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The University of Arizona School of Geography, Development and Environment is an academic department and professional school for geographical education and urban and regional development, GIS, development practice, and environmental studies. Degrees conferred include Bachelor of Arts , Bachelor of Science , Master of Arts , Master of Science , and Doctor of Philosophy .

Berk Trade and Business School is a private, for-profit trade and vocational schools in New York City. It was founded in 1945 and is one of the oldest trade and vocational schools in the city. The school's founder, Irving Berk, was committed to trade and vocational education. The school develops entry-level skills for the building trades, specifically plumbing, electrical installation and building maintenance.

Sterling College is a private evangelical Christian college in Sterling, Kansas. It is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. History The college was founded in 1887 by the Synod of Kansas of the United Presbyterian Church of North America as Cooper Memorial College. It changed its name to Sterling in 1920. When the Presbyterian Church came into existence in 1958, the newly formed Presbyterian Synod of Kansas considered combining Sterling and the College of Emporia.

Tottori University of Environmental Studies is a small public university in Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. It is under the jurisdiction of the city and prefecture of Tottori. History April, 2001 - Opening2005 - Establishment of Ecoinformatics Graduate Research Department, featuring a masters program in Ecoinformatics. Particular areas of study include Environmental sociology, Environmental design, and Information Systems.

Kochi University of Technology is a prefectural university in Tosa Yamada, Kami, Kōchi, Japan. After its foundation in 1997, Professor Yasuharu Suematsu was its first president. Kochi University of Technology serves 2056 undergraduate students, 224 Master students and 74 Doctoral students .

Mie Chukyo University was a private university in Matsusaka, Mie, Japan, established in 1982. Formerly known as Matsusaka University, the school adopted the present name in 2005. Discountined in 2013.

The University of Education, Winneba is a university in Winneba, Central Region of Ghana. It was established in 1992 by a government ordinance and with a relationship with the University of Cape Coast. Its main aim is to train teachers for the education system of Ghana. The University of Education, Winneba is charged with the responsibility of teacher education and producing professional educators to spearhead a new national vision of education aimed at redirecting Ghana's efforts along the path of rapid economic and social development. The University of Education, Winneba is expected to pla...

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman University, Kishoreganj is a government financed public university located in the town of Kishoreganj in Bangladesh. Established in 2020, BSMRU is named after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the country's founding father. On 24 January 2020 in regular cabinet meeting, chaired by prime minister, agreed in principle to the Acts for the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman University in Kishoreganj District. Dr Z M Parvez Sazzad, a professor at the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering in Dhaka University, will serve as the founding vice-chancellor...

Muragacha Government College established in 2015, is the government general degree college in Muragacha, Nadia district. It offers undergraduate courses in science and arts. It is affiliated to University of Kalyani.

Plassey College, established in 2010, is a general degree college in historical Plassey, Nadia district. It offers undergraduate courses in arts. It is affiliated to University of Kalyani. Departments

Osaka Electro-Communication University Junior College was a junior college in Neyagawa Osaka Prefecture, Japan, and was part of the Osaka Electro-Communication University network. The Junior College was founded in 1958. The predecessor of the school, Tōa Denki Tsushin kōgakkō, was founded in 1941. The course of this Junior College was Electronics（Daytime and Evening. The school was disestablished in 2008.

Tamralipto Government Medical College and Hospital , established in 2022, is a full-fledged tertiary referral Government medical college and hospital. This college is located at Tamluk city in Purba Medinipur district, West Bengal. This college imparts the degree Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery and associated degrees. This college also offers the Nursing and para-medical courses. The hospital associated with the college is one of the largest hospitals in the Purba Medinipur district.

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Mahavidyalaya , established in 1965, is a general degree college in Baranagar, Kolkata. It offers undergraduate courses in arts, commerce and sciences. It is affiliated to West Bengal State University.

Northern Region Farm Machinery Training and Testing Institute, Hisar is a public funded agricultural and farm training and testing institute located on Sirsa road, Hisar in the Indian state of Haryana. It is one of the four such institutes established by the Government of India's Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare. It had provided training to students hailing from all over India and more than 27 other nations and annual Krishi Darshan Expo is held at institute in October.

IQ City Medical College and Hospital, established in 2013, is a private medical college located in Durgapur, West Bengal. This medical college hospital is a part of IQ City in Durgapur. This college offers the Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery courses. It is affiliated with the West Bengal University of Health Sciences and recognized by the National Medical Commission. The annual intake of this college in the MBBS course is 150.

Swami Vivekanand National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research is an autonomous institute functioning under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment of India. It is located in Olatpur, 30 km from Cuttack.

Minneapolis Business College was a for-profit career college in Roseville, Minnesota. It was founded in 1874 and moved to its current suburban location in 1983. It had nearby housing for students but over half of students came from the immediate Twin Cities area. MBC awarded diplomas and associate degrees. It closed in December 2019.

American National University, formerly National Business College, is a private for-profit university with multiple campuses in the United States, including Tennessee, Virginia, and Kentucky. History The university was founded in 1886 as a business school in Roanoke, Virginia. It later expanded to a national business school and developed multiple campuses.

Tangail Polytechnic Institute or is a polytechnic institute in Tangail, Bangladesh established in 1991. History Tangail Polytechnic Institute was established in 1991 with 40 students in the first year classes of diploma in engineering in Electrical technology. With growing demands of mid level technical manpower home and abroad the institute has since greatly expanded. The institute now offers courses in seven technologies.

The Perdana University – Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland School of Medicine is one of the six schools of the Perdana University located in Damansara Heights, Kuala Lumpur. It was established in 2011.

Malikussaleh University is an Indonesian public university in North Aceh Regency. Founded in 1969 as a Sharia academy, it branched into multiple subjects, which were integrated into the modern university in 1989. It was nationalized in 2001.

Gediz University was a private university located in the Seyrek neighborhood of Menemen, a metropolitan district of Izmir, Turkey. It was established 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.

Hwa Nan College, or Women's College of South China, was a Christian institution of higher education founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church . It is located on the mountainside of Cangqian Mountain , now Cangshan District , Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, China. From 1938 to 1946, the college was temporarily relocated to Nanping City, due to Second Sino-Japanese War. Now the college belongs to the Cangshan Campus of Fujian Normal University .

Copper Mountain College is a public community college in Joshua Tree, California. It was accredited in 2001 as the 108th such institution in the state. CMC offers a total of 24 different certificates and degrees.

Soochow University School of Law is one of the oldest law schools in Taiwan. It is part of Soochow University. It enjoyed the high reputation of "Chaoyang in the North, Soo Chow in the South" amongst Chinese law schools. It is dedicated to legal professional education, National law and Anglo-American law. This is the first comparative law school in Asia, and actively cultivates comparative law and the international law professionals.

The University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City , commonly known as UEH University, is a multidisciplinary university which was established in 1976 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It is one of the National Key Universities of Vietnam and is a member of The Best 1,000 Business Schools in the World. From its inception until now, the school has been a renowned center of scientific research in Vietnam, providing undergraduate and postgraduate education for students from the country and neighboring Laos and Cambodia. CYM Group, a student academic club of the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City is the first student group in Vietnam to set a Guinness World Record.

Idlib University is a Syrian public university established in 2015, and studies began in it in the 2015-2016 semester. It initially included several colleges and institutes, then opened new branches, colleges and departments in the following years. A branch of Idlib University was opened in Al-Dana in 2020. Today, the number of university students has exceeded 18,000, and the university's teaching and administrative staff has exceeded 600 people.

Teikyō Heisei University is a private university in Toshima, Tokyo, Japan, established in 1987. External links

Gangneung Yeongdong College is a private technical college in Seongsan-myeon, a rural area of Gangneung city in northeastern South Korea. It takes its name from the Yeongdong region, in which it is located.

Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University is a state, open university, located in Nashik, Maharashtra, India. It was established in 1989 under the Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University Act, 1989.

Yanbu Industrial College is a technical college in Saudi Arabia. It was established in 1989 to achieve the objectives of the Royal Commission, in developing human resources and to provide the Saudi manpower with high technical education and training, so that they can properly manage the Kingdom's growing economy in its various sectors.

Periyar University is a university in Salem, Tamil Nadu, India. It was established by the Government of Tamil Nadu in 1997. It is named after social reformer Thanthai Periyar E. V. Ramasamy. The University Grants Commissions, New Delhi bestowed 2f status in 1998 and 12 status in 2005 to the university. It is accredited by NAAC with 'A++' grade. It has been awarded a cumulative grade point average of 3.61 out of 4 points . University ranked Second in India only after to Mumbai University and First in Tamil Nadu among State Universities. Periyar University is the first State University to rank ...

Ganpat University is a private university in Kherva, Mehsana in the state of Gujarat, India. It was established in 2005 through the State Legislative act no 19 of 2005, Government of Gujarat, and recognized by the UGC under the section 2 of the UGC Act, 1956 having campus spread over more than 300 acres of land and more than 10,000 students on campus.

PSB Academy is a private educational institution that offers Certificates, Diplomas, Bachelor's and master's degree programmes in Singapore. It is registered under the Committee for Private Education .

The National Defense University of Ukraine is a university of higher military education in Ukraine, located in its capital city of Kyiv. Subordinated to the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, the University trains officers specializing in national defense.

Jinan University is a private nonprofit institution of higher education with campuses located in the cities of Tripoli and Saïda in Lebanon. History Jinan University is one of several educational institutions working under the umbrella of the Jinan Association, which operates primary schools, high schools, schools for people with special needs, and technical institutes active since year 1964. Jinan University was established in year 1988 and received its official authorization from the Lebanese Ministry of Higher Education in year 1991. In 1999, Jinan University was officially licensed by ...

The Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic named after Ergesh Aliyev , known locally as the MVD Academy of Kyrgyzstan is a military institution in the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic acts as a training center for future soldiers and officers of the Internal Troops and future police officers in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It is named after Police Major General Ergesh Aliyev, who was the first high ranking officer in the original Kyrgyz Militia.

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.

Campbellsville University is a private Christian university in Campbellsville, Kentucky. It was founded as Russell Creek Academy and enrolls more than 12,000 students. The university offers associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees.

The National University of Entre Ríos is an Argentine national university situated in the city of Concepción del Uruguay, Entre Ríos. See also List of Argentine universitiesScience and Education in ArgentinaArgentine Higher Education Official SiteArgentine Universities

Neosho County Community College is a public community college in Chanute, Kansas. It has a secondary campus in Ottawa, Kansas. It is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. History In 1936, it was established as Chanute Junior College. On July 1, 1965, it was renamed to Neosho County Community Junior College.

Pfeiffer University at Charlotte, in Charlotte, North Carolina, is one of three campuses of Pfeiffer University, where the university's School of Graduate Studies and Center for Professional Advancement are located. The university also has an undergraduate campus in Misenheimer and another graduate campus in the Triangle, in Morrisville.

The Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur , formerly known as Kuala Lumpur Infrastructure University College , is a university in Kajang, Hulu Langat District, Selangor, Malaysia. It is the first infrastructure university in Malaysia. It was established in 1998 following the privatisation of the Research and Training Institute of Public Works Department of Malaysia .

The University of Wisconsin–Stout is a public university in Menomonie, Wisconsin. A member of the Universities of Wisconsin, it enrolls more than 9,600 students. The school was founded in 1891 and named in honor of its founder, lumber magnate James Huff Stout.

Pak Red Crescent Medical and Dental College , Recognized college This college is registered with and accredited by Pakistan Medical and Dental Council, listed in WHO, Avicenna Directories and IMED, affiliated with University of Health Sciences, Lahore, and approved by Ministry of Health. Social Security Hospital and Pak Red Crescent Hospital are attached as training and teaching hospitals.

The Divine Word College of Bangued is a private, Catholic higher education institution run by the Philippine Northern Province of the Society of the Divine Word in Bangued, Abra, Philippines. It was founded by a Divine Word Missionary priest in 1920 and given the name Colegio del Sagrado Corazon. In 1964 it was renamed the Divine Word College of Bangued. The college is the most famous in the province.

Pwani University is a public university in the Kilifi County in the coastal region of Kenya, located 60 km north of Mombasa in the resort town of Kilifi, within the larger Kilifi County. Prior to the award of a charter, the university was a constituent college of Kenyatta University. The college, formerly the Kilifi Institute of Agriculture, was established on 23 August 2007 by an order signed by H.E President Mwai Kibaki.

St. Lawrence University is a private university in Kampala, Uganda. Location The University campus is located in Mengo, Rubaga Division, in Kampala, Uganda's largest city and capital. The university campus sits on of land and is located near Kabaka's Lake, in Mengo, close to the main Lubiri , west of the central business district of Kampala. The coordinates of the main campus are 0° 18' 6.00"N, 32° 33' 43.00"E .

Women's College, Silchar, established in 1963 at Silchar, is a women's higher education institution in India. It offers Intermediate and First Degree Level courses in Arts and Commerce. The College also offers short term Diploma & Certificate courses. It is recognised by University Grants Commission , Assam Higher Secondary Education Council and Assam University, Silchar. The college has been accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council with B status.

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