american college dublin

The American approach to third level education is based on providing students with a broad liberal education base while at the same time offering concentrations in various disciplines. Students "build" their degrees by accumulating credits for each subject they take. One of the advantages of this system is that students may transfer from one course to another without losing the credits already obtained. Students are tested on a continuous basis which allows a more progressive approach to learning. Difficulties are discovered earlier which means they can be resolved before the end of the course. It also means that the "final exam" does not have the same intimidating effect as in other systems.