Furthermore, in certain respects, there are norms common to colleges and universities across the country.

One of the reasons for the high percentage of Jewish teen-agers in college is that a great many urban Jews are enabled to attend local colleges at modest cost.

Under the auspices of the Outing Club, Dartmouth also has the Mountaineering Club, which takes on tough climbs like Mount McKinley, and Bait & Bullet, whose interests are self-evident, and even sports a Woodman's Team, which competes with other New England colleges in wood sawing and chopping, canoe races, and the like.

American Catholic colleges and universities are, in a very real sense, the product of `` private enterprise '' -- the `` private enterprise '' of religious communities.

These programs are divided into 15 colleges and schools which are spread across ASU's four campuses.

Many private high schools include years 11 and 12 and are referred to as colleges.

Funding for community colleges may come from government grants and course fees ; and most community colleges are not-for-profit organisations.

There are community colleges located in metropolitan, regional and rural locations of Australia.

Qualifications such as undergraduate degrees and higher are not offered at community colleges, though some community colleges do offer certificate courses I to IV.

In Canada, the 150 institutions that are the rough equivalent of the US community college are usually referred to simply as " colleges " since in common usage a degree granting institution is, almost, exclusively a university.

In the province of Quebec, even when speaking in English, colleges are called Cégeps for Collège d ' enseignement général et professionnel, meaning " College of General and Vocational Education ".

Associate's degrees and bachelor's degrees are granted by univerisites, but, in some courses of study, there may be an agreement between colleges and universities to collaborate on the education requirements toward a degree.

Programs and courses are changed, added or deleted according to projected economic future, while many programs are relatively stable and have been around as long as the colleges, such as various business administration programs.

Community colleges in Malaysia are a network of educational institutions whereby vocational and technical skills training could be provided at all levels for school leavers before they entered the workforce.

At the moment, most community colleges award qualifications up to Level 3 in the Malaysian Qualifications Framework ( Certificate 3 ) in both the Skills sector ( Sijil Kemahiran Malaysia or the Malaysian Skills Certificate ) as well as the Vocational and Training sector but the number of community colleges that are starting to award Level 4 qualifications ( Diploma ) are increasing.

In the United States, community colleges, sometimes called junior colleges, technical colleges, or city colleges, are primarily two-year public institutions providing higher education and lower-level tertiary education, granting certificates, diplomas, and associate's degrees.

** List of colleges and universities named after people

Several schools and other institutions have been named in his honor and he holds honorary degrees from universities and colleges across the country.

* Canterbury College ( disambiguation ), a number of colleges named thus

* Fraternities and sororities, often called the " Greek System ," at American colleges and universities because many of them are named after Greek letters

* Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, one of the Church of England's designated Evangelical theological colleges, is also named in his honour.

Millsaps College is featured in Loren Pope ’ s Colleges That Change Lives and is one of only 24 private colleges nationwide named a Best Buy in the 2010 edition of Fiske ’ s Top Financial Finds on the College Tuition Market.

One of only 24 private colleges nationwide and the only college in Mississippi named a " Best Buy " in the 2010 edition of Fiske's Top Financial Finds on the College Tuition Market.

Numerous originally Methodist institutions of higher education were founded in the United States in the early half of the 19th century, and today altogether there are about twenty universities and colleges named as " Methodist " or " Wesleyan " still in existence.

* List of colleges and universities named after people

* List of colleges and universities named after people

Two community colleges are named for him: Edison State College in Fort Myers, Florida, and

The lectures were held in the colleges, of which the oldest was named for the king the Carolinum, established in 1366.

* Numerous schools and colleges in Derbyshire have been named after him.

Edinburgh's Telford College, one of Scotland's largest colleges, is named in the honour of the famous engineer.

* Many buildings at colleges and universities are formally titled " _______ Hall ", typically being named after the person who endowed it, for example, King's Hall, Cambridge.

North-south streets are named for colleges, while east-west streets are arranged in alphabetical order and have the same names as the north-south streets in Boston's Back Bay: Arlington, Berkeley, Clarendon, Dartmouth, Exeter, Fairfield, Gloucester, and Hereford.

His father and his wife, Governor Lurleen B. Wallace, also had junior colleges named for them.

The Sigerson Cup, the all-Ireland colleges cup for Gaelic football, is named after a native of the town, Dr George Sigerson.

Today the campus is composed of 30-hectare park-like grounds including student housing in colleges, the university ’ s teaching, research, and administration buildings, including the Reimar Lüst Hall named after the founding chair, the Information Resource Center ( IRC ) – a library with extensive digital resources and future oriented information technology – apartments for visiting scientists as well as sports and other leisure facilities.

A residential neighborhood adjacent to the Stanford campus, College Terrace, featuring streets named after universities and colleges, including Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard and Princeton, is not part of the Stanford CDP but of Palo Alto.

The east-west avenues in College Park are named for Ivy League colleges, and the north-south streets are named for influential College Park residents.

Manchester was the home of one of the first colleges in Carroll County when, in 1858, Irving College, named after poet Washington Irving, was established by Dr. Ferdinand Dieffenbach.

Unlike most Oxford colleges, the graduate common room is known as the Hulme Common Room ( HCR ), named after a past benefactor, rather than the Middle Common Room ( MCR ).

Finally, colleges and clubs took the line that speakers from England were not wanted any longer, even speakers like S.K., so unlike the novelists and poets who had patronized the Americans for many years.

His suggestion that the prestige colleges be made the training institutions for medical, law and graduate schools will run into strong opposition from these colleges themselves -- even though what he is recommending is already taking shape as a trend.

The procedure for determining the amounts of money to be spent by county colleges and raised by taxation will certainly startle many taxpayers.

It also provides for funds to clear slums and help colleges build dormitories.

The Georgia Constitution gives the Legislature the power to exempt colleges from property taxation if, among other criteria, `` all endowments to institutions established for white people shall be limited to white people, and all endowments to institutions established for colored people shall be limited to colored people ''.

Yet for better or for worse, the truth of the matter is that most American Catholic colleges do not owe their existence to general Catholic support but rather to the initiative, resourcefulness and sacrifices of individual religious communities.

I think for example of three women's colleges with pitifully small enrollments, clustered within a few miles of a major Catholic university, which is also co-educational.

For while the past needs of the Church in this country may have been adequately met by collegiate institutions, which in temper and tone closely resembled junior colleges and finishing schools, it would seem that today's need is for the college which more closely resembles the university in its `` pursuit of excellence ''.

These men -- for the most part educated in our `` best '' New England colleges, well established financially and socially in the community -- under kindly but insistent probing, reveal little or no objective or explicit criteria or data for their generalizations about the interests and attitudes of the people they claim to serve, or about the public responses that actually follow their occasional breach of a `` client-service relationship ''.

He hadn't told anyone, but he, too, had applied to five colleges for David.

The Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act, also signed in 1862, provided government grants for agricultural colleges in each state.

ASU's undergraduate program is ranked 65th for public universities and 132nd of 280 " national universities " by the 2012 US News and World Report ranking of US colleges and universities ; and, for the fourth year in a row, ASU was ranked in the top 10 for " Up and Coming " universities in the US, for substantial improvements to academics and facilities.

Bob Jones, Sr. argued that if members of Graham ’ s campaign executive committee had rejected major tenets of orthodox Christianity, such as the virgin birth and the deity of Christ, then Graham had violated 2 John 9-11, which prohibits receiving in fellowship those who do “ not abide in the teaching of Christ .” In the 1960s, Graham further irritated fundamentalists by gaining the endorsement of Cardinal Richard Cushing for his Boston campaign and accepting honorary degrees from two Roman Catholic colleges.

Part of the reason for its success was that libraries in teachers ’ colleges liked the way Bliss had organized the subject areas on teaching and education.

Membership in the party was as much a prerequisite for admission to colleges and for government jobs as in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin or Nikita Krushchev.