InTuition Partner Universities
We partner with over 120 Higher Education institutions in America and offer options to suit all academic abilities and budgets. We have established criteria before partnering with a US University:
Academic standards and success
The US universities we select to be a partner all meet our high standards. They are all accredited and hold an excellent academic reputation, delivering a flexible and challenging curriculum. They must display a proven track record in successfully graduating international students and offer learning support centres where you can get extra help with your studies. University professors are qualified to teach, with an average of 76% holding the highest degree in their field at the master's-level universities, liberal arts colleges and baccalaureate colleges we work with.
Small class sizes
We only select institutions with the capacity to give you the individual attention you need to thrive in an American university. Class sizes are typically low; an average ratio of 1 professor to 14 students. This Tutor contact hour ration is a major positive point for all US Universities when they compare with other international universities.
Outstanding facilities
Our partner universities all have excellent facilities for their students. It is something US Universities are renowned and ours are no exception. They provide a good standard of student housing, a meal service, a safe campus environment, excellent learning resources, and plenty of activities on and off campus. All also have international offices where their have good welfare and pastoral care to ensure your personal needs are accommodated.
They represent a mixture of State Universities and private Colleges. To put them into context of the UK system might help. If you categorise the UK Universities into 4 bands: Band A being Oxbridge, B being Russell Group, C the Red Brick and D the old Polytechnics then if you applied a similar criteria to the US Universities then cross section equivalent would place our Universities in Bands B and C. The consortium is not Ivy League and does not set out to be. Securing entry alone into an Ivy League or even the NESCAC schools like Amherst, Bowdoin, Middlebury or Williams is incredibly difficulty to do and scholarships therefore only available to exceptionally high fliers.
Many people get confused by the different terminology but basically the terms Colleges, Universities, Institutes or even School are inter changeable for a degree-granting institution in the United States and colleges and institutes are in no way inferior to universities. Colleges tend to be smaller and usually offer only undergraduate degrees, while a university also offers graduate degrees.
Within each college or university you will find schools, such as the school of arts and sciences or the school of business. Each school is responsible for the degree programs offered by the college or university in that area of study. US under graduate degree are normally four-year undergraduate programmes.
For a fuller description of the different types of Universities in the US click here.
