By Sydney Blankenship Posted June 2, 2011
One of the biggest fears of graduating high school is having to choose a college that is right for you.
Several colleges claim to be the best, but which colleges are the ones that are for you? What do you plan to do with your life?
Many different degrees exist, one can get, from art, law, engineering, and medicine. As for art colleges, there is always one for somebody out there.
One of the top colleges in America is the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California offering degrees in fashion, game design, graphic design, and many more. Students would be allowed to get a master’s degree in most of the classes they have to offer.
Some of the other top colleges in the art path are Digital Media Arts College, which offers a Masters Degree in Visual Effects Animation, and the Full Sail University, which has four different classes for game creativity. If performing arts is your calling, there are several performing arts colleges.
One of the major performing arts colleges is in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown University is an Ivy League college that offers majors for visual arts, such as painting and sculptures. Another major they offer is for theater arts performance, Brown University is ranked number 15 for the best national university by U.S. News and World Report.
The DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting, for those aspiring actors. The DePaul University concentrates on a variety of Theater related topics such as body movement and technique.
If law interests one, everyone knows that Harvard University and Yale University are the way to go (which are harder to get in but possible). Some other colleges that offer the same degrees are; Stanford University and Columbia University in NY. Although the median GPA of students who are accepted into Stanford is 3.87, learning the material would be a little easier because of the low student-to-teacher ratio. An average of 8.6 students to a teacher allows the students to have more one-on-one help. As for Columbia, The median GPA of the students was around 3.72. The first year, they are required to take classes with about a hundred students in a class. In the second year, there are more options for one to do what one wants, and the class sizes shrink down to a 9.3:1 ratio and the university plans on increasing the number of faculty by 50%. If math and science is your calling, then engineering is definitely one way to go.
Some of the best engineering schools out there are the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the California Institute of Technology (CIT). California has a 15% admission rate, compared to MIT which has an 11% admission rate. CIT offers several classes, such as civil engineering, aerospace-aeronautical, and astronautical engineering. It is $33,324 a semester for both in and out-of-state graduates and undergraduates. MIT offers materials and nuclear engineering degrees, along with several others. The price per semester is $37,510 for both in and out-of-state students. This is definitely one of the top universities in the country and you would be paying for quality at MIT.
Some people, however, aren’t into law, or math but would rather do something that will help everyone, such as medicine. The top Universities that can help you achieve this goal are The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Pennsylvania is a good choice because you can get your post-doctoral degrees and even double up on degrees with different colleges. There are several classes offered from anesthesiology all the way to general surgery. Johns Hopkins University offers many classes, and several special classes throughout the school year. With 2,551 faculties, the student-to-teacher ratio is 5.5 to 1. Both Universities are great choices to choose for a medical field.
If one is not sure of what to do, and wants to take a variety of different classes, some of the best that haven’t been mentioned in depth yet include Princeton and Yale. Princeton has several classes to offer. Their most popular majors include economy and psychology. Princeton also offers health insurance for its students. Yale is more expensive than Princeton, but one is paying for the quality. Yale is at the top of the list for medicine, law, and art. The most popular major offered at Yale in political science and government at 13%. It also offers tutoring to those who need it.
These are just a few colleges that are top in their field. It may be difficult to get into some of these colleges but it’s just a matter of, how bad do you want it?
