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Harkamaya College of Education is a private teachers' training college in Gangtok, Sikkim under Sikkim University. The college offers Bachelor of Education and Master of Education degrees. History of the College The college was founded in 2003, and was initially affiliated to North Bengal University in West Bengal, due to the absence of a Central University in Sikkim at the time. In 2006, the college became the first institution in the state of Sikkim to offer the Master of Education degree. After the establishment of a Central University in Sikkim, the college became affiliated to Sikkim University.

The Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences is an autonomous institute constituted under the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. The institute is located at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India and is a seat of higher learning in the field of plant fossil research.

Sri Pratap College, commonly known as SP College, is an academic and professional college in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The college has been accredited by NAAC with an 'A+' Grade. It is the oldest institute of higher education in the Kashmir Valley.

Central College Bengaluru is one of the oldest colleges in India. This college was originally affiliated to University of Mysore in Mysore State. Rev. John Garrett was the founder and first principal of the Central High School, which was afterwards renamed Central College. In 1964, with the reorganization of the Indian state and the formation of Karnataka, Central College was transferred to Bangalore University, a new university formed in 1965 to meet the needs of the people of Bengaluru. Initially, the two colleges of the city, the Central College and the University Visvesvaraya College of...

University of Environment and Sustainable Development is a newly established University at Trom-Somanya in the Yilo Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region Ghana. The institution was established by the Government of Ghana through the Ministry of Education so that there will be an equitable "access for all" in Ghana. The institution was a collaborative project between Ghana and the Italian Government.

Troy University at Phenix City is a satellite campus of Troy University and is located in Phenix City, Alabama, United States. Academics Schools/Colleges The university is composed of five colleges, a graduate school, and a division of general studies:College of Arts & SciencesCollege of Communications & Fine ArtsCollege of EducationCollege of Health & Human ServicesThe Sorrell College of BusinessThe Graduate SchoolThe Division of General Studies

Rappahannock Community College is a public community college with two campuses in Virginia, one in Glenns and the other in Warsaw . There are three off-campus sites — one in Kilmarnock, one in King George, one in New Kent County. The institution is one of the twenty-three colleges in the Virginia Community College System. It mostly serves students living on the Middle Peninsula and the Northern Neck, but it also has students from other parts of Virginia. RCC offers associate degrees, certificates, career studies certificates, dual enrollment credit, non-credit programs, lifelong learning cre...

Rawalpindi Medical University is a public university located in Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan. It is affiliated with three public sector teaching hospitals for undergraduate and postgraduate medical education & training. It is also listed among the recognised universities and degree awarding institutions by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.

Maharaja Krushna Chandra Gajapati Medical College and Hospital Brahmapur, Ganjam, Odisha is a government medical college and hospital that started functioning in 1962 as a medical college and 1966 as a hospital. Subsequently, the medical college and the attached hospital were renamed after renowned late Maharaja of Parlakhemundi, Ganjam, Krushna Chandra Gajapati. It also has a college of nursing, which is established in 1983. It is the first nursing college in odisha. Courses available in this college are basic bsc nursing, post basic bsc nursing and msc nursing. Recently in 2019 it introduced a new course CHO.

Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School is a public vocational-technical high school located in Bourne, Massachusetts, United States. Opened in 1966, it serves over 720 students in 15 vocational areas of study. The school is approved by the Massachusetts Department of Education to offer Chapter 74 technical programs.

The Polish University Abroad, or Polish University in Exile , was initially established in London in 1949 . The Polish University Abroad has a B.A. programme and does research. It has outposts in Paris, France, and Munich, Germany.

The Academy of Vocal Arts is a private, post-baccalaureate opera school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As of 2023, the AVA does not grant degrees, but rather Artist Diplomas to those who complete the full four-year course requirement. It is the only tuition-free institution in the world devoted solely to operatic training and performance. The school was founded in 1934 by Helen Corning Warden.

Immaculate Heart of Mary College-Parañaque is a Private, Roman Catholic, educational institution run by the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Hearts. It is located on a 2.5 Hectare Lot on both sides of St. Dominic Savio Street in Better Living Subdivision, Parañaque City.

North American Trade Schools is a private career school vocational school in Baltimore, Maryland. The school's campus is located in the unincorporated community of Woodlawn, Baltimore County, Maryland, adjacent to Security Square Mall. Its current enrollment consists of 529 full-time students.

The College of the Holy Spirit of Tarlac is a private, Catholic basic and higher education institution run by the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit in Tarlac, Philippines. It was established in 1939 as the Catholic Academy of Tarlac.

The Adamu Tafawa Balewa College of Education is a state government higher education institution located in Kangere, Bauchi State, Nigeria. The current provost is Adamu Magaji Yanbuga. History The Adamu Tafawa Balewa College of Education was established in 2014. It was formerly known as Bauchi State Institute ADAMU TAFAWA BALEWA COLLEGE OF EDUCATION KANGERE.

Nalbari College is in Nalbari, Assam, India. It was founded in 1945. The college is affiliated to Gauhati University and recognized by University Grants Commission . Since its inception, the institution imparts higher education to the economically backward people of this locality, especially those belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes communities.

Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences is a medical college and medical research institute based in Jalandhar, India. Location and function Situated in the heart of Jalandhar with an area spread of more than 55 acres, Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences , Jalandhar was envisaged by the Govt. Of Punjab in 1999 as the first medical college cum teaching hospital in Doaba region. PIMS was conceptualized under Public Private Partnership mode by PIMS Society, PIMS Medical and Education Charitable Society, Department of Medical Education & Research and GoP to be a tertiary care teaching hospital. The medical college is affiliated to Baba Farid University of Health Sciences.

S.D Dental College Parbhani or SD MESOC Foundation's Saraswati Dhanwantari Dental College is a dental college in Parbhani, Maharashtra, India, affiliated to Maharashtra University of Health Sciences .

St Padarn's Institute came into being in 2016. Until then the site belonged to St Michael's College, an Anglican theological college in Llandaff, Wales. St Michael's college was founded in Aberdare in 1892, and was situated in Llandaff from 1907 until 2016. Among its many alumni was the poet R. S. Thomas. The original building on the site was a house constructed for himself by John Prichard. After his death, that building was incorporated into the newly founded St Michael's College, which was built mainly to the designs of F. R. Kempson between 1905 and 1907. In the late 1950s, a chapel was built by George Pace.

Northlink College is a Government higher education institution situated in Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa. It is fully accredited by the Council on Higher Education and Department of Higher Education and Training . The College is quality assured by the South African Council on Higher Education .

The United Talmudical Seminary or Yeshiva Torah ViYirah DeRabbeinu Yoel MeSatmar is a private Rabbinical college, or yeshiva, for Satmar students, with locations in Brooklyn and Queens, New York. In the 2004-2005 academic year, it had 1,125 students in all degree fields; in 2006–2007, 869 of its students were undergraduates. Due to its nature as a Rabbinical college, all students are male.

Edison State Community College is a public community college in Piqua, Ohio. It was established as Ohio's first general and technical college in 1973. The college was named after Thomas Alva Edison. The college's main campus is located in Piqua on a 131-acre rural plain with additional campuses in Greenville, Troy, and Eaton.

Takhar University was a university established by Afghanistan former president Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani leader of Jamiat Islami Afghanistan and martyr of peace in Aqrab 1370 in Peshawar-Pakistan under the name of "Abdullah Ibn Massoud", and it was transferred to Taloqan city in 1373. By the year 1374 it was registered in the Ministry of Higher Education and in the same year it started its academic activities, establishing two faculties .

Sanford USD Medical Center is a hospital operated by the Sanford Health system in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It is classified as a Level I Trauma center. It was ranked as one of the 100 Great Hospitals in America by Becker's Hospital Review in 2017 and 2018.

Institute for Environment Geochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine located in Kyiv, Ukraine. History Decision on creation of the institute with dual subordination to the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Ministry of Emergencies was adopted on 29 December 1995. On 4 January 1996 a joint order of the Academy and the Ministry was signed by Borys Paton and Volodymyr Kholosha on creation of the State science center of Surrounding Environment Radiation- and Geochemistry based on two departments of the NASU Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy, and Ore-creation .

Fuyang Normal University , previously known as Fuyang Teachers College, is an institution of higher learning in Fuyang city, Anhui province, China. It is the largest institution of higher learning in the city of Fuyang.

Universidad José María Vargas is a university in Caracas, based in the Sucre Municipality.

Acupuncture and Massage College is a nationally-accredited, private for-profit university in Miami, Florida that specializes in Oriental medicine. The college was founded in 1983 and is the oldest acupuncture school in Florida.

Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Mangalore was founded in 1987 and recognised by the Dental Council of India in 1992 and by the Malaysian Dental Council in 2003. It was certified for ISO9001:2000 in 2006 and was re-certified for ISO9001:2008 in 2009. The college is a part of Manipal University. The college offers undergraduate and postgraduate programme.

University College was established in 1868 in Mangalore city of Karnataka in India. The campus is situated on an eight-acre land at Hampankatta in Mangalore. This college became a constituent college of Mangalore University on 7 March 1993. It is among the 19 colleges chosen by the University Grants Commission for 'heritage status' across the country.

Western Iowa Tech Community College is a public community college with five campuses in northwestern Iowa. The main campus is located in Sioux City; the other campuses are located in Mapleton, Le Mars, Denison and Cherokee. The institution offers associate degree and certificate programs.

The Politécnico Grancolombiano is a private University institution in Bogotá, Colombia. Its campus is located in the mountains of the city of Bogotá. It was founded on March 23, 1980 by banker and financier Jaime Michelsen Uribe, with support from Bancolombia and leading companies of the Grancolombiano Group. The current principal is Carlos Bernardo Carreño

The Fins Medical University is a private university in Uganda, which offers undergraduate level training to healthcare workers from Uganda and neighboring countries. Location The university campus is located at 40 Riverside Road, in the neighborhood called Kahungabunyonyi Rwengoma B in the Central Part of Fort Portal City, in the north-western environs of the city of Fort Portal, in Kabarole District, in the Western Region of Uganda. The geographical coordinates of the university campus are:0°39'54.0"N, 30°15'54.0"E .

Kilmarnock College was a college in Kilmarnock, Scotland. Since August 2013 it has been a campus of the new Ayrshire College as the result of a merger with Ayr College and James Watt College in Kilwinning and Largs. Plans for a new campus were announced in 2008. The college's last principal prior to the merger was Heather Dunk OBE.

SKanagawa Dental University Junior College is a private junior college in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, established in 1952. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1910 in Kanda, Tokyo as the Tokyo Joshi Shika Gakiun Gakkō, the first women's dental school in Japan. After the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, it relocated to Shinagawa. It relocated again to Ota-ku, Tokyo in 1933, and to its present location in Yokosuka in 1964 as the Kanagawa Dental College. The junior college was established in 1952, and shares the same campus. The primary aspect of its curriculum is to provide the co...

Siberian State Automobile and Highway University,

Yusra Medical & Dental College is a private medical college located in Islamabad. Cantonment General Hospital and Yusra General Hospital are attached to the college as a teaching hospital. According to the World Directory of Medical Schools, the college is not currently operational and closed in 2018. It is not longer listed as an approved college of medicine by the Pakistani Medical Council.

MES Garware College of Commerce was established in 1967 as an independent commerce college, Pune. The college was renamed as “M.E.S. Garware College of Commerce” in 1971. At present the college provides education up to Ph.D. level. The strength of students is about 3000. In 2021 the college has been conferred the Autonomous status from UGC and will be affiliated to the Savitribai Phule Pune University. College bagged ‘A’ grade from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council , scoring grade points 3.45 out of 4 . It is recognized by the University Grants Commission . The college infrastr...

The La Piedad Institute of Technology is a public university located in La Piedad, Michoacán, Mexico. It was founded in 1990. It is part of the Mexican public education system and offers training for several careers. English is taught as a second language at the school.

The Associated Students of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is the undergraduate student government representing the 10,000+ full-time, classified, undergraduate students at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. ASUH was chartered by the University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents in 1912 and was originally named the Associated Students of the College of Hawai'i.

Glasney College was founded in 1265 at Penryn, Cornwall, by Bishop Bronescombe and was a centre of ecclesiastical power in medieval Cornwall and probably the best known and most important of Cornwall's religious institutions.

The Mandalay University of Foreign Languages , located in Mandalay, is one of two specialized universities for the study of foreign languages in Myanmar. The university offers Master of Arts program, full-time four-year bachelor's degree programs run by Ministry of Education, and part-time diploma programs in the study of several Asian and European languages.

Sayed Kamsar-o-Bar Muslim Degree College is a degree college in Dildarnagar, Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of the oldest colleges of Ghazipur District established in 1936 as Muslim Rajput High School. In 1949 it became a Muslim Rajput Inter College and was renamed in 1969 to Sayed Kamsar-o-Bar Muslim Inter College. In 1973, it became a degree college. The campus of Degree College was separated in 2003 when a new building for Degree College was made.

Noble Senior Secondary School is an intermediate school located near the town of Dildarnagar in Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh, India, it is situated at Dildarnagar to Dewaitha village road.

Kobe Shoin Women's University is an all-women's private university in Nada Ward of Kobe, in western Japan. It was founded by visiting missionaries in 1892. It is a four-year university offering courses across multiple faculties, with an annual enrollment of about 2,500 students. Additionally, the university has a graduate school offering graduate qualifications at Masters and Doctoral level in psychology and linguistics.

Rangia College is an institution of general higher education established on the north bank of the Brahmaputra River. It is located in Rangiya town of kamrup rural district of Assam. History It was established on 5 August 1963. The college has rendered pioneering services to the community by catering to the needs of the vast and extensive area inhabited predominantly by socially and economically backward segments of the population. Rangia College has been serving the socio-educational needs of the entire North Kamrup area which is primarily a rural base.

Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture is one of the research institutes under Indian Council of Agricultural Research , New Delhi to serve as the nodal agency for catering to the needs of the brackishwater aquaculture research in India. The institute is headquartered at Santhome High Road, Raja Annamalai Puram, Chennai with a research centre at Kakdwip in West Bengal and an experimental field station at Muttukadu, roughly 30 km to the south of Chennai. The institute works under the Ministry of Agriculture, India.

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