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Colleges and Universities. Prepared by Dr. John D. Eigenauer For the students of Taft College. Legson Kayira. Legson’s Plan. Oops. After five days and 25 miles, he ran out of food. First Stop. Skagit Valley College. A Long Way To Go. Career.
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Colleges and Universities Prepared by Dr. John D. Eigenauer For the students of Taft College
Oops • After five days and 25 miles, he ran out of food.
Career • 1963 AA degree from Skagit Valley College in Political Science. • 1965 BA Political Science University of Washington. • Graduate work at Cambridge. • Became a professional writer.
The World’s Top Universities • 56% of the world’s top universities are in the United States.
The World’s Top Universities • The world’s top 18 universities are in the United States: MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Cal, Penn State, U of M, Cornell, Illinois, Wisconsin-Madison, Texas-Austin, Washington, Carnegie Mellon, Minnesota, Columbia, Penn, Chicago, Texas A&M, and UCLA.
The World’s Top Universities • This elite list is followed by other great schools: Duke, Rutgers, Yale, Princeton, NYU, Georgia Tech, Cal Tech, USC, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Dartmouth, Rice, Brown, and many, many others.
The World’s Universities • There are 2028 universities in the United States. • There are 569 in France. • There are 370 in Germany. • There are 64 in Romania. • There are 315 in Russia. • There are 12 in Moldova.
California • The state of California has 106 community colleges. • Illinois has 53, seven of which are in Chicago. • New York has 40. • California has the least expensive community colleges in the United States.
Transfer • With an Associate’s Degree, you can transfer to any university in the United States as well as to many universities throughout the world.
International Universities • Oxford University in England: • Established c. 1100. • The first overseas student arrived in 1190. His name was Emo of Friesland. • An Oxford student was one of the first people to advocate for the Bible in common peoples’ languages, rather than in Latin.
International Universities • Oxford University in England has: • 38 libraries. • Over 11,000,000 items. • One library collection dating to the 1400s. • Classes that teach Chinese, Celtic, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and other languages.
International Universities • Moscow (Russia) State University has website for English speakers:http://www.msu.ru/en/
Did you know? • Taft College interlibrary loan program. • Taft College digital media collection. • Taft College professors have expertise in Political Science, Chemistry, Computer Technology, Mathematics, Foreign Languages, Philosophy, and more.
A Promise • We can teach you anything you want to know… • But you have to want to know it.