This concise, practical book, first published in 1952, not only offers foreign students and educators answers to their questions about higher education in the United States, but is, in addition, a useful guide to American students planning to teach on this level, and to college and university teachers in the junior ranks. In 1957, the United States Information Agency issued a second edition for use abroad.

The present edition is rigorously revised in response to discussion both here and abroad; recent developments are included and statistics are brought up to date. Fine new illustrations enhance the text.