Sentence examples for colleges passed from inspiring English sources

Last year a record 76 American colleges passed the $1 billion mark in total endowments.

The small number of free schools entering for GCSEs – 20 schools with just 1,100 pupils – had a pass rate of 51.6%, while university technical colleges passed just 37.7% of their 1,200 pupils.

Colleges pass the tax benefit on to their students.

My junior and senior years of college passed quietly.

In September, the college passed a significant milestone when the Israeli cabinet voted to upgrade the college to a university as a matter of "national importance".

Meanwhile, his sister said, Mr. Ng (pronounced Eng), who was known as Jason, graduated from high school in Long Island City, Queens, worked his way through community technical college, passed Microsoft training courses and won a contract to provide computer services to a company with offices in the Empire State Building.

But as the years post-college passed, it was pretty clear that our class aspirations had become extremely different.

They both came home after college, passing up the Peace Corps and a New York investment bank, for one simple reason: They missed Detroit.

None of the program records he set in college — passing yards, touchdown passes in a game, in a season and in a career — get mentioned.

ARKANSAS QUARTERBACK STAYS Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett is staying in college, passing up the N.F.L. with an eye toward helping the Razorbacks become one of the nation's elite teams.

The process seems to be less about enhancing academic quality than about making sure that the college passes what one applicant calls the "Bumper Sticker Test"; and the best way to do this is to keep up its statistics, including winning records for its sports teams, relative to the competition.