Money awarded to students based on academic or other achievements to help pay for education expenses.
What is a scholarship?
What is a community college?
A subject of field of study chosen by a college student.
What is a major?
the official term for a teacher at a college or university
An undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course of study that generally lasts four years.
What is a Bachelor's Degree?
The cost of your classes. Some schools charge based on how many units you are taking, while others charge a base rate per semester as long as you stay within a certain range of units.
What is Tuition?
The name of a building where students would live during the school year.
What is a residence hall?
A 3 hour test, created in 1926, that was designed to evaluate a student's college specific skills.
What is the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)
A term for a student pursuing their masters degree and higher
What is a graduate student?
Another term for a Ph.D?
What is a Doctor of Philosophy (Doctorate Degree)?
A form of financial aid that must be paid back after you graduate?
What are loans?
The office within a college or university responsible for recruiting and communicating with new and transfer students
What is the admissions office?
What is orientation?
A name for a student who is taking around 3 or less classes a semester.
What is a part time student?
An official report given by a college/school which contains official records of an individual student. It will list time attended, subjects studied, grades received, and special awards/recognition.
What is a transcript?
DAILY DOUBLE! A type of financial aid that allows a student to work on campus to earn money towards the cost of their college courses.
What is a work study?
You would head here to register for classes, get your official copy of your grades, and probably pay for classes as well.
What is the registrar's office?
What is an acceptance letter?
The head of a faculty department at a college or university faculty department
What is a dean?
A name for a group of graduates or former students of a college or university
What is alumni?
A federal grant awarded to undergraduate students in financial need.
What is the Federal Pell Grant?
A living space (usually an apartment) away from the main buildings of a university or college
What is off campus housing?
A test created in 1959 by a college professor from the University of Iowa as a competitor to the commonly used "college-specific skills" assessment. It has an optional essay portion!
What is the American College Test (ACT)
Another term for the vice president of a college or university
What is a provost
The name of a degree earned at a trade school.
What is a certificate?