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Canara Vikas Pre University College is an educational institution run by Canara High School Association, in Mangalore, Karnataka, India. Academics Canara Vikas Pre-University College, is affiliated to The Karnataka State Pre University Board. The College offers education both in Science and Commerce Streams, in English Medium. The admissions to these courses are based on the performances of the aspirants in the 10th Standard Board Examinations.

Oklahoma State University–Tulsa, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, is the newest institution of the Oklahoma State University System. It was previously the University Center at Tulsa until it became OSU-Tulsa on January 1, 1999. OSU-Tulsa is unique in the fact that it is not recognized as its own entity, but rather an extension of the main Oklahoma State University campus in Stillwater, Oklahoma. OSU-Tulsa works in conjunction with the main OSU campus and Tulsa Community College to provide Freshman and Sophomore level courses, enabling students to complete a four-year undergraduate course of study.

Lovely Professional University is a private university located in Chaheru, Phagwara, Punjab, India. The university was established in 2005 by Lovely International Trust, through the Lovely Professional University Act, 2005 and started operation in 2006.

Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University is a National Law University located at Sabbavaram, Anakapalli district, Andhra Pradesh, India constituted by the DSNLU Act, 2008. It offers 5 year integrated B.A LLB. course to eligible Undergraduate students based on the Common Law Admission Test centralized admission process. The University offers postgraduate courses also, including the one-year LL.M. programme and, PhD and LL.D. programmes. The university is housed at Nyayaprastha in Sabbavaram with 75.5 acres built up area in the first phase. The establishing Act of 2008 of the Andhra Prad...

VIT-AP University , also known as Vellore Institute of Technology, Andhra Pradesh or VIT University, Andhra Pradesh, is a private research university located in Inavolu, Amaravati, the capital of Andhra Pradesh, India. The university was established in 2017 by the Vellore Institute of Technology through the Andhra Pradesh Private Universities Act, 2016.

Edmonds College, formerly Edmonds Community College, is a public community college in Lynnwood, Washington. More than 17,000 students annually take courses for credit toward a certificate or degree at the college. The college employs more than 1,300 people, including 126 full-time and 283 part-time instructors and 267 students.

Henry Ford College is a public community college in Dearborn, Michigan. The institution, established in 1938 by the Dearborn Fordson Public Schools Board of Education, is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. The institution was originally named Fordson Junior College. It adopted the name Dearborn Junior College in 1946, then Henry Ford Community College in 1952, after the Henry Ford Trade School which closed and whose assets were transferred to the Dearborn School Board of Education. The name was changed to Henry Ford College in 2014.

Aarhus Art Academy is an art school in Aarhus, Denmark. The school resides in a listed building on Vestergade 29 in the old medieval inner city, comprised by the neighborhood of Indre By. The building was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places by the Danish Heritage Agency on 3 December 1924. The school offers a 4-year arts programme and a number of courses in sculpting, painting, design, ceramics, photo and webdesign.

The Mico University College is one of an institution of higher education in Kingston, Jamaica. History The Mico was founded in 1835 through the Lady Mico Charity, one of four teacher training institutions established during this period in the British colonies and the only one to survive until the present. Jane Mico had died in 1670 in England and she left £1,000 to relieve slavery and it accrued interest until it was worth over £100,000. Thomas Fowell Buxton and abolitionist judge Stephen Lushington took an interest in the bequest that had been stuck for 200 years. They believed that her bequest would supply education in Jamaica and elsewhere.

Loyalist College is an English-language college in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. History Prior to the 1960s, only trade schools co-existed with universities in the province of Ontario at the post-secondary level, most of which had been established primarily to help veterans reintegrate into society in the post-war years. Loyalist College was founded in 1967 as part of a provincial initiative to create many such institutions to provide career-oriented diploma and certificate courses, as well as continuing education programs to Ontario communities. The name of the college reflects the area's or...

Certified Software Development Professional is a vendor-neutral professional certification in software engineering developed by the IEEE Computer Society for experienced software engineering professionals. This certification was offered globally since 2001 through Dec. 2014.

Snead State Community College is a public community college in Boaz, Alabama. It began as a private seminary in 1898 and became part of the Alabama Community College System in 1967. Snead awards associate degrees in 79 programs and certificates in 24 programs.

St Joseph's College of Law is a Jesuit law school in Bangalore, in Karnataka, in south-western India. It was founded in 2017. It is part of St. Joseph's Institutions. It is affiliated to Karnataka State Law University, Hubballi, and approved by the Bar Council of India in New Delhi.

Highlands College is a further and higher college in Jersey in the Channel Islands. It has 860 full-time and over 4,000 part-time and adult students. Highlands is a Partner College of the University of Plymouth , London South Bank University and the University of Sussex. The Principal from September 2019 is Joanne Terry-Marchant, following the successful 5 year tenure of Steve Lewis.

Yulin University is a Chinese university. It is located in Yulin in Shaanxi Province, China. Yulin University offers degrees in pipe engineering, linguistics, science, agriculture, law and other disciplines. Yulin University is a full-time system and comprehensive regular college.

International House London is a language school in Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom owned by International House Trust. International Trust is a not-for-profit charitable organisation established by John Haycraft to provide English language instruction and teacher training. Each year International House London educates 8,000 students from over 150 countries.

Lanier University, named after "poet of the Confederacy" Sidney Lanier, was a short-lived university in today's Morningside-Lenox Park neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. It was notable for its connections with the second Ku Klux Klan, which was also based in Atlanta and which owned the university for a time.

Lanier Technical College is a public technical college with multiple locations in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is part of the Technical College System of Georgia and provides education services for a seven-county service area in north Georgia. The school's service area includes Banks, Barrow, Dawson, Forsyth, Hall, Jackson, and Lumpkin counties. Lanier Tech is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and many of the school's individual technical programs are also accredited by their respective accreditation organizations.

Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi is in Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan. It is named after Pir Meher Ali Shah, a known Hanafi scholar. The university is ranked at No. 2 in Agriculture/Veterinary category as per the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan and 7th overall in ranking of universities in Pakistan.

North Hennepin Community College is a public community college in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. It was founded in 1966 and is a member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. History The college was founded in 1966 as North Hennepin State Junior College, opening concurrently with two other state junior colleges in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, Anoka-Ramsey Community College and Metropolitan State University. North Hennepin operated during its first three years in the former facilities of Osseo Junior High School in Osseo. Classes were first offered in September 1966, with a first semester enrollment of 425 students.

Texas A&M University School of Public Health, formerly known as the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health, is the public health school of Texas A&M University and a component of Texas A&M Health. It offers research, service and training programs. It was founded in 1998 and offering degrees at undergraduate and graduate levels. 2019 rankings of US grad schools, U.S. News & World Report ranked it 28th in healthcare management, 37th in public health, and 53rd in pharmacy.

The University of Swat is a public sector university. The main campus of the university is situated in the Charbagh area of the Swat District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is 20 km away from the main city of Mingora

Pensacola State College , formerly Pensacola Junior College, is a public college in Pensacola, Florida. It is part of the Florida College System. The main campus, located in Pensacola, was opened in 1948 and was the first institute of higher learning in Pensacola. Pensacola State quickly expanded to include a downtown campus in 1957, a Milton campus in 1971, and a Warrington campus in 1977, with centers on the Fairpoint Peninsula area of Santa Rosa County, as well as one in Century. A mini-campus opened on Naval Air Station Pensacola in 1981 but was destroyed during hurricane Ivan in 2004. In ...

Harrington College of Design was a for-profit college in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois, USA, that closed in 2015. It offered students programs leading to either a master's, bachelor's or associate's degree upon completion of the interior design, digital photography or communication design programs. Each program was credentialed with multiple levels of accreditation. The college was owned by Career Education Corporation.

Johnson County Community College is a public community college in Overland Park, Kansas, which is in Johnson County. History In 1963, Johnson County Commissioners, recognizing the emerging community college movement and seeking to accommodate the rapidly growing population of Johnson County, Kansas, formed a committee to examine the feasibility of forming such an institution in Johnson County.

Saint Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design is a public university located in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was founded in 1930. History Founded April 26, 1930 as the Leningrad Textile Institute, spun off from the Leningrad Institute of Technology. On November 6, 1930, the institute moved to its main educational and laboratory building located on Bolshaya Morskaya Street in Leningrad, where the first faculties - engineering and economic, technological - were established. In 1935, the first graduates graduated.

The Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum , located in Khartoum, Sudan, is the oldest medical school in Sudan. It was opened in 1924 by Sir Lee Stack, Governor-General of Sudan and Sirdar of the Egyptian army, in memory of Herbert Kitchener, the Governor-General of Sudan from 1898 to 1900.

October 6 University is a private university located in Giza, 6th of October City, Egypt. It was established by the Republican Decree no. 243 in 1996. O6U is in the 6th of October City, 32 km from downtown Cairo. The campus consists of four education buildings, the teaching hospital, and the hostel for female students, while the central library and male students hostel are 150 meters from the campus.

The Tamil Nadu Dr. J. Jayalalithaa Music and Fine Arts University , formerly and commonly known as Tamil Nadu Music and Fine Arts University , is a government music and fine arts university situated in Adyar in the southern part of the city of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is about from the Chennai International Airport and about from the Puratchi Thalaivar Dr. M.G. Ramachandran Central Railway Station. It is one of the premier music and fine arts universities named after the former chief minister of Tamil Nadu J. Jayalalithaa.

Georgia Southern University–Armstrong Campus, formerly Armstrong State University, is one of three campuses of Georgia Southern University, a public university in the U.S. state of Georgia. Occupying a area on the residential southside of Savannah, Georgia, the school became one of three campuses of Georgia Southern University in 2018. The university's flagship campus is in Statesboro, west of Savannah. The Armstrong campus is located approximately from downtown Savannah and from Tybee Island. Armstrong offers undergraduate and graduate degrees; it has a total student enrollment of approxi...

Beijing Technology and Business University is a public comprehensive university in Beijing, China. It was founded based on the amalgamation of Beijing Light Industry School , Beijing Business School , and the Administration School for Ministry of Machinery Industry.

The Petru Maior University of Târgu Mureș, Romania, was a university founded in 1960. In September 2018, Petru Maior University was incorporated into the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Târgu Mureș.

The Kazakh National Women's Teacher Training University is a women-only Kazakhstani higher education institution in Almaty. History The university was founded on 15 August 1944. The basis for its opening was the resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the Kazakh SSR No. 457 "On the training of qualified pedagogical personnel from among the Kazakh female youth." Initially, it included three faculties: physics and mathematics, history, language and literature. In 1945, the Faculty of Natural Geography was opened, in 1968: the Faculty of Music and Song. In 1971, the Faculty of Langua...

Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University is one of the leading institutes in Central Asia. It is situated in the heart of Almaty City, Kazakhstan. In 2003 Abai University had a record enrollment of more than 23,000 students, mostly from Kazakhstan and other Central Asian countries.

Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art is a public college in Ramat Gan, Israel. Shenkar serves the Israeli industry by providing academic qualification and R&D services for modern industries. Shenkar is also considered as the top design school in Israel.

South Eastern Regional College is a further and higher education college in the south-east of Northern Ireland. SERC was created following the merger of three institutes of further and higher education in the south-east of Northern Ireland. These were East Down Institute, Lisburn Institute and North Down and Ards Institute. The merger took effect from August 2007. SERC's aim is to become a top 20 global college by 2020 and is currently listed in the top 30 colleges in the UK.

Lanzhou Jiaotong University is a transport university in Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China. It was founded as a railway engineering university as a collaboration of Southwest Jiaotong University, Beijing Jiaotong University, and the Chinese Ministry of Railways. In 2003, it changed its name from 'Lanzhou Railway University' to its current name.

NSS College, Nemmara is a college of higher education in Nemmara town in Palakkad district of Kerala. It is managed by the Nair Service Society and is affiliated to the University of Calicut. The college was inaugurated by the founding father of NSS, Mannathu Padmanabhan on 28 February 1966. The college has celebrated its Silver Jubilee in the year 1991–92. College is located in the vicinity of Western Ghats encompassing the picturesque hills of Nelliyampathi. College caters to the needs of the rural students of Nemmara and other neighboring areas like Ayalur, Melarkode, and Alathur.

Sido Kanhu Murmu University , formerly Siddhu Kanhu University, is a public university situated in the Santhal Parganas region of Jharkhand state in eastern India. It has its headquarters at Dumka, the second capital of Jharkhand. The university offers both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in various streams and have 13 constituent colleges and 15 affiliated colleges across six districts of Jharkhand.

The Polytechnic State University of Bicol is a state university in the Bicol Region, Philippines. It is mandated primarily to provide higher technological, professional and vocational instruction and training in fisheries, trade, technology, arts and sciences, as well as short term technical and vocational courses, as the Board of Trustees may deem necessary, and shall promote research in the exploration and conservation of natural resources in the province. Its main campus is located in Nabua, Camarines Sur.

Tafila Technical University , is a public university in Jordan. According to a royal decree which was issued to establish the Tafila Technical University , the was founded in January,2005 in order to develop the educational process in Jordan.

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.

Kalamazoo Valley Community College is a public community college in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was established in 1966 by the overwhelming approval of voters in nine local school districts. It enrolls about 10,000 students. Kalamazoo Valley offers certificate programs in more than 20 areas of study and associate degrees in 25 others. Michigan National Guard close family members can receive tuition assistance to attend KVCC as of August 2023.

Wayne County Community College District , commonly known as WC3, is a public community college district with its headquarters in Detroit, Michigan. It was founded in 1967 and has six campuses: Eastern, Downtown, Downriver, Northwest, Western, and University Square.

St Patrick's, Carlow College, is a liberal arts college located in Carlow, Ireland. The college is the second oldest third level institution in Ireland and was founded in 1782 by James Keefe, then Roman Catholic Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, and his co-adjutor bishop Daniel Delany.

The National Screen Institute – Canada is a non-profit organization headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The organization describes itself as "Serving content creators across Canada to tell unforgettable stories through industry-informed training and mentoring."

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