29 January 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Sport , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Ada is a village in
Hardin County ,
Ohio ,
United States , located about 69 miles (111 km) southwest of
Toledo . The population was 5,334 at the
2020 census . It is the home of
Ohio Northern University . The
National Arbor Day Foundation has qualified Ada as a
Tree City USA since 1981.
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17 November 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Gainesville is the
county seat of
Alachua County, Florida , and the largest city in
North Central Florida , with a population of 141,085 in 2020. It is the principal city of the
Gainesville metropolitan area , which had a population of 339,247 in 2020. Gainesville is home to the
University of Florida , the
fourth-largest public university campus by enrollment in the United States as of the 2021–2022 academic year. The university is represented by the
Florida Gators sports teams in
NCAA competitions.
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2 September 2023 | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien | Rubric: General , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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The University of Manchester is a
public research university in
Manchester , England. The main campus is south of
Manchester City Centre on
Oxford Road . The university owns and operates major cultural assets such as the
Manchester Museum ,
The Whitworth art gallery, the
John Rylands Library , the
Tabley House Collection and the
Jodrell Bank Observatory – a
UNESCO World Heritage Site . The University of Manchester is considered a
red brick university , a product of the civic university movement of the late 19th century. The current University of Manchester was formed in 2004 following the merger of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) and the Victoria University of Manchester. This followed a century of the two institutions working closely with one another.
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1 September 2023 | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien | Rubric: General , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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The University of St Andrews (
Scots : University o St Andras;
Scottish Gaelic : Oilthigh Chill Rìmhinn; abbreviated as
St And , from the
Latin : Sancti Andreae, in
post-nominals ) is a
public university in
St Andrews , Scotland. It is the
oldest of the four
ancient universities of Scotland and, following the universities of
Oxford and
Cambridge , the third-oldest university in the
English-speaking world . St Andrews was founded in 1413 when the
Avignon Antipope Benedict XIII issued a
papal bull to a small founding group of
Augustinian clergy. Along with the universities of
Glasgow ,
Aberdeen , and
Edinburgh , St Andrews was part of the
Scottish Enlightenment during the 18th century.
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31 August 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Cornell University is a
private Ivy League land-grant research university based in
Ithaca, New York . The university was founded in 1865 by
Ezra Cornell and
Andrew Dickson White . Since its founding, Cornell has been a
co-educational , non-
sectarian institution where admission has not been restricted by religion or race. The student body for the fall 2022 semester consisted of more than 15,000 undergraduate and 7,000 graduate students from all 50 American states and 130 countries.
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30 August 2023 | Author/Destination: European Free Trade Association | Rubric: General , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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ETH Zurich (English: ETH; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich; German: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich) is a
public research university in
Zürich , Switzerland. Founded by the
Swiss federal government in 1854, it was modeled on the
École polytechnique in Paris, with the stated mission to educate engineers and scientists; the school focuses primarily on
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics , although its 16 departments span a variety of disciplines and subjects.
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29 August 2023 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Rubric: General , Union for the Mediterranean , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology is a
public research university located in
Haifa ,
Israel . Established in 1912 under the dominion of the
Ottoman Empire , the Technion is the oldest university in the country. The Technion is ranked as one of the top universities in both Israel and the
Middle East , and in the world’s top 100 universities in the 2022
Academic Ranking of World Universities .
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9 August 2023 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Utrecht University (UU;
Dutch :
Universiteit Utrecht , formerly
Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht ) is a
public research university in
Utrecht, Netherlands . Established 26 March 1636, it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2021, it had an enrollment of 36,390 students, and employed 8,276 faculty members and staff. More than 400 PhD degrees were awarded and 8,500 scientific articles were published. The 2021 budget of the university was €1.026 billion.
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19 July 2023 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General , Paris / Île-de-France , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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The
Paris Institute of Political Studies (
French : Institut d’études politiques de Paris), also known as Sciences Po or Sciences Po Paris, is a
public research university located in
Paris ,
France , that holds the status of
grande école and
grand établissement . The institute has decentralized campuses in
Dijon ,
Le Havre ,
Menton ,
Nancy ,
Poitiers and
Reims , each with their own academic program focused on a geopolitical part of the world. Sciences Po historically specialized in
political science and
history , then it progressively started to expand to other social sciences such as
economics ,
law and
sociology .
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