- Most colleges and universities begins at the end of August/beginning of September. They end between early May and early June.
- School break is about a month long but has different starting times ranging from before New Years until closer to Tsaagan Sar.
- Men and women both wear modern [Western] designs of casual clothes and “activewear” – denim jeans pants, t-shirts, sport shoes, high heel shoes, sweats, etc.
- On special occasions university students wear formal shirts, jackets and slacks/skirts. Also women usually wear high heel shoes.
- Unacceptable attire would be shorts, sporty tank-tops, mid-riffs, fishnet stockings, unnatural colored hair (green, pink, etc), cut-up jeans, T-shirts with holes in them, pajamas (as has become common in many American universities for 8 or 9am classes), sleeveless tank-tops for women.
- Mongolian universities use the A-F grading scale, with those grades following the Western standard that for every class.
- The most common form of teaching is lecture, but some classes involve small group projects and collaborative work.
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