Liverpool John Moores University

Liverpool John Moores University
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Liverpool John Moores University (brevis: LJMU is a attainable assay university in the city-limits of Liverpool, England with added than 24,000 accepting — 20,410 undergraduate accepting and 4,270 postgraduate students, authentic it the bigger university in Liverpool by amateur citizenry – as able as accepting the twentieth bigger in the United Kingdom. The university can trace its origins to the Liverpool Mechanics' School of Arts, acclimatized in 1823 authentic it a antagonist as the third-oldest university in England; this afterwards adulterated to become Liverpool Polytechnic. In 1992, after an Act of Parliament the Liverpool Polytechnic became what is now Liverpool John Moores University.[ It is a associate of the University Alliance, a mission accession of British universities which was acclimatized in 2007. and the European University Association.


History
Origins
Originally founded as a babyish mechanics academy (Liverpool Mechanics' School of Arts) in 1823, the academy grew over the centuries by advancing and amalgamating with adapted colleges afore eventually adequate Liverpool Polytechnic. The University aswell has a connected history of accouterment training, apprenticeship and assay to the amphibian industry, dating ashamed to the accession of the Liverpool Nautical College in 1892.

The academy afresh became a university below the acceding of the Further and Higher Apprenticeship Act 1992 below the new appellation of "Liverpool John Moores University". This new appellation was acclimatized by the Privy Council on 15 September 1992. The university took its name from Sir John Moores, the artisan of the Littlewoods empire. Moores was a abounding accepter in the apperception of befalling for all, which embodies the actualization of LJMU in accouterment educational routes for bodies of all ages and from all backgrounds. This accepting led Sir John Moores to beforehand in the academy and facilities, such as the John Foster Building (housing the Liverpool Business School), brash by and declared afterwards able artisan John Foster With the institution's backgrounds dating ashamed as far as 1823, abounding of the university barrio date ashamed also, with aesthetically ambrosial Georgian and Victorian barrio activate on a few of the campuses.

Present day
The James Parsons Building at LJMU's City-limits Campus
LJMU now has added than 24,000 students[citation needed]. LJMU was awarded the Queen's Ceremony Prize in 2005.

Currently, Liverpool John Moores University is accepting added applications than avant-garde seen; according to abstracts in 2009, the complete bulk of applications submitted to LJMU was 27,784.

On 14 April 2008, Dr Brian May CBE was inducted into the university as the fourth Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University. Dr May is aswell the beforehand guitarist for the basement cast Queen. He replaced attainable Chancellor Cherie Booth QC, wife of aloft Prime Minister Tony Blair. Honorary admiral in actualization at the celebration included Sir Patrick Moore and Pete Postlethwaite. May was succeeded as Chancellor in 2013 by Sir Brian Leveson.

LJMU is a founding associate of the Northern Consortium, an educational charity, ancient by eleven universities in the chill of England. Alongside LJMU, this accession was co founded by The University of Bradford, The University of Huddersfield, Leeds Metropolitan University, The University of Leeds, The University of Liverpool, Manchester Metropolitan University, The University of Manchester, The University of Salford, Sheffield Hallam University and The University of Sheffield.

Campuses
The university is based primarily on three campuses:
City Campus, accommodation barrio from abounding commonsense in and about Liverpool city-limits centre
Mount Pleasant Campus, abutting to the city-limits centre, home to the adeptness of Business and Law
I M Marsh Campus, in Aigburth accommodation the Education, Community and Leisure faculty
Academic profile
Faculties
Liverpool Business School
Liverpool School of Art and Design
School of Natural Sciences and Psychology
The university is organised into four commonsense (which are ceremony aperture into schools or centres), a lot of of the commonsense are based at a authentic campus website however, with abounding accumulated honours degrees and some accustomed degrees, the commonsense overlap acceptation students' degrees are from both faculties. The four commonsense are:
Adroitness of Arts, Professional and Social Studies
Liverpool Business School
Liverpool School of Art and Design
Liverpool Screen School
School of Humanities and Social Science
School of Law
Adroitness of Education, Health and Community
Centre for Attainable Health
School of Education, Leisure and Sport Studies
School of Nursing and Allied Health
School of Teacher Apprenticeship and Professional Learning
Adroitness of Science
Astrophysics Assay Institute
School of Natural Sciences and Psychology
School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences
School of Sport and Exercise Sciences
Adroitness of Technology and Environment
School of the Built Environment
School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
School of Engineering, Technology and Amphibian Operations
Teaching
In Engineering the Times Good University adviser ante Liverpool John Moores University at 23rd in the UK for Mechanical Engineering and 17th for General Engineering[citation needed].
LJMU is aswell one of the UK's top universities for teaching and assay in Sports and Exercise Sciences The Higher Apprenticeship Funding Council for England (HEFCE) awarded LJMU £4.5 amateur over 5 years for the achievement of a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL)[citation needed]. The CETL approval recognises LJMU's annual for Physical Education, Dance, Sport and Exercises Sciences. LJMU is the abandoned United Kingdom university to be awarded an Ofsted Grade A in Physical Apprenticeship and it is aswell the able academy for both teaching and assay in Sport and Exercise Sciences.
LJMU was aswell declared (ahead of the University of Liverpool and Liverpool Hope University) to buck the bookish accessory of a borough adjustment declared the New Entrepreneurs Scholarship, which is authentic by Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and The Prince's Trust[citation needed

Research
Mount Pleasant Campus Centre
According to the UK Assay Appraisement Exercise 2014 (RAE 2014), LJMU every aggregation of appraisement we submitted was rated as at diminutive 45% internationally able or better.
Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 key LJMU results
• LJMU demonstrates World-leading assay in 77% of submitted disciplines (ie. 13 out of 17 UoAs acquire 4* research) • On the abject of the admeasurement of World-leading and internationally able (4*+3*) research, LJMU is ranked 61st of the 128 UK universities that submitted added than a alone UoA • LJMU assay appulse is rated as internationally able in all answerable areas • All 17 UoAs acquire internationally able assay and 96% of LJMU assay submitted to REF 2014 is of all-embracing above or bigger • LJMU has about angled the admeasurement of activity rated internationally able or aloft (34% in RAE2008 to 66% in REF2014) • 72% of the institution’s assay appulse activity is rated as internationally able or world-leading • Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism able 97% of assay activity 3* & 4* all-embracing • The University added than angled the accumulated of 4* (world-leading) activity (from 8% in RAE2008 to 18% in REF2014) .

The University of Edinburgh

The Assay Excellence Framework, a assay baronial acclimated by the UK government to activate abutting assay funding, ranked Edinburgh 4th in the UK for assay power. It is ranked 12th in the angel in arts and abstruse by the 2014–15 Times Higher Education Ranking. It is ranked the 15th a lot of accessible university in the angel by the 2013 Global Employability University Ranking. It is ranked as the 6th best university in Europe by the U.S. News' Best Global Universities Ranking. It is a associate of both the Russell Group, and the League of European Assay Universities, a agglomeration of 21 assay universities in Europe. It has the third bigger accolade of any university in the United Kingdom, afterwards the universities of Cambridge and Oxford.

The University of Edinburgh (abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals), founded in 1582, is the sixth-oldest university in the English-speaking angel and one of Scotland's age-old universities. The university is acutely anchored in the bolt of the city, with abounding of the barrio in the acclaimed Old Town accepting to the university.

The University of Edinburgh is ranked 17th in the angel by the 2013–14 and 2014–15 QS rankings.
The university played an important role in accomplished Edinburgh to its acceptability as a accomplished bookish centre during the Age of Enlightenment, and helped accordance the city-limits the appellation of the Athens of the North. Alumni of the university awning some of the aloft abstracts of beat history, including physicist James Clerk Maxwell, naturalist Charles Darwin, philosopher David Hume,

mathematician Thomas Bayes, surgeon Joseph Lister, signatories of the American accepting of adeptness James Wilson, John Witherspoon and Benjamin Rush, artisan Alexander Graham Bell, ancient admiral of Tanzania Julius Nyerere, and a host of acclaimed authors such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, J.M. Barrie and Sir Walter Scott. Associated bodies awning 20 Nobel Prize winners, 2 Turing Accolade winners, 1 Abel Prize winner, 1 Fields Medal winner, 1 Pulitzer Prize winner, 3 Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, 2 currently-sitting UK Supreme Court Justices, and several Olympic gold medallists. It continues to acquire links to the British Royal Family, accepting had the Duke of Edinburgh as its Chancellor from 1953 to 2010 and Princess Anne aback 2011.
Edinburgh receives about 50,000 applications every year, accurate it the fourth a lot of accustomed university in the UK by accumulated of applicants. Entrance is competitive, with 2012–2013 accepting an accepting bulk of 11.5% and activity bulk of 38.6%. Afterwards St Andrews, it is the a lot of difficult university to accession accepting into in Scotland and, 9th all-embracing in the UK.

The California Institute

The California Institute of Technology or Caltech is a artful assay university amidst in Pasadena, California, United States. Although founded as a basal and abstract academy by Amos G. Throop in 1891, the academy admiring affecting scientists such as George Ellery Hale, Arthur Amos Noyes, and Robert Andrews Millikan in the ancient 20th century. The abstract and basal schools were disbanded and spun off in 1910, and the academy afflicted its present name in 1921. In 1934, Caltech was adopted to the Association of American Universities, and the antecedents of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which Caltech continues to administrate and operate, were acclimatized amidst 1936 and 1943 below Theodore von Kármán. The university is one a allotment of a babyish accession of Institutes of Technology in the United States which tends to be primarily adherent to the apprenticeship of abstract arts and activated sciences.

Caltech has six bookish accommodation with able emphasis on science and engineering, managing $332 amateur in 2011 in sponsored research. Its 124-acre (50 ha) primary campus is amidst about 11 mi (18 km) northeast of city-limits Los Angeles. First-year accepting are adapted to acquire on campus, and 95% of undergraduates acquire in the on-campus address system. Although Caltech has a able attitude of activated jokes and pranks, amateur action is complete by an annual blank which allows adeptness to ascribe take-home examinations. The Caltech Beavers attack in 13 intercollegiate sports in the NCAA Division III's Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

Caltech is frequently cited as one of the world's best universities Despite its babyish size, 33 Caltech alumni and adeptness acquire won a complete of 34 Nobel Prizes (Linus Pauling accepting the abandoned abandoned in history to win two audible prizes) and 71 acquire won the United States National Medal of Science or Technology. There are 112 adeptness assembly who acquire been adopted to the National Academies. In addition, abounding adeptness assembly are associated with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as able as NASA.

The University of Warwick

The University of Warwick ((/ˈwɒrɪk/)) is a attainable assay university in Coventry, England. It was founded in 1965 as allocation of a government activity to acclaim accepting to academy education. Warwick Business School was acclimatized in 1967 and Warwick Medical School was opened in 2000. Warwick adulterated with Coventry Academy of Apprenticeship in 1979 and Horticulture Assay International in 2004.

Warwick is primarily based on a 290 hectare campus on the outskirts of Coventry with a agenda campus in Wellesbourne and a London base at the Shard in axial London. It is organised into four faculties—Arts, Medicine, Science and Social Sciences—within which there are 32 departments. Warwick has about 23,400 full-time accepting and 1,390 bookish and assay agents and had a complete assets of £481 amateur in 2013/14, of which £90 amateur was from assay grants and contracts. Warwick Arts Centre, a multi-venue arts circuitous in the university's basic campus, is the bigger breadth of its affectionate in the UK alfresco London.

Warwick consistently ranks in the top ten of all aloft calm rankings of British universities and is the abandoned multi-faculty academy beside from Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial to acquire never been ranked alfresco of the top ten It is ranked by QS as the world's third best university below 50 years (and ancient in Europe) and as the world's 13th best university based on employer reputation. It was ranked 7th in the UK amidst multi-faculty institutions for the above of its assay in the 2014 Assay Excellence Framework. Entrance is competitive, with about 6.74 applicants per address for undergraduate study.

Warwick is a associate of AACSB, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Association of MBAs, EQUIS, the European University Association, the M5 Group, the Russell Group and Universities UK. It is the abandoned European associate of the Center for Urban Science and Progress, a accordance with New York University. The university has all-embracing bartering activities, including the University of Warwick Science Park and Warwick Manufacturing Group. ((/ˈwɒrɪk/)) is a attainable assay university in Coventry, England. It was founded in 1965 as allocation of a government activity to acclaim accepting to academy education. Warwick Business School was acclimatized in 1967 and Warwick Medical School was opened in 2000. Warwick adulterated with Coventry Academy of Apprenticeship in 1979 and Horticulture Assay International in 2004.
Warwick is primarily based on a 290 hectare campus on the outskirts of Coventry with a agenda campus in Wellesbourne and a London base at the Shard in axial London. It is organised into four faculties—Arts, Medicine, Science and Social Sciences—within which there are 32 departments. Warwick has about 23,400 full-time accepting and 1,390 bookish and assay agents and had a complete assets of £481 amateur in 2013/14, of which £90 amateur was from assay grants and contracts. Warwick Arts Centre, a multi-venue arts circuitous in the university's basic campus, is the bigger breadth of its affectionate in the UK alfresco London.

Warwick consistently ranks in the top ten of all aloft calm rankings of British universities and is the abandoned multi-faculty academy beside from Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial to acquire never been ranked alfresco of the top ten It is ranked by QS as the world's third best university below 50 years (and ancient in Europe) and as the world's 13th best university based on employer reputation. It was ranked 7th in the UK amidst multi-faculty institutions for the above of its assay in the 2014 Assay Excellence Framework. Entrance is competitive, with about 6.74 applicants per address for undergraduate study.

Warwick is a associate of AACSB, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Association of MBAs, EQUIS, the European University Association, the M5 Group, the Russell Group and Universities UK. It is the abandoned European associate of the Center for Urban Science and Progress, a accordance with New York University. The university has all-embracing bartering activities, including the University of Warwick Science Park and Warwick Manufacturing Group.

London Metropolitan University

London Metropolitan University, frequently accustomed as London Met, is a attainable assay university in London, England. The University of North London (formerly the Polytechnic of North London) and London Guildhall University (formerly the City of London Polytechnic) adulterated in 2002 to accomplish the university. With roots traveling ashamed to 1848, it is one of London’s oldest educational institutions. The University has campuses in the City of London and in the London Borough of Islington, a museum, athenaeum and libraries. Special collections awning the TUC Library,[the Irish Studies Collection and the Frederick Parker Collection.


History
London Metropolitan University was formed on 1 August 2002 by the accord of London Guildhall University and the University of North London. In October 2006, the University opened a new Science Centre, allocation of a £30m investment in its science administering at the North campus abutting to Holloway Road, with a "Super Lab" claimed to be one of Europe's a lot of beat science teaching facilities, and 280 workstations able with calendar audio beheld alternating equipment.

London Guildhall University
For added abstracts on this topic, see London Guildhall University.
Crosby Hall in 1848, breadth the Metropolitan Atramentous Classes for Boyish Men started
In 1848 Charles Blomfield, the Abbey of London, declared aloft the clergy to accredit atramentous classes to beforehand the moral, bookish and aerial activity of boyish men in London. In response, the abbey Charles Mackenzie, who instituted the Metropolitan Atramentous Classes for Boyish Men in Crosby Hall, Bishopsgate, London, with amateur fees at one shilling per session. Subjects on the ancient chic included Greek, Latin, Hebrew, English, History, Mathematics, Drawing and Natural Philosophy. This amateur academy came below aloof advancement after the arrangement of Prince Albert to the classes in 1851. In 1860 the classes abashed to Sussex Hall, the aloft Livery Hall of the Bricklayers' Company, in Leadenhall Street. By this time, some 800 accepting were enrolled annually

The University of Bath

The University of Bath is a campus university amidst in Bath, United Kingdom. It acclimatized its Royal Charter in 1966.

According to The Times Higher Education Amateur Acquaintance Survey 2015 the University of Bath is the best university in the UK for amateur experience. In The Times and The Sunday Times Good Bath was awarded the appellation of ‘University of the Year 2011/12’ In the 2014 Assay Excellence Framework, 32% of Bath's submitted assay activity able the able attainable allocation of 4*, accurate as world-leading in acceding of originality, acceptation and rigour. 87% was graded 4*/3*, accurate as world-leading/internationally excellent.

The university is a associate of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Association of MBAs, the European Quality Improvement System, the European University Association, Universities UK and GW4, a alignment which brings calm the South West and Wales’ four leading, research-intensive universities (Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter). Until 30 October 2012, it was aswell a associate of the 1994 Group.


History
The University of Bath can trace its roots to a abstract academy acclimatized in Bristol in 1856, the Bristol Trade School. In 1885 the academy became allocation of the Society of Merchant Venturers and was renamed the Merchant Venturers' Abstract Academy (whose alumni covering the physicists Paul Dirac and Peter Higgs), an academy founded as a academy in 1595. Meanwhile, in the neighbouring city-limits of Bath, a biologic school, the Bath Academy of Pharmacy, was founded in 1907. This became allocation of the Abstract Academy in 1929.

The academy came below the advantage of the Bristol Education Authority in 1949; it was renamed afresh the Bristol Academy of Technology, and in 1960 the Bristol Academy of Science and Technology, if it became one of ten abstract colleges below the covering of the Ministry of Education. The academy was mainly housed in the aloft Muller's Orphanage at Ashley Down in Bristol, which still houses allocation of the City-limits of Bristol Academy whilst the base has been acclimatized into residential housing.

In 1963, the Robbins Committee abode paved the way for the academy (along with a bulk of added institutions) to acquire university cachet as Bath University of Technology.


is a campus university amidst in Bath, United Kingdom. It acclimatized its Royal Charter in 1966.
According to The Times Higher Education Amateur Acquaintance Survey 2015 the University of Bath is the best university in the UK for amateur experience. In The Times and The Sunday Times Good Bath was awarded the appellation of ‘University of the Year 2011/12’ In the 2014 Assay Excellence Framework, 32% of Bath's submitted assay activity able the able attainable allocation of 4*, accurate as world-leading in acceding of originality, acceptation and rigour. 87% was graded 4*/3*, accurate as world-leading/internationally excellent.

The university is a associate of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Association of MBAs, the European Quality Improvement System, the European University Association, Universities UK and GW4, a alignment which brings calm the South West and Wales’ four leading, research-intensive universities (Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter). Until 30 October 2012, it was aswell a associate of the 1994 Group.

History
The University of Bath can trace its roots to a abstract academy acclimatized in Bristol in 1856, the Bristol Trade School. In 1885 the academy became allocation of the Society of Merchant Venturers and was renamed the Merchant Venturers' Abstract Academy (whose alumni covering the physicists Paul Dirac and Peter Higgs), an academy founded as a academy in 1595. Meanwhile, in the neighbouring city-limits of Bath, a biologic school, the Bath Academy of Pharmacy, was founded in 1907. This became allocation of the Abstract Academy in 1929.

The academy came below the advantage of the Bristol Education Authority in 1949; it was renamed afresh the Bristol Academy of Technology, and in 1960 the Bristol Academy of Science and Technology, if it became one of ten abstract colleges below the covering of the Ministry of Education. The academy was mainly housed in the aloft Muller's Orphanage at Ashley Down in Bristol, which still houses allocation of the City-limits of Bristol Academy whilst the base has been acclimatized into residential housing.

In 1963, the Robbins Committee abode paved the way for the academy (along with a bulk of added institutions) to acquire university cachet as Bath University of Technology.

Cornell University

Cornell University (/kɔrˈnɛl/ kor-nel) is an American artful Ivy League and federal land-grant assay university amidst in Ithaca, New York. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, the university was brash to admonish and achieve contributions in all fields of adeptness — from the abstruse to the sciences, and from the abstruse to the applied. These ideals, anarchic for the time, are captured in Cornell's motto, a accustomed 1865 Ezra Cornell quotation: "I would activate an academy breadth any getting can accretion apprenticeship in any study.

The university is broadly organized into seven undergraduate colleges and seven alum accommodation at its basic Ithaca campus, with ceremony academy and assay defining its own accepting standards and bookish programs in beside autonomy. The university aswell administers two agenda medical campuses, one in New York City and one in Education City, Qatar.

Cornell is one of three artful acreage accepting universities in the nation and the abandoned one in New York.[note 1] Of its seven undergraduate colleges, three are state-supported accustomed or adjustment colleges, including its agronomical and veterinary colleges. As a acreage accepting college, it operates a all-around addition exhausted diplomacy in every accommodate of New York and receives ceremony allocation from the State of New York for absolute educational missions The Cornell University Ithaca Campus comprises 745 acres, but is abounding aloft if the Cornell Plantations (more than 4,300 acres) are considered, as able as the abounding university-owned acreage in New York City.

Since its founding, Cornell has been a co-educational, non-sectarian academy breadth accepting has not been belted by admiration or race. Cornell counts added than 245,000 alive alumni, and its aloft and present adeptness and alumni awning 34 Marshall Scholars, 29 Rhodes Scholars and 44 Nobel laureates. The amateur anatomy consists of about 14,000 undergraduate and 7,000 alum accepting from all 50 American states and 122 countries.

The University of Exeter

The University of E xeteris a attainable assay university amidst in Exeter, South West England, United Kingdom. The university was founded and acclimatized its Royal Charter in 1955, although its anterior institutions, the Royal Albert Memorial Academy and the University Academy of the South West of England, were acclimatized in 1900 and 1922 respectively. In post-nominals, the University of Exeter is abbreviated as Exon. (from the Latin Exoniensis), and is the suffix acclimatized to honorary and bookish degrees from the university.

The university has three campuses: Streatham; St Luke's (both of which are in Exeter); and Tremough in Cornwall. The university is centred in the city-limits of Exeter, Devon, breadth it is the accomplished academy apprenticeship institution. Streatham is the bigger campus complete abounding of the university's accurate buildings, and is admired as one of the a lot of admirable in the country. The Tremough campus is maintained in amalgamation with Falmouth University below the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC) initiative.

The university was alleged The Sunday Times University of the Year in 2013 and was the Times Academy Apprenticeship University of the Year in 2007. Exeter has maintained a top ten position in the National Student Assay aback the assay was launched in 2005 In 2011, it was brash as accepting one of the top 12 aloof universities in the United Kingdom,[ and has been consistently ranked as one of the top 10 UK universities in abreast years.

Durham University

Durham University (legally the University of Durham)[ is a bookish assay university in Durham, North East England. It was founded by Act of Parliament in 1832 and accustomed a Royal Charter in 1837. It was one of the ancient universities to appear allegation in England for added than 600 years and claims to be the third oldest university in England, although this is disputed.

Durham has an acreage which includes 63 listed buildings, alignment from the 11th-century Castle to a 1930s Art Deco Chapel. The university aswell owns and manages the Durham World Heritage Site in amalgamation with Durham Cathedral. The university's affairs of the World Heritage Site includes Durham Castle (which is a address for accepting who are assembly of University College), Palace Green, and the surrounding barrio including the acclaimed Cosin's Library.

The adjudicator of the university is Sir Thomas Allen, who succeeded Bill Bryson in January 2012. As a bookish university, its basic functions are broken amidst the bookish departments of the university and 16 colleges. In general, the departments achieve assay and board lectures to students, while the colleges are acquiescent for the calm align and affluence of undergraduate students, alum students, post-doctoral admiral and some university staff. The university is a associate of the Russell Group of UK universities afterwards advanced accepting a associate of the 1994 Group. Durham is aswell affiliated with several university groups including the N8 Assay Amalgamation and the Matariki Network of Universities.

Manchester Metropolitan University

Manchester Metropolitan University, about referred to as 'MMU' and artlessly referred to as 'Man Met', is a British attainable university amidst in North West England, and was acclimatized in 1970 as 'Manchester Polytechnic', and acquired University Status in 1992. Its address and axial campus are in the city-limits of Manchester, and there are added accessories in the accommodate of Cheshire. The university has its roots in the Manchester Mechanics' Institution and the Manchester School of Design It is the fifth bigger university in the United Kingdom in acceding of amateur numbers.
Teaching above inspections address the university aural the top twenty in the UK, according to The Complete University Guide. Teaching standards acquire aswell been declared as 'among the able in the country' by the Above Assurance Agency. The university receives about 52,000 applications every year, accurate it the added a lot of accustomed university in the UK by accumulated of applicants. The university is ranked fourth of the new universities in adorable assay funds from the Higher Education Funding Council for England.

The university is an accustomed associate of the Association of MBAs, a associate of the University Alliance, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the North West Universities Association and the European University Association. The university is home to the Manchester School of Art, the Manchester School of Theatre and, in amalgamation with the University of Manchester, the Manchester School of Architecture.

Goldsmiths, University

Goldsmiths, University of London, is a attainable assay university specializing in the arts, design, humanities, and agreeable sciences. It is a basal academy aural the University of London. It was founded in 1891 as Goldsmiths' Abstruse and Recreative Institute by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths in New Cross, London. It was acquired by the University of London in 1904 and was renamed Goldsmiths' College. The babble Academy was abandoned from its branding in 2006, but "Goldsmiths' College", with the apostrophe, charcoal the institution's bookish accustomed name.
The university has a acclaimed history of adventitious to arts and agreeable sciences. Its Administration of Art is broadly recognised as one of Britain's a lot of prestigious, address the YBA's art accumulated and over 20 Turner Prize nominees. Goldsmiths is aswell accustomed for design, psychology, drama, sociology, music, politics, media and cultural studies, languages and literature, beheld cultures, anthropology and educational studies.

Nearly 20% of accepting arise from countries alfresco the UK, and 52% of all undergraduates are complete accepting (aged 21 or over at the alpha of their studies). Around a third of accepting at Goldsmiths are postgraduate students.

In the 2008 Assay Assessment Exercise Goldsmiths came 9th in the UK for world-leading assay (shown by the top 4* grade). The Administration of Folklore performed absolutely strongly, and was placed aggregate ancient with three added institutions. And in the Administration of Media and Communications 80% of activity was in the able two bands.

The University of Nottingham

The University of Nottingham is a attainable assay university based in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881 and was accustomed a Royal Charter in 1948.

Nottingham's basal campus, University Park, is anchored on the outskirts of the City of Nottingham, with a bulk of allay campuses and a teaching hospital (Queen's Medical Centre) amidst away in Nottinghamshire. Outside the United Kingdom, Nottingham has campuses in Semenyih, Malaysia and Ningbo, China. Nottingham is organised into 5 basal faculties, aural which there are added than 50 departments, institutes and assay centres. Nottingham has about 44,000 accepting and 9,000 agents and had a complete assets of £520 amateur in 2012/13, of which £100 amateur was from assay grants and contracts.

Several of its accommodation acquire been consistently ranked in the top ten, including Economics, Law, and Pharmacy. It is ranked 5th in England in acceding of the bulk of accepting and 15th for the admeasurement of accepting who able AAB+ at A-level. The university is one of 12 "elite" institutions that accommodates the top accomplishing accepting in England. A 2014 assay adapted it is the a lot of targeted university by the UK's top employers. In 2012 Nottingham was ranked 13th in the angel in acceding of the bulk of alumni listed a allotment of CEOs of the Fortune Global 500. It is aswell ranked 2nd (joint with Oxford) in the 2012 Summer Olympics table of British brand winners. In the 2011 and 2014 GreenMetric Angel University Rankings, Nottingham was the world's a lot of adequate campus.

It is a associate of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Virgo Consortium, the European University Association, the Russell Group, Universities UK, Universitas 21 and participates in the Sutton Trust Summer School programme.

The University of Birmingham

The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a attainable assay university amidst in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom. It acclimatized its aloof allocation in 1900 as a almsman to Queen's College, Birmingham (founded in 1828 as the Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery) and Mason Science College (established in 1875 by Sir Josiah Mason), accurate it the ancient English angel or 'red brick' university to acquire its own aloof charter. It is a founding associate of both the Russell Group of British assay universities and the all-embracing adjustment of assay universities, Universitas 21.

The university was ranked 11th in the UK and 64th in the angel in the QS Angel University Rankings for 2014-15. In 2013, Birmingham was alleged 'University of the Year 2014' in the Times Higher Education awards. The Global Employability University Ranking conducted by THES places Birmingham at 57th all-embracing Birmingham is aswell ranked 4th in the UK for Graduate Prospects in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2015.
The amateur citizenry includes about 19,000 undergraduate and 9,000 postgraduate students, which is the 11th bigger in the UK. The ceremony assets of the academy for 2013–14 was £528.2 million, with an bulk of £499 million.

The university is home to the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, accommodation works by Van Gogh, Picasso and Monet, the Lapworth Museum of Geology, the Cadbury Assay Library home to the Mingana Collections of Middle Eastern manuscripts and the Chamberlain Collection, and the Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower, which is a arresting battlefield arresting from abounding locations of the city. Academics and alumni of the university awning aloft British Prime Ministers Neville Chamberlain, and Stanley Baldwin, and eight Nobel laureates.

King's Academy London

King's Academy London (informally King's or KCL; afore styled King's College, London) is a attainable assay university amidst in London, United Kingdom, and a basal academy of the federal University of London. Although its GKT School of Medical Education has roots dating ashamed to 1550, King's was founded in 1829 by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington, and acclimatized its aloof allocation in the aloft year, accurate it arguably the third-oldest

university in England. King's became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London in 1836 and has developed through mergers, including with Queen Elizabeth Academy and Chelsea Academy of Science and Technology (in 1985), the Institute of Psychiatry (in 1997), and the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals and Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery (in 1998). King's has become the bigger centre for alum and post-graduate medical teaching and biomedical assay in Europe as per bulk of accepting and is admired as one of the accomplished multidisciplinary assay universities in the world.

The Academy has its acclaimed basic campus on the Strand in axial London, three Thames-side campuses and accession in Denmark Hill in south London. King's has about 25,000 accepting and 6,113 agents and had a complete assets of £604 amateur in 2013/14, of which £172 amateur was from assay grants and contracts. Its bookish activities are organised into nine commonsense which are subdivided into abounding departments, centres and assay divisions. King's is home to six Medical Assay Council centres and is a founding associate of the King's Blossom Partners bookish blossom sciences centre, Francis Crick Institute and MedCity. It is a associate of abounding bookish organisations, including the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the European University Association, the Russell Group, and the "golden triangle" of aloof English universities.

King's is accustomed for its several acclaimed alumni and staff, including 12 Nobel Prize laureates amidst King's alumni and accustomed and aloft adeptness The Academy performs abominable in all-embracing rankings. In 2015 it ranked 19th in the angel (5th in the UK and 7th in Europe) in the QS Angel University Rankings, and 27th in the angel (7th in the UK and 8th in Europe) in the 2015 Times Higher Education Angel University Rankings. In rankings produced by Times Higher Education based aloft the after-effects of the 2014 Assay Excellence Framework, King's was ranked 6th all-embracing for "research power" and 7th for GPA. In a assay by The New York Times assessing the a lot of admired graduates by business leaders, King's Academy London graduates ranked 22nd in the angel and 5th in the UK. In the 2014 Global Employability University Assay of all-embracing recruiters King's is ranked 35th in the angel and 7th in the UK.


 (informally King's or KCL; afore styled King's College, London) is a attainable assay university amidst in London, United Kingdom, and a basal academy of the federal University of London. Although its GKT School of Medical Education has roots dating ashamed to 1550, King's was founded in 1829 by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington, and acclimatized its aloof allocation in the aloft year, accurate it arguably the third-oldest
university in England. King's became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London in 1836 and has developed through mergers, including with Queen Elizabeth Academy and Chelsea Academy of Science and Technology (in 1985), the Institute of Psychiatry (in 1997), and the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals and Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery (in 1998). King's has become the bigger centre for alum and post-graduate medical teaching and biomedical assay in Europe as per bulk of accepting and is admired as one of the accomplished multidisciplinary assay universities in the world.

The Academy has its acclaimed basic campus on the Strand in axial London, three Thames-side campuses and accession in Denmark Hill in south London. King's has about 25,000 accepting and 6,113 agents and had a complete assets of £604 amateur in 2013/14, of which £172 amateur was from assay grants and contracts. Its bookish activities are organised into nine commonsense which are subdivided into abounding departments, centres and assay divisions. King's is home to six Medical Assay Council centres and is a founding associate of the King's Blossom Partners bookish blossom sciences centre, Francis Crick Institute and MedCity. It is a associate of abounding bookish organisations, including the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the European University Association, the Russell Group, and the "golden triangle" of aloof English universities.

King's is accustomed for its several acclaimed alumni and staff, including 12 Nobel Prize laureates amidst King's alumni and accustomed and aloft adeptness The Academy performs abominable in all-embracing rankings. In 2015 it ranked 19th in the angel (5th in the UK and 7th in Europe) in the QS Angel University Rankings, and 27th in the angel (7th in the UK and 8th in Europe) in the 2015 Times Higher Education Angel University Rankings. In rankings produced by Times Higher Education based aloft the after-effects of the 2014 Assay Excellence Framework, King's was ranked 6th all-embracing for "research power" and 7th for GPA. In a assay by The New York Times assessing the a lot of admired graduates by business leaders, King's Academy London graduates ranked 22nd in the angel and 5th in the UK. In the 2014 Global Employability University Assay of all-embracing recruiters King's is ranked 35th in the angel and 7th in the UK.

Purdue University

Purdue University, amidst in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university if the Indiana Accustomed Assembly, demography advantage of the Morrill Act, acclimatized a donation of acreage and money from Lafayette abettor John Purdue to accredit a academy of science, technology, and agronomics in his name. The ancient classes were captivated on September 16, 1874, with six admiral and 39 students.

The university was founded with the allowance of $150,000 from John Purdue, a Lafayette business billy and philanthropist, alternating with $50,000 from Tippecanoe County, and 100 acreage (0.40 km2) of acreage from Lafayette affiliation in abutment of the project. In 1869, it was
absitively that the new academy would be complete beside the city-limits of Lafayette and acclimatized as Purdue University, in the name of the institution’s able benefactor.
The West Lafayette campus offers added than 200 majors for undergraduates, over 70 master’s and doctoral programs, and able degrees in pharmacy and veterinary medicine. In addition, Purdue has 18 intercollegiate sports teams and added than 900 amateur organizations. Today, Purdue is a associate of the Big Ten Conference. Purdue enrolls the added bigger amateur analysis of any university in Indiana as able as the fourth bigger all-embracing amateur citizenry of any university in the United States

History
John Purdue, the University's eponymous benefactor
In 1865, the Indiana Accustomed Assembly voted to crop advantage of the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act of 1862, and began diplomacy to accredit an academy with a focus on agronomics and engineering. Communities throughout the accessory offered their accessories and money to bid for the breadth of the new college. Accustomed proposals included the accretion of an agronomics administering at Indiana University or at what is now Butler University. By 1869, Tippecanoe County’s action included $150,000 from Lafayette business billy and philanthropist John Purdue, $50,000 from the county, and 100 acreage (0.40 km2) of acreage from belted residents. On May 6, 1869, the Accustomed Assembly acclimatized the academy in Tippecanoe Canton as Purdue University, in the name of the able benefactor. Classes began at Purdue on September 16, 1874, with six admiral and 39 students. Professor John S. Hougham was Purdue’s ancient adeptness associate and served as acting admiral amidst the administrations of presidents Shortridge and White. A campus of 5 barrio was completed by the end of 1874. Purdue issued its ancient degree, a Bachelor of Science in chemistry, in 1875 and accustomed its ancient capricious accepting that fall.

Emerson E. White, the university’s admiral from 1876 to 1883, followed a ascetic admiration of the Morrill Act. Rather than claiming the classical universities, White believed that Purdue should be an "industrial college" and admeasure its assets adjoin accouterment a avant-garde (or broad) apprenticeship with an emphasis on science, technology, and agriculture. He brash not abandoned to acclimate accepting for automatic work, but aswell to acclimate them to be adequate citizens and ancestors members. Part of White’s plan to assay Purdue from classical universities included a arguable beforehand to ban fraternities. This ban was ultimately anarchic by the Indiana Supreme Court and led to White’s resignation. The next president, James H. Smart, is remembered for his anxiety in 1894 to apple-pie the ancient Heavilon Hall "one brick higher" afterwards it had been destroyed by a fire.

Purdue University, 1904
By the end of the nineteenth century, the university was organized into schools of agriculture, engineering (mechanical, civil, and electrical), and pharmacy, and aloft U.S. Admiral Benjamin Harrison was bedfast on the axle of trustees. Purdue’s engineering laboratories included testing accessories for a adjustable and a Corliss beef engine, one of the a lot of able engines of the time. The Academy of Agronomics was administering its assay with farmers throughout the accessory with its all-around addition casework and would accept a aeon of beforehand over the after two decades. Programs in apprenticeship and home economics were afresh established, as able as a abrupt academy of medicine. By 1925 Purdue had the bigger undergraduate engineering accepting in the country, a cachet it would accrue for bisected a century.
President Edward C. Elliott oversaw a campus architectonics diplomacy amidst the angel wars. Inventor, alumnus, and trustee David E. Ross all-around several fundraisers, donated acreage to the university, and was alive in establishing the Purdue Assay Foundation. Ross’s adeptness and fundraisers authentic such projects as Ross–Ade Stadium, the Memorial Union, a noncombatant engineering assay camp, and Purdue University Airport. Purdue Airport was the country’s ancient university-owned airport and the website of the country’s ancient college-credit flight training courses. Amelia Earhart abutting the Purdue adeptness in 1935 as a adviser for these flight courses and as a adviser on women’s careers. In 1937, the Purdue Assay Foundation provided the funds for the Lockheed Electra 10-E that Earhart flew on her attempted round-the-world flight
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University Hall
Every academy and administering at the university was circuitous in some acquaint of advancing assay or training during Angel War II. During a action on anxiety receivers, Purdue physicists credible accomplishments of germanium that led to the authentic of the ancient transistor. The Army and the Navy conducted training programs at Purdue and added than 17,500 students, staff, and alumni served in the armed forces. Purdue set up about a hundred centers throughout Indiana to alternation able workers for advocacy industries. As veterans alternating to the university below the G.I. Bill, first-year classes were able at some of these sites to abate the address for campus space. Four of these sites are now degree-granting belted campuses of the Purdue University system. Purdue’s on-campus accommodation became racially desegregated in 1947, after accountability from Purdue Admiral Frederick L. Hovde and Indiana Governor Ralph F. Gates

Campus
Purdue's campus is anchored in the babyish city-limits of West Lafayette, beside the western case of the Wabash River, above which sits the above city-limits of Lafayette. Accessory Street, which is amplified with Accessory Road 26, divides the chill and southern portions of campus. Bookish barrio are mostly concentrated on the eastern and southern locations of campus, with address halls and noncombatant fields to the west, and able accessories to the north. The Greater Lafayette Attainable Transportation Corporation (CityBus) operates eight campus angle bus routes on which students, faculty, and agents can ride chargeless of accusation with Purdue Identification.
Purdue Mall

The Purdue Mall is the axial abbey of Purdue University. Aswell accustomed as the Purdue Spine, due to its adjacency to several important bookish buildings, it was created to affix the bookish campus with Ross-Ade Stadium. It is accustomed as the Engineering Mall, due to its adjacency to several engineering buildings. The a lot of arresting amore of the Purdue Mall is the 38-foot (12 m)-tall authentic Engineering Fountain, and aswell actualization the Frederick L. Hovde Hall of Administration, which houses the arrangement of the university president, Mitchell E. Daniels. The Purdue Bell Tower is amidst amidst the Stadium and Centennial Malls. The Bell Tower is brash an amount of the university and can be activate on abounding Purdue logos and those of the cities of Lafayette and West Lafayette.

Southwest of the Stadium Mall is the Edward C. Elliott Hall of Music, one of the bigger proscenium theaters in the world. Purdue's Amateur Concert Committee about invites acclaimed entertainers to achieve there for an admirers of students, faculty, and the accustomed public.

Memorial Mall
Purdue Memorial Union
The Purdue Memorial Mall, amidst south of the Purdue Mall, is the ancient breadth of campus. A accustomed activity address for students, the grassy, attainable Memorial Mall is amidst by the Stewart Center, Wetherill Laboratory of Chemistry, Stanley Coulter Hall, the Class of 1950 Lecture Hall, the Recitation Building, University Hall, and Stone Hall. The Memorial Mall aswell actualization the Hello Walk. Beside this breadth of campus is Felix Haas Hall, which was complete in 1909 as Memorial Gymnasium in anamnesis of the 17 Purdue University football players, coaches, alumni, and admirers who comatose in the Purdue Wreck railroad draft on October 31, 1903. The analysis was acclimatized in 1985 to address the Computer Science department. In 2006, it was renamed in annual of retired Provost Felix Haas and began to aswell address the Statistics department. East of the Memorial Mall is the Purdue Memorial Union, Purdue's amateur abutment building, and the abutting Abutment Club Hotel.

TRIDENT UNIVERSITY

Trident School Overseas (TUI) can be a personal, regionally authorised for-profit university or academy in which about all programs sq activate delivered on-line. It gives Bachelor's, Pros and aswell advising ascendancy ascendancy programs operational, Wellbeing Sciences, Education, and aswell adeptness Devices. base School can be a aloft addendum answerable affiliated with Touro university, afterwards bought by Summit Associates. Trident School can be a aloft addendum answerable affiliated with Touro university, which was able throughout 1970 throughout nyc community. Within Gregorian 30 canicule 2007, base grew to become a able alignment and aswell seemed to be bought by Summit Associates, any private-equity alignment in town, Florida, and aswell Boston, Massachusetts. while purchasing the university or college, Summit Associates reorganised TUI to be a for-profit alignment and aswell acclimatized the assay in acclimation to base School Overseas.

Within September '09, Kenneth M. Sobaski, afterwards affiliated with Capella School, seemed to be branded Leader and aswell PRESIDENT. Within Jan 2011, TUI School proclaimed important alterations throughout the accessory and aswell delivery, calm with any cachet change in acclimation to base School Overseas. Meantime us admiral Nolan Miura proclaimed on 12 , 14, 2011 the appointed adjustment affiliated with Lucille Sansing as us admiral and aswell PRESIDENT. With November 10, 2013, Andy Vaughn seemed to be branded Leader and aswell Primary army brand officer. Trident School is regionally authorised through the Accrediting Commission applicable Older accomplishment and aswell Educational accessories in the European Amalgamation affiliated with educational institutions and aswell performance. The official certifications seemed to be attainable throughout 2011 by accusations so it acquired "failed to achieve constant that which academy accepting adjustment beeline into the amateur adjustment acquired consummated their accustomed training needs and also, added substantially, absitively not to say to the accreditor in amalgamation with matter. "[5] Within February 2012, WASC aloft the "show cause" buy avant-garde basic on base and aswell positioned the varsity on absolution as a aftereffect of Trident's advanced throughout dysfunction the issues acknowledged. 1 year after, WASC taken away Trident's absolution and aswell reaffirmed the official certifications.

Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, TAMU (/ˈtæmuː/), or A&M) is a coeducational attainable assay university amidst in Academy Station, Texas, United States. It is the flagship academy of the Texas A&M University System, the fourth-largest university in the United States and the bigger university in Texas. Texas A&M's appellation as a land, sea, and amplitude accepting academy reflects a abuttals of assay with advancing projects adjourned by agencies such as the National Aeronautics and Amplitude Administering (NASA), the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Office of Naval Research. The academy ranks in the top 20 American assay institutes in allocation and has bogus contributions to such fields as abominable cloning and petroleum engineering.


The ancient attainable academy of academy apprenticeship in Texas, the academy opened on October 4, 1876 as the Agronomical and Automatic Academy of Texas below the accoutrement of the Morrill Land-Grant Acts. Originally, the academy able no classes in agriculture, instead apperception on classical studies, languages, literature, and activated mathematics. Afterwards four years, accepting could attain degrees in authentic agriculture, noncombatant and mining engineering, and emphasis and literature. Below the administering of Admiral James Earl Rudder in the 1960s, A&M desegregated, became coeducational, and abandoned the affirmation for accordance in the Corps of Cadets. To reflect the institution's advertisement roles and bookish offerings, the Texas Assembly renamed the academy to Texas A&M University in 1963. The belletrist "A&M", originally abridge for "Agricultural and Mechanical", are retained abandoned as a hotlink to the university's past. The school's students, alumni, and sports teams are acclimatized as Aggies.

The basic campus is one of the bigger in the United States, spanning 5,200 acreage (21 km2),and includes the George Bush Presidential Library. About one-fifth of the amateur anatomy lives on campus. Texas A&M has about 1,000 acutely acclimatized amateur organizations. Abounding accepting aswell axle the traditions of Texas A&M University, which administrate circadian life, as able as adapted occasions, including sports events. On July 1, 2012, the academy abutting the Southeastern Conference. A&M operates two branches: Texas A&M at Qatar and Texas A&M University at Galveston. Working with agencies such as the Texas AgriLife Assay and Texas AgriLife Extension Service, Texas A&M has a complete actualization in ceremony of the 254 counties in Texas. The university offers degrees in over 150 courses of absorption through ten colleges and houses 18 assay institutes. Texas A&M has awarded over 320,000 degrees, including 70,000 alum and able degrees.

As a Senior Advancing College, Texas A&M is one of six American attainable universities with a full-time, beforehand Corps of Cadets who absorption alongside noncombatant undergraduate students.

History
A abounding domed architectonics overlooks a affection brownish of balding white blowing with a mustache and connected bristles and acid a knee-length coat. The basement is engraved "Lawrence Sullivan Ross".

Statue of Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross amidst in beginning of the Bookish Building
It shows, larboard to right, Ross Hall, Old Main, and Foster Hall.
Texas A&M in 1902

Beginning years
The U.S. Congress laid the accomplishments for the achievement of Texas A&M in 1862 with the accepting of the Morrill Act. The act auctioned acreage grants of attainable acreage to accredit endowments for colleges across the "leading commodity shall be, afterwards excluding added authentic and classical studies and including advancing tactics, to admonish such branches of acquirements as are accompanying to agronomics and automatic arts... to beforehand the avant-garde and activated apprenticeship of the automatic classes in the several pursuits and professions in life". In 1871, the Texas Assembly acclimated these funds to accredit the state's ancient attainable academy of academy education, the Agronomical and Automatic Academy of Texas, afresh acclimatized as Texas A.M.C. Brazos County donated 2,416 acreage (10 km2) beside Bryan, Texas, for the school's
campus.
Enrollment began on October 2, 1876. Six accepting enrolled on the ancient day, and classes acutely began on October 4, 1876, with six adeptness members. During the ancient semester, accepting added to 48 students, and by the end of the animation 1877 semester, 106 accepting had enrolled. Accepting was apprenticed to white males, and all accepting were adapted to participate in the Corps of Cadets and acquire advancing training. Although adequate Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets "campusologies" advertise 40 accepting began classes on October 4, 1876, the exact bulk of accepting enrolled on that day is unknown. Accepting climbed to 258 accepting afore crumbling to 108 accepting in 1883, the year the University of Texas opened in Austin, Texas. Though originally envisioned and annotated in the Texas Constitution as a addendum of the
University of Texas, Texas A.M.C. had a absent Board of Directors from the University of Texas from the ancient day of classes and was never belted into the University of Texas System.
In the astern 1880s, abounding Texas affiliation saw no allegation for two colleges in Texas and clamored for an end of Texas A.M.C. In 1891, Texas A&M was adored from abeyant cease by its new admiral Lawrence Sullivan Ross, aloft governor of Texas, and well-respected Confederate Brigadier General. Ross bogus abounding improvements to the academy and accepting angled to 467 cadets as parents adorable their sons to Texas A&M "to amateur to be like Ross". During his tenure, abounding connected Aggie traditions were born, including the apperception of the ancient Aggie Ring. Afterwards his afterlife in 1898, a brownish was erected in beginning of what is now Bookish Plaza to annual Ross and his achievements in the history of the school.

Under accountability from the legislature, in 1911 the academy began accepting women to arise classes during the summer semester. At the aloft time, A&M began accession its bookish pursuits with the achievement of the Academy of Veterinary Medicine in 1915

Campus
A actualization of the basic campus, analytic chill from Kyle Field. At the centermost is the Bookish Architectonics with its chestnut dome
Main article: Campus of Texas A&M University
Texas A&M's Academy Station campus, one of the bigger in America, spans 5,200 acreage (21 km2) added 350 acreage (1 km2) for Assay Park. The university is allocation of the Bryan-College Station city-limits across amidst aural Brazos County in the Brazos Valley (Southeast Central Texas) region, an across about referred to as "Aggieland".[96] According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2008, the citizenry of Brazos County is estimated at 175,122. Money Magazine, in 2006, alleged Academy Station the a lot of able city-limits in Texas, and the 11th a lot of able American city, due abundantly to the actualization of the university and the admeasurement and abuttals of its research. Aggieland is centrally amidst aural 200 distant (320 km) of 3 of the 10 bigger cities in the US and 75% of the Texas and Louisiana populations (approximately 13 amateur people). The area's aloft avenue is Accessory Highway 6, and several allay accessory highways and Farm to Market Roads affix the across to above highways such as Interstate 45.

The campus is bisected by a railroad clue operated by Union Pacific. The across east of the tracks, acclimatized as Basic Campus, includes barrio for the colleges of engineering, architecture, geosciences, science, apprenticeship and avant-garde arts. Dormitories, as able as the basic dining centers and abounding campus abutment facilities, are aswell on Basic Campus. Notable barrio on Basic Campus awning Kyle Field, Sterling C. Evans Library, the Bookish Building, Harrington Hall, the Memorial Amateur Center, the Administering Building, Rudder Tower, Albritton Bell Tower, and the Bonfire Memorial. To the west of the railroad beforehand lies West Campus, which includes a lot of of the sports facilities, the business school, agronomical programs, action sciences, the veterinary college, the political science and economics school, the George Bush Academy of Government and Attainable Service, the George Bush Presidential Library and two schools aural the Texas A&M Health Science Center. Assay Park, the across of West Campus alternating Kimbrough Boulevard, includes abounding assay facilities.

Outside the basic campus, the academy formally includes two added addendum campuses: Texas A&M at Qatar amidst in Apprenticeship City-limits in Doha, Qatar adherent to engineering disciplines and Texas A&M University at Galveston in Galveston, Texas, adherent to abysmal assay and host to the Texas Maritime Academy. All degrees at the Qatar campus are acclimatized by the university's Dwight Look Academy of Engineering. On October 23, 2013, diplomacy were arise for a third (second international) addendum campus, Texas A&M University at Nazareth - Peace Campus, in Israel. The Texas A&M Academy of Law is amidst in Fort Worth, Texas.

Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St. Louis (Wash. U., or WUSTL) is a artful assay university amidst in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1853, and alleged afterwards George Washington, the university has accepting and adeptness from all 50 U.S. states and added than 120 countries.Twenty-two Nobel laureates acquire been affiliated with Washington University, nine accepting done the aloft allocation of their exhausted assay at the university. Washington University's undergraduate diplomacy is ranked 7th in selectivity and 14th all-embracing by U.S. News and Angel Report. The university is ranked 32nd in the angel by the Bookish Ranking of Angel Universities.

Washington University is bogus up of seven alum and undergraduate schools that aggress a abounding abuttals of bookish fields. Officially complete as "The Washington University," the university is

occasionally referred to as "WUSTL," an acronym acquired from its initials. Added commonly, the academy is referred to as "Wash. U." To ahead abashing over its location, the Axle of Trustees added the adage "in St. Louis" in 1976

History
Early history (1853–1900)
Washington University was conceived by 17 St. Louis business, political, and religious leaders afraid by the abbreviation of institutions of academy acquirements in the Midwest. Missouri State Senator Wayman Crow and Unitarian abbot William Greenleaf Eliot, grandfathering of the artisan T.S. Eliot, led the effort.

The university's ancient adjudicator was Joseph Gibson Hoyt. Crow anchored the university allocation from the Missouri General Assembly in 1853, and Eliot was alleged Admiral of the Axle of Trustees. Early on, Eliot solicited abutment from assembly of the belted business community, including John O'Fallon, but Eliot bootless to dedicated a constant endowment. Washington University is aberrant a allocation of aloft American universities in not accepting had a above-mentioned cyberbanking endowment. The academy had no abetment of a religious organization, abandoned flush patron, or acclimatized government support.


William Greenleaf Eliot, ancient admiral of the Axle of Trustees
During the three years after its inception, the university bore three acclimatized names. The axle ancient acclimatized "Eliot Seminary," but William Eliot was afflictive with allocation a university afterwards himself and objected to the achievement of a seminary, which would about be accountable with teaching a religious faith. He advantaged a nonsectarian university. In 1854, the Axle of Trustees afflicted the name to "Washington Institute" in annual of George Washington. Allocation the University afterwards the nation's ancient president, abandoned seven years afore the American Civil War and during a time of absinthian borough division, was no coincidence. During this time of conflict, Americans universally admired George Washington as the antecedent of the United States and a aspect of borough unity. The Axle of Trustees believed that the university should be a force of accordance in a absinthian broken Missouri. In 1856, the University acclimatized its name to "Washington University." The university acclimatized its name already added in 1976, if the Axle of Trustees voted to add the suffix "in St. Louis" to assay the university from the about two dozen added universities abode Washington's name.

Although accountant as a university, for abounding years Washington University functioned primarily as a night academy amidst on 17th Street and Washington Avenue in the amore of city-limits St. Louis. Owing to apprenticed cyberbanking resources, Washington University initially acclimated attainable buildings. Classes began on October 22, 1854, at the Benton Academy building. At ancient the university paid for the atramentous classes, but as their accepting grew, their allocation was transferred to the St. Louis Attainable Schools. Eventually the axle anchored funds for the architectonics of Bookish Hall and a bisected dozen added buildings. Later the university broken into three departments: the Manual Training School, Smith Academy, and the Mary Institute.

In 1867, the university opened the ancient artful nonsectarian law academy west of the Mississippi River. By 1882, Washington University had advertisement to abounding departments, which were housed in different barrio above St. Louis. Medical classes were ancient captivated at Washington University in 1891 afterwards the St. Louis Medical Academy absitively to accessory with the University, establishing the Academy of Medicine. During the 1890s, Robert Sommers Brookings, the admiral of the Axle of Trustees, undertook the tasks of reorganizing the university's finances, putting them digest a complete foundation, and diplomacy acreage for a new campus.

University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (Minnesota; locally accustomed as the U of M or artlessly the U) is a attainable assay university amidst in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. The Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses are about 5 distant (8.0 km) apart, and the Saint Paul campus is in actuality in abutting Falcon Heights. It is the oldest and bigger campus aural the University of Minnesota adjustment and has the sixth-largest basal campus amateur anatomy in the United States, with 51,853 accepting in 2012–2013. The university is organized into 19 colleges and schools, and it has sister campuses in Crookston, Duluth, Morris, and Rochester.

Minnesota's able teams at the Twin Cities campus are accustomed as the Minnesota Golden Gophers and attack in the NCAA's Division I as assembly of the Big Ten Conference.

Campuses
Minneapolis campus
The ancient Minneapolis campus abandoned the Saint Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River, but it was afterwards abashed about a mile (1.6 km) afterwards to its accustomed location. The ancient website is now credible by a babyish esplanade accustomed as Chute Square at the amphitheater of University and Central Avenues. The academy shut down after a cyberbanking crisis during the American Civil War, but reopened in 1867 with abounding cyberbanking admonition from John S. Pillsbury. It was upgraded from a basal academy to a academy in 1869. Today, the University's Minneapolis campus is broken by the Mississippi River into an East and West Bank.

The campus now has barrio on both river banks. The "East Bank", the basal allocation of the campus, covers 307 acreage (124 ha). The West Bank is home to the University of Minnesota Law School, the Humphrey Academy of Attainable Affairs, the Carlson Academy of Management, different agreeable science buildings, and the bold arts center. The St. Paul campus is home to the Academy of Biological Sciences (CBS), the Academy of Architectonics (CDes), the Academy of Food,
Agriculture and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS), and the veterinary program.

East Bank
Mall panorama, from left: Ford Hall, Coffman Memorial Union, Kolthoff Hall, Smith Anteroom (in centermost of image), Walter Library, Johnston Hall, Northrop, and Morrill Hall
Aerial photo of the Minneapolis campus, adverse east

East Bank
Walter Library, Northrop Mall
To admonition affluence aerodynamics of the abounding campus, the University has broken the East Bank into several areas: the Knoll area, the Mall area, the Health area, the Able area, and the Gateway area.
The Knoll area, the oldest allocation of the University's accustomed location, is amidst in the northwestern allocation of the campus. A lot of disciplines in this across account to the humanities. Burton Anteroom is home to the Academy of Education and Human Development. Many barrio in this across are able over 100 years old; a 13-building accession comprises the Old Campus Historic District that is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. A address hall, Sanford Hall, and a student-apartment complex, Roy Wilkins Hall, are amidst in this area. The Institute for Advanced Study is amidst in the Nolte Center. This across is amidst just south of the Dinkytown adjacency and business area.

Northrop Mall, or the Mall area, is arguably the centermost of the Minneapolis campus. It was based on a architectonics by Cass Gilbert, although his diplomacy were too cool to be actually implemented. Several of the campus's primary barrio annoy the Mall area. The Cyrus Northrop Memorial Auditorium provides a chill anchor, with Coffman Memorial Union (CMU) to the south. Four of the above barrio to the carelessness of it are the primary mathematics, physics, and attraction buildings, (Vincent Hall, Tate Laboratory and Smith Hall, respectively) and Walter Library. The Mall across is home to both the Academy of Liberal Arts, which is Minnesota's bigger attainable or artful college, and the Academy of Science and Engineering. Behind CMU is accession address hall, Comstock Hall, and accession student-apartment complex, Yudof Hall.

The Health across is to the southeast of the Mall across and focuses on undergraduate barrio for biological-science students, as able as homes to the Academy of Pharmacy, the Academy of Nursing, the Academy of Dentistry, the Medical School, the Academy of Attainable Health, and Fairview Hospitals and Clinics. This circuitous of barrio forms what is accustomed as the University of Minnesota Medical Center. Allocation of the Academy of Biological Sciences is housed in this area.
Across the avenue from Fairview Hospital is an across accustomed as the "Superblock". The Superblock is a four-city-block amplitude accommodation four address halls (Pioneer, Frontier, Centennial and Territorial Halls). The Superblock is one of the a lot of accustomed locations for on-campus accommodation because it has the bigger assimilation of accepting alive on campus and has a accession of agreeable activities amidst the address halls.

University of Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame du Lac (or artlessly Notre Dame /ˌnoʊtərˈdeɪm/ noh-tər-daym) is a Catholic assay university amidst beside South Bend, Indiana, in the United States. In French, Notre Dame du Lac bureau "Our Lady of the Lake" and refers to the university's angel saint, the Virgin Mary.

The academy was founded by Father Edward Sorin, CSC, who was aswell its ancient president. Today, abounding Holy Cross priests acquire to plan for the university, including as its president. It was acclimatized as an all-male academy on November 26, 1842, on acreage donated by the Bishop of Vincennes. The university ancient enrolled women undergraduates in 1972. As of 2013 about 48 percent of the amateur anatomy was female. Notre Dame's Catholic actualization is reflected in its complete allegation to the Catholic faith, abounding ministries adjourned by the school, and the architectonics about campus. The university is consistently ranked one of the top universities in the United States and as a aloft all-around university.

The undergraduate basal of the university is organized into four colleges and one able school, and its alum diplomacy has 15 master's and 26 doctoral bulk programs. Over 80% of the university's 8,000 undergraduates abide on campus in one of 29 single-sex address halls, ceremony of which fields teams for added than a dozen civilian sports, and the university counts about 120,000 alumni.
The university is globally acclimatized for its Notre Dame Academy of Architecture, a adeptness that teaches (pre-modernist) adequate and classical architectonics and burghal planning (e.g. after the attack of New Urbanism and New Classical Architecture). It aswell awards the acclaimed ceremony Driehaus Architectonics Prize.

The university's able teams are assembly of the NCAA Division I and are acclimatized collectively as the Fighting Irish. The football team, an Independent, has accumulated eleven accordance borough championships, seven Heisman Trophy winners, and 62 assembly in the Academy Football Anteroom of Fame. Other ND teams, chiefly in the Atlantic Coast Conference, acquire accumulated 16 borough championships.




History
Foundations
The Absolute Rev. Edward Sorin, artisan of the University, acclimatized at Notre Dame in 1842
In 1842, the Bishop of Vincennes, Célestine Guynemer de la Hailandière, offered acreage to Father Edward Sorin of the Accession of the Holy Cross, on the activity that he physique a academy in two years. Sorin acclimatized on the website with eight Holy Cross brothers on November 26, 1842, and began the academy appliance Father Stephen Badin's old log chapel. They afresh acquired two accepting and set about architectonics additions to the campus.
Notre Dame began as a primary and accent school, but afresh acclimatized its official academy allocation from the Indiana General Assembly on January 15, 1844. Under the allocation the academy is acutely alleged the University of Notre Dame du Lac (University of Our Lady of the Lake).Because the university was originally abandoned for blowing students, the female-only Saint Mary's Academy was founded by the Sisters of the Holy Cross beside Notre Dame in 1844.
Early history
The University's acclaimed centermost complete the Basilica, the Golden Dome and Washington Hall, were complete in the ancient years of the University
The ancient degrees from the academy were awarded in 1849. The university was advertisement with new barrio to lath added accepting and faculty. With ceremony new president, new bookish programs were offered and new barrio complete to lath them. The ancient Main Architectonics complete by Sorin just afterwards he acclimatized was replaced by a above "Main Building" in 1865, which housed the university's administration, classrooms, and dormitories. Beginning in 1873, a library accumulating was started by Father Lemonnier. By 1879 it had developed to ten thousand volumes that were housed in the Main Building
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The acclimatized Main Building, complete in 1879.
This Main Building, and the library collection, was destroyed by a bonfire in April 1879, and rebuilt afore the next academy year. The library accumulating was aswell rebuilt and astern housed in the new Main Architectonics for years afterwards. About the time of the fire, a Music Anteroom was opened. Eventually adequate acclimatized as Washington Hall, it hosted plays and acceptable acts put on by the school. 1880, a science diplomacy was acclimatized at the university, and a Science Anteroom was complete in 1883. The anteroom housed different classrooms and science labs bald for ancient assay at the university. By 1890, abandoned address halls were complete to address the accretion bulk of students. William J. Hoynes (1846–1919) was ambassador of the law academy 1883-1919, and if its new architectonics was opened afresh afterwards his afterlife it was renamed in his honor.
John Zahm C.S.C. (1851–1921) became the Holy Cross Provincial for the United States (1896–1906), with all-embracing administering of the university. He accustomed to transform Notre Dame into a abounding university, architectonics barrio and added to the campus art arcade and library, and accretion what became a acclaimed Dante collection. His appellation was not renewed because of fears he had advertisement Notre Dame too apprenticed and had run the Holy Cross acclimation into ascetic debt.

Campus
View of a basin on campus in spring
Notre Dame's campus is amidst in Notre Dame, Indiana, an unincorporated affiliation in the Michiana across of Northern Indiana, chill of South Bend and four distant (6 km) from the Michigan accessory line. In September 2011, Travel+Leisure listed Notre Dame as accepting one of the a lot of admirable academy campuses in the United States. Today it lies on 1,250 acreage (5.1 km2) just south of the Indiana Toll Road and includes 143 barrio amidst on quads throughout the campus.

Buildings and architecture
Historic Washington Anteroom on the Main Quadrangle, arrangement termed the "God Quad".
Development of the campus began in the animation of 1843, if Father Sorin and some of his accession complete the "Old College," a architectonics acclimated for dormitories, a bakery, and a classroom. A year later, afterwards an artisan arrived, a babyish "Main Building" was complete accepting for the battery of the college.

The Main Architectonics ascetic down in 1879, and it was afresh replaced with the acclimatized one. It was topped with the Golden Dome, which today has become Notre Dame's a lot of credible feature. Close to the Main Architectonics stands Washington Anteroom (University of Notre Dame), a amphitheater that was complete in 1881 and has aback afresh been acclimated for afflicted and acceptable representation.

Because of its Catholic identity, a bulk of religious barrio bend on campus. The Old Academy architectonics has become one of two seminaries on campus run by the Accession of Holy Cross. The acclimatized Basilica of the Sacred Heart is amidst on the atom of Fr. Sorin's ancient church, which became too babyish for the growing college. It is complete in French Revival actualization and it is active by aged canteen windows conflicting afresh from France. The autogenous was antidotal by Luigi Gregori, an Italian painter access by Fr. Sorin to be artisan in residence. The Basilica aswell actualization a anxiety belfry with a carillon. Inside the abbey there are aswell sculptures by Ivan Mestrovic. The Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes, which was complete in 1896, is a replica of the ancient in Lourdes, France. It is absolute acclimatized a allotment of accepting and alumni as a address of admiration and meditation, and it is brash one of the a lot of admired spots on campus.