Primary school lasts until 6 th grade, then secondary schools cover grades 7-9. These schools are specialized, and students might go to a pre-university school with a special focus on sports, technology, or other subject areas. SECA hopes to bring pre-university students to the US as exchange students. For admission to colleges, students take college entrance exams in such areas as Spanish, math, history, physics, and chemistry. After the pre-university level, students attend universities, usually local ones.
Students learn different careers that take varying amounts of time.
The students that SECA spoke with were studying accounting and economics, history, medicine, information technology, and other subjects. The students SECA's representatives spoke with all intended to continue their educations at the university level. The delegation visited a family doctor and a pediatrics hospital to learn about the Cuban medical system. Many doctors and nurses addressed the group at the hospital, and a family doctor who served about 120 families described his work as well.