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Pandit Prithi Nath College is an educational institution in Kanpur, in Uttar Pradesh state in India. It is affiliated with Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University , Kanpur. Location It is located on Mall Road between Parade Market and Lal Imli Mills in the heart of Kanpur.
Iwate University is a national university located in Morioka, Japan. Founded in 1876 as the , the school was formally established as Iwate University in 1949. With its main campus located in Morioka, and another in Kamaishi, Iwate, it has several research institutes at cities in the Sanriku region to support the reconstruction of the fishing industry due to the 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake. These are under the jurisdiction of the Iwate University Sanriku Reconstruction and Regional Revitalization Promotion Organization.
The Yeshiva College of South Africa , commonly known as Yeshiva College - and formerly known as Yeshivat Bnei Akiva - is South Africa’s largest religious Jewish Day School. The school is headed by Mr Rob Long since 2018; the Rosh Yeshiva is Rabbi Nechemya Taylor as of 2021.
Antai College of Economics and Management is the business school of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China. It was founded in 1918 as the School of Transportation Management and renamed the School of Management in 1931. The school offers both undergraduate and postgraduate programs, including a full-time MBA program, various executive education programs, and multiple PhD programs.
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School is an academic divinity school founded in 1897 and located in the northern Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Illinois. It is part of and located on the main campus of Trinity International University. It is among the most conservative and largest theological educational institutions. Since the reorganization of Trinity in 1963 by Kenneth Kantzer, the school has consistently recruited and retained some of the top scholars in the world to serve as faculty.
Khwaja Yunus Ali University is a private university in Bangladesh. It is situated in Enayetpur, Sirajganj, Rajshahi. It was founded in 2012 under the Private University Act, and named after Sufi saint Khwaja Yunus Ali .
Presbyterian College is a private Presbyterian liberal arts college in Clinton, South Carolina. History Presbyterian College was founded in 1880 by William Plumer Jacobs. He had served as the pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Clinton since 1864 and founded the Thornwell Orphanage. Originally called Clinton College, its first class graduated in 1883. In establishing PC, his "tree of knowledge", Jacobs' goal was to educate young people for lives of service to church and society, and thereby be, in his words, "epistles to Christ's honor and glory".
Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University is a public university in Bangladesh. It is the only specialised veterinary university in Bangladesh. It is located at Khulshi, Chattogram. The chancellor of the university is president Mohammed Shahabuddin. Generally, the public universities in Bangladesh offer degree on department. Like every other agricultural university in Bangladesh, CVASU offers degree on faculty.
Moscow University for the Humanities is an accredited privately operated institution for higher education located in Moscow, Russia. It is a member of the International Association of Universities.
Netaji Subhas Open University is a state open university imparting distance education in eastern India History It was established in 1997 to commemorate the birth centenary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. It has its headquarters at 1, Woodburn Park, Kolkata - 700020, It was the residence of Sarat Chandra Bose from late 1928. Netaji lived mainly at 38/2 Elgin Road & at Woodburn Park between 1928 and 1931. Its medium of instruction is English and Bengali. Modelled on the Open University, UK and the IGNOU, it offers courses in different disciplines of taught graduate and post-graduate study and is one of the largest growing education universities in eastern India.
The Pontifical Croatian College of St. Jerome is a Catholic college, church and a society in the city of Rome intended for the schooling of South Slav clerics. It is named after Saint Jerome. Since the founding of the modern college in 1901, it has schooled 311 clerics from all bishoprics of Croatia.
Northeast Forestry University is a public university in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education, and co-sponsored by the Ministry of Education, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, and the Heilongjiang Provincial People's Government. The university is part of the Double First Class University Plan and Project 211.
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.
Tashkent State University of Law is a public higher educational institution. It is one of the leading Uzbek legal research centers, located in the capital city of Tashkent. The university is one of the leading universities in Uzbekistan, renowned as a national center of legal science and education, its prestige is widespread locally, extends far beyond the borders of the Republic, as well.
The Tashkent State University of Economics is one of the largest higher education establishments in the sphere of economics in Uzbekistan and in Central Asia. It is the former Tashkent Institute of Economics. The university includes:5 facultiesMaster's Degree Department28 academic departmentsSecond Degree DepartmentThe Tashkent State University of Economics has roughly 10,000 students and is one of the largest economic universities in Central Asia. It is divided into functional institutes that strive to provide education regarding the economics of Uzbekistan. TSEU was the first international...
The University of World Economy and Diplomacy is located in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. It was founded on September 23, 1992, by the decree of the President Karimov to train future leaders of the country.
Tashkent State Agrarian University or TSAU is an agricultural university located in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. History The formation of Tashkent State Agrarian University was closely linked with the name of Mirzo Ulugbek National University, founded in 1918 by local intellectuals, as many other Central Asian universities. In the 1920s, there were 8 faculties among them there were agricultural ones. On May 26, 1930, on the basis of this faculty, the Central Asian Agricultural Institute was established and after some changes, it was renamed the Tashkent Agricultural Institute in October 1934. In Apr...
Tokyo Gakugei University is a national university in Koganei, Tokyo. Founded in 1873, it was chartered as a university in 1949. It is also known as Gakudai and TGU, for short. In addition to its Koganei campus, it also maintains a number of attached public schools offering curricula in elementary, secondary, and special education at various locations in the greater Tokyo area. The university has a strong reputation in education-related fields, playing a national role in the development of educational policy and innovations in teacher education.
For the predecessor of UCASS, please see Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences The University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences is a public university for graduate education, under the direct leadership of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences . The predecessors of UCASS are the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences , which was set up as one of the forerunners of graduate education in humanities and social sciences in China.
The University of Aizu in Aizuwakamatsu, Japan, is the first university dedicated to computer science engineering in Japan. UoA was ranked 18th and was ranked 7th in the field of computer science in "THE World University Rankings Japan 2022" by Times Higher Education , a British education magazine, released on March 25, 2021. This ranking evaluates universities based on 16 indicators in four areas: educational resources, educational enrichment, educational outcomes, and internationalization, and the University of Aizu was ranked second among public universities.
The Vinnytsia National Technical University or VNTU is a higher education institution in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. It has the fourth level of accreditation in the ukrainian education system and ranks among the five top technical universities within the country.
Muhlenberg College is a private liberal arts college in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1848, Muhlenberg College is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and is named for Henry Muhlenberg, the German patriarch of Lutheranism in the United States.
Patan Academy of Health Sciences is an autonomous, not-for-profit, public institution of higher education established in 2064 B.S. with the charter granted by the Parliament of Nepal. The stated aim of the PAHS is to work in close partnership with the national health system to improve the health care services in the remote/rural areas primarily through producing technically competent and socially responsible health care workers. Currently PAHS has been running School of Medicine and School of Nursing and aims to run School of Public Health in near future. PAHS MBBS curriculum focuses on holistic care of individual and community.
Nepalgunj Medical College Teaching Hospital is a major healthcare facility with a 750-bed teaching hospital at Kohalpur and a 250-bed hospital at Nepalgunj, Nepal established in 1996. It provides cath lab facilities for heart patients. The college started the MBBS course in 1997, Nursing program in 2000, and Postgraduate MD/MS in 2007.
Dnipro State Medical University is an establishment of higher education in Ukraine, Dnipro. History Dnipro State Medical University was founded on September 15, 1916, from the Ekaterynoslavsky Higher Female Courses Institute. The institute acquired the status of State Academy in 1920 and it became the Dnepropetrovsk State Medical Academy in Ukraine in 1994, and became State Establishment "Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy of Health Ministry Of Ukraine" in 2015. On March 16, 2021, the government of Ukraine through the Ministry of Health of Ukraine order # 473 ordered the name of the institution ...
The Universidad de La Sabana is a private university in Colombia, supervised by the Colombian Ministry of Education. It was founded on September 21, 1979 by the Asociación para la Enseñanza Aspaen, its predecessor was the INSE "Instituto Superior de Educación", considered one of the first in distance education in the country and Latin America.
Beirut Arab University is a Lebanese private university located in Beirut, Lebanon. It was founded by the Lebanese Waqf El-Bir wal Ihsan Society in 1960. The university attained the International Institutional Accreditation from the Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation - an official international German foundation - registered in the European Quality Assurance Register . The university is ranked 801–1000 in the QS World University Rankings and 40 in Arab Region Rankings for 2022.
Kristal University was an Albanian for-profit privately owned University. It was established in 2005 with decision no. 761 of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Albania and licensed by the Ministry of Education and Science. It was closed in 2014 by the Ministry of Education for failing to comply to legal requirements.
The Trakia University or Thrace University is a Bulgarian university in the city of Stara Zagora. It was named after the historical region of Thrace and was established in 1995. The university organizes training on programs with four educational and qualification degrees: Bachelor, Master and PhD, as well as on programs for qualification and post-graduate training in the system of lifelong education. Whilst the university has been teaching in the local languages for a number of years, it has recently started teaching in English in the majors Medicine and Veterinary Medicine.
Kyiv Medical University is a Ukrainian higher educational institution. Established in 1992, about 3,500 people study at the university. Recognizations As a university with the highest level of accreditation by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, all degrees issued to foreign students are legalized and apostolized by the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Ukraine.
The El Bosque University , is a coeducational, nonsectarian private university located in north Bogotá, Colombia. Founded in 1977, the university currently offers 20 undergraduate programs, as well as several specializations, Master's degrees and Doctorates.
Al-Balqa Applied University is a government-supported university located in Salt, Jordan, was founded in 1997, a distinctive state university in the field of Bachelor and associate degree Applied Education, at the capacity of more than 21,000 student distributed into 10,000 at the bachelor's degree program and 11,000 at the associate degree program.
The Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado is a public university of Venezuela located in Barquisimeto. It was founded in 1962 with the creation of the Centro Experimental de Estudios Superiores , and became the Universidad de la Región Centro Occidental in 1967, before being given its current name in 1979.
B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences , is a Nepalese autonomous health sciences university. It is located in the sub-metropolitan city of Dharan in Sunsari District. The Institute is a Nepal-India cooperation. The Institute serves the health education needs of the eastern region of Nepal at primary, secondary and tertiary levels.
Gomel State Medical University is public teaching university based in Gomel, Belarus. History In 1990 Gomel State Medical University was founded as per resolution of the Council of Ministers and Order of the Minister of Health of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.
The University of Carabobo is an autonomous, public university of Venezuela located in Valencia, Venezuela. It offers graduate and postgraduate studies in different areas. The university offers a lot of green spaces for student recreation, as well architectural art around the faculties, a theater, and two dining halls. There are around 65,000 students, mostly coming from the central part of the country.
Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital are major healthcare with 700 bedded institution in Kathmandu, Nepal established in 1997 by the late Sachey Kumar Pahari. NMC provides medical care and provides medical education in Nepal. Nepal Medical College is located in Jorpati, Kathmandu.
Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University is an institute of higher medical education in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. The university is an accredited Higher Education institution and provides medical education from undergraduate to postgraduate level. The university history started in 1945 and is listed in the WHO Directory of Medical Schools and in the US FAIMER International Medical Education Directory .
The University of Montevideo is a private university in Montevideo, Uruguay. It opened in 1986, and obtained the right to be legally named a university in 1997. It has been ranked as the number one University in Uruguay by the QS World University Rankings four years in a row. As of 2019, the UM reached the TOP 500 in the general rankings according to the international organization.
Janaki Medical College and Teaching Hospital is a medical college located in Dhanusha district near Janakpur Dham. The college operates two hospitals: a smaller 150 bedded hospital at Ramdaiya and a bigger 350+ bedded hospital at Bramhapuri, Janakpur, Nepal. It provides healthcare education in association with Tribhuvan University Institute of Medicine and regulated by Nepal Medical Council. It is managed by Ram Janaki Health Foundation which is registered under the Nepalese company act. The college with established in 2003 with an annual intake of 80 students a year to a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery program.
The Medical University, Sofia is a public university in Sofia, Bulgaria which was founded in 1917. It is the oldest institution for higher medical education in Bulgaria. See also Aleksandrovska University HospitalList of colleges and universities
Medical University - Pleven is one of the four medical universities in Bulgaria. It is the only university in Pleven and was founded in 1974 on the basis of the former regional hospital established in 1865.
Grodno State Medical University is a university in Grodno, Belarus. It specialises in medicine and medical psychology. It is the oldest medical school in Belarus and is considered, according to some international sources, the best medical university in Belarus.
The College of Brown University is the undergraduate school of Brown University, in College Hill, Providence, Rhode Island. Founded in 1764, the College is the university's oldest school and the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States.
The University of Science and Technology – Houari Boumediene is a university located in the town of Bab-Ezzouar from Algiers, Algeria. The university was designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and was inaugurated in 1974.
Fort Worth University was a college in Fort Worth, Texas operated from 1881 until 1911. Founded as Texas Wesleyan College in 1881, and later renamed Fort Worth University in 1889, the university was affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church and was a member of the University Senate of the church. The university was dissolved into the Methodist University of Oklahoma in 1911. As described in the latter university's 1915 "Historical Statement": The Methodist University of Oklahoma is the result of the amalgamation of the Fort Worth University and Epworth University which was brought about ...
Traductorado, or, as it is formally known, Instituto Superior del Traductorado, is a translation school in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was founded on 16 April 1995 in the city of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Traductorado was initially a Translation and Research Department of the New Oxford Institute, which advocated the creation of an official translation degree course in the Province of Buenos Aires.