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3 unusual facts about Undergraduate education


Boston University Housing System

The Boston University housing system is the 2nd-largest of any private university in the United States, with 76% of the undergraduate population living on campus.

Linguistic profiling

In a 1992 study, D. Rubin found that undergraduate university students would comprehend material more poorly if they heard a non-accented lecture presented with a picture of an Asian female.

Undergraduate education

However, some community colleges, such as Brazosport College in Lake Jackson, Texas offer bachelor's degrees along with associate's degrees.


Brooks Bowman

While an undergraduate student at Princeton he wrote the songs for the Princeton Triangle Club musical titled Stags at Bay in 1934, including "East of the Sun" (which almost didn't make it into the play due to a copyright dispute).

David Sutherland Hibbard

Prior to his assignment in the Philippines by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, Hibbard obtained his undergraduate degree from Emporia College in Emporia, Kansas.


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Anirvan Ghosh

After completing high school at Central School (Kendriya Vidyalaya) IIT Kanpur, he moved to the U.S. in 1981 to pursue his undergraduate education at the California Institute of Technology.

Ebere Onwudiwe

His undergraduate education was at the American College of Switzerland, 1979 and University of Science and Arts, 1980.

Edison E. Oberholtzer

Oberholtzer obtained his undergraduate education at Westfield College in Westfield, Illinois and Indiana State Normal School (now known as Indiana State University).

François Frenkiel

François Frenkiel, received his undergraduate education in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Ghent, Belgium, and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Lille in France where he studied under the direction of Kampé de Fériet.

Ganapathy Baskaran

Baskaran completed his undergraduate education at the Thiagarajar college and the American College in Madurai, India.

Gebze Institute of Technology

The institute, which has been giving education at graduate level in its four faculties since 1994, has began to offer undergraduate education in the departments of Physics, Mathematics, Materials Science, Computer Engineering and Electronics Engineering in 2001 and Architecture and Business in 2008.

J. D. Kimmel

After completing his undergraduate education at the University of Houston in 1952, Kimmel spent two years in the United States Army.

Jacob Bekenstein

Bekenstein received his undergraduate education in the Polytechnic University (now the Polytechnic Institute of New York University) in Brooklyn, New York.

John Doebley

John Doebley began his undergraduate education as a biology major at West Chester State College in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Mark R. Showalter

He was initially undecided about pursuing a career in astronomy after his undergraduate education, but made up his mind after seeing the images of Jupiter sent back to Earth by Voyager 2.

Muktesh Pant

After completing his undergraduate education at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India, Pant worked in the marketing department of Hindustan Lever.

P. C. Ramakrishna

Ramakrishna did his schooling in Kolkata, India, and completed his undergraduate education at the Loyola College, Chennai.

Paul Dudley White

A 1903 graduate of the Roxbury Latin School, his undergraduate education at Harvard College encompassed history and forestry as well as pre-medical courses.

Peter K. Vogt

Vogt received his undergraduate education in biology at the University of Würzburg and in 1959 was awarded his Ph.D. at the University of Tübingen for work done at the Max Planck Institute for Virology in Tübingen.

Peter Lorange

Lorange received his undergraduate education from the Norwegian School of Economics, was awarded an MA degree in operations management from Yale University, and his Doctor of Business Administration degree from Harvard University.

Riccardo Barbieri

Riccardo Barbieri received his undergraduate education in 1963-67 at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and at the University of Pisa.

Robert Langs

His undergraduate education was at the University of Pennsylvania (1945-1948) and his graduate medical education at the Chicago Medical School.

Robert M. Kingdon

He completed his undergraduate education at Oberlin College before moving on to Columbia University where he earned a doctorate under the noted Tudor historian Garrett Mattingly.

Steven David

Steven R. David, Professor of International Relations and Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education at Johns Hopkins University

System for Teaching Experimental Psychology

Support for STEP comes from the Division of Undergraduate Education of the National Science Foundation.

Winston Dang

Dang did his undergraduate education at Taipei Medical University and then moved to the United States to pursue further education, successively earning an M.A. from Columbia University, a Ph.D. from the City University of New York, and a M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health.