There are about 600 universities and collges in the United States. Most States of the Union maintain a State University, which is usually located at a distance from crowded cities. Besides the State Universities there are universities maintained by the income of private endowment. Michigan, Minnessota, Wisconsin, Illinois, California are State Universities, while Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, Chicago, and Stanford are private universities. Of all these universities, about 23 are of the first grade. These have faculties of liberal arts, sciences, engineering, agriculture
medicine, law.
Most of the colleges, as distinguished from the universities, have only the faculties of arts and sciences. But there are colleges of medicine and colleges of engineering and several states have separate colleges of agriculture. Massachusets Institute of Tuchnology generally known as Boston Teck." is a good example of an Engineering college.
Besides thsee universities and colleges, there are technical schools maintained by big manufacturing concerns. They are generally meant for the employees of the factory. These technical institutions are good for those students who are self-supporting and may secure employment in such factories. The teaching in factory schools is much inferior to that of universities or colleges, and foreigners (specially those from Asia) have practically no chance to enter such factories.
