EDUCATION REPORT - Foreign Student Series 26: Ohio State

EDUCATION REPORT - Foreign Student Series #26: Ohio State
By Nancy Steinbach

Broadcast: Thursday, February 24, 2005

I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Education Report.

We continue our Foreign Student Series for students who want to attend an American college or university. Today we tell about one of the largest public universities in the United States: Ohio State.

It opened in eighteen seventy-three as the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical¹ College. It became the Ohio State University five years later, after expanding its programs. Ohio State now has twenty-five colleges. Among its better known programs are linguistics², business, education and engineering³.

The main campus⁴ is in Columbus, the state capital. The Ohio State university system has over fifty-eight thousand students.

More than four thousand of them are from outside the United States. Of these, the International Student Office at Ohio State says almost three thousand are graduate students.

Most of the international students come from Asia, especially China, South Korea, India, Taiwan and Indonesia. Most of the graduate students are studying engineering, mathematics or the physical and biological sciences. The undergraduate⁵ foreign students are mostly studying business or engineering.

The cost of attending Ohio State is a little different for graduate and undergraduate students. Undergraduate foreign students pay about thirty thousand dollars a year. That includes books, health insurance and living expenses.

The cost is about thirty-two thousand for graduate students. Graduate students can get financial aid by working as a teaching⁶ or research assistant. Aid money is also given to outstanding graduate students. The university generally does not give financial aid to foreign students at the undergraduate level. But officials say some aid can be found.

University officials say they want international students to know that they do not have to take English tests to attend Ohio State. They do not even have to speak English when they arrive. The university offers intensive⁷ English training through its American Language Program.

Information about this program and others at Ohio State can be found on the Web at osu.edu. Internet users⁸ can find other reports in our Foreign Student Series at voaspecialenglish dot com.

This VOA Special English Education Report was written by Nancy Steinbach. I'm Gwen Outen.

1 mechanical   

adj.机械(学)的；力学的；机械似的；手工操作的

参考例句：

• He borrowed a mechanical book from me.他从我这儿借了一本力学方面的书。
• He looks very mechanical.他看上去非常呆板。

2 linguistics   

n.语言学

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• Linguistics is a scientific study of the property of language.语言学是指对语言的性质所作的系统研究。

3 engineering   

n.工程，工程学，管理，操纵

参考例句：

• The science of engineering began as soon as man learned to use tools. 人类一学会使用工具,工程科学就开始了。
• It was the first great engineering works in the world. 这是世界上第一家大型的工程工厂。

4 campus   

n.大学校园，学校校园；大学　

参考例句：

• They spoke of the old days on the campus.他们谈起昔日的校园生活。
• The campus covers an area of twenty square kilometres.这个校园占地二十平方公里。

5 undergraduate   

n.大学生，大学肆业生

参考例句：

• Mr. Stone spent his undergraduate days in Columbia University,majoring in economics.斯通先生在哥伦比亚大学度过了他四年的大学生活，主修经济学。
• During this time,they are called undergraduate students.在此期间，他们被称为大学本科生。

6 teaching   

n.教学，执教，任教，讲授；(复数)教诲

参考例句：

• We all agree in adopting the new teaching method. 我们一致同意采取新的教学方法。
• He created a new system of teaching foreign languages.他创造了一种新的外语教学体系。

7 intensive   

adj.加强的，密集的；精工细作的，集约的

参考例句：

• I'll make an intensive study of a subject.我将集中学一门课程。
• There we received several weeks of intensive training.在那里我们受了几星期的集中训练.

8 users   

用户，使用者( user的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The new software will prove a boon to Internet users. 这种新软件将会对互联网用户大有益处。
• Ramps should be provided for wheelchair users. 应该给轮椅使用者提供坡道。