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47 unusual facts about University


Albert Gubay

These include an Isle of Man Government bursary program fully funded by Gubay, which means that students from the Isle of Man can enter any of the world's top ten universities.

American University Preparatory School

American University Preparatory School (commonly referred to as AUP) is a private four-year, co-educational boarding and day college preparatory high school for grades 9-12 located in Los Angeles, California, at the center of downtown Los Angeles.

Benson Everett Legg

After receiving his education at the preparatory school Gilman School in Baltimore, graduating in the class of 1966, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in 1970.

Brooks Bowman

A native of Cleveland, Ohio, he graduated from University School in that city, but had completed his first three years of preparatory school at Asheville School in Asheville, North Carolina.

Cabell R. Berry

He was raised on a plantation and educated at Higginbotham Academy, a preparatory school of the University of Virginia.

Daeil Foreign Language High School

The private, coeducational, college preparatory school was founded in 1983 as the first foreign language high school to be established in South Korea aiming the goal of nurturing future global leaders with remarkable foreign language abilities.

Education in Poznań

Adam Mickiewicz University (abbreviated UAM) is one of the most influential and largest universities in Poland.

Education in Sheffield

The University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University combined bring 55,000 students to the city every year, including many from the Far East.

Gavin Baker

Gavin Charles Baker (born 3 October 1988, Edgware, Middlesex) is an English professional cricket player currently playing for Northamptonshire County Cricket Club after playing for his University, Loughborough MCCU.

Hadaf Educational Group

The main objective of the Group was to offer high quality education from elementary to high school, comparable to that of American preparatory schools.

Heinz Rutishauser

From 1948 to 1949 Rutishauser was in the USA at the Universities of Harvard and Princeton in order to study the state of the art in computing.

Indiana Limestone

In addition, many buildings on the north side of Michigan State University use Indiana limestone.

Jane Ellison

After University, she went straight to working for the John Lewis Partnership, where she held many positions up until her election to the House of Commons, some 23 years later.

John M. Gaver, Sr.

Born in Mount Airy, Maryland, John Gaver graduated from Princeton University then worked as a prep school language teacher before eventually embarking on a career in Thoroughbred racing.

Kappa Alpha Lambda

During her second year of attendance at Clark Atlanta University, the founder became interested in forming a Sisterhood for lesbians.

Kenny Noble Cortes

He graduated from the USAF Academy Prep School and received an appointment to the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs.

Kris Hogg

In addition, Hogg has played for the Kamloops Blazers and Lethbridge Hurricanes of the Western Hockey League and at the University level for the Lakehead University Thunderwolves of Canadian Interuniversity Sport.

Kuso Miso Technique

Masaki Michishita, a "typical guy" enrolled in preparatory school, is running to the park washroom when he spots a man wearing a jumpsuit sitting on a nearby bench.

Lillias Rumsey Sanford

Lillias Rumsey Sanford (1850-1940) was the founder of Rumsey Hall School, the second private nondenominational pre-preparatory school in the United States, originally located in Seneca Falls, New York.

Miracle Recreation Equipment Company

Orders came in from other large schools such as the University of Michigan and Ohio State.

NRC Next

The newspaper aims at young, well-educated (HBO or University) readers in the 25-34 age group, most of whom currently do not read a newspaper, or only the free tabloids Metro and Spits.

Orton Hall

University, Hayes and Orton Halls, at The Ohio State University in the United States

Paris de Grassis

During his lifetime the family would rise in status from its professional roots in the law faculty at the University and in the College of Notaries to fill important offices in the Bolognese senate, as well as in the Bolognese church and at the papal court.

Preparatory school

University-preparatory school, a secondary school in North America, either private or public, designed to prepare students aged 14–18 for higher education at a university or college

Rainer Hertrich

He was born December 6, 1949 and studied business administration at the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Nuremberg after an apprenticeship at Siemens.

Rebecka Liljeberg

In 2002, she completed the adult education course, and go on studying medicine at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, one of the largest medical universities in Europe.

Regiment Mooirivier

The Regiment was founded in 1954 by the first vice-rector of the Potchefstroom University, Professor Fanus du Plessis.

Ryan Joyce

He registered for University but had to withdraw his application when his shows touring schedule conflicted with the University school year.

Schüttler Waske Tennis-University

The academy was founded in 2010 by the two former Davis Cup players Alexander Waske and Rainer Schüttler.

The notable players Benjamin Becker, Janko Tipsarević, and Yen-Hsun Lu used the facilities in 2011 in order to prepare for the clay court season.

Seena Sharp

Ms, Sharp has been widely published, speaks to organizations and universities throughout the US and Europe, and was presented with SCIP’s Fellows Award.

Stephen Dale Petit

He went from being a performer in the London Underground to giving masterclass University lectures on blues music whilst becoming a well known stage act.

Steve Knightley

After leaving school, Knightley studied politics and history in Coventry, and then completed a postgraduate certificate in education at Sussex University near Brighton.

The Chocolate War

Jerry Renault is a self-determined and solitary first-year student at a preparatory, all-boys, Catholic high school called Trinity.

The Coming Storm

The Coming Storm is set on the campus of a boys' University-preparatory school in upstate New York.

The Hotel New Hampshire

He then returns to Derry and teaches at the local second-rate boys' prep school he attended, the Derry School.

University of Zululand

The university has extended its existing links with a wide array of tertiary educational institutions in the United States and in Europe by establishing partnerships with the University of Mississippi, Radford University, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University and Chicago State University.

University-Mount Wellington

These players include Ricki Herbert, Brian Turner, Tony Sibley, Dave Taylor, Darren McClennan, Peter Henry, Jeff Campbell, Rodger Gray, John Houghton, Leigh Kenyon, Michael RIdenton and Fred de Jong.

University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration operates a large vessel, the Ronald H. Brown in cooperation with UNOLS.

Federal support for and cooperation with UNOLS is found in the National Science Foundation (NSF), Office of Naval Research (ONR), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Minerals Management Service (MMS) and other agencies.

University, Denver

It is home to the University of Denver, many university students, and other residents and businesses, including the first Chipotle Mexican Grill.

University, Hayes and Orton Halls

The building is named after President Rutherford B. Hayes, who was also the governor of Ohio and advocated for a newly established land-grant university in Ohio.

University, North Carolina

University, Orange County, North Carolina a small, unincorporated settlement in Orange County, North Carolina

William Albrecht

After attending the local school he progressed via preparatory school to the University of Illinois where he obtained a B.A. degree in liberal arts.This led to a position teaching Latin and other subjects at Bluffton University, Ohio.

Ygnacio Sepulveda

His early boyhood was spent in Los Angeles, but when older he was sent to prep schools in Boston, Massachusetts.

Yonge–University–Spadina line

This extension will likely replace the portion of York Region Transit's Viva Orange bus rapid transit line that covers the Downsview – York University route.

Premier Leslie Frost and Mayor Allan A. Lamport, among other important people, rode the first train that morning, going north from the yards at Davisville Station, and then from Eglinton south along the entire line.


Athletic scholarship

In February 2012, a member of the Arizona House of Representatives proposed a bill named HB 2675 which would have required students attending a public university in the state of Arizona (Arizona State University, University of Arizona, or Northern Arizona University) to pay an additional $2,000 fee in order to attend one of the 3 universities.

Battle of Muret

Laurence Marvin, "The Occitan War: A Military and Political History of the Albigensian Crusade, 1209-1218", Berry College: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 175-195.

Bob Hitchens

Many of Hitchens records at Miami University were later broken by Travis Prentice, including Hitchens school record of 15 touchdowns in a season.

Carlton Studios, Nottingham

The studios closed in 2005 and were bought by the University of Nottingham who renamed the site King's Meadow Campus and converted it into university space.

Chikayo Nagashima

Instead of continuing her amateur wrestling career in a university, Nagashima took part in an audition held by professional wrestling promotion, Gaea Japan, which she passed with flying colors.

China Policy Institute

Its Director is Steve Tsang, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham and an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, known for summing up the nature of the political system in the People's Republic of China as a ‘consultative Leninist’ system, and for his works on Taiwan's democratisation and the history of Hong Kong.

Cláudio Costa Neto

He got his BSc degree in Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from the University of Brazil (currently Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) in 1954, Costa Neto worked under supervision of Fritz Feigl, responsible for the development of spot tests for identification and characterization of substances.

CYMA – Canadian Youth Mission to Armenia

CYMA was founded in late 1992 through a collaboration between Archbishop Hovnan Derderian, then primate of the Canadian Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, and university student Ronald Alepian.

David Trick

Trick holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from York University, a Master of Arts from Brandeis University, a Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science from the University of Toronto.

Dody Weston Thompson

Dody went on to develop her other artistic skills as a drama and poetry major at Sophie Newcomb College of Tulane University in New Orleans in 1940.

Ephraim Avigdor Speiser

He was field director of the Joint Excavation of the ASOR and the University Museum, 1930–1932, 1936–1937, undertaking excavations in Tepe Gawra and Tell Billa.

Fight the Big Bull

White and Fight the Big Bull also provided the music for Duke University's 2011 tribute to Alan Lomax's "Sound of the South" field recordings in a concert featuring the band backing Bon Iver's Justin Vernon, Sharon Van Etten and members of Megafaun.

First Cousin Once Removed

Documentary about the life of poet, translator, critic and university professor Edwin Honig and his struggles with Alzheimer's disease.

Forest School

The Forest Institute, also called the 'School of Professional Psychology at the Forest Institute', a private American university offering graduate degrees in psychology.

Greenwood High International School

The majority of graduates attends university for their higher education either in India or around the world including ivy league universities,IIT etc.IB Diploma is well accepted by Indian universities including UGC, AICTE and MCI.

Guy A. Sautter

John Arlott (Hrsg.): The Oxford companion to sports & games. Oxford University Press, London 1975

Harry Trout

Harry E. Trout, head college football coach for the West Virginia University Mountaineers, 1903

IBM 1500

Seeded by a research grant in 1964 from the U.S. Department of Education to the Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences at Stanford University, the IBM 1500 CAI system was initially prototyped at the Brentwood Elementary School (Ravenswood City School District) in East Palo Alto, California by Dr. Patrick Suppes of Stanford University.

Ibn Sina National College for Medical Studies

Ibn Sina National College for Medical Studies (Arabic: كلية ابن سينا الأهلية للعلوم الطبية) is a private medical university in the Al mahjar road Ghulail area of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Jean-Philippe Lamoureux

His sisters Jocelyne and Monique, both born 1989 (twins), both won silver medals with Team USA at the 2010 Winter Olympics, and are currently both forwards with the women's NCAA team at the University of North Dakota.

John Omoniyi Abiri

He subsequently secured appointment in 1976 at the then University College, Ilorin, later University of Ilorin, where he served as the first Head of Department and dean of the Faculty of Education with responsibility of providing leadership in the formulation and initiation of the degree programmes of that faculty.

Kahn Lectures

After considering Arthur Pillans Laurie, Eugénie Sellers Strong and Herbert Joseph Spinden, the Department settled on the Swedish art historian Johnny Roosval, professor at Stockholm University, as the first lecturer.

Knee-high boot

In university ROTC units, some members wear a dress boot reminiscent of a mounted cavalry boot, such as the boots worn by seniors in the Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets.

Laurel Hill Coláiste

It recently came seventh in the overall Irish national school league table, published in the Irish edition of The Sunday Times (5 November 2006), highlighting the high percentage of pupils who go on to university level.

Lederman

Marty Lederman, Visiting Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center

Maya Biosphere Reserve

Plan objectives include the development of tourist infrastructure, the installation of a small tourist train from the town of Carmelita to El Mirador, and the creation of a new university for the study of regional biodiversity, genetics, and Maya studies.

Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata

The new courses of study, based on the advice of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, were introduced in 1844, and were ultimately recognised by them, by the London University and the Society of Apothecaries in 1846.

Michael Jung

Michael E. Jung (born 1947), Professor of Chemistry at the University of California

Milivoj

Milivoj Solar, a Croatian literary theoretician, literary historian, essayist and a university professor

Ogyges

Hammond, N.G.L. and Howard Hayes Scullard (editors), The Oxford Classical Dictionary, second edition, Oxford University Press, 1992.

Omagh

Sean McDermott - American Football manager and alumni of University of Liverpool Law School

R. K. Sinha

Alison Richard, The Vice Chancellor, University of Cambridge, Dr Sinha served his country, his University, and scholarship with great distinction and imbued generations of students with love of the English language and its literature.

Ralph A. Sawyer

At the invitation of Harrison M. Randall, Sawyer then joined the faculty of the Physics Department at the University of Michigan, an affiliation that he retained for his entire career.

Robbie Caldwell

Caldwell, a Pageland, South Carolina native, attended Furman University where he played football and was a three-year letterman.

Roy J. Glauber

He currently lives in Arlington, Massachusetts, and is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University, where both past and present students enthusiastically praised his teaching to Harvard Crimson reporters.

Rugby league nines

South West 9s (Current Champions Exeter University Rugby League Team; EURL)

Saint Regis University

On 31 January 2007, the New York City Department of Investigation reported that several members of the New York City Fire Department had used "phony degrees" from St. Regis University in order to qualify for promotions.

Satish Nambisan

Prof. Nambisan obtained his Ph.D. in Management from the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University and his MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur, India.

School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University

In 1993, the department of Geodesy and Engineering Survey was merged into the university and renamed it as School of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering of the university.

Shakeelur Rahman

He studied at Patna University, where he gained a B.A. with First Class Honours, an M.A. with First Class Honours (awarded the Patna University Gold Medal) and a D.Litt.

Talat Ahmad

Talat Ahmad was recommended for the position by a search committee headed by former member of Planning Commission, Prof. Abid Hussain, former Indian Ambassador to USA, and comprising Professor G. K. Chadha, CEO, South Asian University and former Vice Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Prof. Seyed E. Hasnain, an eminent Scientist and former Vice Chancellor of University of Hyderabad.

Teddy Hall

The nickname of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford

The Vinyl Records

Tekseng earned a University degree in English from Miranda House, Delhi

Trevor Colbourn

In 1978, Governor Reubin Askew approved the change of name from Florida Technological University to the University of Central Florida.

Tylman

Stanley D. Tylman (1893–1982), professor of dentistry (1920–1962), University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry

Universidad Central del Este

UCE was founded at a time in which the Dominican Republic only counted with a handful of other universities nationwide, which included the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), founded by Pope Paul III in 1538; the Catholic University Mother and Teacher (now Pontifical) founded in Santiago in 1962; and the National University Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU), founded in 1966.

University Hospital Coventry

It is part of the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, which also includes the Hospital of St. Cross that is situated in Rugby, Warwickshire.

University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore

The University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore was entrusted territorial jurisdiction over 15 southern districts of Karnataka comprising nearly fifty percent of the total area of the state, while the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, was given jurisdiction over the remaining area in the northern districts of the state.

Victor Turpo

In 1968, he graduated from the Regional School of Art Carlos Bacaflor, Arequipa, Peru and in 1980 obtained a bachelor degree in architecture with a specialization in exterior and interior at the UNSA (National University of St Augustin of Arequipa)

World University Cycling Championship – Road Cycling

World University Cycling Championship – Road Cycling are the world university championship races for road bicycle racing.