Types of Colleges
Paying for College
College to Career
What's your major?
100
How long does it normally take to get a Bachelor's degree?
Four years (or more!)
100
What is room & board?
Extra costs involved with living on-campus: rent, food, activity fees, etc.
100
True or False: When studying history as a major in college you can not focus on a certain history period or subject?
False! Many colleges have specialties (which means a focus of what you want to learn about) when it comes to what you want to study in history. Some specialties include Asian history, women's history, latin american history, etc.
200
How many years does it normally take to finish an Associate's degree?
Two years
200
What is the difference between a loan and a grant?
Grants typically come from the government, based on a student's financial need or background. Scholarships come from many sources and students must apply individually to scholarships.
200
What is the annual average salary range for lawyers in our area?
$50,000 - $110,000 per year
200
What are the top three graduate schools for students who want to study history?
Princeton University in Princeton, NJ University of California-Berkeley in Berkeley CA Yale University in New Haven Connecticut
300
This is a category of school that trains students in areas like cosmotology, audio production, mechanical engineering, or culinary arts.
Technical College. Examples: Hennepin Tech, Anoka Tech, etc.
300
List two expenses associated with college BESIDES tuition.
Examples: books, room & board (housing), parking, technology fees, activity fees, computer & web access, etc. (Not all colleges feature the same extra fees!)
300
True or false? By studying history as a major in college, you can work in the library?
True! You can!
300
Name three fields or industries you could work in with a history degree.
History overlaps into many fields. You can work as a teacher or a professor in college,as a researcher where you can work in museums and study artifacts or become a lawyer or working law. By working in law, you have to understand past laws and how they affected society to understand how laws work now.
400
How many students (approximately) attend the University of Minnesota?
28,000! (Must guess within 2,000.)
400
What's the average price of a private college in the US?
About $30,000 per year.
400
True or false? With a history major in college you learn how to locate information,understand cultural differences and collect data?
True. By studying history in college, you are taking information from different parts of the world and from different times and making new information based off old information! So you are doing all of these things!
400
Which degree do you think a history major recieve? A bachelor of arts or a bachelor or science?
A bachelor of Arts. This is because a Bachelor of Arts is more focused on a wider range of credits and subjects that you can learn about. Where Bachelor of Science is focused directly to what you are studying. Bachelor of Sciences are usually for more technical fields.
500
Name one kind of accreditation that a college might hold.
Regional Accreditation or National Accreditation. DOUBLE BONUS: What's the difference?
500
What is the FAFSA?
Free Application for Federal Student Aid
500
Which of these areas offers graduates the highest-paying average salary after graudation: Nursing, Human Resources, Engineering, or Computer Information Technology/Information Systems
Computer Information Tech degrees pay more than any other on the list. Here are some average starting salaries: Tech: $57,000 per year Nursing: $52,000 per year Human Resources: $40,000 per year Engineering: $56,000 per year
500
What is the difference between a B.A. and a B.S. degree?
B.A. is a Bachelor of Arts and a B.S. is a Bachelor of Science -- the separation has to do with a program's area of focus.
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