Let's talk about advantages first:

1, community college is a springboard to famous American schools-some famous schools (especially Los Angeles, California, Berkeley) recruit some students who transfer to community college every year. For students who can't meet the admission requirements of prestigious schools temporarily, community colleges are a good springboard, but your academic performance in the first two years must be excellent.

2. Low tuition fees, low economic security and high cost performance for studying abroad-the annual tuition and living expenses of community colleges are 65,438+00-65,438+05,000 RMB, which is much less than the average annual expenditure of 220,000 public and 365,438+00,000 private, not including the income from working.

3, small class teaching, teaching full-time teaching-community colleges provide small classes, with an average of less than 30 students in each class. It also provides students with personal guidance, extracurricular consultation, writing laboratory, international student club, and transfer guidance center (the transfer guidance center is a good place, and students who have enrolled in community colleges should often go there to meet their instructors).

4. Provide ESL practical language training without TOEFL and SAT.

5. Flexible admission and short application time-unlike four-year universities that need to apply 9- 12 months in advance, community colleges can generally complete all the procedures of application, visa and admission within 3-5 months.

Let's talk about shortcomings first:

1. Community college has a small number of students and a small social circle. Most of them were established during the expansion of American universities, and their management was relatively poor.

2. Due to the limited funds, there are few books in the library of community college, and some experimental equipment is very old.

Due to the uneven level of students, sometimes teachers have to lower their learning requirements in order to take care of some students, and the management is very loose.

In order to reduce the cost, community colleges employ a large number of part-time teachers. The level of part-time teachers is uneven, some may be retired professors from famous universities, and some may be company employees with no teaching experience; Some part-time teachers are very responsible, while others just want to earn some extra money.

Because there are many students who work part-time and study part-time, the phenomenon of students' absence from class is also very serious.

I hope my answer is helpful to you! Classmate, what do you study at HKUST? If you are only a freshman, you can still join the club. If you study for two years, it's a bit of a loss to apply for a club. Associate degree awarded by community college, equivalent to the domestic junior college level! Think clearly, classmate!