Prominent examples in the US include the so-called Little Three, Colby-Bates-Bowdoin, and Little Ivy colleges in New England, the surviving, predominantly female Seven Sisters colleges along the northeastern seaboard, and the Claremont Colleges in Southern California, but similar institutions are found all over the country.

Three Cambridge colleges admit only women ( Murray Edwards, Newnham and Lucy Cavendish ).

Williams forms part of the historic Little Three colleges, along with Wesleyan University and rival Amherst College.

Amherst has historically had close relationships and rivalries with Williams College and Wesleyan University which form the Little Three colleges.

Three more church colleges ended up joining the university.

Three colleges are located in adjoining counties.

Three colleges announced plans to join the USA South Conference beginning in the 2012-2013 season while one will depart the league.

Three colleges remain single sex at Cambridge: Murray Edwards ( New Hall ), Newnham and Lucy Cavendish.

Three colleges comprise the university ’ s academic offerings: Arts and Sciences, Business, and Education and Health Sciences.

Three colleges associated with the Roman Catholic Church and Dublin City University are located in Drumcondra:

McKinsey is one of the market leading " Big Three " in management consulting services to the Fortune 500 set, along with Bain & Company and The Boston Consulting Group, consistently recruiting top talent globally from elite colleges, professional schools, and graduate schools.

Excelsior College is one of several regionally accredited colleges operating on a model similar to Thomas Edison State College in New Jersey, and Charter Oak State College in Connecticut referred to in distance learning circles as The Big Three.

Over time, the rivalry among the " Little Three " colleges — Niagara, Canisius, and St. Bonaventure — came to dominate the Auditorium's college basketball schedule.

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Three Canadian residential colleges are distinguished by being for graduate students rather than undergraduates — Green and St. John's Colleges at UBC, and Massey College at the University of Toronto.

* HYP — an initialism referring to the " Big Three " Northeastern U. S. colleges: Harvard College, Yale College, and Princeton University

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Three former colleges in Aalesund, the College of Marine Studies, the College of Engineering and Aalesund College of Nursing were then merged into one institution.

The " Little Three " is an unofficial athletic conference of three liberal arts colleges in New England, United States.

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* Little Three-Three liberal arts colleges in New England ( Amherst, Wesleyan, and Williams ), in contrast to the Big Three of the Ivy League ( Harvard, Yale, and Princeton )

But at Yalta the conflicting expectations of East and West were merged into an agreement by the Big Three to assist all liberated countries in Europe `` to create democratic institutions of their own choice ''.

Three leagues competed for the Cup: two league champions faced each other for the right to challenge the third champion in the final series .< ref >< nowiki > Diamond, Zweig, and Duplacey </ nowiki >, pp. 20 – 21 </ ref > This lasted three seasons as the PCHA and the WCHL later merged to form the Western Hockey League ( WHL ) in 1925 .< ref name =" DiamondPrize-21 ">< nowiki > Diamond, Zweig, and Duplacey </ nowiki >, p. 21 </ ref > After winning in the 1924 – 25 season, the Victoria Cougars became the last team outside the NHL to win the Stanley Cup.

In September 2011, Southeast Wisconsin Council and Milwaukee County Council merged to form Three Harbors Council.

Three lodges merged to form Ag-Im, these were: North Woods Circle Lodge # 156, Copper Country Council: Ottawa Lodge # 198, Iron Range Council: Minnewasca Lodge # 250, Red Buck Council.

Three small subdivisions ( now neighborhoods )— Sherwood Forest, El Jardin ( Spanish for " The Garden "), and El Portal — merged into the Village of El Portal.

Three former Lutheran churches long ago merged into Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church ( ELCA ).

Three small villages ( Village of LaDue, Village of Deer Creek, and the Village of McKnight ) merged in 1936 to become what is now known as Ladue.

* Three 7090 systems were imported into and installed in Japan in 1963, one each at Mitsubishi Nuclear Power Co. ( whose DP division later merged with Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc .), IBM Japan's data center in Tokyo, and Toshiba in Kawasaki.

Three months later all the eight former monarchies merged into the new state of Thuringia.

Three weeks later, on 15 November 1922, the Far Eastern Republic was merged with the RSFSR.

Three months later, on April 6, 1917, the USPD was founded at a conference in Gotha, with Hugo Haase as the party's first chairman ; the Spartakusbund also merged into the newly founded party, but retained relative autonomy.

( Three other Ontario cities were similarly merged on the same date in 2001.

Since then, the airline acquired and merged with a number of domestic airlines, becoming one of China's " Big Three " airlines ( alongside Air China and China Eastern Airlines ).

It was merged with another story, " The Adventure of the Three Garridebs ".

Devonport was originally one of the " Three Towns " ( along with Plymouth and East Stonehouse ); these merged in 1914 to form what would become in 1928 the City of Plymouth.

On November 1, 2004 Amtrak merged the Pennsylvanian and Three Rivers, keeping the latter name with a western terminus in Chicago.

Three other major fiber companies merged with JDS Uniphase during the telecom boom: Optical Coating Laboratory Inc. ( OCLI ) based in Santa Rosa, California, E-TEK Dynamics and SDL bought for 45 B $, both based in San Jose, California.

Three of its teams, the San Francisco 49ers, the Baltimore Colts and the Browns, merged into the NFL.

Three secondary schools were merged into two schools: Rhosnesni ( formerly known as St. James Gardners's ), and Ysgol James Gardner ( formerly known as James Gardner ).

Three Afar groups — Action for the Revision of Order in Djibouti, the Front for the Restoration of Right and Equality, and the Djibouti Patriotic Resistance Front — merged in 1991 to form FRUD.

Three post-primary schools, St. Joseph's Convent Secondary School, Ballyhaunis Vocational School, and St. Patrick's College, were merged to form Ballyhaunis Community School which opened in September 1977.

Three years later, it merged with the Sighthill-based Edinburgh College of Commerce to form Napier College of Commerce and Technology, which became a Central Institution in 1985.

Three hydropower stations at the Laxá River previously owned by the municipality of Akureyri were merged into Landsvirkjun.

Three years later, Télébec merged with seven other phone companies: Téléphone Princeville ltée, Télécommunication Richelieu ltée, Téléphone de Contrecoeur ltée, Compagnie de Téléphone La Tuque ltée, Télécommunications de l ' Est ltée, Compagnie de Téléphone Arthabaska ltée, and Compagnie de Téléphone Pontiac ltée.