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Edgecliff College was a private Catholic women's college located in Cincinnati. It was founded in 1935 and merged with Xavier University, also of Cincinnati, in 1980. History The college was founded as Our Lady of Cincinnati College by the Sisters of Mercy, a Roman Catholic religious institute. The college was designed to serve as a replacement for the College of Sacred Heart in Clifton, which had ceased operations. The campus was located on a hill in the Walnut Hills section of the city, which offered students views of northern Kentucky and the Ohio River.

The Millennium Universal College is a college in Pakistan. Accreditation and affiliation It is affiliated with Edexcel International Examinations, United Kingdom.It is affiliated with University of London United Kingdom for international degree Programs.It holds a membership of Goethe institute Germany to promote German language in Pakistan.Member of Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Pakistan.

Maharishi Markandeshwar University, Sadopur is a private university at Sadopur, Ambala district, near the city of Ambala, in the state of Haryana, India. It was established by the Maharishi Markandeshwar University under the provisions of the Haryana Private Universities Act, 2006, and legislated under Haryana Govt. Act No. 29 of 2010.

Holy Name Seminary was a Roman Catholic seminary staffed by the Society of Jesus established in New Zealand for the training of priests. It was first opened in 1947 in Christchurch and closed at the end of 1978. From 1969 until 2000 this old white-painted building stood nowhere on the site of Holy Name Seminary on Riccarton Road. Instead, the seminary was an addition built onto a very grand, two-storey, colonial, red-brick homestead which was erected and lived in by the eminent Kincaid family.

is a non-profit private university in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Its campus is in Samborondón, Greater Guayaquil. One distinctive program of UEES is the College of International Studies, home to the International Careers Program , which offers courses entirely in English, the School of Translation and Interpretation, the School of Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics, and the Center for International Education.

Jahangirabad Media Institute is a media institute in India. It was established by the Jahangirabad Education Trust in 2005 and is situated in a pictorial palace of Jahangirabad in Barabanki District in Uttar Pradesh state. It mainly runs courses in electronic media.

Northeast Texas Community College is a public community college near Mount Pleasant, Texas. History In January 1984, the voters of Camp, Morris, and Titus counties approved a community college district for the area. The campus and facilities were quickly chosen and constructed – by the fall semester of 1985 the first classes were held.

Wesleyan University-Philippines is a private, sectarian, and non-profit higher education institution run by the United Methodist Church in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija, Philippines. It was founded in 1946 as the Philippine Wesleyan College. It is named after John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. The university offers preschool, grade school, high school undergraduate, and graduate programs. It also initiated the Support for the Handicapped and their Rehabilitation through Education Program, the first school in Central Luzon to integrate hearing-impaired students into mainstream classes.

Colorado Christian University is Christ-centered higher education transforming students to impact the world with grace and truth. Ranked in the top 2% of colleges nationwide for core curriculum, CCU is located on the edge of the Rocky Mountains, just 10 miles west of downtown Denver. With a 14:1 student-to-faculty ratio and over 100 degree programs to choose from, Colorado Christian offers a unique college experience that focuses on integrating faith and learning. Chapel, discipleship groups, and service opportunities are just a few of the programs that call for deep community paired with incr...

St. Louis Community College–Forest Park is a public community college in St. Louis, Missouri. It is one of the four schools of the St. Louis Community College System and is one of nine community colleges in Greater St. Louis. Over 8,200 students attend Forest Park, making it the second largest community college in Missouri.

Our Lady of Assumption College is a private and non sectarian school of south Metro Manila established in 1989. Our Lady of Assumption College is recognized by the Department of Education and the Commission on Higher Education.

The Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration is a Swiss graduate school of public administration. In 2014, the independent foundation was integrated into the University of Lausanne. The school teaches graduate and post-graduate courses for public sector executives and students wishing to take up public service. It also provides professional training for members of administrative bodies. It receives support from the Swiss Confederation under the Swiss Federal Law on University Funding. IDHEAP is located on the campus of the University of Lausanne.

University of Medical Sciences, Ondo is a university of medical sciences in Ondo City, Nigeria, owned by the Ondo State Government, established in 2015. It is the third specialized medical university in Africa and Nigeria's first specialized medical university to be accredited by the National Universities Commission.

The National Centre for Text Mining is a publicly funded text mining centre. It was established to provide support, advice and information on TM technologies and to disseminate information from the larger TM community, while also providing services and tools in response to the requirements of the United Kingdom academic community.

College of Aviation & Technology is an engineering institute in Bangladesh to provide internationally recognized Higher Academic Qualification in Aeronautical Engineering as well as pilot training. The college is an approved learning center of Edexcel, BTEB and National University of Bangladesh.

STI NAMEI, formerly the NAMEI Polytechnic Institute, is a private school in Manila, Philippines. It was established by Don Felix B. Padilla as the Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Institute in 1947. In 2019, was acquired by the STI Education Services Group, Inc. and was later renamed as STI NAMEI.

Texas A&M University–Texarkana is a public university in Texarkana, Texas. It is part of the Texas A&M University System. Students who reside in Oklahoma and Arkansas attend at in-state tuition rates, and historically 30 percent of the student body is from Arkansas. Louisiana residents who reside in a parish that borders Texas may also attend at in-state tuition rates.

The Network in Canadian History and Environment , originally based at the University of Western Ontario, was established in 2004 as a confederation of scholars working in the field of Canadian environmental history and Canadian-based scholars working in the fields of historical geography and environmental history, but focused on other regions of the world. Organization HQ has since moved to York University.

Gaming Charterhouse is a former Carthusian monastery in Gaming near Scheibbs in the Mostviertel of Lower Austria. The monastery was founded in 1330 by Albert II, Duke of Austria, who intended it as a dynastic burial place. He himself was buried there after his death in 1358, as were his wife Joanna of Pfirt and his daughter-in-law Elisabeth of Bohemia . The first community, from Mauerbach Charterhouse in Vienna, comprised a double complement, under a prior, of 24 monks rather than the usual 12, and the scale of the buildings from the beginning reflected the monastery's size.

The University of South Carolina Beaufort is a public college with three campuses in the Lowcountry region of South Carolina. It is part of the University of South Carolina System, enrolls about 2,000 students, and offers over 50 areas of study. The main campus is in Bluffton, South Carolina. The institution's campus in Beaufort houses the school's honor programs and the Department of Visual Arts & Design. The campus location on Hilton Head Island is home to the institution's program for hospitality management.

Shaikh Burhanuddin Post Graduate College is prominent and old university college in old Dhaka. Neda-e-Islam established Shaikh Burhanuddin Post Graduate College in 1965 at 50,Narinda, Dhaka after the demise of the Great Reformer Imaamut Tareeqat Allama Shaykh Sayyid Muhammad Burhanuddin Uwaysi to commemorate his holy name. From the year 1949 Imaamut Tareeqat established and run successfully twenty Institutions in his lifetime, and Shaikh Burhanuddin College is the 21st institution of Neda-e-Islam. Later, it was shifted to 60,Nazimuddin Road, Dhaka on 8 February 1968. To implement Art...

Government Physical Education College, Dhaka is a physical education college in Bangladesh. History The first physical education college was established in 1954 in Gouripur Rajbari of not far off Mymensingh district in Bangladesh. After that in 1955 the college was settled in Armanitola in Dhaka and then it shifted at Darfin hostel of Narinda and Aliya Madrassa. At last finally in 1962 the college was moved permanently at Mohammadpur in Dhaka as the first Government Physical Education College in Bangladesh.

Rajbari Government College is a public college situated in Rajbari Sadar Upazila, Bangladesh. Established in 1961 as Rajbari College, it was nationalised in 1980. History Civil servant and educationist Quazi Azhar Ali established the college as Rajbari College in 1961.

The Technological University in Myanmar started as Technical High School on August 1, 1977. It was located in the south part of Tar Ngar Sge Quarter, Hinthada Township, Hinthada District, Ayeyarwady Division. It was again up to Government Technological College . The College was moved to the present University on April 21, 2003.

The New Brunswick College of Craft and Design is a public art college in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. The college's campus is located in downtown Fredericton, near the Saint John River. The college offers several fine arts and design diploma programs.

The Higher Institute of Music in Damascus is the national music academy in Syria. History The HIM was founded in 1962 by music educator and conductor Solhi al-Wadi as the Arab Institute of Music and was established in its current form as a conservatory in 1990 by presidential decree. The aim of the institute is to prepare upcoming generations of musicians to perform both Arabic and international music.

Chouaib Doukkali University is a public university in El Jadida, Morocco, founded by a royal decree in 1985. The university is named after the Moroccan scholar, theologian, and politician Abou Chouaib Doukkali .

The École nationale des sciences appliquées d'El Jadida is a Moroccan public engineering school located in El Jadida attached to the Chouaïb Doukkali University, and part of the national network of appliedscience schools. It is a public institution whose mission is to train engineers with specializations in;Computer engineering and emerging technologyTelecommunication and Networks engineeringPower and energy engineering

The La Salle College of Lucas do Rio Verde is a Brazilian private college located to the north of Mato Grosso in Lucas do Rio Verde, Brazil.

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.

Rust College is a private historically black college in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Founded in 1866, it is the second-oldest private college in the state. Affiliated with the United Methodist Church, it is one of ten historically black colleges and universities founded before 1868 that are still operating.

St. Paul University Philippines, also referred to by its acronym SPUP or SPU Philippines is a private Roman Catholic research non-profit coeducational basic and higher education institution run by the Sisters of Saint Paul of Chartres in Tuguegarao, Cagayan, Philippines. It was founded by the Paulinian Sisters on May 10, 1907. It is one of 40 schools owned, managed, and operated by the Sisters of Saint Paul of Chartres in the Philippines. It offers basic, undergraduate, and graduate education.

Concordia University Irvine is a private Lutheran university in Irvine, California, United States. It was established in 1976 to provide a Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod college to serve the Pacific Southwest and provide training for pastors, religious education teachers, and Christian school administrators. Concordia University Irvine has a total undergraduate enrollment of 1,592 and its campus size is . It is part of the Concordia University System.

La Salle Academy is a private Catholic La Sallian basic education institution run by the Philippine District of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools in Iligan City, Lanao del Norte, Philippines. It was founded in 1958. It is the first of the third generation of La Salle schools founded by the De La Salle Brothers in the country, namely: La Salle Green Hills in Mandaluyong , Saint Joseph School-La Salle in Bacolod , and De La Salle Lipa in Lipa City .

Wako University is a private university in Japan. It is located in Machida, Tokyo. Wako University is part of a comprehensive educational institute called Wako-Gakuen , that includes kindergarten, two elementary schools, junior high school and high school. All schools are located in Tokyo. The university has direct attached schools, so that people who have attended from the elementary school are relatively wealthy and then they directly go to the university without taking an examination.

The Government Ayurveda Medical College Kannur is situated in Pariyaram, Kannur. It is one of the three Ayurveda medical colleges in Kerala. The college has 150 bed strength. There are 14 clinical departments functioning there; they offer one UG course, a Bachelor's in Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery.and 5 PG Courses and 1 Diploma Course, Certificate Courses in Ayurveda Therapist and Nursing. In the Kerala University of Health Sciences' North Zone arts festival, they emerged in second place.

The University of Florida College of Agricultural and Life Sciences , founded in 1964, is a college of the University of Florida. Overview The programs offered specialize in agriculture, natural resources, and life sciences. CALS has two schools with it:

Peterborough College, established in 1946 as Peterborough Technical College, is a major further education college in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. History Engineering firms Peter Brotherhood and Baker Perkins relocated to Peterborough just after 1900 and, by the 1930s, British Thomson-Houston , Newall Engineering and Mitchell Engineering were well established. Peterborough was already an important railway centre providing a great deal of work for the populace, but with all this industry there was no local provision for training.

The Maharaja Agrasen Medical College, Agroha is a medical college in Agroha affiliated to Pt. B.D. Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak and recognized by Medical Council of India. It is named after a legendary Indian king of Agroha Maharaj Agrasen. It is located at Agroha, Haryana, India . The college was founded by Om Prakash Jindal while his wife Savitri Jindal is the current president of the society that governs the institute.

Keystone College is a private college in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Although the college's official mailing address is La Plume, Pennsylvania in Lackawanna County, much of the campus is in Factoryville in Wyoming County. It was founded in 1868 and enrolls approximately 1,300 students in around 40 undergraduate and graduate degree programs.

LIU Global is one of the Long Island University's schools that offers a four-year Global Studies degree program that sends students abroad to Latin America, Europe, Asia and/or Austral-asia. Academic LIU Global offers only one degree, a B.A. in Global Studies. Students from other LIU campuses and other universities can study abroad for a semester or year in one of LIU Global's centers.

De La Salle University–Dasmariñas , also referred to by its acronym DLSU-D or La Salle–Dasma, is a private Roman Catholic, Lasallian co-educational secondary and higher education institution run by the De La Salle Brothers of the Philippine District of the Christian Brothers in Dasmariñas, Philippines. It is a member of De La Salle Philippines, a network of 16 Lasallian educational institutions.

Sri Siddhartha Academy of Higher Education is a collegiate private 'deemed to be university' in Karnataka, India. It was established on 30-5-2008 as per Section 3 of UGC Act 1956 to improve the quality of technical education in southern Karnataka.

University of Seychelles, informally also called UniSey, is the primary institution of higher education in Seychelles. It was established on 17 September 2009. There are three campuses: the main campus at Anse Royale, the Mont Fleuri campus offering education, communication, and technology programs, and the Ma Joie campus offering business programs.

Dharwad Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences is a public medical institution in Dharwad, Karnataka, India, which provides healthcare facilities specializing in Mental Health, Psychiatry and Neuroscience. Additionally, DIMHANS offers several Post-Graduate academic programs.

Vignan's Institute Of Information Technology is one of the engineering institutions run by the Vignan group of Guntur. It was established in 2002 to offer undergraduate courses in engineering and technology. It is situated in Duvvada, a suburban region of Visakhapatnam, India.

Darul Uloom Haqqania or Jamia Dar al-Ulum Haqqania is an Islamic Seminary in the town of Akora Khattak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, northwestern Pakistan. The seminary propagates the Hanafi Deobandi school of Sunni Islam. It was founded by Maulana Abdul Haq along the lines of the Darul Uloom Deoband seminary in India, where he had taught. It has been dubbed the "University of Jihad" due to its methods and content of instruction, along with the future occupations of its alumni. A number of leading members of the Taliban, including past chief Akhtar Mansour, studied here.

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