Category: Higher education in the U.S.

The United States system of higher education is not so much a formal system as an informal configuration of different institutions.

The United States is the recognized world leader in the number of international students attending universities and colleges. In total there are about 600,000 of them.

Structural diversity focuses on the ways in which institutions are organized and controlled. Structural diversity is most often defined in terms of the type of institutional control, public or private.