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Download full textBledsoe, Eric; Riethmiller, Megan; Kempson, Lauri; Poliakoff, Michael – American Council of Trustees and Alumni, 2017
"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…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Liberal Arts, Educational Quality, General Education
Bledsoe, Eric; Kolson, Kenneth; Kempson, Lauri; Poliakoff, Michael – American Council of Trustees and Alumni, 2016
In the fiercely competitive, global job market, solid preparation in core skills matters a lot. Will college graduates write with the clarity, grace, and accuracy that employers (and everyone else) expect? Will they have the basic mathematical and scientific skills--regardless of their majors--that equip them to navigate an increasingly…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Liberal Arts, Educational Quality, General Education
Lavin, Tracy – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2011
The BC Transfer System allows students to attend public colleges, institutes and teaching intensive universities (i.e., Central Data Warehouse or CDW reporting institutions) throughout the province where they accumulate credits which they can transfer to research intensive universities and use to fulfill their degree requirements. The Student…
Descriptors: Degree Requirements, Credentials, Outcomes of Education, College Transfer Students
Loope, David R. – 1996
Prompted by state legislative action seeking to address the possibility of a tuition surcharge on students who take more than 140 credit hours to complete a baccalaureate degree, this study analyzed the number of semester credit hours required for graduation from baccalaureate degree programs at South Carolina's public colleges and universities.…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, College Credits, College Programs, Comparative Analysis
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1993
Most students planning to enter college do so immediately after graduating from high school, and most baccalaureate programs can be completed within 4 years. Taking longer may have a variety of causes and a number of implications, including costs for the individual and the institution. Approximately 31% of college graduates in 1990 completed their…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Bachelors Degrees, College Graduates
Pitter, Gita Wijesinghe; And Others – 1996
In the context of an increased emphasis on accountability in higher education and time taken to earn a baccalaureate degree, the Board of Regents of the State University System of Florida conducted a national survey of 75 public universities concerning the minimum credit hours required for the baccalaureate degree for various disciplines. The…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Bachelors Degrees, College Credits, Data Analysis
