ERIC Number: ED581897
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 135
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: 978-0-9708058-8-1
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What Will They Learn? 2017-18. A Survey of Core Requirements at Our Nation's Colleges and Universities
Bledsoe, Eric; Riethmiller, Megan; Kempson, Lauri; Poliakoff, Michael
American Council of Trustees and Alumni
"What Will They Learn?"™ evaluates every four-year public university with a stated liberal arts mission as well as hundreds of private colleges and universities selected on the basis of size, mission, and regional representation. All schools in the "What Will Will They Learn"™ study are regionally-accredited, nonprofit institutions. The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) prepared this report to answer the questions that are on students' and parents' minds. Other ranking systems pit schools against each other in an effort to rank schools from "best" to "worst." Those rankings focus on external inputs, such as alumni giving and admission selectivity, rather than academic substance. In this book, over 1,100 colleges and universities individually receive grades according to whether each school requires the essential areas of a liberal arts core curriculum. This report provides information about general education and much more: tuition and fees, as well as the percentage of students who graduate in four years. [For the 2016 report, see ED581888.]
Descriptors: Higher Education, Liberal Arts, Educational Quality, General Education, Core Curriculum, Public Colleges, Private Colleges, Black Colleges, Required Courses, Writing (Composition), Literature, Second Language Instruction, Government (Administrative Body), History Instruction, Economics Education, Mathematics Instruction, Science Instruction, College Credits, Grading, Reputation, Costs, Catalogs, Tuition, Fees, Graduation Rate, Degree Requirements
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Publication Type: Books; Reports - Research; Numerical/Quantitative Data
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: American Council of Trustees and Alumni
Identifiers - Location: United States
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