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The Antenor Orrego Private University is a Peruvian private university located in Trujillo, La Libertad Region. The university was named after the Peruvian journalist and political philosopher Antenor Orrego Espinoza.

Newman College Ireland was a Catholic liberal arts college in Northern Ireland which was opened in 2014. Named after Cardinal John Henry Newman, the founder of the Catholic University of Ireland which became University College Dublin, the college aimed to create third level institution which embodies the Catholic ethos.

Cardonald College was a medium-sized Further education institute located in Glasgow's South Side, in Scotland. Officially opened in 1972, it had over 12,000 full-time and part-time students. Cardonald College merged with Anniesland College and Langside College in 2013 to become Glasgow Clyde College.

Dubai School of Dental Medicine is a dental medical college located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The dental college is accredited by the Ministry of Higher Education. The college was founded in 2013. The college is a newly established home-grown dental institution launched to support the United Arab Emirates community with dental care services and education. This college offers both undergraduate and post-graduate degrees.

The North Orange County Community College District is a community college district in Orange County, California that offers associate degrees and adult education certificates. It includes two colleges: Cypress College and Fullerton College.

Mohammad Abdul Bari Institute of Juridical Science is a private law college in Domkal, Murshidabad, West Bengal. It was established by Maniknagar Social Welfare Society in the year 2008. The college is affiliated to University of Kalyani and also approved by the Bar Council of India.

Dwarkadas Jivanlal Sanghvi College of Engineering, also known as D. J. Sanghvi, is an engineering college in Vile Parle, Mumbai. The college was established by Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal in 1994.

Jones College is a public community college in Ellisville, Mississippi. It is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and serves its eight-county district consisting of Clarke, Covington, Greene, Jasper, Jones, Perry, Smith and Wayne counties.

Saint Joseph College of Florida was a college operated by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Florida in St. Augustine and in Jensen Beach, Florida. History 1890–1966 Saint Joseph College of Florida was started in 1890 in St. Augustine as a sisters' college, or sisters' formation college, by the Sisters of St. Joseph, a Roman Catholic teaching order. In 1950, the order bought the Tuckahoe Mansion on Mount Elizabeth, an ancient Native American midden in Jensen Beach and, after adding two dormitory wings to the mansion, moved the college and their novitiate into it. In 1957, the Sisters of St. Joseph...

The Liverpool Media Academy, abbreviated and branded as LMA, is a private media, music and performing arts specialist institution in Liverpool and London, England offering courses in Acting, Screen Acting, Digital Film & TV Production, Digital Games Art, Music Performance & Industry, Dance and Musical Theatre.

Amin Police Academy is a police academy in Iran affiliated with the Law Enforcement Command of Islamic Republic of Iran. The academy has provided training courses for police forces from 16 countries and is headed by General Parviz Ahi .

Heythrop College, University of London, was a constituent college of the University of London between 1971 and 2018, last located in Kensington Square, London. It comprised the university's specialist faculties of philosophy and theology with social sciences, offering undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses and five specialist institutes and centres to promote research. It had a close affiliation with the Roman Catholic Church, through the British Province of the Society of Jesus whose scholarly tradition went back to a 1614 exiled foundation in Belgium and whose extensive library collections it housed.

Arab American University is the first private university in the State of Palestine. AAUP was founded in the year 2000 and it provides BA, MA and PhD degree programs. The main campus is located near Talfit at the south of Jenin Governorate, and the other campuses are located, in the Al- Reehan area in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate of the Palestine.

Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research also known as Bharath Institute of Science and Technology , informally Bharath University, and formerly Bharath Engineering College is a private deemed university located in Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, India. It is recognised by the University Grants Commission and is accredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council with the highest grade of A. It is also approved by the All India Council for Technical Education .

RVS College of Arts and Science is an ISO 9001:2000 certified institute in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. It is established in the year 1986. The college is affiliated to Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. The campus is located adjacent to the Coimbatore-Trichy highway at Sulur.

Dumkal College, was founded on 21 September 1999 by the order of the Government of West Bengal in Domkal, Murshidabad. The college starts its functioning with a handful of students initiating their classes in B.T High School, Dumkal. This is a co-education college and the only institution within the locality which ran from the very beginning with all the three streams: Arts, Science and Commerce. It is affiliated to University of Kalyani. The college is located in Basantapur, a remote village near the Indo - Bangladesh border in Dumkal subdivision. The college is connected by a road coming from Dumkal Bus Stand.

Sumqayit State University , sometimes written as Sumgayit State University, or Sumgait State University, is a public university in Sumqayit, Azerbaijan. Founded in 1962, it operated as a remote branch of the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy until 1992 when it became independent as the Azerbaijani Industrial Institute. On June 13, 2000, it was renamed into Sumgayit State University.

The University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville is the largest of the three University of Florida Health Science Center Jacksonville colleges — medicine, nursing and pharmacy. The college's 16 clinical science departments house more than 440 faculty members and 380 residents and fellows. The college offers 34 accredited graduate medical education programs and 10 non-standard programs.

St. Marianna University School of Medicine is a private university in Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Established in 1971, it is a medical school affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church. In addition to medical studies, the school offers a degree in comparative religious studies. The school is also the first in Asia to be approved as a medical center for the FIFA world soccer association, and is the medical provider for the Japan national football team.

The Westminster Hospital Medical School was formally founded in 1834 by George Guthrie, an ex-military surgeon – although students had been taken on at Westminster Hospital almost from the hospital's foundation in 1719 .

Milligan University is a private Christian university in Milligan College, Tennessee. Founded in 1866 as the Buffalo Male and Female Institute, and known as Milligan College from 1881 to May 2020, the school has a student population of more than 1,300 students, most of whom reside and study on its campus. Milligan University is historically related to the Restoration Movement. The university offers over 100 programs of study leading to both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Herguan University was a private, unaccredited, university and alleged visa mill in Sunnyvale, California operated by Dr. Ying Qiu Wang. As of 2019, its domain names herguanuniversity.edu and herguanuniversity.org appear to be abandoned.

The Mico University College is one of an institution of higher education in Kingston, Jamaica. History The Mico was founded in 1835 through the Lady Mico Charity, one of four teacher training institutions established during this period in the British colonies and the only one to survive until the present. Jane Mico had died in 1670 in England and she left £1,000 to relieve slavery and it accrued interest until it was worth over £100,000. Thomas Fowell Buxton and abolitionist judge Stephen Lushington took an interest in the bequest that had been stuck for 200 years. They believed that her bequest would supply education in Jamaica and elsewhere.

Basirhat College, established in 1947, is a general degree college in Basirhat. It offers undergraduate courses in arts, commerce and sciences. It is affiliated to West Bengal State University. History Basirhat College was founded in mid-November 1947 on the banks of river Icchamati. In 1947, the college was primarily housed in Basirhat Town Hall. It later moved to the residence of Khan Bahadur A.F.M. Abdur Rahaman in Basirhat. Dr. Shyamaprasad Mukherjee laid the foundation stone at the present location of the college.

Polytechnic University of the Philippines Quezon City is one of the satellite campuses of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines located in Commonwealth, Quezon City, Philippines. It was established in 1997. It confers undergraduate and diploma degrees.

The Sunyani Technical University is a public tertiary institution in the Bono Region of Ghana. It is located northeast of Asufufu. STU was established as a Technical Institute in 1967, as a non-tertiary institution, under the Ghana Education Service. It was subsequently upgraded to a Polytechnic in 1997 by the Government of Ghana, to run Higher National Diploma programmes. The Polytechnics Act, 2007 mandated the Polytechnics in Ghana to run and award Higher National Diploma Certificates, Diplomas and other higher degrees, subject to the approval of the Polytechnic Councils.

Dukhulal Nibaran Chandra College, popularly known as DNC college established in 1967, is the college in Aurangabad, in Murshidabad district. It offers undergraduate courses in Arts, Commerce and Sciences. It is affiliated to University of Kalyani.

Jangipur College, established in 1950, is a college in Jangipur, Murshidabad, West Bengal, India. It offers undergraduate courses in arts, commerce and sciences. It is affiliated to University of Kalyani.

The University of Maine at Machias is a public college in Machias, Maine. It is part of the University of Maine System. The institution was founded in 1909 as a normal school for educating teachers, and offers studies in recreation, English, education, social sciences, and physical sciences, including a marine biology program. Enrollment is 760 students.

Bhai Parmanand Institute of Business Studies is a government higher education institute located in New Delhi, India. It grants various postgraduate and undergraduate programmes, being affiliated to Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship University . The institute was established in the year 1965 by the Government of the NCT of Delhi and it was named after renowned Arya Samaji, Hindu reformist and Indian nationalist leader Bhai Parmanand in 1986. The institute is approved by the Directorate of Training and Technical Education and by the All India Council for Technical Education . It is also ISO 9001...

The International Academy of Film and Television is a trade film school offering diploma and certificate programs in filmmaking, acting, and 3D animation. IAFT includes significant amounts of hands-on practical experience under the care and guidance of recognized industry mentors in its programs. IAFT Cebu was also voted as "one of the best film schools in the world" by the Hollywood Reporter.

Red Rocks Community College is a public community college in Lakewood and Arvada, Colorado. It is part of the Colorado Community College System. History RRCC was established in 1969 as a campus of the Community College of Denver and opened at a temporary site until the Colorado legislature appropriated funds for construction of a permanent campus at the school's present Lakewood campus. Construction began in 1971 and the first phase of construction was completed in 1973, with a link between the east and west wings of the current building completed in fall 1975. On July 1, 1983, the Red Rocks...

Garrett College is a public community college in McHenry, Maryland. The college has three outreach centers: Accident, Grantsville, and Oakland. History Garrett College was established in 1966, as Garrett Community College, and took its present name in 2002. In 1968, the Garrett Community College Board of Trustees acquired a site in McHenry, Maryland and construction of the campus began shortly thereafter. It officially opened its doors to students in 1971.

Metropolitan University of Technology is a university in Chile. It is part of the Chilean Traditional Universities.The Metropolitan Technological University, better known by its acronym as UTEM, is a state institution of public higher education in Chile, founded on August 30, 1993, after the breakup of the University of Chile.

Golestan University of Medical Sciences is a public university in Gorgan, Iran. The university has six faculties including medicine, dentistry, health care, nursing, paramedicine, and Medical Modern Technologies.

The Merseburg University of Applied Sciences is an institution of higher education located in the town of Merseburg, Germany. It was established on April 1, 1992. Its precursor was the Technical University Leuna-Merseburg .

The Hacienda La Puente Unified School District is a school district located in Southern California. It is the largest school district in the east San Gabriel Valley in terms of student population, serving 20,000 students from the unincorporated community of Hacienda Heights, portions of the cities of Industry, La Puente and West Covina and portions of the unincorporated communities of Avocado Heights, Valinda and West Puente Valley. The district's headquarters are located in the city of Industry.

Maryland University of Integrative Health , formerly the Tai Sophia Institute, is a private graduate school of alternative medicine in Laurel, Maryland. It is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and has an academic and clinical focus on whole person, relationship-centered healthcare.

Royal College of Arts, Science, Commerce and Management, popularly known as Royal College, is a college located in Mira Road, Mumbai, Maharashtra and is affiliated to University of Mumbai. It is the only major higher education institute in Mira-Bhayandar. N. L. Dalmia Institute of Management Studies and Research and N. L. Dalmia High School are situated just opposite to it. The college was rated "A with 3.10 CGPA" by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council .

Indira Gandhi Government Medical College & Hospital , established in 1968, is located in Central Nagpur. run by the Government of Maharashtra. It is one of the Three Government Medical Colleges in Nagpur city. The other Government Medical College in Nagpur city is Government Medical College , and All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur

Tajikistan Humanitarian International University is a university in Tajikistan. It is located in Dushanbe.

University of Embu is a Kenyan chartered university. It transitioned from a constituent college to a full university on 7 October 2016. Location Embu, Kenya. It is located along the Meru-Nairobi Highway, opposite Kangaru Boys High School, 4 km from Embu town at Kangaru ward in Manyatta constituency, Embu West.

NSS College, Nemmara is a college of higher education in Nemmara town in Palakkad district of Kerala. It is managed by the Nair Service Society and is affiliated to the University of Calicut. The college was inaugurated by the founding father of NSS, Mannathu Padmanabhan on 28 February 1966. The college has celebrated its Silver Jubilee in the year 1991–92. College is located in the vicinity of Western Ghats encompassing the picturesque hills of Nelliyampathi. College caters to the needs of the rural students of Nemmara and other neighboring areas like Ayalur, Melarkode, and Alathur.

The University of Puerto Rico at Ponce is a public college in Ponce, Puerto Rico. It is the only campus of the University of Puerto Rico on the southern region of the island. History The school opened on 23 August 1970 as Colegio Regional de Ponce de la Universidad de Puerto Rico . In 1982, the school starts offering four-year degrees and its name is changed Colegio Universitario Tecnológico de Ponce to reflect this. In 1998 the school is given administrative independence from the University of Puerto Rico flagship school at Rio Piedras and its name is once again changed to become Colegio Universitario de Ponce.

Omdurman Islamic University is built on an area of size about 800 feddans in Omdurman, Sudan. While the school is primarily oriented toward Islamic studies, it serves other fields of studies as well, such as Engineering, Agriculture and Medicine. Omdurman Islamic University is a member of the Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World.

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Pune , is one of the Indian Institutes of Information Technology, a group of institutes of Higher education in India focused on Information Technology. It is established by the Ministry of Education , formerly the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India and few industry partners as Not-for-profit Public Private Partnership Institution. IIIT Pune was declared as an Institute of National Importance in August 2017.

The University of Management and Technology is a private research university located in Lahore, Pakistan. It is chartered by the Government of Punjab and is recognized by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan in the W4 category, the highest attainable HEC ranking for Pakistani universities.

Sree Narayana College, Chempazhanthy, is a general degree college in Chempazhanthy, Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala. It was established in 1964. The college is affiliated with Kerala University. It offers courses in arts, commerce and science.

Edwardes College Peshawar is a semi-government degree college which is the oldest higher education institution in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The college, affiliated with the University of Peshawar, has about 3,000 students in Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Business Administration, Higher National Diploma, and Computer Sciences.

Zaytuna College is a private liberal arts college in Berkeley, California. It is the first accredited Muslim undergraduate college in the United States. It was built on the foundation of an educational institute, founded in 1996 by Hamza Yusuf and Hesham Alalusi. After graduating its pilot batch of full-time students, Zaytuna Institute formally changed its name to Zaytuna College in 2009.

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