Top Ten Interesting Facts About Colleges in the U.S

In the United States, there is little difference between the terms “college” and “university.” However, the term “college” in other countries, such as Canada, refers to a junior college or trade college, where as a “university” is larger, more research focused, and usually contains multiple colleges.l Typically, the worst paying majors are Social Work, Theology, Elementary Education, Music, Spanish, Horticulture, Education, Fine Arts, Hospitality/Tourism, and Drama.n The majors with the best pay include Engineering, Economics, and Physics.n Harvard Stadium was the first reinforced concrete structure in the world.l The word “alumnus” is Latin meaning “a pupil” and, literally, a “foster son.”l The term “college” is from the Latin collegium meaning “community, society, guild” and, literally, “association of collegae”. It was first used to describe an academic institution in the late fourteenth century in relation to Oxford and Cambridge.l “University” is a shortening of the Latin universitas magistrorum et scholarium or “a community of masters and scholars.”l The term bachelor in “bachelor’s degree” most likely is from the Medieval Latin termbaccalaureate, which is a play on the Latin words bacca lauri or laurel berries. The word is also a re-Latinization of the French word bachelor, which means a “youthful knight” or a “novice in arms.”b Mark Zuckerberg, a college drop-out, is the world’s youngest self-made billionaire Famous college dropouts include Reggie Jackson, Steve Jobs, Ben Affleck, Woody Allen, Hans Christian Anderson, Dan Ackroyd, Kate Beckinsale, James Cameron, and Mark Zuckerberg (founder of Facebook).h Before the Civil War, disbelief in the in Bible or profaning the Sabbath were campus crimes at Yale.l

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