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Northwestern Connecticut Community College is a public community college in Winsted, Connecticut. As measured by enrollment it is the smallest or second-smallest of the twelve colleges in the Connecticut Community Colleges system.

Three Rivers Community College is a public community college in Norwich, Connecticut. It was formed in 1992 by the merger of Mohegan Community College and Thames Valley State Technical College and is named after the three major rivers in the region: the Shetucket, the Yantic and the Thames. It is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.

Jewish People's University – unofficial semi-underground mathematical courses in Moscow in 1978–1982. History of creation The idea of creating a People's University came about by interviewing applicants MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics who did not pass the selection committee, primarily due to their Jewish origin , from mathematicians Bella Subbotovskaya and Valery Senderov. The first stream was recruited in 1978 directly at Moscow State University and amounted to 14 people. Classes were held at Bella Abramovna's apartment.

The Institute of Buddhist Studies is a Jodo Shinshu-affiliated seminary and graduate school, located in Berkeley, California. It is a member school of the Graduate Theological Union, also located in Berkeley. Its mission is to provide graduate level education in the entirety of the Buddhist tradition with specialization in Jodo Shinshu ministry and Buddhist chaplains. It is the sole seminary for ministers serving temples in the United States through the Buddhist Churches of America, the U.S. mainland branch district of the Nishi Hongwanji sect of Japanese Buddhism.

Zuyd University of Applied Sciences is a University of Applied Sciences with campuses in Heerlen, Sittard and Maastricht in the southeastern Netherlands. The main focus of Zuyd University is on Bachelor programmes, 52 in total, most of them in Dutch. There are currently 8 master programmes.

Montana State University–Northern is a public college in Havre, Montana. It is part of the Montana University System and was Northern Montana College prior to the restructuring of Montana's public university system in 1994.

Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine is a medical institute from Kolkata, India dedicated in the field of tropical disease. It was established in 1914 by Leonard Rogers of the Indian Medical Service, professor of pathology at the Calcutta Medical College. It was, till 2003, affiliated with the University of Calcutta. Now it is under the West Bengal University of Health Sciences.

Germanna Community College is a community college in Virginia with campuses in Locust Grove, Fredericksburg, Stafford and Culpeper. Founded in 1970, it takes its name from Germanna, a settlement founded by Governor Alexander Spotswood for a group of German miners by the Rapidan River at what is now Germanna Ford.

The College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa is an independent body that fosters postgraduate education in surgery and provides surgical training throughout the region of East, Central and Southern Africa. COSECSA delivers a common surgical training programme with an internationally bench-marked exam and qualification.

The Kenya Methodist University is a chartered private university founded by the Methodist Church in Kenya. It is situated within woodland on the north eastern slopes of Mount Kenya, five kilometers from Meru Town. The development of KeMU is based on the 1906 Methodist Church education policy that resulted in the development of schools, industrial institutes and colleges.

The Pandit Lakhmi Chand State University of Performing and Visual Arts is a public university in Rohtak, India. It was established in 2011 by the department of Technical Education. The university is a joint campus of four institutions: State Institute of Film and Television, State Institute of Design, State Institute of Fine Arts and State Institute of Urban Planning and Architecture.

The Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas is an institution of higher education located in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico. Along with the Tuxtla Gutierrez Institute of Technology, it is considered one of the two most important educational institutions in the state of Chiapas.

Rajendra University, formerly known as Rajendra Autonomous College is situated in Balangir, Odisha, India. History The university was established as an Intermediate college in 1944 by Maharaja Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo, the erstwhile King of Patna State and one of the former Chief Ministers of Odisha as Rajendra College.

Mangosuthu University of Technology is a university of technology situated in Umlazi near the city of Durban, South Africa, on a site overlooking the Indian Ocean. MUT is located in the academic hub in the eThekwini metropole. It is a residential university.

Little Big Horn College is a public tribal land-grant community college on the Crow Indian Reservation in Crow Agency, Montana. It has an open admissions policy and welcomes enrollment from any adult with a high school diploma or GED. The student body is composed of Crow Tribal members , members of American Indian Tribes from around the intermountain west , and non-Indian residents of the Big Horn County area .

New College is a further and higher education institution in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. There are two main campuses, Queens Drive and North Star, as well as an Adult Learning Centre in Swindon town centre.

Vignan's Foundation for Science, Technology & Research is a Deemed university in the Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is in the rural area of Vadlamudi, in the southeast of Guntur City and the northeast of Tenali City.

Sher-e-Bangla Medical College is a government medical school in Bangladesh, established in 1968. The college is located in Barisal. It is affiliated with University of Dhaka as a constituent college.

The University of Luhansk, officially the Taras Shevchenko National University of Luhansk , is the oldest university in Donbas region and has a reputation as one of Ukraine's most prestigious universities.

Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University is one of the leading establishments of higher education in Ukraine. It was founded in 1920, and in 1991 it was named after Vladimir Dal. It was the first higher educational establishment in which specialists in machine-building were trained. During World War II the institute was evacuated to Omsk . There it became the basis for the foundation of Omsk State Technical University.

Los Angeles Harbor College is a public community college in Wilmington, California. It is one of two community colleges serving the South Bay region of Los Angeles. LAHC serves mainly students from Harbor City, Carson, San Pedro, Gardena, Lomita, Wilmington and the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

Goalpara College is an institution of higher learning in western Assam, India. It was established in 1955 with the help and cooperation from local people. At present, it has 16 departments with a total staff strength of 110. It is affiliated to Gauhati University, Guwahati.

Pilar College of Zamboanga City, Inc. is a private Catholic basic and higher education institution owned and administered by the Religious of the Virgin Mary in Zamboanga City, Philippines. It was founded by the RVM Sisters in 1894 as a Cartilla School. It is located at R.T. Lim boulevard, Zamboanga City. The college provides Catholic education to the children and the youth of Zamboanga City and the southwestern part of Mindanao. It offers elementary, secondary and college education.

The American University of Malta is a private, American-style liberal arts college in Cospicua, Malta. It is a co-educational institution and its launch was announced in May 2015. The project was intended to regenerate the South of Malta and give said area an economic and social boost. Since the proposal was announced, Dock 1 in Cospicua was chosen for the head campus, while extensions are being planned for other sites in Cospicua and Żonqor, Marsaskala. It was officially established on 16 September 2016.

Matej Bel University , is a public research university in the central Slovak town of Banská Bystrica. The university was established in 1992. It bears the name of Matthias Bel, a Hungarian-Slovak Lutheran scholar of the 18th century. UMB comprises six faculties that differ in character and history, each retaining substantial autonomy on financial and institutional affairs. The university provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.

Government College of Engineering and Research, Avasari Khurd is a Maharashtra state government engineering college. It was established in 2009. The college is located about 62 km north of Pune , on Nashik-Pune National Highway and 70 km from the shrine Bhimashankar. The campus is spread over 50 acres with academic buildings and separate administrative and workshop buildings, a separate residential zone with quarters for faculty and staff and hostels. The college is approved by All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi, and is affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University. Direct...

Government Post Graduate College , Mansehra is public sector college located in Mansehra of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. The college offers programs for intermediate level both in Arts and Science groups for which it is affiliated with Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Abbottabad. The college also offers 4 years BS programs in various disciplines for which it is affiliated with Hazara University.

St. Johns River State College is a public college in Northeast Florida with campuses in Palatka, St. Augustine, and Orange Park. Founded in 1958 as St. Johns River Junior College, it is part of the Florida College System and one of several colleges in the system designated a "state college", meaning they can offer more bachelor degrees than traditional community colleges. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Florida School of the Arts, Florida's first state-sponsored arts school, is housed within the Palatka Campus.

The Government College University Faisalabad is a public university located in Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan. History The institute was established as a primary school in 1897 in the present building of Government College for Women, Karkhana Bazar, Faisalabad. It was promoted to high school and intermediate college in 1905 and 1924 respectively. In 1933, it was elevated to the degree level and postgraduate disciplines were introduced in 1963. The government of Punjab declared it as an autonomous institution in 1990. It was further given the status of a university in 2002.

Southwestern Michigan College is a public community college with its main campus near Dowagiac, Michigan. It also has a campus just outside the city limits of Niles, Michigan. History Southwestern Michigan College was founded on November 19, 1964 after the voters of Cass County, Michigan approved a $1.5 million tax levy to fund a Cass County Community College. On September 12, 1965, ground was broken for the main campus in Dowagiac, Michigan. Classes began at Southwestern Michigan College in September 1966. The college is located three miles outside of Dowagiac, Michigan city limits.

Hilbert College is a private Franciscan college in Hamburg, New York. The college is named after Mother Colette Hilbert of the Franciscan Sisters of Saint Joseph, who founded the school in 1957 to train teachers. Hilbert College enrolls approximately 800 students and grants both undergraduate and master's degrees.

Baselios Poulose Second College Piramadom is located at Piramadom near Muvattupuzha, Ernakulam district of Kerala State, Republic of India. This institution affiliated to the Mahatma Gandhi University, established in 2003 in the unaided sector.

The National University of La Pampa is an Argentine national university, situated in the city of Santa Rosa, capital of La Pampa Province. See also Science and Education in ArgentinaArgentine Higher Education Official SiteArgentine Universities

Bethany Lutheran College is a private Christian liberal arts college in Mankato, Minnesota. Founded in 1927, BLC is operated by the Evangelical Lutheran Synod. The campus overlooks the Minnesota River valley in a community of 53,000.

Union College is a public community college in Union County, New Jersey. It was founded in 1933 as the first of New Jersey's public community colleges. The college has four campuses: Cranford, Elizabeth, Plainfield, and Scotch Plains. It is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. The college offers more than 80 programs leading to Associate in Arts, Associate in Science, and Associate in Applied Science degrees and certificate programs provided by the Continuing Education program. It also offers distance education classes.

The University of the Nations is an unaccredited Christian university. The University of the Nations operates under the umbrella organization of the Youth With A Mission network. History The institution was founded in 1978 as Pacific & Asia Christian University by Howard Malmstadt and Loren Cunningham, the founder of Youth with a Mission, in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. As other locations were established around the world, PACU was renamed the University of the Nations in 1989.

Abdelmalek Essaâdi University is a Moroccan public university created in 1989. It is considered to be the main university in the North of the Morocco. This university is made up of 15 institutions, including schools and establishments spread across the Tanger-Tétouan-AL Hoceima region and in the city of Larache. It covers the fields of science, law, economics, humanities and letters and technology. In 2016, the university established the CONFUCIUS Institute for Chinese Language Learning, the third nationwide institute.

Mrinalini Dutta Mahavidyapith, established in 1964, is a general degree college in Birati, Kolkata. It offers undergraduate courses in arts, commerce and sciences. It is affiliated to West Bengal State University.

The National Academy of Management is a higher educational establishment in Kyiv, Ukraine. It was founded in 1992. Majors Finances;Banking;Accounting and Audit;Marketing;Law;Intelligence systems of decision-making .

Clarendon College is a public community college in Clarendon, Texas. It also operates branch campuses in Pampa and Childress. The college was established in 1898 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and administered as a private institution until 1927 when it became a publicly supported two-year institution.

Mid-Atlantic Christian University is a private Christian university in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. It is supported by Christian churches and churches of Christ, which is part of the Restoration Movement. MACU awards bachelor's degrees, associate degrees, and certificates. MACU started as Roanoke Bible College with the primary goal of preacher training to serve the Church of Christ/Christian Churches of eastern North Carolina and Virginia.

Cottey College is a private women's college in Nevada, Missouri. It was founded by Virginia Alice Stockard in 1884. Since 1927 it has been owned and supported by the P.E.O. Sisterhood, a philanthropic women's organization based in Des Moines, Iowa. For most of its history, Cottey was a two-year liberal arts college, and in 2011 it achieved accreditation as a four-year baccalaureate-granting college. It had 302 full-time students enrolled in 2021.

The Federal University Otuoke is a Federal Government-owned University sited in Otuoke, a town in Ogbia local government area of Bayelsa State, Southern Nigeria. The university is one of the nine new Federal Universities established by the Federal Government of Nigeria in February 2011 under the administration of president, Dr Goodluck Jonathan. Federal University Otuoke is sited in the heart of the oil-rich Niger-Delta Region of Bayelsa State. The university was established in 2011 and started with 282 pioneer students. The university has six faculties and offers degree courses at undergraduate levels.

Labette Community College is a public community college in Parsons, Kansas, United States. LCC's main campus is situated in Parsons and satellite campuses are located in Cherokee, Oswego and Pittsburg. The mascot of the school is Chris the Cardinal. The official school colors are red and white.

Minnesota Independence College and Community is a 5013 nonprofit vocational and life skills training program for autistic and neurodivergent young adults. Since their founding in 1996 , MICC has remained dedicated to helping participants make successful transitions towards independent living and self-sufficiency.

Paris-East Créteil University is a public university located in Créteil, Île-de-France, France. It was inaugurated in 1970. The university offers training in law, arts and humanities, science and technology, economics and development, administration and exchange, educational science, as well as social sciences.

Sheridan College is a public community college in Sheridan, Wyoming. It is part of the Northern Wyoming Community College District. It offers certificate programs; program tracks that prepare students to transfer to a four-year college or university; and associate degrees in the arts, science, and applied science. Students may also choose to enroll in career training, professional development courses, or vocational/technical programs.

Highlands College is a further and higher college in Jersey in the Channel Islands. It has 860 full-time and over 4,000 part-time and adult students. Highlands is a Partner College of the University of Plymouth , London South Bank University and the University of Sussex. The Principal from September 2019 is Joanne Terry-Marchant, following the successful 5 year tenure of Steve Lewis.

J.N.N Arts & Science Women's College is a liberal arts and science women's college located in Kannigaipair, Tamil Nadu near Chennai. The college is approved by Government of Tamil Nadu and is affiliated with the University of Madras.

Niger Delta University is in Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State in the southern part of Nigeria. It was established in 2000. It is a Bayelsa state government-funded university. In 2002, It was established by Chief DSP Alamieyeseigha, then governor of Bayelsa state. It has two main campuses, one in the state capital, Yenagoa, which contains the law faculty, and the other in Amassoma. It also has its teaching hospital known as Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital in Okolobiri.

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