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Illinois Wesleyan University
Illinois Wesleyan University Founded in 1850, Illinois Wesleyan University (IWU) is a highly selective liberal arts university with an enrollment of 2,100. IWU has long been known for its outstanding faculty, distinctive liberal ...

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University of Alabama, The
University of Alabama, The Over the past 70 years, the Academic Outreach division of The College of Continuing Studies at The University of Alabama (UA) has been helping students overcome barriers of time, geography, ...
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Academic
  • Access to distinguished faculty and industry leaders at 4 year Colleges.
  • The minimum GPA standards expected to transfer schools.
  • Academic expectations and standards:
    • different course delivery and standards;
    • larger class sizes and less interaction with instructor;
    • instructors or teachers are called professors;
    • units of transferable credits required to transfer;
    • transfer testing for credit or acceptance.
    Cultural
  • Student populations:
    • vast campuses;
    • larger classroom sizes.
  • Universities are more communal.
  • Universities have more social activities:
    • sororities, fraternities;
    • athletics;
    • public speakers and events.

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    Southern New Hampshire University Founded in 1932, Southern New Hampshire University's (SNHU) College of Online and Continuing Education offers more than 50 undergraduate and graduate programs in business, education, and liberal arts, inclusive of ...

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