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MIT: One of the American Honors partner campuses Hale students
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Hale in deal to provide direct pathways to top US schools

DUBAI, November 26, 2015

Hale Education of Dubai and America Honors have signed an exclusive partnership to provide affordable pathways to America's top undergraduate programme, addressing the growing appetite of GCC students for admission to leading US universities.
 
Peter Davos, managing director, Hale Education, said: "Traditionally, GCC high school students have faced the triple problems of preparedness, affordability, and access to top US universities, which will no longer be the case with our new initiative."
 
The American Honors programme, now in its fourth year of existence, has placed students in Stanford, Georgetown, Cornell, and other leading American universities. 
 
The region's students will now be able to benefit from this joint initiative.
 
To date, 89 per cent of American Honors students have been accepted to their best fit, four-year institution, while over 96 per cent have successfully completed the programme and transferred into four-year universities. 
 
The selective programme helps students earn a bachelor's degree in four years by starting at select two-year community colleges before transferring to finish their degrees at premier institutions, which typically decreases the costs of earning a leading degree by 30 per cent.
 
Once admitted to American Honors, students are immediately assigned an honours advisor that works with them individually throughout the two years of the programme in order to help students achieve their transfer goals. 
 
Honours designated classes are conducted on the campuses of eight top two-year colleges in the US and class sizes are limited to no more than 25 students, said a statement.
 
The total cost of attendance, which includes housing, is approximately $20,000 to $25,000 per year depending on the campus students select, it said.
 
Michael Haines, American Honors vice president of International Operations, said: "We did not invent the two+two transfer concept in the US; we simply revolutionised it." 
 
Community colleges have long served as a pathway for students seeking to secure admission to top programmes at top universities, such as UCLA and UC Berkeley, but American Honors has taken the concept a step further. 
 
"By creating a growing network of over sixty public and private universities, which include MIT, Duke, Cornell, UCLA, Georgetown, Amherst, Georgia Tech, and many others, American Honors students can secure direct entry, access reserved places, or preferential application and scholarship review to these partner universities, the statement added. - TradeArabia News Service



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