Undergraduate Education System
In the United States, most undergraduate education takes place at four-year colleges or universities. Some institutions (e.g. liberal-arts colleges) offer primarily or exclusively undergraduate education, while most universities offer graduate study as well. Successful completion of undergraduate work generally requires the completion of many courses of varying subject and difficulty and a concentration or major that focuses on a particular academic discipline. In many universities, students have to take compulsory foreign language programs throughout their education depending on their previous foreign language study at the school level.
Bachelor's Degree
A bachelor’s degree is an undergraduate
degree that is awarded to the students after their completion of
undergraduate program in a particular discipline of education. The
duration of the undergraduate degree program differs from country to
country. While in some countries, the program can be completed within 3
years, some countries have 5 years bachelor degree programs also.
In
the USA, it takes 4 years for a person to attain an undergraduate
degree. Typically comprising 120-128 credits, most universities will
allow the transfer of up to 60 credits from associate degrees or
community college programmes. The bachelor's degree under US university
system is divided into two categories:
- Bachelor's degree with honors
- Bachelor's degree without honors- also known as “rite”
Bachelor's degree with honors is further divided
- Bachelor degree with honors-cum laude (with praise)
- Bachelor degree with honors- magna cum laude" (with great praise)
- Bachelor degree with honors -summa cum laude" (with highest praise)
The
students are awarded all the honors degrees on the basis of Grade Point
Averages (GPA) scored by them during their undergraduate program.
Financial Aid for Undergraduate Programmes
Most students have to pay a huge amount of tuition fee which varies for different categories of students, for example, for instate students, the fee is less than out of state students and international students have to pay the highest amount of fee. But this should not deter you from going for higher education, there are ample of initiatives by the state and federal government. These initiatives highlight the importance of education beyond high school and provide resources that reinforce the message that college is within reach for all.
There is no official income cut-off for financial aid eligibility and you can receive financial aid through a combination of grants, scholarships, student loans, and on-campus jobs. Learn more about all these options from our
financial aid section.
Popular Undergraduate Programs
Most popular bachelor’s degree programs offered by universities and colleges (online and campus) in various disciplines are listed below:
- Accounting & Finance
- Advertising
- Art & Design
- Aviation
- Business Degree
- Business Administration
- Business Leadership
- Business Management
- Communication Arts
- Computer Information Systems
- Computer Networking
- Computer Programming
- Computer Science
- Contact Center Management
- Criminal Justice
- Culinary Management
- Database Technology
- e-Business & e-Commerce
- Education
- Fashion
- Game Software Development
- Healthcare Management
- Health Sciences
- Humanities and Liberal Arts
- Human Resources
- Information Technology
- IT - Business
- IT - Project Management
- IT - Security
- Interior Design
- Labor Relations
- Marketing & Sales
- Nursing
- Paralegal
- Public Administration
- Psychology Degree
- Retail Management
- Science Degree
- Social Science
- Technology Management
- Theology & Divinity
- Tourism & Hospitality
- Visual Communications
- Web Development