One of the more noteworthy changes that have taken place since the mid-19th century is the situation of Catholics at Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

However none of these islands have yet participated in the World Universities Debating Championships.

For several years, U. S. News & World Report, the QS World University Rankings, and the Academic Ranking of World Universities have ranked MIT's School of Engineering first, as did the 1995 National Research Council report.

According to the Good Universities Guide to Australian universities, starting salaries for Macquarie graduates have been ranked as the highest in Australia for ten consecutive years ( 1998 – 2007 ) and in 2009, the university received 5 star ratings in six different performance categories including non-government earnings, staff qualifications and toughness of admissions.

Universities therefore have few incentives to investigate allegations in a robust manner, or act on the findings of such investigations if they vindicate the allegation.

While Universities have the ability and power to design and offer their own degree courses, each TAFE degree course must be assessed and approved by the Higher Education Accreditation Committee ( HEAC ).

The two countries have also maintained close ties through an exchange of cultural and educational partnerships which include the Guggenheim Museum, and a number of American Universities opening campuses in the Emirates.

Universities in the United Kingdom have generally been instituted by Royal Charter, Papal Bull, Act of Parliament or an instrument of government under the Education Reform Act 1988 ; in any case generally with the approval of the Privy Council, and only such recognised bodies can award degrees of any kind.

Universities from outside Quebec have four-year Bachelor degree programs, because secondary study in all provinces outside of Quebec ends with grade 12 ( rather than secondary study ending with grade 11 and then being followed by two years of college study, as in Quebec ).

According to the ' Patterns 3 ' report by Universities UK, " The Russell Group and the 1994 Group share many features, but are distinguished chiefly by the fact that most members of the Russell Group have medical schools, and an emphasis on science and technology.

Universities have also labeled this area of analysis Sexual Diversity Studies, Sexualities Studies or LGBTQ Studies ( Q for " Questioning " and / or " Queer ").

Universities also have associated presses.

As a result, AIHEC is eligible to have a representative participate in the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges ' Council of Presidents.

Universities may also have a musicology department, and do research on many styles of music.

The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge could each enter as separate teams up to five of their constituent colleges, which are not themselves universities: they have far fewer students-numbering in the hundreds rather than thousands-than most universities.

A vast majority ( 76 %) of the current faculty of AUEB have obtained their PhD degrees from the USA or the UK, in Universities such as Harvard, Columbia, MIT, Cambridge, Northwestern University, Berkeley University, NYU, Pennsylvania, LSE, LBS, Warwick, Manchester, Strathclyde, Essex, Maryland, City, Bath, Reading, etc.

Universities have longer holidays ( about 2 months, but this may include re-examinations ) and usually start the year in late August or early September.

Birmingham's sport activities have been consistently ranked within the top three in British Universities competitions for the past 15 years.

These men and women have the option to pursue the PGA Education through self-study, by the use of accredited PGA Golf Management Universities, or through an accelerated PGA Golf Management Program.

Universities and the professions often have their own rules of precedence applying locally, using ( for example ) on university or professional rank, each rank then being ordered within itself on the basis of seniority ( i. e. date of attaining that rank ).

Universities that have opted out:

Universities that have signed on:

Moreover Universities have been deemed to be " the great, largely unknown, and certainly underexploited, resource contributing to the creation of wealth and economic competitiveness.

Universities and other public sector research organisations ( PSROs ) have accumulated much practical experience over the years in the transfer of knowledge across the divide between the domains of publicly produced knowledge and the private exploitation of it.

As a result, the English system of common law developed in parallel to Roman-based civil law, with its practitioners being trained at the Inns of Court in London rather than receiving degrees in Canon or Civil Law at the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge.

Between 1973 and 1975, Shining Path members gained control of the student councils in the Universities of Huancayo and La Cantuta, and developed a significant presence in the National University of Engineering in Lima and the National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas.

During these decade, the classical orchestra mainly developed in Universities as extracurricular activity for students which include choir.

* Digital Egypt for Universities, developed by The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.

The Canadian Jesuit Bernard Lonergan developed a comprehensive critical realist philosophy and this understanding of critical realism dominates North America's Catholic Universities.

The campus was developed as part of the Combined Universities in Cornwall ( CUC ) initiative, a venture which brings together Cornwall's further education colleges with the founding members University College Falmouth, University of Exeter and University of Plymouth.

For the greater part of its existence, it was housed in a temporary wood and corrugated iron structure, affectionately known as the Tin Temple, on the corner of Rissik and Plein streets in central Johannesburg. The Institute grew and developed, and in time gave rise to the Universities of the Witwatersrand and Pretoria.

Universities and corporations used these compilers and a number of other software products have been developed in the WATFOR tradition.

Students who meet the grades go on to study at Universities in the UK, US, Canada, South Africa and other developed countries.

In support of the NCEP operational forecasting mission, the EMC develops, improves and monitors data assimilation systems and models of the atmosphere, ocean and coupled system, using advanced methods developed internally as well as cooperatively with scientists from Universities, NOAA Laboratories and other government agencies, and the international scientific community.

Coupled with Suzuki, the intense physical acting training developed by Tadashi Suzuki and his Company, SCOT, SITI Company ’ s training methods have become widespread tools of theatre instruction with classes of various levels taught in Universities and colleges across the United States and in seasonal intensives led by SITI Company members in New York City, Saratoga Springs, NY and in cities around the world.

Similar classifications had been developed for earlier censuses, notably by Stan Openshaw and colleagues at Newcastle and Leeds Universities, but access to these generally was restricted to the academic communities.

Universities are generally composed of several colleges.

There are several think tanks that are established and operate under the auspices of Universities.

Universities no longer require the use of protractors and compasses to create drawings, instead there are several classes that focus on the use of CAD software.

There is also an annual British Universities Sailing Association Team Racing Championship, contested by 32 teams after several rounds of regional qualifiers.

ANU is a member of several university alliances and cooperative networks, including the Group of Eight, the Association of Pacific Rim Universities, the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy and the International Alliance of Research Universities.

ANU is a member of several university alliances and cooperative networks, including the Group of Eight, the Association of Pacific Rim Universities, the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy and the International Alliance of Research Universities.

It is also one of the highest ranked universities in Asia and the Southern Hemisphere according to several compilations, including the Academic Ranking of World Universities, and the QS World University Rankings ( the latter two were amalgamated as the THE-QS World University Rankings until 2010 ).

The university, currently under the administration of President Narciso S. Erguiza, is a member of several international university associations ( including the ASEAN University Network and International Association of Universities ) as well as local organizations ( such as the South Manila Inter-Institutional Consortium ).

He was honoured for his missionary work by Glasgow and Oxford Universities and he seems to have made enough money in India to fund several prizes to promote missionary activity back home.

The IACC contains several hundred computers and computer servers for many of the Universities in the North Dakota University System ; and many other technologies and communication devices.

It is also the parent station to several remote units in the central Scotland area, mainly the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde Air Squadron, but also 661 and 662 Volunteer Gliding Squadrons.

He received the title of Doctor honoris causa from several Universities in Brazil, Portugal, Italy, Israel and France, as well as other honors in almost every South American country, including Obá de Xangô ( santoon ) of the Candomblé, the traditional Afro-Brazilian religion of Bahia.

A very specific characteristic of all Cooperative Education Universities consist in tight arrangements with Enterprises in Germany, which allows students to spend several months per year in practical work ( as much as half of the academic year ).

After doing test runs with several other Universities mail programs, two developers at UCC implemented their own version, which also contained a message board feature, and was the campus wide e-mail solution for a couple of years.

The first wave of referendums were held in 1999, in which several Polytechnics and two Universities ( the University of Waikato and the University of Auckland ) elected to become voluntary.

Having narrative transcripts instead of traditional letter grades, as well as learner-designed curricula, Goddard was one of the Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities, which also included Franconia, Nasson, Antioch, and several other educational institutions.

NIU is also a member of the prominent Universities Research Association that manages several federal physics laboratories including Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.

In addition to Straight University, the AMA helped found several other Historically Black Colleges and Universities, such as Clark Atlanta University, Fisk University, Hampton University, Howard University ( with Freedmen's Bureau ), Huston-Tillotson University, LeMoyne-Owen College, Talladega College, and Tougaloo College.

It was ranked 37th out of several hundred Midwestern Universities in 2006, and 47th in 2007, 40th in 2008, and 55th in 2009.