EDUCATION REPORT - Foreign Student Series 30: Purdue Univers

EDUCATION REPORT - Foreign Student Series #30: Purdue University
By Nancy Steinbach

Broadcast: Thursday, March 24, 2005

I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Education Report.

We continue our series of reports for students who want to come to the United States to attend a college or university. Recently we have talked about some individual schools. This week our subject is Purdue University, in the Midwest. It is known for its engineering¹ and business programs, among others.

Purdue University is in West Lafayette, Indiana. It was established in eighteen sixty-nine to teach about agriculture and the mechanical² arts. A local business leader named John Purdue gave one hundred fifty thousand dollars to get started. At first there were six teachers and thirty-nine students.

Today, Purdue University offers more than five hundred areas of study. It has many different colleges. In addition to agriculture and engineering, these include business, education, technology and veterinary medicine.

Purdue University has more than thirty-eight thousand students at its main campus³. This year nearly five thousand of these students are from outside the United States. They are from one hundred twenty-seven countries in all. The largest number of foreign students, almost one thousand, are from India.

Next is China, with more than seven hundred students. Other nations with more than one hundred students at Purdue this year are South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, Turkey, Malaysia and Canada.

Almost three thousand foreign students at Purdue this year are in graduate programs. Most are studying engineering, science and business.

Graduate students pay about the same as undergraduates⁴ to attend Purdue. The cost is about twenty-nine thousand dollars for one year. That includes classes, housing⁵, food, books and transportation. This year, the university began offering financial aid to more students, including students from other countries.

The Web site of the international student office at Purdue has information about financial aid and other programs. The address is iss.purdue.edu. Purdue is spelled P-U-R-D-U-E.

This was week number thirty in our Foreign Student Series. 

This VOA Special English Education Report was written by Nancy Steinbach. I'm Gwen Outen.

1 engineering   

n.工程，工程学，管理，操纵

参考例句：

• The science of engineering began as soon as man learned to use tools. 人类一学会使用工具,工程科学就开始了。
• It was the first great engineering works in the world. 这是世界上第一家大型的工程工厂。

2 mechanical   

adj.机械(学)的；力学的；机械似的；手工操作的

参考例句：

• He borrowed a mechanical book from me.他从我这儿借了一本力学方面的书。
• He looks very mechanical.他看上去非常呆板。

3 campus   

n.大学校园，学校校园；大学　

参考例句：

• They spoke of the old days on the campus.他们谈起昔日的校园生活。
• The campus covers an area of twenty square kilometres.这个校园占地二十平方公里。

4 undergraduates   

（未获学士学位的）大学生，大学肄业生( undergraduate的名词复数 )； 本科生

参考例句：

• All undergraduates reading English attend a turtorial group each week. 所有攻读英语的本科生每周上一次导师辅导课。
• This is a course for undergraduates. 这是为本科生开的一门课。

5 housing   

n.房屋，住宅；住房建筑；外壳，外罩

参考例句：

• Do you think our housing sales will turn around during this year?你认为今年我们的住宅销路会好转吗？
• The housing sales have been turning down since the summer.入夏以来，房屋的销售量日趋减少。