A Look at Higher Education in Peru
…you basically don’t have to pay anything to attend. That is the first problem. In Lima, there are basically four public universities teenagers seek to get in, so these universities set up a test to filter admission. These tests are so hard that the average student has to prepare for about three years after graduating from high school to get a chance at the test. At UNI and San Marcos, only the top 15% of those who take the test are admitted to the school. Besides this, faculty strikes are common as well as many bureaucratic barriers, which taken together usually make students take an extra year to graduate. That means 6 years to get a B.A., as colleges in Peru award B.A.s after at least 5 years of education. Students at an Academia in Peru, preparing for a public… (Search hits: 5 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 410.23)