On 26 September 2008, the university announced its intention to return swimming to a varsity status in September 2009.

In 2008 no member of the BJU science faculty held a degree in geology, and the university offered only one introductory course in the subject.

In November 2008, the university declared itself " profoundly sorry " for having allowed " institutional policies to remain in place that were racially hurtful.

At a forum at the university during the 2008 presidential election campaign, both John McCain and Barack Obama said that the university should consider reinstating ROTC on campus.

According to a 2008 article in The Wall Street Journal, Dartmouth graduates also earn higher median salaries at least 10 years after graduation than alumni of any other American university surveyed.

* 2008 – Northern Illinois University shooting: a gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois university resulting in 6 fatalities ( including gunman ) and 18 injuries.

The university has recently declined consistently in these rankings: of the top 200 universities, after being placed 67th in 2005, it ranked equal 168th in 2007, 182nd in 2008 and 189th in 2009.

Beginning in late 2008, the university considered a merger with Baylor College of Medicine, though the merger was ultimately rejected in 2010.

The Red Wolves were officially approved by the university board of trustees on March 7, 2008.

In the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Stanford won more Olympic medals than any university in the United States and, in terms of medals won, tied with the country of Japan for 11th place.

SFU has been rated as Canada's best comprehensive university ( in 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 ) in the annual rankings of Canadian universities in Maclean's magazine since 1991.

In 2008, the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, the regional accreditor of the UC schools, criticized the UC system for " significant problems in governance, leadership and decision making " and " confusion about the roles and responsibilities of the university president, the regents and the 10 campus chancellors with no clear lines of authority and boundaries.

The university has a " very high " level of research activity and received $ 463. 7 million in sponsored research from 2008 to 2009.

* In 1935, the university opened the College of Business Administration, which it renamed as the Collins College of Business Administration in 2008.

The 2008 budget of the university was € 715 million.

As of 2008, the university has 52, 445 students ( including 1, 612 degree students from abroad ) and 3, 657 academic staff.

On 22 April 2008, the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa was conferred on him by the University of Malta, celebrated by a Settimana Dantesca including Benigni's first stage appearance at a university and the premiere of his performing with Dante scholar Robert Hollander.

In 2008, a U. S. university study of international promiscuity found that Finns have had the largest number of sex partners in the industrialized world, British people having the largest number among big western industrial nations.

On June 3, 2008, he received the title of Doctor of the Novosibirsk University during a ceremony in Akademgorodok, for the cooperation between Intel and the university.

In 2009 " America's Best Colleges " ranked Yeshiva University as the 50th best national university rising from the 2008 rank of 52nd.

In 2008 Brighton was the first university in the country to achieve an ' outstanding ' rating for management and quality assurance across the full range of primary, secondary and post-compulsory ( 16 +) teacher education courses.

According to a report in 2008, 215 out of 300 students who scored the top 10 in the 30 tested provinces and regions chose Tsinghua and 21 out of the 30 top scorers in each province and region chose the university.

It was ranked the 1st in mainland China by Chinese University Ranking Chinese university ranking and ranked 1st in mainland China by Netbig in 2010, 2009, 2008.

American Samoa has a total of 241 km of highways ( estimated in 2008 ).

In the UK in 2009 it was estimated that up to 12 million shoppers appeared at the sales ( a rise of almost 20 % compared to 2008, although this was also affected by the fact that the VAT would revert to 17. 5 % from 1 January ).

As of 2008, the country had an estimated 987 km of gauge track.

Annual celebrations also take place in Hong Kong, entitled Canada D ' eh and held on June 30 at Lan Kwai Fong, where an estimated attendance of 12, 000 was reported in 2008 ; in Afghanistan, where members of the Canadian Forces mark the holiday at their base ; and in Mexico, at the American Legion in Chapala, and the Canadian Club in Ajijic.

For example, according to a 2008 study by Ipsos, the number of British fantasy sports players aged 16 – 64 is estimated to range between 5. 5 and 7. 5 million.

A 2008 United Nations Development Programme census estimated that there were around 4, 000 personnel in the Armed Forces.

The World Health Organisation estimated that Malaria killed almost one million people in 2008.

As of 2008, there are between 28, 000 and 30, 000 distinct incunable editions known to be extant, while the number of surviving copies in Germany alone is estimated at around 125, 000.

Approximately 5 % of Hawaii residents speak Japanese, with an estimated 12. 6 % of the population of Japanese ancestry in 2008.

* 2008 – Sixteen infants in Gansu Province, China, who had been fed on tainted milk powder, are diagnosed with kidney stones ; in total an estimated 300, 000 infants are affected.

The telecommunications in the Republic of Macedonia consist of an estimated 550, 000 main telephone lines in use as of 2005, and an estimated 2, 079, 000 cellular phones in use as of 2008.

There are an estimated 410, 000 radios in use and there are 136 television broadcast stations as of 1997, with an estimated 1, 890, 000 televisions in use as of 2008.

Growth is estimated at 5 percent in 2007 and is projected to increase to 7 percent in 2008.

Morocco suffers both from unemployment ( 9. 6 % in 2008 ), and a large external debt estimated at around $ 20 billion, or half of GDP in 2002.

* In July 2008, Portugal cancelled Mozambique ’ s remaining debts to Portugal, estimated at US $ 393. 4 million, accumulated from independence until 2005.

As of 2008, there were approximately 7. 6 million Mahjong players in Japan and an estimated 8, 900 Mahjong parlors did ¥ 300 billion in sales.

At the time of the last official census in Burma, 31 March 1983, the population was 35, 442, 972., this was estimated by the CIA World Factbook to have increased to 54, 584, 650 ; however, many other estimates put this much higher, at around 60 million: China's People Daily reported that Burma had a census in 2007, and at the end of 2009 has 59. 2 million people, and growing at 2 % annually, with exception for Cyclone Nargis in 2008, and Britain-based human rights agencies place the population as high as 70 million.

Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten estimated in January 2008 that some 13, 000 moose had died in collisions with Norwegian trains since 2000.

Gross Domestic Product ( GDP ) in purchasing power parity ( PPP ) in 2008 was estimated at $ 16. 83 billion USD, and GDP per capita in PPP at $ 2, 600 USD, making Nicaragua the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

Nicaraguan labor force is estimated at 2. 261 million of which 29 % is occupied in agriculture, 19 % in the industry sector and 52 % in the service sector ( 2008 ).

As of July 1, 2008, the United States Census Bureau estimated New Mexico's population at 1, 984, 356, which represents an increase of 165, 315, or 9. 1 %, since the last census in 2000.

As of 2008, the Italian national institute of statistics ( ISTAT ) estimated that 310, 543 foreign-born immigrants live in Piedmont, equal to 7. 0 % of the total regional population.