Comparing

higher
educational
systems in
Belarus, the UK
and the USA
Plan
• Introduction
• Length of Time
• Academic Year
• University Organization
• Grades
• Tuition Fees
• Students
• Top Universities
• Conclusion
Introduction
To begin with, we must admit that education is very important
for people in our modern world, because to be in demand you need
to be highly qualified in the sphere of your choice. So to raise a new
generation of highly skilled workers in every sphere of economics,
higher education system of each and every country should be very
developed and it should meet the demands of the modern world. And
we are proud to say that our country has such education system. But
we would also like to compare our higher education system to other
countries, such as UK and USA. We want to find similarities and
differences and we want to point out what we can change to make
our education system better using experience from other countries.
We divided our topic in several paragraphs, which are: Academic
Year, Length of Time, Top Universities, University Organization,
Grades, Tuition Fees and Students. So let’s start.
Length of time
16

14

12

10
PhD
8 MA
BA
6

0
Belarus the USA the UK
Academic year
Belarus The USA The UK

1)Semesters 2 2 3

2)Beginning September August October

3)Ending June End of June

December

4)Length of one About 21 weeks 14 to 20 weeks 8 to 10 weeks

semester
University organization
Grades
In our country student’s grades depend on their
presentations on seminars, their attendance and
also their marks on tests and exams. And according
to these grades a rating of a student is made.
In the US grades are based on overall
performance on all assignments. There is a special
system called GPA: constant assessment such as
quizzes, daily homework, presentations, classroom
participation etc. Attending each course gives a
certain number of credits (points), which correspond
to a certain number of hours of work per week on
this course.
In the UK grades are based only on final exams.
Tuition fees
Belarus The USA
$1200 $12000

The UK
$16000
Students
 In Belarus: 1st course is called
freshmen, 2nd – sophomore, 3rd – third
grader, 4th – fourth grader.
 In the USA: 1st - a freshman, 2nd -
a sophomore, 3rd - a junior, 4th - a
senior.
 In the UK: 1st - a first year
student, 2nd - a second year student, 3rd
- a third year student, 4th - a fourth
year student.
Top universities
Conclusion
To conclude, we can say that
educational systems of these 3 countries
have a lot of similarities, but also they
have some very strongly expressed
differences. But this doesn’t mean that
one educational system is significantly
better or worse than the other, they are
just different and all have their
advantages and disadvantages.