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The Technical University of Munich* \u2013 American Universities from a German Perspective \u2013 9<\/p>\n
With profits of this kind at stake, American universities are employing advertising consultants to establish their brand names and to make sure they are in demand. The USA has additional advantages as well: its language, English, is the world language and its universities offer a wide variety of subjects for study. The US Study Guide 2007 promises, \u201cAny subject you can imagine is being taught somewhere in America.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n (To be continued)<\/p>\n Source: Ostwald, Gisela, \u201eAmerikanische Hochschulen: Kaderschmiede fuer die Elite\u201c, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 16.10.2008.<\/p>\n *The Technical University of Munich, officially recognized by the German government as an \u201celite university,\u201d is ranked 67 among the world\u2019s universities. That is, for example, sixteen places below Seoul National University of South Korea. (The Times of London, Higher Education Supplement [THES], World University Rankings, 2007)<\/p>\n \u201cI feel like someone who has been attacked and injured by a group of thugs. You forgive the thugs, but at the same time you have to warn other people about them.\u201d \u2013 George Sand<\/p>\n \u201cPatriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.\u201d \u2013 Mark Twain<\/em><\/p>\n Novel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/revision<\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n 4 NOVEMBER 2008, DIENSTAG, D\u00dcSSELDORF, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n Die Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen* \u2013 Amerikanische Hochschulen: Kaderschmieden f\u00fcr die Elite \u2013 9<\/p>\n Mit diesem Profit vor Augen besch\u00e4ftigen US-Hochschulen heute Werbestrategen, die ihnen Markennamen verpassen und f\u00fcr Nachfrage sorgen. Zugute kommt den USA die Weltsprache Englisch und das vielseitige Angebot an Studienf\u00e4chern. “Was immer man sich vorstellen kann, wird irgendwo in Amerika unterrichtet”, verhei\u00dft der “US Study Guide” 2007.<\/strong><\/p>\n (Fortsetzung folgt.)<\/p>\n Quelle: Ostwald, Gisela, \u201eAmerikanische Hochschulen: Kaderschmiede f\u00fcr die Elite\u201c, S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung, 16.10.2008.<\/p>\n *Die Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen, eine durch die deutsche Regierung anerkannte \u201eElite-Universit\u00e4t\u201c, steht an der 67. Stelle in der Welt; d.h., zum Beispiel, 16 Stellen unter der Seoul National University von S\u00fcdkorea. (The Times of London, Higher Education Supplement [THES], World University Rankings, 2007)<\/p>\n \u201eIch f\u00fchle mich wie eine Person, die von einer Gruppe Schl\u00e4ger angegriffen und verletzt wird. Man vergibt die Schl\u00e4ger, aber man muss andere Menschen vor ihnen warnen.\u201c \u2013 George Sand<\/p>\n \u201ePatriotismus will hei\u00dfen, Dein Land und Volk zu unterst\u00fctzen, zu allen Zeiten, und Deine Regierung und Staat zu unterst\u00fctzen, wenn diese es verdient haben\u201c. — Mark Twain<\/em><\/p>\n Novel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/revision\/ 4 NOVEMBER 2008, TUESDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY The Technical University of Munich* \u2013 American Universities from a German Perspective \u2013 9 With profits of this kind at stake, American universities are employing advertising consultants to establish their brand names and to make sure they are in demand. The USA has additional advantages as well: its language, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tu-munich"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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