St. George's University

In the year 1976, St. George's University was discovered  by the  act of Grenada's Parliament. The name was  kept, in the name of its capital.  Charles Modica, Patrick F. Adams, Edward McGowan, and Louis Modica were its original founders. The Classes began on January 17, 1977  at St. George’s School of Medicine. All of the founding faculty members  went for educated either in Europe or the United States of America.

St. George’s University is  a commercial , international,  independent university in Grenada, West Indies, providing degrees in medicine, public health, veterinary medicine,  the health sciences, arts and sciences along with  nursing  and business.

 In the year  1993, the University included  undergraduate and graduate programs. In the year 1996, it was recognized as the School of Arts and Sciences and a Graduate Studies Program. In the year 1997, it included undergraduate courses like  international business, medical sciences,  life sciences, pre-medical and pre-veterinary medicine . In the year 1999 ,  School of Veterinary Medicine was made along with  the University's Department of  Preventive Medicine and Public Health.

In the year 1979,A Marxist coup forcibly changed  the Gairy government of Grenada , as the school was new with a student  of 630.On the island , There were about thousands  Americans including students,  families, faculty, etc.  In the year 1983, The U.S. government begin Operation Urgently as a result, classes and students were   moved  and evacuated to a Long Island in  New Jersey ,New York   and Barbados for a limited period of time.

The reason was to save  American medical students of  St. George’s University by the violent coup that has dethrone the  Prime Minister of Grenada Maurice Bishop . Bishop along with several dozen civilians and a number of members of his government  were killed in the coup and the island was kept in  curfew  under  24-hour. The days instantly after the coup, the only independent information  was from a ham radio which was operated by the  student of St. George’s . President Reagan  in his autobiography told that the  return of the St. George’s students  to the U.S. was an event that touched  him deeply.President Reagan told that he   was among many in his  country whose eyes went  a little misty  when he looked their arrival in the USA on television and saw some of them on their  knees  kissing the  American soil at the time  they stepped off the air plane.

In March of the year 2013,  SGU was searching for  a partner who was interested in helping them  expand the university .In August  of the year 2014 ,they got  a $750 Million investment .

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Strayer University

Strayer University 



In the year 1892, Dr. Siebert Irving Strayer thought to open  a college and founded Strayer's Business College in Baltimore located at  Maryland . Strayer started  the college with the objective to provide knowledge of business  to  the former farm workers that  includes typing , shorthand  and accounting. During the  1st  decade of  its operations, involvement  at the school suddenly increased,  tantalizing  students from other states, and in the year 1904 Strayer opened one of its  branch of school at the capital of the country.

After the passage of the Revenue Act in the year  1913 , demand for trained accountants grew  and World War I increased the need of government clerks having office skills as enrolment further expanded . During the year 1930's, Washington D.C.'s board of education provided the college authority  to grant respective  degrees in accountancy .Strayer Junior College was founded by  the school  in the year 1959, when it got   the right to grant two-year degrees. In the year 1969, the college got the approval  to  four-year Bachelor of Arts degrees and was named  as Strayer College.

Strayer University is a commercial  institution for higher education  in the United States. The university provides  on-line learning programs to about 40,000 students. The university offers graduate and undergraduate degrees in subjects like accounting and such as accounting,education, business administration, criminal justice,  health services administration,public administration ,  and information technology  and also specializes   working adults in degree programs .  In the year 1892, It was founded as Strayer's Business College and before being approved  as university  in the year 1998  it became Strayer College . Middle States Commission of  Higher Education  recognized the Strayer University .

The university gives special attention to working adult students on providing higher education  and its campus locations and class schedules   are made  easily available for this group. The university offers  courses which are  based on practical and business, including courses in information technology  and  business  administration .

To study at Strayer University for undergraduate degree programs, student must have  a high school diploma or its equivalent.But for graduate degrees programs other than the Executive MBA, students   must have   a bachelor's degree from a recognized  college. Graduate applicant  must meet at least one of the mentioned criteria:  undergraduate must have a 2.75 grade point average during  senior   and   junior years of the degree;   Graduate must have a minimum score of 450 in Management Admission Test. For the Executive MBA program,students must have   a minimum grade point average of 3.0   from an recognized  university, completion of an admission application   and  five years of management experience  .

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The University of Derby

Derby University 

The University of Derby  or simply Derby College is a non-private university in the city of Derby, England. Derby university has it's own  history,if we look  back in it's history then it was established as   the Training  Institution for Schoolmistresses  known as  Derby Diocesan Institution in 1851 and achieved the label of university  in  the year 1992 as one of the new universities.

At undergraduate level, the university offers  about 300 study program-mes including  short courses, postgraduate degrees and  foundation degrees  that cover most academic sub-disciplines and disciplines.

The  union  after 1977 and  succeeding formation of one of it's  College with Higher Education, four other educational institutions  added  their  relevant  field-related talents. The college held its first graduation ceremony  in March 1981  along with formal academic gowns  and  caps being sign by the CNAA  with  only six degrees out of 156 courses .  In the previous year  the college's degrees were awarded in a ceremony  held at the  Nottingham  University.

England teacher training college a traditional Church known as  Matlock College of Education  at Rock side Hall  was   formed in 1946  joined  with Lonsdale in 1983 to make  the Derbyshire College of Higher Education because  the Matlock College was having financial difficulties due to which   funding for teacher training was going  down along with  school numbers dropping. In the year 1985, this   Matlock college was scaled down significantly and shut  in  the year 1986. In the year 1991,Matlock college  united with the Southern Derbyshire School of Occupational Therapy . The same thing happen to the Southern Derbyshire School of Radiography   in  the year 1992.


Around 22,000 students this  university is  a home in all areas of study  Currently.

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ASH FORD UNIVERSITY

ASH FORD UNIVERSITY

Ash-ford University is a commercial university located in San Diego, California.At first there was no any  Ash-ford University,the Mount St. Clare Academy  a boarding  day school for girls  was established in the year 1893. Later on  the idea for this school came when Father James A. Murray called the Sisters of St. Francis to help him teach in Clinton, Iowa. The building for new Mount St. Clare school  was constructed  in the year 1910 and stays  in use till today.

The sisters saw the need of  higher education in Clinton County and the area surrounding it,  founded Mount St. Clare College in  the year 1918.In the year 1932 to 1954 ,this liberal arts institution was  confirmed  teacher education college .The University provides master's, associate's and  bachelor's,  degrees through campus and online in more than 50 degree programs  .Many student are  interested  in online courses,the University in Clinton, Iowa also have the capacity of nearly 1,000  students in  their campus area . 

 The University's headquarters in San Diego, California manages online courses where  many of students are listed . Ash-ford's traditional campus  building is situated  in Clinton, Iowa.The Highway 30 in north and  the Mississippi River  is  about a mile (1,600 m)  and about a half mile (800 m) from the 24-acre (9.7 ha) campus . The St. Clare Hall is the most notable building on campus that  has well served as the Mount St. Clare Academy, Convent,College and  Novitiate. In St. Clare Hall house   the lower floors contains administrative and support staff, whereas  the upper floors contain classrooms.

The  Educational Center have its own  Arena, the animation lab and the athletics department . The newly renovated  In Lad Science Building there is  chemistry, microbiology ,biology , biochemistry  and research  labs.A residence hall has been made  by  the university by purchasing  Best Western hotel for use recently  . This hall is the combination of  both Durham and Reg-is Halls  known as the   B-W conduct  in providing shelter for  the  students  of  campus. An article in a  Post criticized the buying of property  from a local country club and explained  how "a new, 500-seat football stadium bought even though no football team  decorates  the campus".

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The University of Sydney

The University of Sydney or  Sydney University is a public university of  Sydney in  Australia.It was  founded in  the year 1850.It is the  first university of  Australia and is recognized  as one of it's most prestigious university, ranking  27th position in the world's most reputable university. In the year  2013, this university  ranked  in 37th position and  in World University Ranking  it stood in  the top 0.3%. The University of Sydney have been affiliated with Seven Nobel  laureates   as faculty  and graduates. According to the British Daily Telegraph Sydney University's campus  ranked in the top 10  most beautiful universities of the world. This University contents 16 schools and  faculties that provides  doctoral ,bachelor's and  master's degrees. In  the year 2011 it had  taught 16,627 graduate  and   32,393 undergraduate students.



The university's Student life can be focused through the main campus as students run  the University of Sydney Union having   three buildings –  Holmes Buildings,Went-worth and  Manning . These buildings occupies a large part  of the university's catering outlets, and gives space for recreational rooms,function centers  and bars. One of the most grand  event  organised by the Union is the Orientation program on the Front Lawns centering   stalls setups by societies  and  clubs.

The university is presently undertaking a large capital works program to  revitalizing the campus and giving more teaching , office and student space. This program will look the mixture of the  technical libraries   and  smaller science   into a bigger library, and the construction of a student services building and central administration   alongside  City Road.In late 2006 a new building for the School of Information Technologies  was opened  and has been positioned on the  adjacent  site   of  the Seymour Center. A pedestrian plaza has been made by  transforming the busy Eastern Avenue thoroughfare   and a new footbridge has been constructed over City Road. The new building for the Sydney Law School and Stephen Roberts buildings has been finished.

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The University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge or simply "Cambridge" is a  university  of public research  in Cambridge, England. Cambridge, the 2nd oldest university in the world of English-speaking was founded in the year 1209 and the world's 4th oldest long lasting university.The University of Cambridge formed by the association of scholars leaving the University of Oxford after a  argument with townsfolk.The two "ancient universities" have many things in common  and are often jointly known as "Ox-bridge".

The University of Cambridge is  location at the center  of  the city of Cambridge, with the students  occupying  about  nearly 20% of a significant proportion of the town's population and steadily  misshape the age structure.Most of the older colleges are located nearby the river Cam and city center.The notable buildings in  the University of Cambridge  are King's College Chapel,the Crisps Building at St John's College  and James Stirling  designed building "history faculty". The brickwork of many  colleges is also notable.The brick walls of St John's College provide examples of English bond [43] and Queens' College contains "some of the earliest patterned brickwork in the country" .



The colleges are self-governing institutions having  their own property and endowments, founded as important  parts of the university.Most academics  and all students are connected to a college. Their importance lies in the undergraduate teaching,housing, social functions and welfare  they provide. All laboratories,faculties, research centers and departments are part  of the university, which handles awards degrees and  lectures, but undergraduates gets their supervisions—small-group teaching sessions, by only one student from the colleges. Each college have to appoint their own teaching staff and fellows, who are part of a university department. The colleges select which undergraduates to acknowledge to the university according  to their  university regulations.


The academic year is separated into  3 academic terms according to the Statutes of the University.Michaelmas term proceeds from October to December; Lent term proceeds from January to March; and Easter term proceeds  from April to June.

The University of Cambridge has teaching faculties  and research departments in many academic disciplines. All research and lectures are organized by University Departments. The colleges are in charge of arranging or giving  most guidance, funding  and student accommodation in most extracurricular activities.At the time of 1990's Cambridge  University added a considerable number of new specialist in laboratories of research  on many University sites.The University of Cambridge also has a research partnership with  the United States MIT Institute.

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The University Of Oxford

The University of Oxford or simply Oxford  is known as the  university of  research  located in Oxford, England.No one knows the date of  it's foundation but there is  an evidence of teaching existed from  1096,making it the university of ancient time in the  world of English-speaking, and the world's 2nd oldest long lasting university.

The University does not have a main campus though it is a "city  university" ;instead departments ,colleges,  accommodation, and other facilities are  widely spaced  all over  the city center. The Science Area where  most science departments are situated, is the area that holds closest similarity  to a campus.  Radcliffe Observatory Quarter which is scattered over the ten-acre (4 hectare) in the northwest of the city is currently under development.

According to  most British universities, expected students should apply through the undergraduate  course at study application system; but expected applicants for the University of Oxford, together with those students for dentistry,medicine and University of Cambridge applicants  must  perceive 15 October earlier    deadline.

For  more personalized judgement of students that  might  apply for both Oxford and Cambridge in the same year is not allowed. Only exceptions  applicants those applying to read for a second undergraduate degree are permitted.

Most applicants choose to apply for the individual colleges, which work with each other to make sure that the best students achieves  a place somewhere at the University regardless of their college priority.Shortlisting  of the students is based on  the achieved and  exam results and in some subjects,candidate-submitted written work  or written admission tests . About 60% of applicants are shortlisted, although this differs by subject. 

If there is  large number of shortlisted applicants for a subject selects same college, then students who selected  that college may be reallocated randomly to  the under-subscribed colleges for that  subject. The colleges then invite shortlisted students  for interview, where they are facilitate with  food and accommodation for almost three days in December. According to  academics ,most applicants will be individually interviewed in many college. Interviews can be   taken over the Internet for the students from outside  Europe .

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