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Originally Posted by strat61caster
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Education in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Typically standard education is from ages 5-18 and is provided by the government. The way it's divided up is rather arbitrary and there are alternatives (dropping out and getting GED, alternative schools, some areas divide up the school differently) but it's rather irrelevant the details. Then you're an adult and do whatever you want.
General Educational Development - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Higher education has many variations, basically boils down to some sort of certification or other degree. This is typically a 2-4 year program but may extend further due to many other circumstances. After that there are further opportunities such as Masters and PHD and I'm sure many others.
Associate degree - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bachelor's degree - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master's_degree
Doctor of Philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Those are the primary routes, there are alternatives but generally most of the population is in public school from 5-18 then some go into work, community college for an Associates or a college/university for a Bachelors. The terms college and university may have once had some distinction between them in the past but my generation uses them pretty interchangeably. |
Whoaaaaa. I'm sorry for making you write so much haha. Now that you clarified, we pretty much have the same system, its just what you call college, is University. Right? And college, is NOT high school.
I feel like I've misunderstood a very a simple thing here. In any case, don't worry about explaining anymore haha.
