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THE HISTORY AND LANGUAGE OF ENGLISH CULTURE
AMERICAN AND ECUADORIAN TERCIARY EDUCATION CRITERIA
 TUITION OR ENROLLMENT
ECUADOR UNITED STATES
- Public universities in Ecuador are
tuition-free, but enrollment is based
on an aptitude test they take before
they graduate from secondary
school.
- About 80% of Ecuadorian college
students attend public universities;
only about 20% attend private
schools.
 LENGTH OF STUDIES
ECUADOR UNITED STATES
- Technician’s degree from 2 to 5
years
- College’s graduate (licenciado)
from 4 to 6 years
- Magister from 1year and a half to 2
years
- Doctors from 3 to 6 years
 METHODOLOGY
ECUADOR UNITED STATES
- It is estimated that less than half of
university faculty is full-time. Full-
time faculty members in the
Ecuadorian system have heavy
teaching loads as compared to
international standards: they are
50
- The United States has one of the most
expensive higher education systems
in the world. In 2016-17, the average
cost of annual tuition in the United
States ranged from $9,700 for public
four-year institutions to $33,500 for
private four-year institutions.
- Four-year institutions in the U.S.
emphasizing the liberal
arts, interactive instruction, although
student research projects are of
growing importance.
- Technical schools are four-year
institutions that emphasize a
particular trade or set of technical
skills, primarily for the sake of
employability. Four-year colleges
usually have a larger number of
students, offer a greater range of
studies, and provide the bachelor's
degree, mostly the Bachelor of
Arts and Bachelor of Science .
- A full-time program at most schools
is 12 or 15 credit hours (four or five
courses per term) and a certain
number of credits must be fulfilled in
order to graduate. International