《第66期Passage1》歌词

[00:00:00] 第66期Passage1-英语听力

[00:00:00] Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri,

[00:00:03] is a medium sized university.

[00:00:06] It has 11,000 students.

[00:00:09] 12% of them were international students,

[00:00:12] mostly graduate students.

[00:00:14] The University has schools for law, medicine, and social work.

[00:00:19] It also has a Business School, a School of Design and

[00:00:22] Visual Arts, and a School of Engineering and Applied Science.

[00:00:27] But more than 60% of courses are taught Arts and

[00:00:31] Sciences program.

[00:00:33] The new school year that begins this fall will cost

[00:00:36] about $50,000 for undergraduates.

[00:00:40] That includes 12 months of living expenses

[00:00:42] estimated at $20,000.

[00:00:46] Graduate tuition differs by programme.

[00:00:49] Tuition for the Master of Social Work programme, for example,

[00:00:53] will cost $27,000 in the coming year.

[00:00:57] The Master of Business Administration programme

[00:01:00] will cost about $38,000.

[00:01:03] The university offers financial assistance to international

[00:01:07] students, including first year students,

[00:01:10] but says its resources are limited.

[00:01:13] Scholarships are available.

[00:01:15] The university also offers a monthly payment plan

[00:01:19] to spread out the cost of tuition.

[00:01:21] It offers loan programmes.

[00:01:24] International students in the United States generally can not

[00:01:27] receive federal students loans.

[00:01:30] But they may be able to lake out private loans,

[00:01:33] as many American students do.

[00:01:35] Washington University in Saint Louis was named Eliot Seminary

[00:01:40] when it opened in 1853.

[00:01:43] Later,

[00:01:43] the name was changed to honor the first American president

[00:01:46] George Washington.