Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, TAMU (/ˈtæmuː/), or A&M) is a coeducational open examination college situated in College Station, Texas, United States. It is the leader organization of the Texas A&M University System, the fourth-biggest college in the United States and the biggest college in Texas. Texas A&M's assignment as an area, ocean, and space gift organization mirrors a scope of exploration with progressing tasks supported by offices, for example, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Office of Naval Research. The school positions in the main 20 American exploration foundations in financing and has made commitments to such fields as creature cloning and petroleum designing. 

The main open organization of advanced education in Texas, the school opened on October 4, as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas under the procurements of the Morrill Land-Grant Acts. Initially, the school taught no classes in farming, rather focusing on established studies, dialects, writing, and connected science. Following four years, understudies could accomplish degrees in exploratory horticulture, common and mining designing, and dialect and writing. Under the initiative of President es Earl Rudder in the 1960s, A&M integrated, got to be coeducational, and dropped the necessity for cooperation in the Corps of Cadets. To mirror the foundation's extended parts and scholastic offerings, the Texas Legislature renamed the school to Texas A&M University in 1963. The letters "A&M", initially another way to say "Horticultural and Mechanical", are held just as a connection to the college's past. The school's understudies, graduated class, and games groups are known as Aggies. 

The primary grounds is one of the biggest in the United States, spreading over 5,200 sections of land (21 km2), and incorporates the George Bush Presidential Library. Around one-fifth of the understudy body lives on grounds. Texas A&M has roughly 1,000 authoritatively perceived understudy associations. Numerous understudies likewise watch the customs of Texas A&M University, which oversee every day life, and additionally exceptional events, including games occasions. On July 1, 2012, the school joined the Southeastern Conference. A&M works two branches: Texas A&M at Qatar and Texas A&M University at Galveston. Working with offices, for example, the Texas AgriLife Research and Texas AgriLife Extension Service, Texas A&M has an immediate vicinity in each of the 254 regions in Texas. The college offers degrees in more than 150 courses of study through ten schools and houses 18 exploration foundations. Texas A&M has honored more than 320,000 degrees, including 70,000 graduate and expert degrees. 

As a Senior Military College, Texas A&M is one of six American state funded colleges with a full-time, volunteer Corps of Cadets who study close by regular citizen college understudi

University of Tokyo

The University of Tokyo (東京大学 Tōkyō daigaku?), truncated as Todai (東大 Tōdai?), is an exploration college situated in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. The college has 10 resources with a sum of around 30,000 understudies, 2,100 of whom are remote. Its five grounds are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. It is the first of Japan's National Seven Universities. It positions as the most elevated in Asia and 21st on the planet as per the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2014. The University of Tokyo is broadly thought to be the most prestigious college in Japan. 

History 

The college was contracted by the Meiji government in 1877 under its present name by amalgamating more established government schools for pharmaceutical and Western learning. It was renamed "the Imperial University (帝國大學 Teikoku daigaku?)" in 1886, and after that Tokyo Imperial University (東京帝國大學 Tōkyō teikoku daigaku?) in 1897 when the Imperial University framework was made. In September 1923, a tremor and the accompanying flames demolished around 700,000 volumes of the Imperial University Library. The books lost incorporated the Hoshino Library (星野文庫 Hoshino bunko?), a gathering of around 10,000 books. The books were the previous belonging of Hoshino Hisashi before turning out to be a piece of the library of the college and were for the most part about Chinese theory and history. 

In 1947, after Japan's thrashing in World War II, it re-accepted its unique name. With the begin of the new college framework in 1949, Todai gobbled up the previous First Higher School (today's Komaba grounds) and the previous Tokyo Higher School, which thereupon expected the obligation of showing first-and second-year students, while the resources on Hongo primary grounds dealt with third-and fourth-year understudies. 

In spite of the fact that the college was established amid the Meiji period, it has prior roots in the Astronomy Agency (天文方; 1684), Shoheizaka Study Office (昌平坂学問所; 1797), and the Western Books Translation Agency (蕃書和解御用; 1811). These organizations were government workplaces set up by the 徳川幕府 Tokugawa shogunate (1603–1867), and assumed an essential part in the importation and interpretation of books from Europe. 

Kikuchi Dairoku, a critical figure in Japanese instruction, served as president of Tokyo Imperial University. 

For the 1964 Summer Olympics, the college facilitated the running part of the cutting edge pentathlon occasion. 

On 20 January 2012, Todai reported that it would move the start of its scholarly year from April to September to adjust its schedule to the universal standard. The movement would be staged in more than five years. 

As indicated by the Japan Times, the college had 1,282 teachers in February 2012. Of those, 58 were ladies. 

In the fall of 2012 and interestingly, the University of Tokyo began two undergrad programs altogether taught in English and intended for global understudies — Programs in English at Komaba (PEAK) — the Internatio

University of Tulsa

The University of Tulsa (TU) is a private college situated in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. The college is truly partnered with the Presbyterian Church. The college offers programs in law, English, software engineering, normal sciences, Clinical and Industrial/Organizational Psychology, and building orders. Its workforce incorporates the well known Russian artist Yevgeny Yevtushenko, analyst Robert Hogan, political researcher Robert Donaldson. The grounds' configuration is prevalently English Gothic, and the college deals with the Gilcrease Museum, which incorporates one of the biggest accumulations of American Western craftsmanship on the planet. 

TU's athletic groups are on the whole known as the Tulsa Golden Hurricane and contend in Division I of the NCAA as individuals from the American Athletic Conference (The American). 

History 

The Presbyterian School for Girls (otherwise called "Minerva Home") was established in Muskogee, Indian Territory to offer an essential instruction to Creek young ladies. In 1894, it was extended to wind up Henry Kendall College, named out of appreciation for Reverend Henry Kendall, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions. The principal president was William A. Caldwell, who served until 1896. He was succeeded by William Robert King. Kendall College, while still in Muskogee, allowed the first post-auxiliary degree in Oklahoma in June 1898. Under King, the school was moved from its unique area in downtown Muskogee to a bigger grounds on terrains gave by Pleasant Porter. The opening of the new grounds concurred with the begin of the residency of the third president, A. Stipend Evans. Throughout the following ten years, Evans supervised the battling school. In many years, class sizes stayed little and despite the fact that the Academy, the connected basic, center, and secondary school was more fruitful; before the end of the 1906/07 year Kendall College had just 27 university graduates. At the solicitation of the organization, the Synod of Indian Territory accepted control as trustees and took a gander at options for the eventual fate of the school. At the point when the organization was drawn nearer by the similarly littler town of Tulsa and offered an opportunity to move, the choice was made to migrate. 

The Tulsa Commercial Club (a herald of the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce) chose to offer for the school. Club individuals who bundled an offer in 1907 to move the school to Tulsa included: B. Betters, H. O. McClure, L. N. Butts, W. L. North, James H. Lobby (sic), Grant C. Stebbins, Rev. Charles W. Kerr, C. H. Nicholson. The offer included $100,000, 20 sections of land of land and a surety for utilities and road auto administration. 

The school opened to thirty-five understudies in September 1907, two months before Oklahoma turned into a state. These first understudies went to classes at the First Presbyterian Church until perpetual structures could be raised on the new grounds. This turned into the begin of advanced education in Tulsa. Kendall Hall, the first building of the new school, was finished in 1908 and was immediately trailed by two different structures. Each of the three structures have following been obliterated, with Kendall the last to be wrecked in 1972. The ringer that once hung in the Kendall Building tower was spared and showed in Bayless Plaza. 

The Kendall College presidents amid 1907–1919 were: Arthur Grant Evans, Levi Harrison Beeler, Seth Reed Gordon, Frederick William Hawley, Ralph J. Sheep, Charles Evans, James G. McMurtry and Arthur L. Odell. 

In 1918, the Methodist Church proposed constructing a school in Tulsa, utilizing cash gave by Tulsa oilman Robert M. McFarlin. The proposed school was to be named McFarlin College. Nonetheless, it was soon evident that Tulsa couldn't bolster two such schools. In 1920, Henry Kendall College converged with the proposed McFarlin College to end up The University of Tulsa. The McFarlin Library of TU was named for the main giver of the proposed school. The name of Henry Kendall has lived on to the present as the Henry Kendall College of Arts and Scienc

University of Sydney

The University of Sydney (regularly alluded to as Sydney University, Sydney Uni, USYD, or Sydney) is an Australian open examination college in Sydney. Established in 1850, it is Australia's first college and is viewed as one of its most prestigious, positioned as the world's 27th most trustworthy college. In 2015, it was positioned 45th in the QS World University Rankings. Also, Sydney graduates have been positioned the most employable in Australia and fourteenth most employable on the planet, in the main 0.1%. Five Nobel and two Crafoord laureates have been partnered with the college as graduates and staff. Its grounds is positioned in the main 10 of the world's most wonderful colleges by the British Daily Telegraph and The Huffington Post, spreading over the inward city rural areas of Camperdown and Darlington. 

The college involves 16 resources and schools, through which it offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. In 2011 it had 32,393 undergrad and 16,627 graduate understudies. 

Sydney University is an individual from the prestigious Group of Eight, Academic Consortium 21, the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), the Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning, the Australia-Africa Universities Network (AAUN), the Association of Commonwealth Universities and the Worldwide Universities Network. The University is additionally conversationally known as one of Australia's sandstone colleges. 

History 

In 1848, in the New South Wales Legislative Council, William Wentworth, an alum of the University of Cambridge and Charles Nicholson, a therapeutic graduate from the University of Edinburgh Medical School, proposed an arrangement to extend the current Sydney College into a bigger college. Wentworth contended that a state college was basic for the development of a general public yearning towards self-government, and that it would give the chance to "the offspring of each class, to end up incredible and helpful in the predeterminations of his nation". It would take two endeavors for Wentworth's sake, be that as it may, before the arrangement was at last received. 

The college was built up by means of the entry of the University of Sydney Act, on 24 September 1850 and was consented on 1 October 1850 by Sir Charles Fitzroy. After two years, the college was initiated on 11 October 1852 in the Big Schoolroom of what is currently Sydney Grammar School. The main vital was John Woolley, the first educator of science and test material science was John Smith. On 27 February 1858 the college got its Royal Charter from Queen Victoria, giving degrees gave by the college rank and acknowledgment equivalent to those given by colleges in the United Kingdom. By 1859, the college had moved to its present site in the Sydney suburb of Camperdown. 

In 1858, the section of the discretionary demonstration accommodated the college to end up an electorate for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly when there were 100 alumni of the college holding higher degrees qualified for appointment. This seat in the Parliament of New South Wales was initially filled in 1876, however was canceled in 1880 one year after its second part, Edmund Barton, who later turned into the first Prime Minister of Australia, was chosen to the Legislative Assembly. 

A large portion of the home of John Henry Challis was passed on to the college, which got a total of £200,000 in 1889. This was thanks to a limited extent because of William Montagu Manning (Chancellor 1878–95) who contended against the cases by British Tax Commissioners. The next year seven residencies were made: life systems; zoology; designing; history; law; rationale and mental reasoning; and present day writi

University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia, regularly alluded to as UBC, is an open examination college with grounds and offices in British Columbia, Canada. Established in 1908 as the McGill University College of British Columbia, the University got to be autonomous and embraced its present name in 1915. It is the most seasoned organization of higher learning in British Columbia and enlists more than 58,000 understudies at its Vancouver and Okanagan Valley grounds. UBC's 4.02 km2 (993-section of land) Vancouver grounds is situated inside of the University Endowment Lands, around 10 km (6 mi) west of Downtown Vancouver. The 2.09 km2 (516-section of land) Okanagan grounds, procured in 2005, is situated in Kelowna. 

The University offers degrees and recognitions in more than 300 fields of study, and in 2014 allowed 12,421 degrees. Most understudies are selected in five bigger Faculties, specifically Arts, Science, Medicine, Applied Science and the Sauder School of Business. UBC shows high research movement, and with an exploration spending plan esteemed at $564 million, stores 8,442 activities starting 2014. UBC is the home of a few remarkable grants, including the Schulich Scholarship for STEM handle, the Donald A. Wehrung International Student Award for researchers from war-torn nations, and the International Leader of Tomorrow Award for exceptional universal researchers. 

One the biggest exploration libraries in Canada, the UBC Library framework contains more than seven million volumes among its 21 branches and is viewed as a standout amongst the most productive in North America. Since 1968, UBC is home to TRIUMF, which is Canada's national research center for molecule and atomic material science and houses the world's biggest cyclotron. Different offices are additionally among the best in their class, for example, the Chan Center for the Performing Arts, viewed as one of North America's head performing expressions focuses, the Beaty Biodiversity Museum, which contains more than 2 million things in its gathering, and the Museum of Anthropology, which houses more than 535,000 antiquities. 

The University is reliably positioned among the three most trustworthy in Canada, among the main 25 in North America, and among the main 50 around the world. UBC additionally positions among the 20 best state funded colleges on the planet, and as indicated by Macleans has the second most astounding normal undergrad entering evaluation among Canadian colleges. Personnel, graduated class, and analysts have won seven Nobel Prizes, 69 Rhodes Scholarships, 65 Olympic decorations, 195 partnerships to the Royal Society of Canada. The University has likewise taught three Canadian PMs, most as of late Justin Trudeau, the occupant. 

Establishment and early years 

" The University might... accommodate: Such direction in all branches of liberal instruction as may empower understudies to end up capable in... science, business, expressions, writing, law, drug, and all different branches of knowledge " 

In 1877, just six years after British Columbia joined Canada, Superintendent of Education John Jessop presented a proposition for the arrangement of a commonplace college. An Act Respecting the University of British Columbia was gone by the common governing body in 1890, yet contradictions emerged about whether to fabricate the college on Vancouver Island or the territory. A commonplace college was formally called into being by the British Columbia University Act of 1908, in spite of the fact that its area was not yet determined. The administration was displayed on the common University of Toronto Act of 1906 which set up a bicameral arrangement of college government comprising of a senate (workforce), in charge of scholastic strategy, and a leading body of governors (residents) practicing select control over monetary approach and having formal power in every single other matter. The president, designated by the board, was to give a connection between the two bodies and to perform institutional authority. The Act constituted a twenty-one part senate with Francis Carter-Cotton of Vancouver as Chancellor. 

Prior to the University Act, there had been a few endeavors at setting up a degree-allowing college with help from the Universities of Toronto and McGill. Columbian College in New Westminster, through its alliance with Victoria College of the University of Toronto, started to offer college level credit when the new century rolled over, yet it was McGill that would come to rule advanced education in the mid 1900s. 

Expanding on an effective connection in the middle of Vancouver and Victoria secondary schools with McGill University, Henry Marshall Tory built up the McGill University College of British Columbia. From 1906 to 1915 McGill BC (as it was called) worked as a private organization giving the initial couple of years toward a degree at McGill University or somewhere else. The Henry Marshall Tory Medal was set up in 1941 by Tory, establishing President of the University of Alberta and of the National Research Council of Canada, and a fellow benefactor of Carleton Universit

Lycée Louis-le-Grand

The Lycée Louis-le-Grand (French elocution: ​[lise lwi lə ɡʁɑ̃]) is an open optional school situated in Paris, broadly viewed as a standout amongst the most prestigious in France. Established in 1550 as the Collège de Clermont, it was renamed in King Louis XIV of France's honor after he extended his immediate support to it in 1682. It offers both a 6th structure school educational programs (as a lycée with 800 understudies), and a post-optional level educational modules (classes préparatoires with 900 understudies), planning understudies for access to the tip top Grandes Écoles, (for example, the École Normale Supérieure, the École Polytechnique, Centrale Paris, HEC Paris or ESSEC Business School). Understudies at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand are called magnoludoviciens. 

Louis-le-Grand, established in 1563, is situated in the heart of the Quartier Latin, the conventional understudy's territory of Paris. Rich ever, structural engineering, culture, this range is home to a portion of the most established and most prestigious instructive foundations in France including the Sorbonne and the Collège de France. The lycée is arranged near the spot du Panthéon, which is the area of its verifiable adversary, the Lycée Henri-IV. These two lycées are home to the most established preliminary classes in France, which are generally seen as the most particular in the nation. 

As a result of this, Louis-le-Grand is considered to assume a critical part in the training of French elites. A large portion of its previous students have ended up statesmen, ambassadors, prelates, marshals of France, individuals from the Académie française, and men and ladies of letters. "The Jesuit College of Paris", composed Élie de Beaumont in 1862, "has for quite a while been a state nursery, the most rich in incredible men". In fact, previous understudies have included authors Molière, Voltaire, Victor Hugo and Charles Baudelaire, progressives Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins, previous French presidents Raymond Poincaré, Paul Deschanel, Alexandre Millerand, Alain Poher, Georges Pompidou, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Jacques Chirac and also numerous different clergymen and head administrators, scholars, for example, Denis Diderot, Emile Durkheim, Jean-Paul Sartre and Jacques Derrida, researchers Évariste Galois, Henri Poincaré and Laurent Schwartz, and craftsmen Eugène Delacroix, Edgar Degas and Georges Méliès. Prestigious outside understudies of the lycée incorporate King Nicholas I of Montenegro, Léopold Sédar S

CEGEP (/seɪˈʒɛp/say-zhep or/ˈsiːdʒɛp/see-jep; French: Cégep; likewise CÉGEP, Cegep or Cégep) is an openly financed pre‑university school in the territory of Quebec's instruction framework. Initially a French acronym for Collège d'enseignement général et professionnel, once in a while referred to in English as a "General and Vocational College", it is currently viewed as a word in itself. It alludes to people in general post-auxiliary instruction university organizations elite to the training framework in the area of Quebec in Canada. It is a loanword from French. 

Albeit all schools in Quebec are conversationally alluded to as CEGEPs, just open universities are authoritatively alluded to by that name. Both open (CEGEPs) and private schools have the same capacity in Quebec. Despite the fact that they might periodically be contrasted with junior schools or junior colleges, CEGEPs vary in that a Diploma of College Studies (or Diplôme d'études collégiales, DEC) is required for college confirmation in Quebec unless an understudy enters as a developed understudy which regularly implies a base age of 21 with different necessities. Pre-college projects are commonly two years in length of time, which clarifies why optional school and college degrees are both one year shorter in Quebec in respect to somewhere else in Canada. An understudy in Quebec can't enter college with an auxiliary confirmation from Quebec alone. 

The motivation behind a different university training level is to make post-optional instruction more available in Quebec, and additionally to give appropriate scholarly planning to college. There are both open financed and private universities, with people in general CEGEPs having next to zero educational cost charge. 

A result of the Quiet Revolution, the CEGEP framework was begun in 1967 by the Quebec common government and initially comprised of 12 CEGEPs. Today, 48 CEGEPs exist in Quebec, of which 5 are English dialect medium. There are additionally College Centers (Center d'études collégiales), little open post-auxiliary training schools fundamentally the same to CEGEPs, regularly optional remain solitary grounds of CÉGEPs, similar to the Center d'études collégiales à Chibougamau, some portion of the Cégep de Saint-Félicien. 

Instruction way 

Understudies in the territory of Quebec who expect to seek after post-optional training must go to a school before selecting in a Quebec college. Understudies who take after a general studies program in Quebec complete six years of elementary school (grades 1 through 6), trailed by five years of optional school (called grades 7 through 11 or auxiliary 1 to Secondary 5 in English, however just called Secondaire I to Secondaire V in French). Quebec understudies complete one evaluation less altogether than all other North American understudies before starting post-auxiliary studies, finishing secondary school at evaluation 11 rather than evaluation 12. School then gets ready understudies for college or to enter a specialized calling. Most Quebec undergrad projects are three years long for Quebec understudies; subsequently, the aggregate number of years of study from grade school through a four year college education is the same as in whatever is left of North America. It is additionally conceivable to go to a college subsequent to acquiring a professional school confirmation, as they are normally treated by colleges in the same way as 2-year school certificates (partner degree). 

Understudies wishing to proceed with their college instruction outside Quebec must take one year of courses to satisfy the necessities of the establishment to which they are applying. For instance, understudies wishing to go to an Ontario college may finish one year of school and apply as a standard candidate who has finished evaluation 12 in Ontario. Furthermore, understudies who have a College Diploma from a Quebec school may apply for affirmation with one year of cutting edge remaining to organizations outside Quebec, as some cutting-edge courses at the school level may be surveyed as proportional t