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The Capstone Project: A High Point of Your University Studies When you finally earn your degree and look back at your years at university, what do you think your most rewarding learning experience will have been? What will you be most proud of having accomplished during your studies? You might be tempted to say something about building a body of knowledge that will help you succeed in your professional life. Curiously, when we ask our own graduating students these same questions—and we ask...

Choosing a college or university is one of the most important decisions young persons and their families will make. A college education is a major investment of time and resources, and you have the right to expect that this investment will be worth it. Which is why you should find out as much as possible about the college beforehand....

Student research is an integral part of an American college education—and not just at the graduate level and not just in the sciences. Undergraduates at Hellenic American College/Hellenic American University, whatever their major, do original research at various points during their studies. These projects can take a variety of forms, such as a research internship or apprenticeship, a senior Capstone project, or a course-based team research experience. But they are all based on a notion of...

Prospective students and their parents tend to ask the same questions when they look into colleges and academic programs. One of the top ones is: what will I be able to do when I graduate? What are my job prospects with a degree in this field? Many will also ask what courses they'll be taking and what they'll be learning. Almost nobody asks how they will learn. But this, as we'll see, is an even more important question. Because the challenge in today's rapidly changing labor market, with the...