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Helderberg College of Higher Education is a private higher education institution situated in Somerset West, South Africa, about thirty minutes from Cape Town. It was established in 1893, and was the first Seventh-day Adventist College established outside of North America under the name "Union College." It moved to its present location in 1928, making it the oldest Adventist college on the continent of Africa. It is owned and operated by the Southern Africa Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, with headquarters in Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Kochi Junior College is a public junior college in Kōchi, Kōchi, Japan. It was founded in 1953. Departments Department of social sciences See also List of junior colleges in Japan External links

Mildred Elley is a private, for-profit college offering two-year programs as well as professional certifications with campuses in Albany, and New York City, New York and in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Founded in 1917 by Augusta Mildred Elley, a local woman who was educated at a college in New York City, the school initially educated women for secretarial positions. With installation of a new president in 1985, the school expanded its programs and secured degree-granting authority from the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York.

Da Nang University of Science and Technology , or UDN University of Science and Technology, is one of the most important universities of technology in Vietnam. The university is a member of University of Da Nang system.

Mechi Multiple Campus is a constituent campus of Tribhuvan University in Bhadrapur municipality of Jhapa district. Founded in 1964, it is the only constituent campus of Tribhuvan University in the district. As of August 2017, 126 academic and 54 administrative staffs were employed at the college. The college administration is headed by Jiwan Pokhrel, who replaced Kamal Guragain as the "Campus Chief" on 7 April 2020.

Mar Gregorios College Punnapra is an educational institution in Punnapra, Alappuzha. The college is affiliated to University of Kerala and owned and managed by the Archdiocese of Changanacherry. The college offers B.A, B.Com and B.CA courses.

The Baptist Theological College of Southern Africa is a Baptist theological institute located in Randburg, South Africa. The college's current principal is Prof. 'Piff' G. C. Pereira who succeeded Prof. Martin Pohlmann who had served as the Principal for 14 years until 2017.

The Divine Word College of Laoag is a private Catholic, basic and higher education institution run by the Philippine Northern Province of the Society of the Divine Word in Laoag, Ilocos Norte, Philippines. It was founded by Rev. Fr. Alphonse Mildner, SVD in 1946.

ICFAI University, Mizoram is a university in Aizawl, Mizoram, India. It was established through an Act of the State Legislature of Mizoram and is recognized by the UGC under Section 2 of the UGC Act and achieved recognition for its academic delivery and industry-institute interface.

Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Gramodaya Vishwavidyalaya , formerly Chitrakoot Gramodaya Vishwavidhayalay and Mahatma Gandhi Gramodaya Vishwavidyalaya, is a first rural state university located at Chitrakoot, Madhya Pradesh, India. It was established in 1991.

Rosedale Bible College is a private evangelical Anabaptist junior Bible college in Rosedale, Ohio. RBC offers an Associate in Biblical Studies accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of the Association for Biblical Higher Education. The college is owned by the Rosedale Network of Churches, a coalition of roughly 120 widely scattered churches within the Mennonite family of faith, and united by a evangelical-Anabaptist theology.

Goreswar College is an institute of higher education in the north-eastern part of Baksa district, Assam. The college is affiliated to Gauhati University. Accreditation In 2016 the college has been awarded "B" grade by National Assessment and Accreditation Council.

Gyanpeeth Degree College is an undergraduate general degree college situated at Nikashi. The college is established in the year 1993 at Nikashi of Baksa district in Assam. The college is affiliated to Gauhati University.

Eleutherian College, founded as Eleutherian Institute in 1848, was a school founded by local anti-slavery Baptists at Lancaster in Jefferson County. The institute's name comes from the Greek word eleutheros, meaning "freedom and equality." The school admitted students without regard to ethnicity or gender, including freed and fugitive slaves. Its first classes began offering secondary school instruction on November 27, 1848. The school was renamed Eleutherian College in 1854, when it began offering college-level coursework. It closed in 1874 and its main building was used for a private normal school and then a public high school.

Mahant Darshan Das Mahila Mahavidyalaya is a college of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University. It was founded in 1946 and accepts only women students. Founding The college was established on 15 August 1946 near Chapman Girl's High School.

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.

Preston University is a private for-profit unaccredited institution that offers a variety of academic degree programs by distance learning. Preston was originally based in Wyoming and in 2007 was based in Alabama. As of 2012, Preston identified Los Angeles, California as its base of operations.

Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic is a tertiary education institution in Zaria Kaduna State, Nigeria. The polytechnic was established on 2 February 1989 by the Kaduna state government to provide training and development techniques in the Field of engineering, applied science, commerce and other spheres of learning. The polytechnic is one of the tertiary teaching institutions owned and managed by the Kaduna State government. The polytechnic was named after the then Nigeria's foreign minister Nuhu Bamalli. In August 2022, Barrister Abdullahi Zubair Abdullahi was appointed the new Registrar of the polytec...

The Canadian Reformed Theological Seminary is a Reformed seminary in Hamilton, Ontario. It is the federational seminary of the Canadian Reformed Churches. History Synod Orangeville made the decision to establish a Theological College of the Canadian Reformed Churches on Wednesday, November 20, 1968, and to appoint three full-time professors and two lecturers. The College was officially opened in September 1969 in Hamilton, Ontario. The Ontario legislature granted degree-granting authority to the Seminary under the Canadian Reformed Theological College Act, 1981. Since 1984, the Faculty is made up of four full-time professors.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee Vishwavidyalaya renamed from Bilaspur University, is a public state university located in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India. Founded in 2012, it is a teaching-cum-affiliating university which affiliates 122 colleges and has 5 departments. In a report by Dainik Bhaskar, the newspaper states that positions for professors in the University were not filled due to State Government disapproval.

Government Islamia College Civil Lines , formerly called Dayanand Anglo Vedic College, is a government college in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Founded by Arya Samaj as the school of Dayanand Anglo Vedic on June 1, 1886, It was later renamed Dayanand Anglo Vedic College after Hindu leader Dayananda Saraswati.

The University of Puerto Rico at Bayamón is a public university in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. It is part of the University of Puerto Rico System and is better known as CUTB from its previous name of Colegio Universitario Tecnológico de Bayamón in Spanish. It is the third largest campus in the whole UPR system in terms of population.

Ivanovo-Voznesensk Polytechnic Institute was a higher-education institution in the city of Ivanovo-Voznesensk in Russia. Established on the basis of the evacuated Riga Polytechnical Institute , it operated from 1918 to 1930; in 1930 it was liquidated, and branch universities were set up on the basis of individual faculties.

Allen Hall Seminary, often abbreviated to Allen Hall, is the Roman Catholic seminary and theological college of the Province of Westminster at 28 Beaufort Street in Chelsea, London, in the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is situated on the site of the house that was once occupied by St Thomas More. Though nothing of the house remains, parts of the 16th-century garden wall exist today.

İzmir University was a university in the Üçkuyular neighborhood of Karabağlar, a metropolitan district of İzmir, Turkey. It was established in 2007 by the Doğanata Education and Culture Foundation, which opened in 2008. On 23 July 2016, in the course of the 2016 Turkish purges, the university was closed by the Turkish government due to its alleged ties with the Gülen movement. The staff of the university rejected the accusations.

The University of Kotli Azad Jammu and Kashmir is a university in the Pakistani-administered self-governing region of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The University of Kotli was formerly a constituent college of the University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. It was formerly known as the University College of Administrative Sciences Kotli and as the Faculty of Administrative Sciences Kotli . UoK is a state university, and the president of Azad Jammu & Kashmir State serves as the chancellor of the university. The vice-chancellor is the chief executive and manages the university.

East Arkansas Community College is a public community college in Forrest City, Arkansas. EACC provides higher education at its main campus in Forrest City as well as one satellite location in Wynne.

Lalgola College, established in 2006, is a general degree college in Lalgola, Murshidabad district. It offers undergraduate courses in arts. It is affiliated to University of Kalyani. Departments Arts BengaliEnglishArabicSanskritHistoryPolitical ScienceEducationPhilosophy

The N.C. Autonomous College is a 30-acre college in Jajpur, Odisha, India. It was founded in 1946. It is one of the oldest colleges of Odisha and stands tall in the heart of Jajpur district headquarters. The college was initially affiliated to Utkal University but now it has autonomous status from the session 1999-2000 as per UGC and B+ grade accredits with the National Assessment and Accreditation Council NAAC.

The Oriental Institute was a British educational institution in Woking, Surrey, established by Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner. It was also occasionally called the Oriental University Institute. History The site of the Royal Dramatic College was purchased by Leitner in the spring of 1884. He immediately went about turning it into his idea of an Oriental Institute, decorating the interior with objects he had collected on his travels. Part of the building was turned into an Oriental Museum, said to have housed the most interesting collection of artefacts from the east in Britain, and it also contained an art collection.

Commercial Academy of Satu Mare is a university founded in 1997 in Satu Mare, Romania, with branches in several other counties. The university is currently constructing a new campus on a plot located in the largest park in Satu Mare, the Garden of Rome that was completed in 2010.

Radha Govind University is a private university located in Lalki Ghati, Ramgarh district, Jharkhand, India. Campus The campus is spread over 33 acres of land. Its facilities include transportation, play ground, library, and internet facility.

The Carle Illinois College of Medicine is the medical school of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Called the "World's First Engineering-Based College of Medicine," the school trains physician-innovators by integrating several engineering and entrepreneurship approaches into its medical training, and awards the degree of M.D. upon graduation.

Sree Krishna College is a Guruvayur Devaswom Board arts and science college in Guruvayoor, Thrissur District. The college comes under Calicut University and was established in 18 July 1964. Graduate courses were started in 1967 and Post graduate courses in 1984. At present the college is functioning with 13 UG courses and 5 PG courses.

St Peter's College was established by Benedictine monks of St. Peter's Abbey in 1921. St. Peter's Abbey was founded in 1903 on the same site as the college. From 1921 until 1972 the College also offered a boys high school program. Today the college offers the first two years of the University of Saskatchewan Arts and Science program. The College is located in a rural setting, approximately a one-hour drive from the University of Saskatchewan campus.

Lagos State University of Science and Technology is a government-owned tertiary institution located in Ikorodu, Lagos State, Nigeria. The institution was formerly known as Lagos State College of Science and Technology and later changed to Lagos State Polytechnic .

Northwest Theological Seminary was a theological seminary in the Reformed Christian tradition located in Lynnwood, Washington. It closed in 2018. Founding Northwest Theological Seminary was founded in 2000 in Lynnwood, Washington. There had long been a desire to bring a Reformed theological seminary to the Pacific Northwest that would ably train men for gospel ministry. Northwest Theological Seminary was charged with emphasizing biblical theology in the tradition of Geerhardus Vos, presuppositional apologetics in the tradition of Cornelius Van Til, and orthodox confessionalism in the classic Calvinistic tradition.

Bishop Auckland College is a further education college located in the town of Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England. It is located on Woodhouse Lane next to St John's Catholic School, and opposite Bishop Barrington Academy.Bishop Auckland College began life as a Technical Institute with classes being run in the Mechanics Institute in Victoria Avenue and other town centre locations. In September 1950 the Technical Institute was opened in the old Railway Offices, Station Approach. Enrolment in 1950/51 was 250 part-time day and evening students.It was the demand for engineering courses needed...

Molloy University is a private Roman Catholic university in Rockville Centre, New York. Initially founded as a school for women, it is now co-educational. It provides more than 50 academic undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degree programs for over 4800 students.

St. Xavier's College, Asansol, is a general degree college in Asansol, Paschim Bardhaman District, West Bengal, India. It is a minority Institution managed by the Society of Jesus with the registration of St. Xavier's College Education Trust, Asansol. It offers undergraduate courses in arts, commerce and sciences. It had been affiliated to Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol.

Kyoai Gakuen University, formerly Maebashi Kyoai Gakuen College, is a private university in Maebashi, Gunma, Japan. The predecessor of the school, a women's school, was founded in 1888, and it was chartered as a junior college in 1988. In 1999 the school became a co-educational four-year college. The college is associated with the United Church of Christ in Japan.

The University of Zawia is a university located in the city of Zawiya, Libya. It was established as an independent university in 1988. The campus is six kilometres south of the city centre, and serves the Zawiya, Jafara and Nuqat al Khams districts.

Monno Medical College and Hospital is a non-profit private medical school in Bangladesh, established in 2011. It is affiliated with University of Dhaka. It has a five-year course plan leading to a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree. The degree is recognised by the Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council and Ministry of Health, Bangladesh.

The Ajax Division was the University of Toronto's campus in Ajax, an unincorporated community within the Pickering Township of Ontario, Canada. It was located at the site of the defunct Defence Industries Limited Pickering Works munitions plant, which was leased by the federal government to the university for a nominal rent.

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur is a medical institute and medical research public university located in Jodhpur, India. It is considered an Institute of National Importance, and is one of five All India Institutes of Medical Sciences . It was established in 2012 and operates autonomously under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

Allegheny University of the Health Sciences was a medical school in Philadelphia that was formed in 1994 through a merger of the Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University. As part of MCP Hahnemann School of Medicine, the largest private medical school in the United States, Allegheny University was under the new University of the Health Sciences, which also included schools for allied medical disciplines. Prior to the merger, the Medical College of Pennsylvania had been the first medical school to be purchased by a hospital . The new university and other hospitals all were unit...

National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training and Research Kolkata , is a technical teacher's training institution situated in the Kolkata, West Bengal, India. The institute has established extension centers at Guwahati and Bhubaneswar for reaching out to its clients. The new mandate of the institute has extended its clientele catchment area outside the country encompassing the Technical & Vocational Institutions of particularly SAARC & ASEAN countries.

Sullins College was a former Methodist, female, junior college in Bristol, Virginia, United States, founded about 1868 and named for David Sullins, a Methodist minister. It ceased operations after the class of 1976 graduated.

The Office of the Higher Education Commission is a department-level agency of the Thai government. It is the operating body of the Higher Education Commission, which oversees the country's universities and other higher education institutions.

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