Founded in 1933, the Kowloon Motor Bus Company ( 1933 ) Limited ( KMB ) is one of the largest privately-owned public bus operators in the world.

James Madison University ( also known as JMU, Madison, or James Madison ) is a public coeducational research university located in Harrisonburg, Virginia, U. S. Founded in 1908 as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg, the university has undergone four name changes before settling with James Madison University.

Founded in 1818, Leander Club is the world's oldest public rowing club.

Founded in 1873, the mission of UCSF is to serve as a " public university dedicated to saving lives and improving health.

Founded in 1975, REED has for the last 31 years worked to locate, transcribe, and edit all surviving documentary evidence of drama, minstrelsy, and public ceremonial in England before 1642.

Founded in 1868, the Visiting Artists Program ( VAP ) is one of the oldest public programs of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Founded in 1861, it is the oldest and largest public art museum in Australia.

Founded in 1804, it is the oldest university in Ohio, oldest in the Northwest Territory, and ninth oldest public university in the United States.

Founded in 1889 as the Georgia Normal and Industrial College for Women, Georgia College and State University has since grown to become the state's premier public liberal arts university.

Founded after World War II and The Holocaust as a dependent body of the United Nations, the UNESCO started as soon as its creation to promote scientific studies concerning ethnic groups and their diffusion in the public opinion to dispel pseudo-scientific rationalizations of racism.

Founded as a Presbyterian women's college in 1852, Mitchell is now a public community college.

Founded on 15 April 1587 as Colegio del Espíritu Santo, the school was sponsored by the Society of Jesus during most of the Spanish colonial era before turning into a public college in 1825 and eventually into a public university in 1937.

Founded in 1887, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants ( AICPA ) is the national professional organization of Certified Public Accountants ( CPAs ) in the United States, with nearly 386, 000 CPA members in 128 countries in business and industry, public practice, government, education, student affiliates and international associates.

Founded in 1976 as a result of the lessons learned from the 1973 Yom Kippur War, JINSA communicates with the national security establishment and the general public to explain the role Israel can and does play in bolstering American interests, as well as the link between American defense policy and the security of Israel.

Founded by Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and W. B. Yeats in 1899 — with assistance from George Moore — it presented plays in the Ancient Concert Rooms and the Gaiety Theatre, which brought critical approval but limited public interest.

Founded in 1872 as an agricultural and mechanical land-grant college, Virginia Tech is a research university with the largest full-time student population in Virginia and one of the few public universities in the United States that maintains a corps of cadets.

Founded by the Quebec government a dozen years earlier, the Caisse was mandated to invest Quebec Pension Plan funds into the private and public sectors.

Founded as a private university, the now public Meio University ( 名桜大学 ) is located in Nago.

Founded on March 5, 1839, as the Farmville Female Seminary Association, Longwood University is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the United States and is one of the oldest public institutions of higher education for women in the United States.

Founded in 1785, it is the oldest and largest of the state's institutions of higher learning and is one of multiple schools to claim the title of the oldest public university in the United States.

Founded in 1991 by Balz " Zor " Meierhans and Olivier " Drake " Maquelin, it opened to the public on February 2, 1992.

Founded in 1804, it was the first university established in the Northwest Territory and is the ninth oldest public university in the United States.

Founded in 1871, its first stage had been opened to the public in 1864.

Founded in May 1996, the University of Pikeville Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine is one of three medical schools in the state of Kentucky.

Founded in 1876 as the Medical Department of Central Tennessee College, it was the first medical school in the South for African Americans.

Founded in 1969, the Association générale des étudiants en médecine de l ’ Université de Sherbrooke represents medical students attending the university ’ s various satellite campuses ( Longueuil, Chicoutimi, Moncton ).

Founded in 1845, it is one of the premier medical institutions in India and is one of the oldest institutions teaching Western medicine in Asia.

Founded during World War II, the medical school was initially housed in a handful of abandoned barracks.

In 1830 he issued his Observations on Blood-letting Founded on Researches on the Morbid and Curative Effects of Loss of Blood, denouncing the widespread practice of bloodletting, which was acknowledged by the medical profession to be of vast practical value, and in 1831 his Experimental Essay on the Circulation of the Blood in the Capillary Vessels, in which he was the first to show that the capillaries are intermediate channels between the arteries and the veins and put the blood in contact with biological tissues.

Founded in 1927 by Fuqing Yan, as National Fourth Zhongshan University Medical College, it was the earliest medical school in China established by a national ( public ) Chinese university, comprising part of Fourth Zhongshan University.

Founded in 1843, it is one of Canada's oldest institutions of medical studies, and is known for the discovery of insulin and stem cells.

Founded in 1956 the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine is one of the earliest established traditional Chinese medical institutions for higher learning in the People Republic of China.

Founded in 1959, it is one of the largest general hospitals in Beijing specialized in neurology and geriatrics, and is experienced in clinical practice, medical education and research, disease prevention and health care etc.

Founded in 1958, it is one of the largest general hospitals in Beijing, but is advanced in nine medical fields, including respiratory, cardiology, hyperbaric oxygen disease and so on.

Founded in 1956, it is one of the large general hospitals in Beijing, specialized in neurosurgery and medical imaging.

Founded in 1945, it is one of the largest specialized stomatological hospitals in China, highly skilled in stomatological treatment and prevention, and contains a comprehensive stomatological clinical medical school.

Founded in 1958, it is one of the largest Traditional Chinese Medicine hospitals in Beijing, undertaking the tasks of training medical students in clinical practice, medical education and research in the field of TCM.

Founded in May 2009 by the regional administration, it provides medical, educational and counseling support to vulnerable groups and individuals such as orphans, the disabled and the blind.

Founded in 1964 as the Medical College of Ohio ( MCO ), its first class of medical students began their studies in 1969.

Founded in 1767 as the medical department of King's College ( now Columbia University ), the College of Physicians and Surgeons was the first medical school in the thirteen colonies and hence, the United States, to award the Doctor of Medicine ( M. D.

Founded in 1898 by Dr. Roswell Park, it was the first dedicated medical facility for cancer treatment and research in the United States.

Founded as a nursing school, the college continues to have a strong focus on medical studies, and also operates a hospital.

Founded in 1769, Semmelweis University () is the oldest medical school in Hungary.

Founded on May 2, 1898, by four librarians and four physicians, the Association of Medical Librarians, as it was known until 1907, was founded “ to encourage the improvement and increase of public medical libraries .” MLA is the second oldest special library association in the United States.

Founded in 1975, CPMU's 150 certified emergency medical technicians respond to 3, 000 calls annually.