Our Foreign Student Series continues this week with a reportabout military colleges in the United States. We will talk about twoexamples.

One is the Virginia Military Institute, known as V.M.I. V.M.I. isa public, four-year military college in Lexington, Virginia. Itaccepts women as well as men. Its one thousand three hundredstudents are called cadets.

New cadets learn some things from older ones. One thing the oldercadets teach is the honor system. Cadets must not lie, cheat orsteal -- and they must not accept lying, cheating or stealing by anyother cadet.

Cadets who violate the honor system are expelled. The schoolconsiders the learning of self-control to be an important part of acollege education.

Lieutenant Colonel Stewart MacInnis is associate director ofcommunications and marketing at the Virginia Military Institute. Hesays V.M.I. has forty-five men and women from eighteen othercountries this year. Their home countries include Canada, Kenya,Lithuania, Taiwan, Thailand and South Korea. These cadets are mostlystudying business and international relations.

The cost for one year at V.M.I. for someone from outside Virginiais about twenty seven thousand dollars.

Another public military college in the South is The Citadel, inCharleston, South Carolina. It also accepts both men and women forits four-year program.

The Citadel has close to two thousand students. It says theyreceive a traditional military education. Graduates are not requiredto enter the armed forces. But about thirty-eight percent of them doenter the military after graduation.

This year, The Citadel has fifty-six students from thirty-twocountries outside the United States. They are studying mainlybusiness, science, computer science, mathematics and engineering.The cost is about twenty-five thousand dollars for the first year.After that, it drops to about twenty-one thousand dollars.

Internet users can learn more about the college at citadel,citadel.edu. The Web site for the Virginia Military Institute isvmi.edu. And all of the reports in our Foreign Student Series can befound online at voaspecialenglish dot com.

This VOA Special English Education Report was written by NancySteinbach. I'm Gwen Outen.