned to students in their department and help them choose majors and minors, design a course of study and help ensure students fulfill graduation requirements.
What is an academic advisor?
Aubie the Tiger is which state school's mascot?
What is Auburn University?
At these colleges, at least 25 percent of the full-time undergraduate students are Hispanic.
What are Hispanic Serving Institutions? or What are HSIs?
This type of free money, which is sometimes based on academic merit, talent, or a particular area of study, can make a real difference in helping you manage your education expenses.
What is a scholarship?
Students can generally earn this advanced degree in two additional years of study after earning a bachelor’s degree.
What is a Master's Degree?
Name the two tests used for college admissions.
What is the SAT or the ACT?
Name the Alabama school whose mascot is the Golden Bear.
What is Miles College?
These colleges originated when African-American students were legally denied access to most other institutions of higher education. Now, these colleges celebrate African-American culture and empowerment, and give black students the chance to experience an educational community in which they are finally part of the majority.
What are Historically Black Colleges and Universities? or What are HBCUs?
This financial situation occurs when the college offers a financial aid award that does not meet a student's full financial need.
What is gap?
This degree is the highest earned academic degree in U.S postsecondary education. It typically takes four or more years to complete and requires the completion of a research thesis and/or capstone paper.
What is a Doctoral (or Doctorate) Degree?
A college student who is the first in their family to go to college.
What is a first generation or first gen student?
Blaze the Dragon is mascot for this state school.
What is UAB?
These schools are classified as businesses that offer a variety of degree programs which typically prepare students for a specific career. They tend to have higher costs, which could mean graduating with more debt and credits earned may not transfer to other colleges.
What are for-profit schools?
There are several ways to cover college costs. Name 3 of them.
Possible answers include: federal aid, scholarships, loans, grants, work-study, 529 college savings account, out of pocket.
This degree allows students to earn a bachelor's plus a graduate or professional degree in less time if they combine them. A student on this track may apply to a graduate program as an undergraduate and begin the graduate program in the fourth year of college.
What is a Joint Degree?
This price indicates a college's total estimated expenses for one year including tuition, room and board, books, supplies, transportation, loan fees, and miscellaneous expenses.
What is the Cost of Attendance?
There are two universities in Alabama with a bulldog for a mascot. Name these two schools.
What is Alabama A&M University and Samford University?