Only a small number of undergraduates will continue in an academic career.

In general, the study found that undergraduates were almost as likely as old people to make this mistake and men as likely as women.

They engage college undergraduates to teach computer science to high school students, who in turn instruct middle school students on the topic.

"It's not only the selective and elite institutions that provide those opportunities for a small subset of this population," Rubinoff said, adding that a majority of first-generation undergraduates tend toward options such as online programs, two-year col

But the priorities of many undergraduates are with extracurricular activities, playing sports, and partying and socializing.

Currently, I teach consumer behaviour to undergraduates in their second year, and we look at all kinds of things in consumer behaviour and particularly how consumers are presented in advertising.

In one experiment, 145 undergraduates completed four unusual uses tasks, each requiring them to list as many uses as possible for everyday object.

Although more than half of Harvard undergraduates end up in law, medicine or business, future doctors and lawyers must study a non- specialist liberal-arts degree before embarking on a professional qualification.

But now most colleges save for many selective campuses, allow all undergraduates, and even graduate students, to get their low grades forgiven.

However, many leading American universities want their undergraduates to have a grounding in the basic canon of ideas that every educated person should possess.

Most of the first-generation students were recipients of Pell Grants, a federal grant for undergraduates with financial need, while this was true only for 8.6 percent of the students with at least one parent with a four-year degree.

tim Harford, author of Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives, points to a study in the early 1980s that divided undergraduates into two groups: some were advised to set out monthly goals and study activities; others were told to plan activit