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- noun Plural form of
college .
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Examples
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The people of means sometimes had their children educated at home, and sometimes sent them to the little colleges which have since become Columbia and Princeton, colleges which were then inferior to a good English grammar school.
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Opponents counter that studying law in colleges is not necessary because interdisciplinary approaches to law have already found a home in law schools, which are increasingly hiring scholars who hold doctorates in other fields.
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And yet, the price tag for a year's worth of study at America's most expensive colleges is close to $60,000.
America's Most Expensive Colleges Brian Wingfield 2010
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The thing to remember about the teaching mission of the top-tier colleges is that it's just one of their missions.
Academic Lock-in, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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And yet, the price tag for a year's worth of study at America's most expensive colleges is close to $60,000.
America's Most Expensive Colleges Brian Wingfield 2010
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And yet, the price tag for a year's worth of study at America's most expensive colleges is close to $60,000.
America's Most Expensive Colleges Brian Wingfield 2010
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Below cost tuition rates at public colleges is going to draw students away from private colleges.
Price Discrimination and Profitability, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The minimum requirements for most colleges is a high school diploma or a GED (or the equivalent).
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In effect, these well-intentioned subsidies have the perverse effect of shielding colleges from the kind of market discipline that would have forced them to hold down prices by constantly improving their productivity and efficiency, as happens in just about every other industry.
Subsidies Raise Prices, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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And yet, the price tag for a year's worth of study at America's most expensive colleges is close to $60,000.
America's Most Expensive Colleges Brian Wingfield 2010
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