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The Rabbinical College of Pretoria is a Chabad Yeshiva in Pretoria, South Africa. History It was established in 2001 under the inspiration of late Chief Rabbi Cyril Harris. The Yeshiva was originally headed by Rabbi Levi Wineberg. It is now under Rabbis Chaim Finkelstein and Gidon Fox, with Rabbi Yosef Kesseleman as Mashpia; and sometimes known as Machon L'Hora'ah Pretoria.
College of Ophthalmology and Allied Vision Sciences formerly known as Punjab institute of Preventive Ophthalmology is one of the finest Ophthalmic Institute in Pakistan. it is attached with Mayo Hospital which was built in 1872 and was named after Lord Mack Mayo and King Edward Medical University which was built in 1860 and was named after King Edward.
The Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education , formerly Lakshmibai National University of Physical Education, is a higher education institute deemed-to-be-university, located in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India. Under the aegis of Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and committed for excellence in physical education, coaching and sports in the country. The campus is on the Agra–Mumbai Highway, at a walking distance of around 500m from Gwalior railway station, Shaktinagar, Gwalior.
New College Lanarkshire is a further education institution in Scotland in North Lanarkshire. The college was created in November 2013 from the merger of Cumbernauld College and Motherwell College, and in 2014 it absorbed Coatbridge College. It has over 25,000 students.
The Institute of Public Administration is a recognised college of the National University of Ireland. It was founded in 1957 at a meeting in Newman House where Tom Barrington became the first director and John Leydon its first president. It was established to be the main provider of education, training and development services for the public service in Ireland, as well as research services. Until 2018 it was a recognized college of University College Dublin.
Gauhati Commerce College located at R.G. Barooah Road in Guwahati. It is a government college affiliated to the Department Of Commerce of Gauhati University in Assam. It was founded in early of 1962 by the government of Assam.
Dakshin Kamrup College is an educational institution for higher education affiliated with Gauhati University. The college is located in Mirza in the Kamrup District of Assam. At present the college has Arts, Commerce and Science streams with seventeen departments offering Major courses.
NEF Law College, or in its full name National Education Foundation Law College, is a private law school located in Guwahati, Assam, India. It was established in 2006 and it offers various undergraduate and postgraduate law courses. The NEF Law College is affiliated to Gauhati University and it also got a status of ' Section 2 of UGC Act, 1956 ' from University Grants Commission.
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Guwahati established 2008, is an Indian public Pharmacy research university, and a part of the seven schools, under India's Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers. It is located at Sila Katamur, Changsari in Kamrup district of Assam. The institute offers Masters and Doctoral degrees in pharmaceutical sciences. As an Institute of National Importance it plays an important role in the Human Resource Development for the ever-growing Indian Pharmaceutical industry, which has been in the forefront of India’s science-based industries with w...
K.C. Das Commerce College was established in 1983 and is a Provincialised College under the Government of Assam. Academics K. C. Das Commerce College houses the following departments:Higher Secondary Bachelor of Commerce Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of Science Master of Commerce Bachelor of Business Administration Bachelor of Computer Application Post Graduate Diploma in Computer ApplicationValue Added Education
Government Ayurvedic College, Guwahati is an institute of Ayurveda in Jalukbari, Assam, North East India. Established in 1948, the college was first affiliated by Gauhati University and was later brought under Srimanta Sankaradeva University of Health Sciences in 2010.
Dispur College is an institution for higher education located in Guwahati, Assam, India, established in 1978. The college is affiliated to Gauhati University. The college offers bachelor's degree courses in arts and commerce as well as in computer application and business administration .
The University of Alberta Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, is located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in pharmacy. Background The faculty began in 1913 as a department within the Faculty of Medicine, and then as a school after 1917. The first three students to graduate from the school did so in 1921, and they thus became the first students in the British Empire to complete a four-year pharmacy program.
North Malabar Institute of Technology is an engineering college located at Kanhangad, Kasaragod district, Kerala, India. It is affiliated to Kannur University. External links
The Inter-American Defense College is the educational entity of the Inter-American Defense Board, an independent entity of the Organization of American States. The College states that faculty, staff and student body are international, and that broad international participation provides an exceptional opportunity for the free exchange of ideas and forms a foundation for better inter-American understanding. The IADC holds a permanent license from the District of Columbia Higher Education Licensing Commission and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
The De La Salle Supervised Schools is a network of Lasallian private schools in the Philippines under the wing of the Lasallian Schools Supervision Services Association, Inc. through its mission arm, the Lasallian Schools Supervision Office .
The La Verdad Christian College or LVCC is a private non-stock, non-sectarian educational institution established in Apalit, Pampanga, Philippines. It is the first private school in the Philippines that grants scholarship programs to deserving students by providing tuition-free education and no miscellaneous fees. It is one of the best schools in Pampanga, up to regional and national levels.
The American University of Barbados School of Medicine , founded in 2011, is a private medical school with its main campus in Wildey, Barbados. When it opened in January 2012, it was the first offshore private medical school in Barbados, started as a branch of Era's Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, based in Lucknow, India.
The Zhukov Air and Space Defence Academy is a Russian military academy located on the banks of the Volga River in Tver . The academy, formed in 1956, is named after Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov. It was one of the main education centers of the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces, prior to the Aerospace Defence Forces restructuring in 2015. The Academy currently trains personnel for the successor organisation, the Russian Aerospace Forces.
Apollos University is a private for-profit online university headquartered in Great Falls, Montana. It is accredited by the Distance Education Accreditation Commission . History The university was founded in August 2004 as a non-profit university. However, it closed the non-profit corporation and reopened as a for-profit corporation in May, 2005. The new corporation was named Apollos University of California with a "doing business as" name of Apollos University. Formerly headquartered in Huntington Beach, California, Apollos University moved to Great Falls, Montana, on September 30, 2016. and...
Government Degree College Sopore is an educational institution located in the town of Sopore in the Baramulla District of Jammu and Kashmir, India. The college was established in 1951 to provide higher education to the students of the area. It is one of the oldest institutes in the valley of Kashmir and is National Assessment and Accreditation Council accredited. In its third cycle of NAAC assessment, the college was awarded grade A, for the first time in its history, after a NAAC peer team visit took place on May 10-11, 2023.
Braintree Campus, formerly known as Braintree College, is a further education college based in Braintree, Essex. It is a constituent college of Colchester Institute. The college was originally an independently controlled institution, but merged with Colchester Institute on 29 February 2010. Braintree Campus is Colchester Institute's second largest facility.
Christian Medical College, Vellore, widely known as CMC, Vellore, is a private, Christian community-run medical school, hospital and research institute. This Institute includes a network of primary, secondary and tertiary care hospitals in and around Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
Universidad Tecnológica de Honduras known by its acronym UTH, is a private university located in Honduras. It is known for its careers in Business Management, Law, Marketing and Tourism, and several engineering careers such as Industrial Production engineering, Computer Engineering and Electronics.
Bahnsen Theological Seminary was a Calvinist theological training institution, founded in 1997 and based in Placentia, California. It was most notably associated with Greg Bahnsen and Kenneth Gentry. It served as the degree granting division of the Southern California Center for Christian Studies. It offered instruction worldwide by correspondence, as well as courses presented locally. BTS offered four Master's degree programs; Master of Divinity, Master of Christian Studies, Master of Apologetics, and Master of Philosophy.
Shijiazhuang University is a university in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China. Campuses There are two campuses: North Campus and South Campus with 82 hectares of land and 350,000 square meters of floor space.
The Peter Kiewit Institute is a facility in Omaha, Nebraska, United States which houses academic programs from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Engineering. Founded in 1996 in partnership with the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the University of Nebraska Omaha, and companies in the private sector, PKI's goal is "to help meet the needs of the nation's technology and engineering firms by providing a top-flight education to students interested in pursuing careers in information science, technology and engineering."
The Fukui University of Technology is a private university founded in 1950 and located in Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. The university has undergraduate faculties in engineering, environmental and information sciences, and sports and health sciences, as well as a graduate department for applied science and engineering.
The Eastern Institute of Technology is a government owned tertiary education institution with three campuses: Hawke’s Bay, Auckland, and Gisborne, New Zealand. It is also referred to as EIT Hawke's Bay, EIT Tairāwhiti, and EIT Auckland. EIT serves as the main regional higher education centre for the Hawke's Bay and Gisborne regions.
The Massachusetts School of Law is a private law school in Andover, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1988 and claims that its design and curriculum were influenced by the medical school educational model and legal scholars. Although it is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education, it is not accredited by the American Bar Association .
The College Ystrad Mynach is a former college of further education based in Ystrad Mynach in Caerphilly county borough, Wales. It had over 13,000 students ranging from school leavers to adult mature students. It taught mainly vocational courses from entry level to Degree .
The University College of the Cayman Islands is a tertiary educational institution in the Cayman Islands. History The original Community College was established as a part-time institution in 1975, and was the first government-sponsored tertiary education in the Cayman Islands.
National Law University, Delhi is one of the National Law Universities in India, situated in Sector-14 of Dwarka, Delhi. It offers courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. As one of the national law schools in India, NLUD is built on the five-year law degree model proposed and implemented by the Bar Council of India. The National Law University Act, 2007, provides for the Chief Justice of India to be the university's visitor and the Chief Justice of the High Court of Delhi to function as the university's chancellor, and its vice-chancellor to function as the chief administrator.
The University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville is the largest of the three University of Florida Health Science Center Jacksonville colleges — medicine, nursing and pharmacy. The college's 16 clinical science departments house more than 440 faculty members and 380 residents and fellows. The college offers 34 accredited graduate medical education programs and 10 non-standard programs.
Institute of Science Nagpur , formerly Government Science Institute, is a government-aided autonomous college located in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. Established as Victoria College of Science in 1906 during British Raj, it is affiliated to Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University.
Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University is a university in Ga-Rankuwa, Gauteng Province, South Africa. Its current incarnation was formed on 1 January 2015. Previously it was known as Medical University of South Africa and later as a campus of the University of Limpopo. It is named after South African ANC leader Sefako Makgatho. Since its name-change, students have colloquially referred to the institution using the acronym of its current name in a similar fashion to manner in which they used the acronym "MEDUNSA" to refer to the institution prior to the change of name.
Nuclear Power School is a technical school operated by the U.S. Navy in Goose Creek, South Carolina as a central part of a program that trains enlisted sailors, officers, KAPL civilians and Bettis civilians for shipboard nuclear power plant operation and maintenance of surface ships and submarines in the U.S. nuclear navy. As of 2020 the United States Navy operates 98 nuclear power plants, including 71 submarines , 11 aircraft carriers , and three Moored Training Ships and two land-based training plants. NPS is the centerpiece of the training pipeline for U.S. Navy nuclear operators. It foll...
Ohio Central College, initially known as Iberia College, was a college located in Iberia, Ohio in northwestern Morrow County, Ohio during the second half of the 19th century. Open to both genders and all races, the college was founded by the Free Presbyterian Church and led by the Rev. George Gordon, a strong abolitionist. It counts among its alumni Warren G. Harding, a native of Morrow County and the 29th President of the United States.
Diphu Government College, established in the year 1964, is a general degree college situated at Diphu, Karbi Anglong, Assam. This college is affiliated with the Assam University. This college offers different courses in Arts, Commerce and Science.
Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Management and Technology was founded in 1997, under Kurukshetra University with the approval of AICTE. It is located in Jagadhri, near Chandigarh. It is being run by Maharaja Agrasen Sabha which runs another college named Maharaja Agrasen College.
Maharaja Agrasen College is a government aided private college of Arts and Commerce, located in Jagadhri, in the state of Haryana, India. Academic provision The College is co-educational, catering to a total of 1143 students in four faculties of Arts, Commerce, Business Administration and Computer Science. Of these students, 904 are boys and 239 girls in 13 departments . The College has 11 permanent and 27 contractual faculty members.
Ghani Khan Choudhury Institute of Engineering & Technology is a central government funded engineering college, one of the 35 GFTIs under Ministry of the Education located in the Malda district of West Bengal, India. This institute was established in 2010, in the memory of A.B.A Ghani Khan Chowdhury.
Middle Georgia College was a four-year state college unit of the University System of Georgia. On January 8, 2013, it was consolidated with Macon State College into a new institution, which is now known as Middle Georgia State University.
Penn State Brandywine is a commonwealth campus of the Pennsylvania State University located in Middletown Township, Pennsylvania. The campus was formerly known as Penn State Delaware County. The campus has baccalaureate and associate degrees and certificate programs. The campus is located on over of grounds. In August 2017, the campus established on-campus housing for the first time with the opening of Orchard Hall, a 250-bed dormitory.
The Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart - University of Applied Sciences is one of ten institutes for higher education in Stuttgart. It was founded in 1832 as a school for construction craftsmen and was inaugurated as a University of Applied Sciences in 1971.
The American College of Financial Services is a private online university focused on professional training for financial practitioners and located in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. It offers several professional certifications and master's degrees. Annually, The American College educates approximately 40,000 students, mainly through distance education. The institution was founded as The American College of Life Underwriters in 1927 by Solomon S. Huebner of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Huebner was a professional involved in the development of economic theory. His theory of human life value is used in the field of insurance.
The Queensland Theological College is a theological college in Queensland, Australia. Based in Brisbane, it is the training college of the Presbyterian Church of Queensland and takes a Reformed Evangelical or Reformed Protestant stance. The college was established in 1876 and has been known as the Presbyterian Theological Hall, the Reformed College of Ministries and the Consortium of Reformed Colleges. It adopted its current name in 2006. The current principal is Gary Millar, who succeeded Bruce W. Winter in 2012. Millar is also the chairman of The Gospel Coalition Australia . Other full-ti...
The Los Angeles Recording School is a private, for-profit college and is a division of the larger Los Angeles Film School. It is located in Hollywood, California. The school offers Associate of Science degree programs in Recording Arts and Music Production. It was founded in 1985 as the Los Angeles Recording Workshop.
Shahrood University of Technology is a public university in Shahrood, Semnan, Iran. The university was established as "The Shahrood College of Mines" in 1973 by Changiz Malekipur, and was elevated to university status in 1994. Finally, thanks to the efforts and pursuit of university president and the staff at the time and the expansion of different programs and the development of post-graduate levels, another great achievement was gained for the university in that the Development Council of the ministry in a session dated 2002/6/9 announced his agreement with the promotion of the university to Shahrood University of technology.