The Most Influential Schools in the World
Find the most influential colleges and universities in the world in nearly 25 academic disciplines
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Sichuan Fine Arts Institute is a public fine arts university established in 1940 in the southwest City of Chonqing, China. It is one of the four most prominent art academies in China and the only one in southwest China.
North Eastern Institute of Ayurveda & Homoeopathy is an autonomous institute under the Ministry of AYUSH, within the government of India. It is situated at Mawdiangdiang, Shillong, Meghalaya. It was formally inaugurated by Union Minister of State for Ayush Shripad Yesso Naik on 22 December 2016. Now from session 2019-20 seats have been increased to 63 per year for both the colleges.
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Kateb University
Kateb University is a private university established in 2007, located in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan. Faculties The Kateb University having the following faculties:Faculty of LawFaculty of EngineeringFaculty of Political ScienceFaculty of EconomicsFaculty of MedicineFaculty of Education ManagementFaculty of SociologyFaculty of Computer Science
The Marquette University College of Health Sciences is one of the primary colleges at Marquette University, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The college oversees curricula related to the research and medical treatment of the human body.
The Marquette University College of Education is one of the primary colleges at Marquette University, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The college oversees curricula related to the training of current and future educators, offering both undergraduate- and graduate-level courses and degrees.
Iliff School of Theology is a graduate Methodist theological school in Denver, Colorado. Founded in 1892, the school's campus is adjacent to the University of Denver. Fewer than 200 students attend the school.
Columbus State University is a public university in Columbus, Georgia. Founded as Columbus College in 1958, the university was established and is administered by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania is a public university in Kutztown, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
The National University of Tainan is a university in West Central District, Tainan, Taiwan. NUTN offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs across six colleges: the College of Education, the College of Humanities, the College of Management, the College of Science and Engineering, the College of Arts, and the College of Environmental Sciences and Ecology.
Maulana Mazharul Haque Arabic and Persian University is a state university in Patna, Bihar, India. The university was established under the provisions of the Bihar State Universities Act of 1976, which took effect on 10 April 1998.
Rogue Community College is a public community college with campuses in both Jackson County and Josephine County, falling roughly in the geographic region known as the Rogue Valley in Southern Oregon.
Cardiff Metropolitan University , formerly University of Wales Institute, Cardiff and commonly referred to as Cardiff Met, is a university located in the city of Cardiff. The university offers degree courses in a variety of disciplines. Study is available at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, full-time and part-time, and research opportunities are offered. In the 2021/22 academic year, the university has 11,500 students from over 140 countries studying on two campuses in Cardiff, and more than 10,000 at 17 partner institutions in 15 countries around the world.
Hangzhou Normal University , or Hangzhou Teachers College, is a public university in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, China. Having merged with Hangzhou Education College and Hangzhou Medical Junior College, HNU comprises nine campuses with a combined area of 513,590 m².
Turkmen State Medical University named after Myrat Garryev is a Turkmen medical university. Founded in 1931, it is the only medical university in Turkmenistan with more than 3,000 students. It is located in Ashgabat. The university reports to the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education of Turkmenistan. The current rector is Nargozel Myratnazarova.
Olympic College is a public community college in Bremerton, Washington. It opened as Olympic Junior College on September 5, 1946. Olympic College serves Kitsap and Mason counties in Washington. The college's service area contains two major naval installations: Naval Base Kitsap and Naval Hospital Bremerton.
Washington Medical College was a medical school in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded in 1827, incorporated in March 1833 as The Washington Medical College of Baltimore, renamed to Washington University of Baltimore in 1839, closed in 1851, revived in 1867 as Washington University of Baltimore, and disbanded in 1878. The remains were absorbed into the College of Physicians and Surgeons, later merged with the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Andhra Loyola College is a private, Catholic higher education institution run by the Andhra Province of the Society of Jesus in Andhra Pradesh, India. It was founded by the Jesuits in 9 December 1953.
Alderson Broaddus University was a private Baptist university in Philippi, West Virginia. It was founded in 1871 and suspended its operations on August 31, 2023. It was historically affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA. It was formed in 1932 as Alderson-Broaddus College by the union of two Baptist institutions: Alderson Junior College and Broaddus College . The school adopted its final name in 2013.
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.
The Aminu Kano College of Islamic Legal Studies is a state government higher education institution located in Kano State, Nigeria. The current Provost is Balarabe A. Jakada. Courses The institution offers the following courses;EnglishPrimary Education StudiesGeographyArabicHistorySocial StudiesHausaPhysical And Health EducationEarly Childhood Care EducationSpecial EducationIslamic StudiesEconomicsPolitical ScienceComputer ScienceBusiness Education
Midlands State University is a government owned university in Zimbabwe. The university has 9 faculties offering a wide variety of courses and many specialist programmes. The university is accredited through the National Council for Higher Education, under the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education of Zimbabwe.
Northland College is a private college in Ashland, Wisconsin. It enrolls 526 full-time undergraduates and employs 60 faculty members and 99 staff members. Northland College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.
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Hamilton College
Hamilton College was the DBA name of the Iowa College Acquisition Corporation, a company that owns and operates independent for-profit colleges. Hamilton College had seven campuses in Iowa and Nebraska. Iowa College Acquisition Corporation is owned and operated by Kaplan Higher Education, a subsidiary of the Washington Post Company. This is not to be confused with Hamilton Technical College that was founded by Maryanne Hamilton and operates in Davenport, Iowa.
Colorado Mountain College is a public community college with multiple campuses in western Colorado. Founded in 1965, the institution offers numerous associate degrees, seven bachelor's degrees and a variety of career-technical certificates. Approximately 20,000 students take on-campus or online classes every year.
St. Petersburg Christian University is an interdenominational Evangelical Christian University located in St. Petersburg, Russia. History The school was founded in 1990 as a bible college in Belorechensk, Krasnodar Krai by the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists. In 1992, the school moved to St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1993, the school became an interdenominational Evangelical Christian University.
Pacific State Medical University , formerly known as VSMU is a university in Vladivostok in the Far East of Russia. At the beginning, since 1956 VSMU was the Medical Faculty of the Far Eastern State University, but in 2 years it became Vladivostok State Medical Institute . Institute was re
Justice Institute of British Columbia is a public, post-secondary educational institution in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, that is focused on training professionals in the justice, public safety and social services fields. JIBC also has campuses in Victoria, Kelowna, Chilliwack, Pitt Meadows, and Maple Ridge.
Selma University is a Private historically black Baptist Bible college in Selma, Alabama. It is affiliated with the Alabama State Missionary Baptist Convention. History The institution was founded in 1878 as the Alabama Baptist Normal and Theological School to train African Americans as ministers and teachers. The school purchased the former Selma Fair Grounds later that same year, moving into the fair's old exposition buildings. Noted ministers such as William H. McAlpine, James A. Foster and R. Murrell were among the founders. At a meeting in Mobile, Alabama in 1874, the first trustees were elected: C.
The Polytechnic University of the Philippines College of Law, abbreviated as CL, is the law school of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines located in Manila, Philippines that was established in 2001. It ranks as one of the top law schools in the country in terms of percentile passing rate in the bar examination.
William Peace University is a private college in Raleigh, North Carolina. Formerly affiliated with the Presbyterian Church, it offers undergraduate degrees in more than 30 majors and the School of Professional Studies offers accelerated bachelor's degrees that are online or hybrid for working adults. The institution adopted its current name in 2012, concurrent with its decision to begin admitting men to its day program; it was previously known as Peace Institute, Peace Junior College, and Peace College.
Zhejiang A & F University , formerly referred to as Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, is a provincial university established in 1958. It is in Lin'an District, Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province in China.
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Saint Jude College
PHINMA – St. Jude College is a college of nursing in the city of Manila in the Philippines. It was founded in 1968, although a clinic had existed on the site since 1950. Accreditation St. Jude College's School of Nursing is accredited by the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities Commission on Accreditation and was awarded Level III accredited status and certified by the Federation of Accrediting Agencies of the Philippines for its Bachelor of Science in Nursing program.
Jefferson Community and Technical College is a public community college in Louisville, Kentucky. It is part of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System and the largest college in that system. JCTC was formed on July 1, 2005, by the consolidation of Jefferson Community College and Jefferson Technical College. Jefferson Community College was originally chartered in 1968 and Jefferson Technical College was chartered in 1953. JCTC is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools .
The Ontario Police College is a police academy located in Malahide Township, just east of Aylmer, in Elgin County in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. History The Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police proposed the idea of a central provincial police academy in the early 1950s.
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Dhaka City College
Dhaka City College also known as DCC, is one of the oldest private college in the country of Bangladesh. It is located at Qudrat-i-Khuda road, Dhanmondi, Dhaka. It offers Honors and Masters degree programs as well as higher secondary education . The college is affiliated with the National University of Bangladesh. Md. Anwar Hossain has been the college principal . the chief of the college's governing body is Syed Modasser Ali, an alumnus of the college.
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.
Ulyanovsk State Agricultural University is a higher education and research institution in Ulyanovsk. It was established in 1943. External links Official site
Harper Adams University, founded in 1901 as Harper Adams College, is a public university located close to the village of Edgmond, near Newport, in Shropshire, England. Established in 1901, the college is a specialist provider of higher education for the agricultural and rural sector. It gained university college status in 1998, and university status in 2012 when the requirements were relaxed.
Hebei North University is a multi-faculty university in Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China under the provincial government. Hebei North University is a provincially administered multi-faculty university, which offers Bachelors Academic Degree programs and Master Academic Degree programs. The University was founded in May 2003 after approval by the Ministry of Education. It comprises three former provincially administered institutions of higher learning in Zhangjiakou:Zhangjiakou Medical College Zhangjiakou Teachers College Zhangjiakou Advanced Post-secondary Agriculture School It is the only multi-fac...
Jami'a Nooriyya is an Arabic College, or an educational institute of higher religious learning, the equivalent of north Indian madrasa, located at Pattikkad, near Perinthalmanna in Malappuram district, Kerala. Established in 1963 by Samastha Kerala Jam'iyyat al-'Ulama', it is the premier orthodox or traditionalist Sunni-Shafi'i institution for the training of the Islamic scholars in Kerala.
Eastern and Southern African Management Institute, or ESAMI is a diplomatic regional management development institute owned by various governments in the Sub-Saharan Africa region. Established in 1980, the Institute has its headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania.
The Beeson Divinity School of Samford University is an interdenominational evangelical divinity school located in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. The current dean is Douglas A. Sweeney. Though located on the campus of a Baptist university, Beeson is interdenominational. In spring 2023, the faculty adopted a diversity statement expressing its commitment to denominational, racial, socioeconomic and gender diversity; to supporting women in ministry; and to affirming only traditional Christian understandings of gender and marriage.
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 Jose Rizal Memorial State University is a state university in Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines. It is mandated to provide higher professional, technical, special instructions for special purposes and promote research and extension services, advanced studies and progressive leadership in education, agriculture, arts and sciences, engineering and other fields. Its main campus is located in Dapitan. It became a university in 2010 by virtue of Republic Act 9852.
Baba Farid University of Health Sciences was established in July 1998 by Punjab Act No. 18. Punjabi and headquartered in Faridkot. Faculties University has about 920 MBBS and 1,070 BDS seats across Punjab. Notable affiliated colleges include
Trinity Christian College is a liberal arts college located 30 minutes from Chicago in Palos Heights, Illinois. The vision of bringing a Reformed Christian school to the Chicago area began in 1956 and became a reality in 1971 when Trinity graduated its first class of students. Trinity currently offers over 70 degree programs, and has expanded to include not only a traditional undergraduate program, but also an adult undergraduate program and graduate-level programs for its 1400 students. Trinity is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education as well as all relevant program-specific boards and commissions.
BA School of Business and Finance is one of the leading, self-financing business schools in Latvia. It was founded in 1992 as a Banking College under the Bank of Latvia and received accreditation in 1997
Oak Brook College of Law and Government Policy is a correspondence law school in Fresno, California. It is not accredited but is registered with the State Bar of California and authorized to grant the degree of Juris Doctor. Graduates are therefore able to take the bar exam in California but may not be able to do so in other states. It was started in 1994 to "train individuals who desire to advance the gospel of Jesus Christ through service as advocates of truth, counselors of reconciliation, and ministers of justice in the fields of law and government policy."
Yangtze Normal University is a full-time, comprehensive university under the administration of the Chongqing Municipal Government of the People's Republic of China. The campus is in Fuling District, at the conjunction of the Yangtze and Wu Rivers, the historic capital of the ancient Ba Tribe. It is the only teachers college in the ecological and economic zone of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area and the minority area in Southeast Chongqing.
Mount Saint Mary College is a private Catholic college in Newburgh, New York. It was founded in 1959 by the Dominican Sisters. The campus overlooks the Hudson River, halfway between New York City and Albany. Over 2,700 students are enrolled in over 50 undergraduate and three graduate programs. The Knights compete in NCAA Division III athletics in the Skyline Conference.
