Community College: Optimal choice to study abroad when America
The community college is a good choice and save the most advantages for students in Vietnam. In the US, nearly 50% of bachelor graduates from community college programs.
Why Vietnam or selected students of community colleges in the US
The students often think that the curriculum of colleges by the program could not study at the university, and job opportunities after graduating from college is usually lower than the graduates at traditional universities.
However, this misconception is the result of education programs in the US today, over the years, education in America has had many changes significantly, when tuition at the university days escalation, the system of community colleges in the US are increasingly expanding, curriculum and teaching are increasingly diverse, the quality of education are constantly being upgraded. This is considered a step leapfrog development of education in the United States under President Barack Obama.
With students in the US, colleges are a perfect choice because here, the students will have class sizes small, the communication between teachers and students is more, students and teachers together to discuss a topic of study. Unlike undergraduate programs where a class has hundreds of students, university students only get knowledge from teaching classes and self-study research at home. In addition, the school environment and communicate entirely in English to help students rapidly improve language proficiency, teaching subjects are diverse, students can freely select your desired specialty.
The difference between community colleges and universities in the United States is the college tuition is much cheaper than the universities, and most of these schools have programs for college transition. Many students choose to study in the first 2 years of community college and two years after the transition to university to study cost savings.
Another difference is a curriculum of community colleges focus and face more practical applications. The teachers taught in most colleges have practical work experience while at university lecturers often intensive research work on more. In addition, college students also get qualified and quickly join the workforce faster than college students.
Cost savings:
It is considered as the biggest advantage of the Community College system when compared with 04 years of college. Tuition at the college is significantly lower, pointing to an estimated 5,000 – $ 10,000 / year while in college is about 15000-60000 USD / year or more. Students can study for 02 years at the Community College, then transfer to last 02 years at the university, has graduated with a Bachelor’s degree no different than college students 04 years in a row. But the tuition is much cheaper to pay for the first 2 years savings in college.
English Requirements:
Since the Community College offers programs that teach intensive English for international students to the certificate such as TOEFL / SAT is not a prerequisite for admission. In general, input conditions of the Community College of relatively low and less competitive than the 04-year university system.
When choosing a community college, the students often choose schools in the State of California, Texas and Washington:
Vietnam students entering the US often chose as California and Texas State 2 because 2 this state has a strong economy with many industries and diverse services. The education system here is very developed, the school always has many diversified industries, habitat, learn and work peacefully and comfortably. In addition, California also known as the state of Vietnam because there the Vietnamese community living, Vietnam students here less influenced by racial discrimination and often receive help Vietnam in support of the American people. Texas is continuing to diversify the industry and is a leader in many fields such as energy, petrochemicals, computers, electronics, biomedical, aerospace and agriculture.
Referring to Washington state in the US 2nd of potato production and ranks first in terms of production and exports of frozen potatoes. The entire restaurant chain KFC in Vietnam are imported frozen potatoes from Washington.Thanh Seatlle City is the largest city in Washington. Seattle is known for high consumption of coffee; coffee companies founded or based in Seattle include Starbucks, Seattle’s Best Coffee, and Tully’s. Researchers at Central Connecticut University ranked Seattle as the city with the lowest illiteracy United States in 69 American cities in 2005 and 2006, ranked second in 2007 (after Minneapolis). Aviation and electronics are also developed here.
