DEGREES
FINANCIAL AID
MASCOTS OF THE MIDWEST
COLLEGE TERMINOLOGY
MAJORS
100
2 Year Degree
What is an Associates Degree?
100
What does FAFSA stand for? 
Free Application for Federal Student Aid 
100
mascot for the University of Iowa 
What are the Hawkeyes?
100
Your primary area of study
What is a major?
100

This major is all about quantitative information essential to management decision-making and control, as well as a wide variety of tax and consulting services and information on management's effective use of an organization's resources

What is an Accounting major?
200
4 year degree
What is a Bachelors Degree?
200

the amount of money that colleges charge for classroom and other instruction and use of some facilities such as libraries.

What is tuition? 
200
Mascot for University of Nebraska.
What are the Cornhuskers?
200
Your secondary area of study. 
What is a minor?
200

examines human behavior through environmental, genetic, physiological, and social settings

What is a Psychology major? 
300
6 year degree?
What is a Masters Degree?
300

students work part time during the school year as part of their financial aid package. The jobs are usually on campus and the money earned is used to pay for tuition or other college charges.

What is a work study program?

300
Mascot for the University of Minnesota
What are the Golden Gophers? 
300

a college student who supervises the other students living in a college dorm, usually in exchange for food and housing from the school

What is an RA? (Residential Assistant/Residential Advisor)
300

This major focuses on the understanding and analysis of crime and justice systems

What is a Criminal Justice/Law major?
400
The highest level of academic degree. Typically takes 8 years.
What is a Doctorate Degree?
400

states the type and amount of financial aid the school is willing to provide the student, if s/he accepts admission and registers as a full-time student

What is an award letter?
400
Mascot for the University of South Dakota
What are the Coyotes?
400

School official, usually assigned by your college or university, who can help choose your classes and make sure you are taking the right courses to graduate.

What is an advisor? 
400

helps prepare students for employment in design studios, in advertising agencies, for publications, for film and television graphics, and as corporate designers

What is a Graphic Design major?
500
Schools that specialize in the skilled trades, applied sciences, modern technologies, and career preparation 
What is career and technical education? (CTE)
500

These loans are need-based loans with interest paid by the government and payments deferred as long as the student is enrolled in a post-secondary program of studies

What is a subsidized loan? 
500
Mascot for the University of Illinois
What are the Fighting Illini? 
500

A description of a course which also lists the dates of major exams, assignments and projects.

What is a syllabus?
500

This major focuses on marine organisms and the chemical and physical processes that affect these organisms. It emphasizes on basic principles that aid in understanding the processes that shape life in marine environments.

What is a Marine Biology major?