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 Mechanical 1 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 linguistics 2, business, education and engineering 3.
The main campus 4 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 undergraduate 5 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 teaching 6 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 intensive 7 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 users 8 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.
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。