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回覆 happyhealthymin 的帖子
Yes, I would like to share my view on UK and US universities with parents here too, as my son has applied to uni in both countries, and received some really good offers from uni in both countries.
We don't have particular preferences to either country. As my son has quite strong academic background, we aim at top 50 universities in the world as listed in various league table such as QS, Times Higher Education, US news.
Here are my views after 2 years of research, school visits and applications in both countries;
UK uni are cheaper (when compared with private uni in US and U California system), only require 3 years to graduate, safer (fewer guns and crimes). However, the academic structure is more rigid. Students have to be very clear which programs they will take when applying. There are only few elective courses, few general education courses, difficult to take minor. It's hard to change to other programs once enrolled. It's good if the students decide to take professional programs such as medicine and law. However, if the students have not decided their career at the age of 17, US uni provide more flexible choices.
The "liberal arts" education advocated by most top US uni are also highly regarded by IB advocates: to provide a broad general education at uni level, to prepare the students with lifelong advantages in critical thinking and broad based knowledge. My hubby graduated in US with a professional degree. He said that the general education in US uni, such as psychology, sociology, English writing, English literature courses made him better equipped when he climbed up the career ladder. It's especially useful when he needed to change field to sales and marketing, general administration, or even changing career field.
In many cases, US uni only requires students to declare major at the end of 2nd year, and changing major, double major, major with minor are fairly easy as compared with UK uni.
When I have time later, I will talk about the complicated process and preparation for applying US top universities. It's kind of nightmare, and exert great pressure to students taking IB and applying to both US and UK/HK. March is the month when all top US uni announce their admission decision. It requires excellent EQ and AQ for all parents and students involved to wait for uni taking turn to announce results, hearing their classmates got admitted, waitlisted, and rejected by each top uni, and then wonder what will happen to himself.
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發表於 15-3-28 21:31
