This week,we visit four Web sites where students can learn about higher education in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

At its extreme what I'm think of an undergraduate Education is a four-year initiation into a life-long Club. Right now students tend to think I come to University and I leave the university. And for many Of them their sole contact is when they get a limonite newsletters and solicitations for donations.

它的极端就是把4年的本科教育,发展为终生教育,现在学生总觉得,来读大学又会马上离开,真正的接触也许只有在,收到校友新闻信和捐款征询时,才感觉到。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

And a twenty-four-year-old Milton, after seven years of education, simply decides not to go. Instead of joining the ministry, Milton instead returns home and he stays at home without any means of supporting himself for six years.

而24岁的弥尔顿，在结束了7年的学业之后，却决定不那么做,他反而是回到了家中,在家里呆了6年。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Others who want to graduate in three years must pay for the same education as four-year students, but in a shorter period of time.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

But around nineteen forty-four, a teacher in Arkansas sent letters to political and education leaders.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

At most American colleges, undergraduate students choose one area of study, like English or biology, and focus on it for all four years of their education.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12