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College Week Voc.
Term | Definition |
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Undergraduate | A student at a college or university who has not yet earned a bachelor's or equivalent degree. |
Graduate Student | A student who continues studies after graduation. |
Alumni | A graduate or former student, of a particular school, college, or university. |
Admission | University admission or college admissions is the process through which students enter tertiary education at universities and colleges. |
Bachelor's degree | An academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies. |
Associate's degree | An associate's degree is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by community colleges, junior colleges, technical colleges. |
ACT | A standardized aptitude examination for college admission, developed by the American college Testing Program. |
SAT | The SAT is a standardized test for most college admissions in the United States. |
Transcript | In education, a transcript is an inventory of the courses taken and grades earned of a student throughout a course. |
Financial aid | Student financial aid in the United States is funding intended to help students pay educational expenses including tuition and fees. |
Major | An academic major, major concentration, concentration, or simply major is a college or university student's main field of specializa. |
Minor | Similar to college majors, but with a smaller concentration and fewer classes. While most colleges require students to have a major. |
Credits | A course credit (often credit hour, or just credit or "unit") is a unit that gives weighting to the value, level or time. |
Public College | A public university is a university that is predominately funded by public means through a national or subnational government. |
Private College | Private schools, also known as independent schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments. |