Although faculties insist on governing themselves, they grant little prestige to a member who actively participates in college or university government.

Apart from being a member of the prestigious LERU and Universitas 21 networks, the university participates in the European Erasmus and Nordplus programmes.

It participates in the NCAA's Division II, and is the only NCAA conference in any division with a Canadian university as a member.

There are many university research institutes and Leiden participates in over forty nation-wide research schools, twelve of which being located in the heart of Leiden.

The library participates in an inter-campus loan program where students can order books from other university libraries in within the University System of Maryland for temporary use.

UConn participates in the New England Board of Higher Education's Regional Student Program ( NERSP ), which allows students from the five other New England states to enroll at the university at a reduced out-of-state tuition rate if their intended major is not provided by one of their in-state universities.

The university participates in a special guaranteed admissions program with the Connecticut Community Colleges ( CCC ) that is designed for academically qualified students who are attending a Connecticut community college and who are planning to transfer to the University of Connecticut in Liberal Arts & Sciences, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Business, or Engineering.

The university participates in the Big Ten Conference in all varsity sports except ice hockey, which competes in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association.

The university participates in NCAA Division I ( Division I-A for football ) as a member of the Mid-American Conference and the Central Collegiate Hockey Association for ice hockey.

It is involved in a number of business, management and research projects, particularly in supercomputing, where the university participates in a tri-continental array with nodes in Perth, Beijing and Edinburgh.

In this way, the university ensures that everyone has a voice in its decision-making processes and participates in its management.

Running Start provides up to two years of paid tuition at any state-run community college or four-year university that participates in the Running Start program.

The university participates in international exchange and cooperation.

However, the university participates in a student housing foundation, offering mediation services to students.

One of two campus buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Herring-Cole is the site of seminars, archival exhibitions about university history, guest lectures and receptions in which the entire campus community participates.

The university is also a member of Mortar Board national honors society for college seniors, and participates with the National Society of Collegiate Scholars in recognizing the academic achievements of first-and second-year students.

The university participates in a number of intercollegiate athletics as part of the NAIA in the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference.

RMU participates in inter-library lending consortia PALINET and PALCI that allow RMU students to borrow books on site from most of the college and university libraries in the Pittsburgh area.

Fielding athletic teams known as the SIU Edwardsville Cougars, the university participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) at the Division I level as a member of Ohio Valley Conference ( OVC ).

As a Texas public university and a member of the Texas A & M University System, Texas A & M University – Kingsville participates in the Texas " top-10 law ".

The University of Wisconsin Green Bay student body participates actively in issues regarding university governance through the Student Government Association.

UNK participates in intercollegiate athletics at the NCAA at the Division II level and is a member of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association ( MIAA ) for most of its sports ; women's swimming and diving competes in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference ( NSIC ), The university joined the MIAA in 2012 ; prior to joining the conference, UNK was a member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference ( RMAC ).

The university actively participates in the European Union's SOCRATES programme as well as several TEMPUS programmes.

The university participates in well over 30 EU projects.

In addition to official partnership agreements ( see above ) on the university level, there also numerous other channels of international contact on the level of chairs, departments or academic faculties, which often also include student exchange through the ERASMUS programme.

The University of Gloucestershire is also an active participant of the ERASMUS programme and the only UK university to be part of the BCA Programme offering semester abroad, most notably with the USA.

Lectures may be given to ERASMUS students in the native language of the university where they are taking place or in English.

About 1, 000 post-graduate students attend programmes at the university and many students are taking Master of Science engineering programmes and the Master of Architecture programme.

The university also offers a technical preparatory programme for non-scientists and further education.

Although the programme is aimed at children between the ages of one and four, it had a substantial cult following with older generations, mainly university and college students.

The merged university undertook a massive expansion and a £ 350 million capital investment programme in new buildings.

The university is also a member of the Socrates-Erasmus programme for exchange students from all over Europe, promoting advanced engineering and a European dimension.

On successful completion of their programme and achievement of the required grades, students can progress to undergraduate and postgraduate degrees offered at the university.

As an academic discipline at university level, Music Technology ( meaning music produced using software or electronic hardware ) first emerged in the middle of the 1980s, most notably at the University of York, where the Departments of Music and Electronics set up a joint Masters programme in Music Technology in 1986.

During the Japanese university vacation ( February – April ), Chaucer hosts a 4-week vacation programme for Shumei Teacher Education Faculty students whose major is not English.

The university responded to the crisis by organizing a mass vaccination programme, and later took the ground-breaking decision to offer all new students vaccinations.

Only founded in 2003, its Cultural & Communication Management programme has been already ranked the best university programme in that field in German speaking countries, according to the prestigious CHE ranking.

Further change in the structure of the university from 1990 to 1993 made a Bachelor's degree programme mandatory in virtually all subjects.

Following the republican programme he proposed to destroy the influence of the clergy in the university and found his own system of republican schooling.

Halmstad University is a Swedish state university with over 10 000 students, including more than 300 exchange students and more than 300 international programme students.

Each university sets its own criteria of valuing these exams depending on the area of science or art which is taught, for example, a student enrolling in a Philosophy programme will have 0 % or 5 % of points for enrollment extracted from his Mathematics exam, but up to 80 % from Croatian so if the result of the Math test is excellent, but the Croatian test is bad, the student's chances are reduced because only 5 % will be extrapolated from the excellent Math test an a large 80 % percent from the slim result in Croatian, giving the student a lower sum of enrollment points.

depending on the university ) are a first-entry degree programme which, like other first-entry university programmes in any discipline in Quebec, require a college diploma for entry.

Admission to the McGill programme is a first-entry programme in the case of Quebec students ( as a college diploma is required ) while it is a second-entry programme in the case of students from other provinces ( as two years of university studies is required, effectively one extra year of studies more than for a college diploma ).

Since 2000, the university launched a major restructuring programme, which, specifically, translated into a total image rebrand in 2003, the closure of a number of campuses over 2005 – 2011, the expansion of other campuses and generally the consolidation of the university's activities on fewer, bigger campuses in north London.

The 1960s and 1970s saw a huge programme of new academic buildings being built, and in line with contemporary fashion at the time with other university expansion programmes of the period many of these buildings were built in the distinctive ( and controversial ) Brutalist architectural style – the McCance ( 1964 ), Stenhouse ( 1974 ) and Architecture Buildings ( 1966 ) all being good examples of this.

The university has planning permission for a building programme on a part of the campus for a mixture of academic and residential buildings to accommodate increased student numbers.

In this programme, students from various UK institutions spend one to two months during summer studying Mandarin Chinese and Chinese Culture at a university in China.

The university embarked on a £ 150 million programme of investment in 2004, to deliver new buildings and carry out major refurbishment projects.