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2. List of academic fields - Wikipedia

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   Mind map of top level disciplines and professions. An academic discipline or field of study is known as a branch of knowledge.It is taught as an accredited part of higher education.

3. Academic major - Wikipedia

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   A student who successfully completes all courses required for the major qualifies for an undergraduate degree. The word major (also called concentration , particularly at private colleges) is also sometimes used administratively to refer to the academic discipline pursued by a graduate student or postgraduate student in a master's or doctoral ...

4. Oregon State University College of Liberal Arts - Wikipedia

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   However, general courses in journalism were still offered at the university through the 1960s. [35] During World War II, majors in liberal arts began to grow in popularity again, as many agriculture and engineering students left college to serve in the military. After the war, returning veterans made up a substantial segment of OSU's student body.

5. U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking - Wikipedia

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   The question of college rankings and their impact on admissions gained greater attention in March 2007, when Sarah Lawrence College outgoing president Michele Tolela Myers, wrote an op-ed [32] that U.S. News & World Report, when not given SAT scores for a university, chooses to simply rank the college with an invented SAT score of approximately ...

6. Multiple major in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Differences in earnings also appear across types of institutions. Liberal Arts colleges, where close to a third of students have two majors, the return to earnings are small and insignificant. In contrast, a 3.9% premium appears for double majors from Research institutions, where less than a quarter of students add a second major. [11]

7. Criticism of college and university rankings in North America

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   Reed College. In 1995, Reed College refused to participate in U.S. News & World Report annual survey. According to Reed's Office of Admissions, "Reed College has actively questioned the methodology and usefulness of college rankings ever since the magazine's best-colleges list first appeared in 1983, despite the fact that the issue ranked Reed among the top ten national liberal arts colleges.