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Joe Biden adopts part of a tuition-free public college proposal as a nod to US progressives
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Coronavirus prompts Harvard, MIT to send students home
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Cost Matters: Why Lambda School should have a lower success rate than college
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Professor loses landmark legal battle after claiming it’s ‘free speech’ to deliberately misgender trans students
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Demoted and placed on probation
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Judge rules that student loan debt is dischargeable in bankruptcy
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FTC settlement with for-profit University of Phoenix over deceptive advertising will require them to cancel $141M in student debt and pay $50M to former students
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ICE creates fake US university, lures international students, collects money, arrests them
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Scandinavia is famous for its liveable cities, but a new university course in Nordic urban planning has raised questions about replicating the region's approach elsewhere
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One in five University of Otago, New Zealand medical students to be denied graduation after falsifying overseas placement records
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In China, surge in students informing on professors
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Are liberal arts colleges doomed? The cautionary tale of Hampshire College and the broken business model of American higher education
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Student tracking, secret scores: How college admissions offices rank prospects before they apply
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An unseen victim of the college admissions scandal: The high school tennis champion aced out by a billionaire family
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The hedge fund billionaire’s guide to buying your kids a better shot at not just one elite college, but lots of them
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University of Alabama uses location-tracking phone app to know who leaves football games early
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What college admissions offices really want - Elite schools say they’re looking for academic excellence and diversity. But their thirst for tuition revenue means that wealth trumps all
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It’s time for Black athletes to leave White colleges
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Jerry Falwell’s aides break their silence - Current and former Liberty University officials describe a culture of fear and self-dealing at the largest Christian college in the world
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Flawed algorithms are grading millions of students’ essays
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Meet Timothy Leary, the 1960s Harvard professor who became the ‘high priest of LSD’
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A transgender man in Tennessee was suspended from his Christian college just hours after getting top surgery
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China orders halt to history tests for students seeking credits for US university courses
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Alaska defunds scholarships for thousands of university students ahead of fall semester
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College financial-aid loophole: Wealthy US parents transfer guardianship of their teens to get aid
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The UA Regents were wrong to think help was on the way—and this weekend proved it
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Alaska fears 'brain drain' after forty-one percent proposed cut to university system
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University of Chicago undergraduate physics bibliography
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Med students are doing vaginal exams on unconscious, non-consenting patients
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How Oxford university shaped Brexit — and Britain’s next prime minister
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The revenge of the poverty-stricken college professors is underway in Florida. And it's big.
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Former Stanford sailing coach gets one day in prison, six months house arrest, two years probation, and a $10,000 fine in college cheating scandal
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Combined BA + MA degrees
Have any of you done these degrees? I'm switching disciplines for my MA, and I want to collect information on this alternative method should I fail that this summer. I'd have a more complete grasp...
Have any of you done these degrees? I'm switching disciplines for my MA, and I want to collect information on this alternative method should I fail that this summer. I'd have a more complete grasp of the field and proceed to a PhD equipped with better knowledge. The price to pay being some time, but I'll probably already have to do my MA---if I manage---in three years b/c the school might want me to take an extra preparatory year going through some undergrad classes.
So, any experiences, any comments, any links highly appreciated!
P.S.: EU information appreciated, that's been significantly harder to get at.
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The disadvantages of an elite education: Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers
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A union fight at Marquette University
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Schools are using software to help pick who gets in. What could go wrong?
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The University of Maryland waited eighteen days to inform students of a virus on campus. That decision left vulnerable students like Olivia Paregol in the dark
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How does a rural Colorado county with three people per square mile send thirty students to an Ivy League institution?
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Math teachers should be more like football coaches
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Lori Loughlin feels wronged in college admissions scandal
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LA’s elite on edge as prosecutors pursue more parents in admissions scandal
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Can you access university libraries in your country w/o an affiliation to the university?
In Turkey, where I live, almost all universities restrict access to staff and students (only their own students if not a graduate student); the only exception I can find is the Koç University...
In Turkey, where I live, almost all universities restrict access to staff and students (only their own students if not a graduate student); the only exception I can find is the Koç University where paid membership is open to public. I've researched in the past and found that major universities around the world---i.e. Italy, France, UK, US; selection factor being the languages I can read---seem to allow the public to access in one way or another (article, in Turkish, with results). But I wonder how accurate my reading is with the reality, and thus I'm asking this question.
So, as a plain citizen w/o any current affiliation to any educational institutions, can you access university libraries where you live? Does it matter if you have certain diplomas or affiliations? How easy it is?
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Increasingly competitive college admissions: much more than you wanted to know
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The corporations devouring American colleges
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All-male historically Black Morehouse College will admit transgender men
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They had it coming - The parents indicted in the college-admissions scandal were responding to a changing America, with rage at being robbed of what they believed was rightfully theirs
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Harvard sued by 'descendant of slave for profiting from photos'
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How did/do you fund your graduate education?
If you're doing a master's or a PhD, how do you pay for it? Or if you will be doing in near future, how do you plan to pay for it?
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Elite colleges constantly tell low-income students that they do not belong
7 votes