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The Higher Education System in USAGraduate Education
Graduate education is a specialized, self-directed learning experience leading to a professional or advanced degree. The two graduate degrees of-fered in the U.S. are the master’s degree and the doctoral degree.
Master’s Degrees: Master’s degrees o�er addi-tional education or training in a specialized area well beyond the bachelor’s degree. Generally, one to two years of full-time academic study is re-quired to earn a master’s degree. Doctoral Degrees: The doctoral degree is de-signed to train research scholars and signi�es the completion of rigorous education and training in a speci�c discipline. The PhD, or Doctor of Phi-losophy, is the highest and most common degree awarded in academic disciplines.
Undergraduate Education
Undergraduate education leading to a bachelor’s degree o�ered in colleges and universities in the U.S. The degree is awarded after completion of a de�ned number of credits, which usually takes four years of full-time study.
The curriculum of an undergraduate program will generally consist of four areas:
Core courses that provide a founda-tion and are required of all students.Major courses in the primary area of concentration. Minor courses in a secondary area of concentration. Elective courses that may be chosen from any program to help ful�ll the overall number of credits required to graduate.
American higher education is characterized by diver-sity of institutions. In USA exists over 4,900 accredited institutions of higher education. The institutions are classi�ed as large or small, public or private, urban or rural, nonpro�t or for-pro�t (proprietary), specialized or general education.
Graduate(master’s or doctoral)
12 years of school
Undergraduate(two-or four-year institutions)
Graduate(master’s or doctoral)
12 years of school
Undergraduate(two-or four-year institutions)
