Universities will offer three-to four-year programs, where a student is often able to choose to focus on drama, while still learning about other aspects of theatre.

Research programs, including field projects such as the VORTEX projects ( Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment ), deployment of TOTO ( the TOtable Tornado Observatory ), Doppler On Wheels ( DOW ), and dozens of other programs, hope to solve many questions that still plague meteorologists .< ref name =" field programs history "> Universities, government agencies such as the National Severe Storms Laboratory, private-sector meteorologists, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research are some of the organizations very active in research ; with various sources of funding, both private and public, a chief entity being the National Science Foundation.

The Cal Poly Universities Rose Float still relies solely on students who volunteer.

The base is still home to Yorkshire Universities Air Squadron and it is from there that they conduct their flying training in the Grob Tutor Aircraft.

The college now accepts students of all faiths and none ; the Catholic character of the foundation is, however, still reflected in the Chapel, which is unique amongst all Colleges of the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford in following the historic Roman Catholic tradition.

As part of the BeNeFri association comprising the Universities of Berne, Neuchâtel and Fribourg, students at any one of these universities may take courses at another in the association and still receive credit at their home institution.

The Tantric communities of India in the latter half of the first Common Era millennium ( and perhaps even earlier ) were something like “ Institutes of Advanced Studies ” in relation to the great Buddhist monastic “ Universities .” They were research centers for highly cultivated, successfully graduated experts in various branches of Inner Science ( adhyatmavidya ), some of whom were still monastics and could move back and forth from university ( vidyalaya ) to “ site ” ( patha ), and many of whom had resigned vows of poverty, celibacy, and so forth, and were living in the classical Indian saiñnyãsin or sãdhu style.

They wrote their findings, in the form of poems in Tamil language, on palm leaves which are collected and stored in what are known today as Palm leaf manuscript, today still owned by private families in Tamil Nadu and handed down through the generations, as well as public institutions such as Universities all over the world ( India, Germany, Great Britain, U. S. A .).

The implementations as above are widely used in Australian Universities, for instance a D. B. A student cannot embark into research phase before passing all his / her courseworks, research proposal and ethics, upon passing proposal stage, he / she still needs to clear ethics from Ethics Committee.

But Universities and Engineering Schools still distinguish the " Master recherche " ( Master of Science ) as it was until recently necessary to join a PhD program.

Due to their roots, most Alpha Kappa Mu chapters are still located at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, though some can be found at predominantly white colleges, and today acceptance is race-blind.

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.

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 such as Washington University in Saint Louis, Arizona State University, Rutgers University, the University of Denver, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the University of Maine, Syracuse University, Texas Tech University, and the University of Toledo use " University College " for the name of the division dedicated to continuing education and the needs of the non-traditional student.

Some facilities shared by both universities use the name " Brussels Free Universities ", abbreviated BFU ( e. g. the Brussels Free Universities Computing Center, BFUCC ).

The station is also home to No. 125 Expeditionary Air Wing, as well as the East of Scotland Universities Air Squadron ( ESUAS ) and XII Air Experience Flight ( 12 AEF ), who both use a fleet of seven Tutor T Mark 1's.

Various American Universities and colleges use Haydn's music as the tune for university hymns.

As a Joint Powers Authority, with the support of the University of Minnesota, the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System, and the Minnesota Department of Education, MECC's role was to study and coordinate computer use in schools for both administrative and educational purposes.

Pakistan Engineering Council ( PEC ), the regulatory body of Engineering profession in Pakistan, registers and awards registration certificates to those graduates only, who complete their engineering studies from Universities / Institutes offering Accredited Engineering Programmes, thus declaring them bona fide Professional Engineers, capable of carrying-out any professional engineering works in private or public sector and are entitled to use the prefix ( Engr.

Universities and colleges in Belgium use the semester system, dividing the academic year in two equal parts of thirteen weeks of courses.

Any institution that wishes to a ) offer a degree and / or b ) use the term " university " must be authorized to do so under an Act of the Legislature or by the Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities under the Post-secondary Education Choice and Excellence Act, 2000.

International league tables of universities across the world, which use a variety of different criteria ( often research output in the sciences and reputation among peer institutions ), have also generally favoured Cambridge over Oxford ; for example the 2010 U. S. News & World Report's World's Best Universities ranking placed Cambridge as 1st in the world and Oxford the 6th.

* Nonprofit Organizations and Universities use customized postage to capture the attention of potential and existing donors.

Universities known to use ejabberd include: Saint Petersburg State University, Taganrog State University and the Division of Information Technology of the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

The term " marriage of convenience " has also come into popular use at the University of Adelaide and other Australian Universities as a sort of catch-cry against the Australian Government's Youth Allowance laws.

Chilean Traditional Universities tend to put a strong emphasis on Prueba de Selección Universitaria while the majority of the private universities use their owns test or handle Prueba de Selección Universitaria scores in a different way than the Chilean Traditional Universities.

Although the Finnish Ministry of Education recommends the English term " polytechnic ", the Rectors ' Conference of Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences has decided to use the term " university of applied sciences ".

CASTEP has been completely written for use on parallel computers by researchers at the Universities of York, Durham, St. Andrews, Cambridge and Rutherford Labs.

Various editions of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer have been translated into Latin: for example, for use in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge ( Liber Precum Publicarum of Walther Haddon, 1560 ).

In Canada, there are Affiliate Schools, Colleges, Institutes of Technology / Polytechnic Institutes, and Universities that offer instruction in a variety of programs that can lead to: applied degrees, apprenticeship and trade programs, certificates, diplomas, and degrees.

Each year, the Universities spend around £ 8 million on access schemes and there is a designated Access Officer in every JCR and students ' union.

The 2011 rankings place Drexel sixth in their list of “ Up and Coming National Universities ” for " promising and innovative changes in the areas of academics, faculty, and student life.

Along with Universities, certain cities also had their own celebrities of biblical knowledge during the medieval period.

Oxford and Cambridge Universities hold bumps races for their respective colleges twice a year, and there are also Town Bumps races in both cities, open to non-university crews.

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 ).

Among these were Robert Boyle, who wrote: " the cornerstones of the Invisible ( or as they term themselves the Philosophical ) College, do now and then honour me with their company ..."; John Wilkins and John Wallis, who described those meetings in the following terms: " About the year 1645, while I lived in London ( at a time when, by our civil wars, academical studies were much interrupted in both our Universities ), ...

Started in 1982, the Universities Summer School is an intensive residential course open to boys and girls throughout the UK who attend maintained schools, are at the end of their first year in the Sixth Form, and are about to begin their final year of schooling.

Universities and high schools can enroll in the MSDN Academic Alliance program, which provides access to some Microsoft developer software for their computer science and engineering students ( and possibly other students or faculty as well ).

Universities and particularly medical schools also maintained study collections of specimens for their students.

These faculty had received their degrees from some of the most prestigious Universities including Berkeley, Columbia, Stanford and Harvard.

* US News and World Report ranked Brandeis No. 31 in their 2012 annual list of Best National Universities, tied with Boston College.

The American Indian Higher Education Consortium ( AIHEC ), since 1972, has been the collective spirit and voice of our nation ’ s Tribal Colleges and Universities, advocating on behalf of individual institutions of higher education that are defined and controlled by their respective tribal nations.

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 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 ).

When universities sign on to a license with Access Copyright ( negotiated by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada ( AUCC ) or the Association of Canadian Community Colleges ), their professors and students are given permission to copy more of copyrighted works than currently allowed under fair dealing by Canadian copyright law.

Eight American Construction Management programs require that students take these exams before they may receive their Bachelor of Science in Construction Management degree, and 15 other Universities actively encourage their students to consider the exams.

RWTH Aachen is one of only six German universities which retain their status as Universities of Excellence from the previous funding period of 2007-2012.

In November 2008, Aberystwyth, Bangor and Swansea Universities decided to exercise their right to register students to study for their own awarded degrees.

Other members of hereditary bardic families sent their sons to the new Irish Colleges that had been set up in Catholic Europe for the education of Irish Catholics, who were not permitted to found schools or Universities at home.

In recent years there has been an increase in the number of universities with their own degree awarding powers owing to the change in the University of Wales from a single awarding body for most of the Universities in Wales to a confederal structure, along with former institutes gaining university status.

Although the current legislation rules argue with this concept, the technical schools issue certificates that their degree is equal to a master's that they have no lawful meaning at all., although the European Universities recognize the five – years Engineering Diploma to be equivalent to a master's.