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Actuarial credentialing and exams

At the undergraduate level the only locally accredited programmes are currently at University of Manchester, University College Dublin, Queen's University Belfast, Heriot-Watt University, University of Edinburgh, the London School of Economics, University of Southampton, City University, London and the University of Kent.

Adam Henrich

Older brother Michael Henrich, drafted 13th overall by the Edmonton Oilers in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft, is currently playing in the Italian Serie A for HC Asiago while simultaneously completing his undergraduate degree with York University.

Anne Cawrse

She completed undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Music Composition and Arts at the Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide, receiving and Honours degree in Music in 2003, and a PhD in 2008.

Antonio Ng

After his graduation from Yuet Wah College, Macau, Ng obtained his undergraduate degree in economics at Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Antônio Roberto Monteiro Simões

Simões' B.A. was conferred at Central College, in the town of Pella, Iowa, United States, after withdrawing his undergraduate work at the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil.

Archie Brown

Brown was born in Annan, Scotland, and educated at Annan Academy and Dumfries Academy, before studying at both undergraduate and postgraduate level at the London School of Economics (LSE).

Beverley Baxter

It was published in an undergraduate magazine Panorama edited by Kenneth Tynan, and Shulman mischievously showed the article to Charles Curran, the features editor, who passed it to Baxter who "was not amused."

Bobby Peters

Peters graduated from Hardaway High School in 1967, in Columbus, Georgia, and later earned an undergraduate degree in criminal justice, and a post-graduate degree in education at Columbus State University.

Bowdoin prize

Kannon Shanmugam, 1992, Marshall Scholar, lawyer (undergraduate, Latin)

BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering

The staff of the BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering comprises eight academics (including Prof Jose L Torero, Prof Asif Usmani and Prof Drysdale), six research fellows, about 25 postgraduate researchers and a few undergraduate researchers.

CFMS

Canadian Federation of Medical Students, the national body that represents medical undergraduate trainees across Canada

Derrick Fung

As part of the undergraduate program, he interned at Microsoft in Marketing, BNP Paribas in Equity Derivative Sales and on the trading floor of Merrill Lynch in 2009 as the first class after the merger with Bank of America.

Early life of Jan Smuts

With the hurdle of Matriculation behind him the start of the 1887 term finally saw Smuts admitted as a student of Victoria College and enrolled as an undergraduate of the University of the Cape of Good Hope.

Edward Gary Carr

Dr. Carr secured his undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto and graduate degrees from the University of California at San Diego where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, worked briefly at the University of California Los Angeles, and was Medical Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA.

Edward Rupert Burrowes

The E R Burrowes School of Art, an undergraduate institution accredited by the University of Guyana, is named after him.

Eilean an Taighe

In 1937 the islands were acquired by Nigel Nicolson, then an undergraduate at Oxford, who like former owner Compton MacKenzie, was later a writer, publisher and politician.

Evan Forde

Forde became a researcher in the Marine Geology and Geophysics laboratory at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) while an undergraduate at Columbia during the summer of 1973.

Fakir Chand College

Fakir Chand College its mainly an undergraduate liberal arts college near Kolkata, India.

Frank Miele

While an undergraduate, he became a regular contributor to Mankind Quarterly and collaborated with Donald A. Swan and A. James Gregor.

Guadalupe Worbis

Worbis completed her undergraduate degree in architecture at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Puebla, Mexico.

Jakob Kellenberger

He wrote his undergraduate dissertation on Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his doctoral thesis on the Spanish playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

John Doebley

John Doebley began his undergraduate education as a biology major at West Chester State College in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

John Eldredge

John received his undergraduate degree in theater from California Polytechnic University (Pomona) and his MA in biblical counseling from Colorado Christian University under the direction of Dr. Larry Crabb and Dr. Dan Allender.

Joseph Owades

Born in Manhattan and raised in the Bronx, he graduated from City College of New York (undergraduate) and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (Master’s and PhD in biochemistry, with a dissertation on cholesterol).

Leeds Trinity University

Leeds Trinity University is a university in the town of Horsforth, West Yorkshire, England, which offers foundation and undergraduate degrees, as well as postgraduate qualifications.

LIBT at Brunel University

LIBT students complete a one or two-year university transfer programme and, subject to meeting the required progression criteria, transfer into the second year of Brunel University’s three-year undergraduate BSc degree programmes in Business & Management, Information Systems & Computing and Economics & Finance.

Linguistic profiling

In a 1992 study, D. Rubin found that undergraduate university students would comprehend material more poorly if they heard a non-accented lecture presented with a picture of an Asian female.

Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez

Cortés obtained her undergraduate degree at Hunter College in New York City, and a master's degree at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.

Marang Centre for Mathematics and Science Education

In addition to South African undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate future science and mathematics teachers, would-be teachers and teacher educators come from Southern African Development Community (SADC) member nations such as Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi', Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, and other African countries.

Medcan Clinic

Since 2002, Medcan's CEO has been Dr. Francis' son, Shaun Francis, whose previous endeavors included undergraduate studies at the United States Naval Academy, working as an investment banker at New York's Morgan Stanley and receiving an MBA from the Wharton School.

Mohit Banerji

Mohit Banerji’s formative years were spent in West Bengal, having been educated at Midnapore Collegiate School followed by tertiary undergraduate study at the University of Calcutta.

Nancy Duff Campbell

Ms. Campbell received her undergraduate degree from Barnard College in 1965 and her law degree from New York University School of Law in 1968.

P. M. Forni

Forni received his undergraduate degree in Letters and Philosophy from the University of Pavia and his Ph.D. in Italian literature from UCLA.

Qeshm Institute of Higher Education

It offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in business administration in association with Carleton University of Canada.

Ricardo Saludo

He completed his undergraduate studies in 1977 at the Ateneo de Manila University with a bachelor's degree in literature, cum laude.

Robert D. Macredie

Macredie was born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire and attended Broom Valley junior and infants' school, Oakwood Comprehensive School, and Rotherham College of Arts and Technology, before an undergraduate degree in Physics and Computer Science at the University of Hull.

Ron Przybylinski

Przybylinski has actively trained meteorologists, for example, participating heavily in the National Center for Atmospheric Research COMET training (particularly on bow echoes), as well as mentoring and collaborating with university students, both graduate and undergraduate.

Sigma Nu

Sigma Nu (ΣΝ) is an undergraduate college fraternity that was founded by James Frank Hopkins, Greenfield Quarles and James McIlvaine Riley at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia shortly after Hopkins witnessed what he considered a hazing ritual by upperclassmen at the Virginia Military Institute.

Step test

Sixth Term Examination Paper, an examination set by the University of Cambridge to assess potential undergraduate mathematics applicants.

Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation

The Leavey Library is one of the two main undergraduate libraries at USC

Tibor Scitovsky

He was educated at the Pázmány Péter University (from which he held an undergraduate degree in law), University of Cambridge, and the London School of Economics.

Transfer admissions in the United States

In Virginia, the University of Virginia, which has approximately 14,000 undergraduate students, had 2,434 transfer applications in 2008, and of these, admitted 958, an acceptance rate of 39%.

Undergraduate Medicine and Health Sciences Admission Test

The UMAT is used for domestic applicant selection into undergraduate courses only; applicants for graduate courses must sit the GAMSAT and international applicants must sit the ISAT instead.

University of Glasgow School of Veterinary Medicine

The School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Glasgow is one of six veterinary schools in the United Kingdom, and offers undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications in Veterinary Medicine.

University of Illinois at Chicago College of Engineering

The College of Engineering is an academic department at the University of Illinois at Chicago offering both undergraduate and graduate programs of study.

University of Iowa School of Art and Art History

The University of Iowa School of Art and Art History is a school of the University of Iowa located in Iowa City, IA which awards undergraduate and graduate degrees in Art and Art history.

Ursula Hall

Residents of Ursula Hall welcomes undergraduate and postgraduate students of all nationalities, religions and cultures—residents are from dozens of countries, including Canada, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and the United States.

Victor Francis Hess

From 1901 to 1905 Hess was an undergraduate student at the University of Graz, and continued postgraduate studies in physics until he received his PhD there in 1910.

Yuichi Nakamaru

In April 2008, he entered Waseda University and majored in Human Environmental Sciences through the university's undergraduate correspondence course e-school.


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