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Berwick Academy

While these relationships have continued, graduates now matriculate at a wide variety of highly selective colleges in the United States, including the Ivy League, the Little Ivies and the Ancient Universities.

Brandjacking

Colleges and Universities - In 2008, college guidebook company College Prowler created hundreds of Facebook groups purporting to consist of actual incoming first-year students of various universities in order to surreptitiously gather their personal data and promote the business.

Cary Judd

Cary has performed shows/festivals with or opened for: Rocky Votolato, Of Montreal, Owen, Margot and The Nuclear So and So's, Joshua James, Tristan Prettyman, Citizen Cope, Isaac Hayden, Graham Colton, Pedro The Lion, Tyler Hilton, Ryan Shupe & the RubberBand, Raining Jane, Five Times August, among others, and has played concerts at numerous colleges including Brescia University.

Chapel Christian Academy

Graduates from Chapel Christian Academy were encouraged to attend Fundamentalist Christian colleges such as Bob Jones University, Pensacola Christian College, also primarily encouraging studies in Teaching, Missions, and Music.

Chishtian

Colleges are Science College, Sir Syed College and Punjab College for intermediate level education while Government Post Graduate College–Chishtian and the Government Post Graduate College For Girls–Chishtian are for higher studies.

Choral scholar

This is a common practice in the UK at schools attached to cathedrals where the choir is the Cathedral Choir, and at Oxford and Cambridge University Colleges, many of which have famous choirs.

Coleg Harlech

The other long-term, mature students colleges in the UK are Ruskin College at Oxford; Northern College at Barnsley; Hillcroft College in Surbiton; Fircroft College at Birmingham; and Newbattle Abbey College in Midlothian, Scotland.

Colleges of the University of Oxford

All colleges are now co-educational, although one of the Permanent Private Halls, St Benet's Hall, only accepts men.

Comilla Cadet College

Like the other five post-Bangladesh Liberation War cadet colleges, CCC was converted from a boarding school.

Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney

Readymoney built colleges, hospitals, insane asylums; founded a refuge for people of "respectability" who found themselves destitute or friendless in Bombay; erected several drinking fountains of artistic merit; gave donations to the Catholic and the Presbyterian missions in India.

Culture of North Carolina

There are also a number of private colleges, for example Duke University in Durham and Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem

Dima Hasao district

All Colleges of Dima Hasao are affiliated to Assam University, a central university, which imparts education in both the general as well as professional streams.

Dunmore High School

Student-athletes from Dunmore High School have accepted scholarships to many nationally ranked colleges and universities including: Bucknell University, Bryant University, University of Hartford and University of Delaware.

Eban Hyams

Earning a scholarship to attend Terra Sancta College in Sydney, Eban was named captain of his school and was introduced to basketball, eventually being selected to the New South Wales Combined Catholic Colleges (NSW CCC) state tryouts.

Faculty of Fine Arts

The Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU Baroda is one of the top three art colleges in India.

Guntakal

Educational Institutions: Schools & Colleges: Railway High School & Degree College,SKP Degree College, Sankaranadagiri College etc.

Illinois Institute of Art – Chicago

The Illinois Institute of Art – Chicago is part of The Art Institutes, a system of for-profit proprietary colleges focusing on creative industries.

INCAE Business School

INCAE is accredited by SACS (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools) in the United States to grant master's degrees.

Ishari K Ganesh

He is the secretary of the consortium of colleges affiliated to The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University.

Jesus Army Productions

Jesus Army Productions came out of the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCCF) at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.

John Chessell Buckler

Buckler did a lot of work in Oxford, carrying out repairs and additions to St. Mary's Church, and Oriel, Brasenose, Magdalen, and Jesus Colleges.

Joseph W. Kirwan

The institutions became known as the 'Godless Colleges', and Kirwan's position came under severe pressure from several leading bishops, including his own metropolitan bishop, John McHale, the Archbishop of Tuam.

Leonard Law

Republican State Senator Bill Leonard wrote the law to require private high schools, colleges and universities to protect their students' rights to freedom of speech "and other communication" that the government is required to protect for all of its citizens.

M. Lee Pelton

Pelton also holds, or has held, positions on several educational boards and committees: the American Council on Education, the Harvard University Board of Overseers, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Oregon Symphony, Oregon Health & Science University Foundation, American Association for Higher Education, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, and National Collegiate Athletic Association among others.

Maktab Rendah Sains Mara Kota Bharu

Maktab Rendah Sains Mara Kota Bharu or MRSM Kota Bharu is one of the pioneer junior science colleges set up by Majlis Amanah Rakyat or MARA in Malaysia.

Malaysian University English Test

MUET is a prerequisite in applying for admissions into all public universities and colleges in Malaysia as well as National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University and Singapore Management University.

Malcolm X College

Malcolm X College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago, is a two-year college located on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois, USA, at 1900 W. Van Buren St. It was founded as Crane Junior College in 1911 and was the first of the City Colleges.

Mernda, Victoria

The two higher secondary colleges Gilson College, Mernda campus and Ivanhoe Grammar School plenty campus co-educational from Prep to Year 12 are located in Bridge Inn Road in Mernda.

Montes Claros

There are two public universities: Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros (Unimontes) and a campus of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), and five private colleges:Universidade Norte do Paraná (Unopar), Faculdades Pitágoras, Faculdades Unidas do Norte de Minas (FUNORTE), Faculdade de Ciência e Tecnologia de Montes Claros (Facit), Faculdade de Saúde Ibituruna, and Faculdades Santo Agostinho.

Narberth, Pennsylvania

Along with the eponymous Bryn Mawr and Paoli Memorial hospitals, Lankenau Hospital, on Lancaster Pike (Route 30) in Wynnewood near the Overbrook border, has traditionally been affiliated with either Jefferson or Hahnemann (now Drexel) colleges of medicine and is always (with Bryn Mawr and Paoli) on the list of the nation's top community hospitals.

Nelofer Pazira

Nelofer is a frequent speaker at international conferences as well as universities and colleges including Carleton University and George Washington University, and was a keynote speaker at the Religion, Culture & Conflict symposium at Trinity Western University.

Nelson Adams

He was listed in Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities while attending Howard University, and is a member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity, and a Life Scout of the Boy Scouts of America.

North Carolina Learning Object Repository

NCLOR participants include the 58 colleges from the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS), University of North Carolina (UNC ) System, North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities (36 private institutions), the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (DPI), and North Carolina Virtual Public School (NCVPS).

Office of Education

On Monday, February 1, 1858, a petition of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture was presented to the Senate "praying that a donation of land be made to each of the States for the establishment of agricultural colleges." Neither of the proposals was accepted until the time of the Lincoln administration (1861–65), after which it became necessary to gather information on the many schools already in existence, as well as on those being built.

Overseas Association of College Admissions Counselors

In the early 1970s, the European Council of International Schools (ECIS) was a small organization but colleges in the US were beginning to realize that students in ECIS schools were well qualified potential applicants.

Panasa

Schools and colleges located in Panasa and nearby are affiliated to Odisha Board of Secondary Education.

Parle Tilak Vidyalaya Association

The Parle Tilak Vidyalaya Association also constitutes a number of junior colleges mainly in Vile Parle, but also in Andheri and Mulund.

Port Loko

Port Loko is home to the Port Loko Teacher's College, one of the oldest and best known colleges in Sierra Leone.

Prussian Military Academy

It was officially re-founded by Gerhard von Scharnhorst in Berlin on October 15, 1810 as one of three officer colleges.

Richard V. Allen

Richard Allen is also a fellow of St Margaret's College, Otago, one of New Zealand's most prestigious residential colleges.

Royal College

Although many institutions are formally Royal Colleges, such as the three royal public schools of Westminster, Winchester and Eton, the phrase "The Royal Colleges" is commonly applied to the medical institutions, such as the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Physicians, and the Royal College of Nursing and similar institutions in Australia, Canada, and elsewhere.

Shiroda, Goa

Shoroda houses one engineering colleges of Goa, Shree Rayeshwar Institute of Engineering and Information Technology and two colleges of Alternative medicine the Ayurveda College & Research Centre and Shri Kamaxshi Devi Homeopathic Medical College & Hospital.

Silliman University College of Business Administration

The Silliman University College of Business Administration is one of the constituent colleges of Silliman University, a private research university found in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, Philippines.

St. Joseph Township, Allen County, Indiana

St. Joseph Township's private colleges and universities include Concordia Theological Seminary (Lutheran) and the Fort Wayne campus of Brown Mackie College.

Student union

Students' union, a student organization at many colleges and universities dedicated to student governance.

Teddy Hall

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

The Laughing Dogs

They also played at Boston popular club The Rat, The Bottom Line, My Father's Place, and colleges.

University of Florida student housing

Grove Hall (1946–1977) - Reconstructed military building relocated from Camp Blanding located on the current site of the Architecture and Fine Arts colleges

University of Missouri Graduate School

The University of Missouri Graduate School is one of the 19 academic schools and colleges of the University of Missouri.

Virtual Library of Virginia

Members include all of the 39 state-assisted colleges and universities (the six doctoral degree-granting universities, nine four-year institutions, and 24 community and two-year branch colleges), as well as 34 of the independent (private, nonprofit) institutions and the Library of Virginia.


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