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Mofid University was founded by Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili, the former head of Iran's Judiciary in 1989 as a private and non-profit institution. Mofid University has different buildings including a U-turn building. However, departments such as Economics, Law, Philosophy, Political Science and English Language have also been established since 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994 and 2006 respectively.

The University St. Kliment Ohridski in Bitola is a public university in North Macedonia. Headquartered in Bitola, it also has faculties in Prilep, Ohrid, Veles, Kichevo and Skopje. It was founded on 25 April 1979, but the name of St. Clement of Ohrid was not given until late 1994. As of 2018–19 school year, a total of 4,139 students are enrolled at the university.

Indian Institute of Technology Madras is a public technical university located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is one of the eight public Institutes of Eminence of India. As one of the Indian Institutes of Technology , IIT Madras is also recognized as an Institute of National Importance.

Osaka Kyoiku University is a national university with headquarters in the city of Kashiwara, Osaka Prefecture, Japan and a branch campus in Tennōji-ku in the prefectural capital city of Osaka. It was established in 1949 by the merger of two predecessor institutions. Its short name is Daikyōdai. The university specializes in educating teachers. Unique among the national universities is its five-year program of nighttime study.

Bahrain Polytechnic is a government-owned tertiary education institute located in the Kingdom of Bahrain. It has been established by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa; King of Bahrain by Royal Decree in July 2008. It is considered a key initiative for the Education and Training Development Committee; a project of the Bahrain Vision 2030 master plan that aims to achieve a sustainable economy. Bahrain Polytechnic delivers applied learning, technical education, skills-based and occupational training. Degrees offered range from certificate courses, diplomas, to bachelor's degree levels.

Wayland Seminary (WS) was a historically black seminary and college affiliated with the Baptist Church. Located in the nation’s capital, it operated from 1867 until 1899. WS opened its doors to students in 1867, but its founding may be traced to the establishment two years earlier, in 1865, of the umbrella institution of which it was a constituent part: the National Institute of Theology (NIT). The NIT was founded in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War by the American Baptist Home Mission Society to provide a seminary education for newly freed African Americans in order to supply ministers for black congregations within the American Baptist Church movement.

The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia is one of the oldest musical institutions in the world, founded by the papal bull Ratione congruit, issued by Sixtus V in 1585, which invoked two saints prominent in Western musical history: Gregory the Great, for whom the Gregorian chant is named, and Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music. Since 2005 it has been headquartered at the Renzo Piano designed Parco della Musica in Rome.

The National University of Salta is an Argentine public national university in Salta. It was founded on 11 May 1972 as a part of the Plan Taquini, a reorganization plan for education. It has around 20,000 students.

The Polytechnical Institute of Lisbon is one of the biggest state-run polytechnic institutes in Portugal. It was founded in Lisbon in 1985, being composed by several higher education institutes and schools, some of them with a longer history. In total, 12,933 students were enrolled on all schools for the 2007-2008 school-year.

Moderna University was a Portuguese private university headquartered in Lisbon, with departments in Setúbal, Porto and Beja. The institution was authorized by the Portuguese Ministry of Education to provide university higher education services in 1994 . It was shut down by the Portuguese Ministry for Science, Technology and Higher Education on 30 July 2008.

ShanghaiTech University is a municipal public science and engineering university in Shanghai, China. The university is founded by contracts between the Shanghai Municipal People's Government and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The university has been added into Chinese state Double First Class University Plan since February 2022.

The University of Zabol , also known as Zabol University and UOZ, is a university based in Zabol, Iran, established in 1999. Overview UOZ consists of eight faculties and a research complex including three institutes and one research center.

The West University of Timișoara is a public higher education institution located in Timișoara. Classified by the Ministry of National Education as a university of education and scientific research, UVT is one of the nine members of the Universitaria Consortium . Also, the West University is a component institution of the National Research–Development–Innovation System in its capacity as an accredited higher education institution.

Girne American University is a non-profit university in Kyrenia , a city in Northern Cyprus. The university was founded in 1985 by Mr Serhat Akpinar as an institution of American-style higher education. It part of YÖDAK, the higher education coordinating council of Northern Cyprus and YÖK, its Turkish parallel.

The Albert Einstein College of Medicine is a private, nonprofit, research-intensive medical school in the Morris Park neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City, United States. Founded in 1953, Einstein operates as an independent degree-granting institution as part of the integrated healthcare Montefiore Health System and also has affiliation with Jacobi Medical Center.

Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice is a university located in Košice, Slovakia. It was founded in 1959 and is organized into five faculties. The university is named after Pavel Jozef Šafárik, a 19th-century Slovak philologist, poet, and historian.

Argentine University of Enterprise is a private university in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was founded by the Argentine Chamber of Corporations. It has campuses in Buenos Aires and Pinamar. The Buenos Aires campus features of classrooms, laboratories, library, sports centre, theatre, food court and a residence hall. As of 2020, it had 33,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students and 1,877 professors.

Northern Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov , or NArFU for short, is a Federal University established in Arkhangelsk pursuant to Russian Federation President Dmitry Medvedev’s Decree dd. 8 June 2010 on the basis of Arkhangelsk State Technical University .

The University of Lucknow is a public state university based in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Founded in 1867, the University of Lucknow is one of the oldest government owned institutions of higher education in India. LU's main campus is located at Badshah Bagh, University Road area of the city with a second campus at Jankipuram. It is the largest state university of Uttar Pradesh.

University of Antananarivo is the primary public university of Madagascar, located in the capital Antananarivo. History The university traces its founding to 16 December 1955 and the formation of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Antananarivo. It established itself as the main center for higher education in the country, and was renamed the University of Madagascar in 1961. It later opened five more branches in Antsiranana, Fianarantsoa, Toamasina, Toliara, and Mahajanga.

Russian State Vocational Pedagogical University was founded in 1 of September 1979. It is situated in Ekaterinburg, Russia. RSVPU is a federal state autonomous educational institution of higher education, which consists of colleges, institutes and departments, branches and representative offices in different cities of Russia. The rector of the university - Dorozhkin Eugene M.

Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux, also known as Sciences Po Bordeaux, is a French grande école located on the university campus of Pessac, Bordeaux. It is attached to the University of Bordeaux. Established in 1948, Sciences Po Bordeaux is one of the ten Institutes of Political Studies in France.

The University of Cape Coast is a public collegiate university located in the historic town of Cape Coast in the central region of Ghana. The campus has a rare seafront and sits on a hill overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. It operates on two campuses: the Southern Campus and the Northern Campus . Two of the most important historical sites in Ghana, Elmina and Cape Coast Castle, are a few kilometers away from its campus.

The Gheorghe Asachi Technical University is a public university located in Iași, Iași County, Western Moldavia, Romania. Classified by the Ministry of Education as an advanced research and education university, it has the oldest tradition in Romania in engineering education. Gheorghe Asachi Technical University is a member of the Romanian Alliance of Technical Universities .

Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University is a Turkish public research university located in Çanakkale province and its surrounding towns. It is a member of the Balkan Universities Network, the European University Association , International Association of Universities , and the Thrace Universities Union. It hosted the World Universities Congress in 2010.

ISM University of Management and Economics is an institution of undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate education in business, management and economics. The university serves as a centre of market analysis, executive training and academic thought.

The University of Minho is a public university in Portugal, divided into the following campuses:Largo do Paço , in BragaCampus of Gualtar, in BragaConvento dos Congregados, in BragaCampus of Azurém, in Guimarães

Bahçeşehir University is a private educational institution in Turkey, located around the Bosporus in Istanbul. The Turkish National Assembly authorized the establishment of the University of Bahçeşehir by the Bahçeşehir Uğur Education Foundation in 1998. An academic and strategic protocol was signed shortly after with San Diego State University in California, USA. The enrollment of the first students was made after the first placement exam in the 1999–2000 academic year. The university is one of the few universities in Turkey which has its lectures in English and therefore students applying...

Arabian Gulf University is a university in the city of Manama, in the Kingdom of Bahrain. It is accredited by the Ministry of Education, Bahrain, and governed by Gulf Cooperative Countries, and is a member of Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World. Entry into the university is restricted to GCC nationals, with other Arab nationals considered only if vacancies are available.

Moscow Sun Yat-sen University, officially the Sun Yat-sen Communist University of the Toilers of China, was a Comintern school, which operated from 1925–1930 in the city of Moscow, Russia, then the Soviet Union. It was a training camp for Chinese revolutionaries from both the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party that was split off from the Communist University of the Toilers of the East. Its relationship to the Comintern's International Liaison Department remains unclear.

The University of Mosul is a public university located in Mosul. It is one of the largest educational and research centers in the Middle East, and the second largest in Iraq, behind the University of Baghdad.

Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism is a university in Moscow, founded in 1918. Names 1918 – Moscow State University of Physical Education1920 – State Central Institute of Physical Education 1934 – State Central Order of Lenin Institute of Physical Education 1937 – State Central Order of Lenin Institute of Physical Education "Marshal Joseph Stalin"1961 – State Central Order of Lenin Institute of Physical Education 1993 – Russian State Academy of Physical Education 2001 – Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism

The Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities is a higher-education institution in Siedlce, Poland. It was created on October 1, 2010, by the decision of Sejm signed by the President of the Republic of Poland, Bronisław Komorowski. The previous name of the university was 'Akademia Podlaska w Siedlcach', in English known officially as University of Podlasie.

Kandahar University is a government funded higher learning institution in Kandahar, Afghanistan. It is one of two universities in southern Afghanistan. Kandahar University was established in 1990, at a time when the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan was in power under President Mohammad Najibullah. Tooryalai Wesa, who returned to the country after 13 years and served as the governor of Kandahar province from 2008 to 2014, was the first chancellor of Kandahar University.

The European University Cyprus is a private university in Nicosia, Cyprus which evolved out of Cyprus College, the oldest institution of higher education in Cyprus. EUC has a selective admission policy based on students' past academic record and performance. The institution has a current enrollment of over 8,500 students and provides internationally recognized undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate degrees. The programs of study are graded based on the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System .

The University of Libya was a public university based in Tripoli and Benghazi, Libya. The university was established in 1955 and disestablished in 1973, when its colleges were split into two new universities: the University of Tripoli in Tripoli, and the University of Benghazi in Benghazi.

Walden University is a private online for-profit university headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It offers bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and specialist degrees. The university is owned by Adtalem Global Education, which purchased the university in August 2021.

The Federal University of Campina Grande is a public university whose main campus is located in the city of Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil. Together with the Federal University of Paraíba, it is the main university of the state of Paraiba, Brazil. Established after splitting from UFPB in 2002, it is one of the leading technological and scientific production institutes of northeastern Brazil, being mentioned in a 2001 edition of the Newsweek magazine as a technopole - among 9 other around the world - that represents a new vision for technology. It was again quoted in 2003 as the Brazilian silicon valley.

The University of Algarve , founded in 1979, is a Portuguese public higher education institution located in the southernmost region of mainland Portugal, the Algarve, having its headquarters and two out of its three campuses in Faro and another campus in Portimão.

Southern University College , is a non-profit, private university college in Malaysia. It is the first non-profit higher education institute and private university college in Skudai, Johor. Currently, Southern UC has 7 faculties, 3 schools, 6 research institutes and 7 academic centres.

Tomsk State Pedagogical University is a university in Tomsk, Russia. It is the successor of the Tomsk Teaching Institute founded in 1902. The foreign languages department started in 1939 as one of the first five departments of the University. Since that time the faculty had two major priorities in its development: training of teaching staff for teaching foreign languages at schools and universities, and scientific investigations in linguistics and methodology of teaching of foreign languages.

Dhaka Polytechnic Institute is a government technical institute in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is the largest and the oldest polytechnic academia in modern Bangladesh. The polytechnic is ranked number one on the Bangladesh Polytechnic Ranking 2018.

The Helmut Schmidt University , located in Hamburg, Germany, is a German military educational establishment that was founded in 1973 at the initiative of the then-Federal Minister of Defence, Helmut Schmidt. Originally known as the "University of the Bundeswehr Hamburg" , its complete official name today is "Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg". Teaching first started in Autumn of 1973. It is one of two universities that were established by the Bundeswehr to train and educate its future and existing officers.

The University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology was a public university college based in the center of the city of Cardiff, Wales. In 1988, it merged with the University College Cardiff, which later became Cardiff University.

Western Norway University of Applied Sciences or HVL is a Norwegian public institution of higher education, established in January 2017 through the merging of formerly independent colleges across five campuses: Bergen, Førde, Haugesund, Sogndal and Stord. Its oldest programs - teacher education in Stord - can be traced to 1839. The total number of students at HVL is about 16000, and there are 1800 academic and administrative staff. Its main campus is in the Kronstad neighborhood of Bergen, Norway.

"Angel Kanchev" University of Ruse is a public university in the city of Ruse, Bulgaria. The university was formed on 21 July 1995 by the dissolution of Higher Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Mechanisation and Electrification of Agriculture which was commonly known as with establishment date 12 November 1945. This was the first national higher technical school outside the Bulgarian capital.

The Bayero University Kano is a university situated in Kano, Kano State, Nigeria. It was founded in 1975, when it was renamed from Bayero University College and upgraded from University College to University. It is the first university in Kano State, North-western Nigeria.

The Universidad Intercontinental is a private Catholic University, located in Mexico City. Founded in 1976 by Guadalupe Missionaries and being one of the only six Mexican universities in the International Federation of Catholic Universities .

The Slovak Medical University in Bratislava - SMU is a state "college of university type" seated in Bratislava, Slovakia. It was created by law from 25 June 2002 with effect from 1 September 2002 and replaced the Slovak Postgraduate Academy of Medicine . The Slovak Medical University in Bratislava is an educational institution proudly keeping the tradition of education of healthcare workers in specialized studies and continuous lifelong education in Slovakia.

Queen Margaret University is a university founded in 1875 and located in Musselburgh, East Lothian. It is named after the Scottish Queen Saint Margaret. History The university was founded in 1875, as The Edinburgh School of Cookery and Domestic Economy, by Christian Guthrie Wright and Louisa Stevenson, both members of the Edinburgh Ladies' Educational Association. The School was founded as a women-only institution, with twin aims of improving women's access to higher education and improving the diets of working class families. Teaching was initially delivered via lectures at the Royal Museum...

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