ΠΟΙΑ ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΑ ΕΧΟΥΜΕ ΕΠΙΣΚΕΦΤΕΙ
Στις ΗΠΑ, οι όροι Κολλέγιο και Πανεπιστήμιο είναι σχεδόν ταυτόσημοι. Ένα Κολλέγιο είναι συνήθως επικεντρωμένο στα προπτυχιακά διπλώματα, ενώ ένα Πανεπιστήμιο συνήθως προσφέρει επίσης μεταπτυχιακά διπλώματα και προωθεί έρευνα.
ΗΜΕΡΙΔΕΣ ΠΛΗΡΟΦΟΡΗΣΗΣ
Εκτός του internet και των βιβλίων, υπάρχουν πολλοί τρόποι πληροφόρησης σχετικά με το σύστημα ανώτατης εκπαίδευσης στις ΗΠΑ και τα πανεπιστήμια εκεί. Κάθε Φθινόπωρο, το Fulbright Foundation οργανώνει μία Ημερίδα Πληροφόρησης, όπου συμμετέχουν πάνω από πενήντα κολλέγια των ΗΠΑ. Η συμμετοχή είναι δωρεάν, και δίνει την ευκαιρία στους φοιτητές να μιλήσουν σε εκπροσώπους των κολλεγίων και σε Έλληνες αποφοίτους, καθώς και να συλλέξουν υλικό πληροφόρησης. Στο παρελθόν, έχουν συμμετάσχει ιδρύματα όπως το Columbia University, Davidson College, Northeastern University, Parsons, SCAD, UC Riverside, και το Vassar College, μεταξύ άλλων.
Αν μπορείτε να ταξιδέψετε στις ΗΠΑ, μπορείτε να επισξεφθείτε κάποιο από τα National College Fairs ή National Performing & Visual Arts College Fairs, που οργανώνει το National Association of College Admission Counselors. Επίσης, πολλά πανεπιστήμια της Ευρώπης επισκέπτονται τα λύκεια και οργανώνουν ημερίδες πληροφόρησης καθόλη τη διάρκεια του έτους, ενώ το British Council οργανώνει μία ετήσια έκθεση για την εκπαίδευση στη Βρετανία. Τέλος, μία ακόμα σπουδαία πηγή πληροφόρησης αποτελεί η ημερίδα πληροφόρησης που οργανώνει η Ολλανδική Πρεσβεία για τα Ολλανδικά πανεπιστήμια.
Σημειώνονται ενδεικτικά κάποια από τα Κολλέγια και Πανεπιστήμια που έχουν επισκεφτεί η Κα. Γκατζιώνη ή η Κα. Κοντομίχαλου:
Colleges and Universities Visited by Mrs. Gatzionis or Mrs. Contomichalos
- Aberystwyth University (Wales, UK)
- American University (Washington, DC)
- Amherst College (MA)
- Babson College (MA)
- Bangor University (Wales, UK)
- Bard College (NY)
- Barnard College (NY)
- Bates College (ME)
- Bentley University (MA)
- Boston College (MA)
- Boston University (MA)
- Bowdoin College (ME)
- Brandeis University (MA)
- Brown University (RI)
- Bryn Mawr College (PA)
- Bucknell University (PA)
- Cabrini College (PA)
- California Institute of Technology (CA)
- Cardiff Metropolitan University (Wales, UK)
- Cardiff University (Wales, UK)
- Central Saint Martins (London, UK)
- Chulalongkorn University, (Bangkok, Thailand)
- City University (London, UK)
- Claremont McKenna College (CA)
- Clark University (MA)
- Colby College (ME)
- College of the Atlantic (ME)
- College of the Holy Cross (MA)
- Colorado College (CO)
- Colorado School of Mines (CO)
- Columbia College Chicago (IL)
- Columbia University (NY)
- Connecticut College (CT)
- Dartmouth College (NH)
- Davidson College (NC)
- DePaul University (IL)
- Deree: American College of Greece (Athens, Greece)
- Drew University (NJ)
- Drexel University (PA)
- Duke University (NC)
- Eastern University (PA)
- ECAL: Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne (Switzerland)
- Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (Switzerland)
- Elon University (NC)
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (FL)
- Emerson College (MA)
- Emmanuel College (MA)
- EPFL: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland)
- Erasmus University (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
- Erasmus University College (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
- Franklin & Marshall College (PA)
- Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering (MA)
- George Washington University (Washington, DC)
- Georgetown University (Washington, DC)
- Gettysburg College (PA)
- Glyndwr University (Wales, UK)
- Guilford College (NC)
- Hampshire College (MA)
- Harvard University (MA)
- Harvey Mudd College (CA)
- Haverford College (PA)
- Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management (TX)
- Houston, University of (TX)
- HZ University of Applied Sciences (Vlissingen, The Netherlands)
- Imperial College London, UK
- James Madison University (VA)
- Johns Hopkins University (MD)
- KABK: The Royal Academy of Art (The Hague, The Netherlands)
- King’s College London (London, UK)
- Lafayette College (PA)
- Landmark College (VT)
- Lehigh University (PA)
- Leiden University (Leiden, The Netherlands)
- Leiden University College (The Hague, The Netherlands)
- Lindenwood University (MO)
- Loughborough University, UK
- Loyola Marymont College (CA)
- Loyola University Chicago (IL)
- LSE London School of Economics and Political Science (UK)
- Lynchburg College (VA)
- Maastricht University (The Netherlands)
- Marist College (NY)
- Mary Baldwin College (VA)
- Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MA)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
- Middlebury College (VT)
- Mount Holyoke College (MA)
- Muhlenberg College (PA)
- Naropa University (CO)
- New College of the Humanities (London, UK)
- New York College (Athens, Greece)
- Northeastern University (MA)
- Northwestern University (IL)
- Occidental College (CA)
- Parsons Paris: The New School for Design (Paris, France)
- Penn: University of Pennsylvania (PA)
- Pitzer College (CA)
- Pomona College (CA)
- Princeton University (NJ)
- Providence College (RI)
- Queen Mary University of London (London, UK)
- Quinnipiac University (CT)
- RADA Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (London, UK)
- Radford University (VA)
- Randolph College (VA)
- Regent’s American College (London, UK)
- Rhode Island School of Design (RI)
- Rice University (TX)
- Richmond, The American International University in London (London, UK)
- Rollins College (FL)
- Rosemont College (PA)
- Royal Veterinary College (London, UK)
- Salve Regina University (RI)
- Sarah Lawrence College (NY)
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago (IL)
- Schreiner University (TX)
- Scripps College (CA)
- Simmons College (MA)
- Smith College (MA)
- SOAS School of Oriental and African Studies (London, UK)
- St. Edward’s University (TX)
- St. John’s College (MD)
- St. Louis University (MO)
- Stetson University (FL)
- Swansea University (Wales, UK)
- Swarthmore College (PA)
- Sweet Briar College (VA)
- Texas A & M University (TX)
- Thammasat University (Bangkok, Thailand)
- Tilburg University (Tilburg, The Netherlands)
- Trinity College (CT)
- Trinity University (TX)
- Tufts Universtiy (MA)
- U.S. Air Force Academy (CO)
- Union College (NY)
- United States Naval Academy (MD)
- Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)
- Università Bocconi (Milan, Italy)
- Université de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland)
- University College Groningen (Groningen, The Netherlands)
- University College London (UK)
- University College Maastricht (Maastricht, The Netherlands)
- University College Roosevelt (Middleburg, The Netherlands)
- University College Utrecht (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
- University of Bath, UK
- University of Bristol, UK
- University of California — Los Angeles (CA)
- University of California — San Diego (CA)
- University of Cambridge (UK)
- University of Chicago (IL)
- University of Colorado – Anschutz Medical (CO)
- University of Colorado – Boulder (CO)
- University of Colorado – Denver (CO)
- University of Denver (CO)
- University of Edinburgh, (Scotland)
- University of Groningen (Groningen, The Netherlands)
- University of Massachusetts – Boston (MA)
- University of Massachusetts-Amherst (MA)
- University of Miami (FL)
- University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (NC)
- University of Southern California (CA)
- University of South Wales (Wales, UK)
- University of St. Andrews (St. Andrews, Scotland)
- The University of Texas at Austin (TX)
- University of Virginia (VA)
- University of Wales Trinity Saint David (Wales, UK)
- University of Warwick, UK
- University of York (UK)
- Ursinus College (PA)
- Vassar College (NY)
- Villanova University (PA)
- Virginia Military Institute (VA)
- Virginia Tech (VA)
- Wake Forest University (NC)
- Washington and Lee University (VA)
- Washington University in St. Louis (MO)
- Webster University (MO)
- Wentworth Institute of Technology (MA)
- Wesleyan University (CT)
- Wheaton College (MA)
- Wheelock College (MA)
- Williams College (MA)
- Windesheim Honours College (Zwolle, The Netherlands)
- Worcester Polytechnical Institute (MA)
- Yale University (CT)