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The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a multi-campus university of global standing, with distinctive strengths in education and research and an entrepreneurial dimension. It offers a comprehensive range of disciplines ranging from architecture to medicine to music. The NUS student community comprises a cosmopolitan mix of over 32,000 students from 88 countries, contributing to a vibrant and thriving campus life.

History:
In September 1904, Tan Jiak Kim led a group of representatives of the Chinese and other non-European communities, and petitioned the Governor of the Straits Settlements, Sir John Anderson, to establish a medical school in Singapore. Tan, who was the first president of the Straits Chinese British Association, managed to raise $87,077, of which the largest amount of $12,000 came from himself. On 3 July 1905, the medical school was founded, and was known as the Straits and Federated Malay States Government Medical School. The medical library was first housed in the students’ reading room within the school, converted from the vacant old female lunatic asylum in Sepoy Lines.

In 1912, the medical school received a donation of $120,000 from the King Edward VII Memorial Fund, started by Dr Lim Boon Keng. Subsequently on 18 November 1913, the name of the school was changed to the King Edward VII Medical School. In 1921, it was again changed to the King Edward VII College of Medicine to reflect its academic status.

In 1929, Raffles College was established to promote arts and social sciences at tertiary level for Singapore students.

Two decades later, Raffles College was merged with the King Edward VII College of Medicine to form the University of Malaya on 8 October 1949. The two highly respected institutions were merged to perform together an even greater service by providing for the higher education needs of the Federation of Malaya and Singapore and to help lay the foundations of a new nation by producing a generation of skilled and educated men.

In 1959, the University of Malaya was divided into two divisions, University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur and University of Malaya in Singapore. The latter division formed the University of Singapore in 1962.

The present institution was formed with the merger of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University in 1980. The original crest of Nanyang University with three intertwined rings was incorporated into the new coat-of-arms of NUS

NUS continued to fare well in the major disciplines. It is top in Asia for Life Sciences & Biomedicine and Social Sciences, taking the 12th and 20th spots respectively in the world ranking for these disciplines. NUS also emerged second among Asian universities for Technology and Arts & Humanities while ranked 10th and 21st in the world respectively. The University remained within the world’s top 25 for Natural Sciences.

NUS was ranked 33rd in the world and 4th in Asia in the Times Higher Education Supplement-Quacquarelli Symonds (THES-QS) University Rankings 2007

Delft University of Technology, (Technische Universiteit Delft in Dutch) in Delft, the Netherlands, is the largest and most comprehensive technical university in the Netherlands, with over 13,000 students and 2,100 scientists (including 200 professors). It is a member of the IDEA League.

Although the University only received its current name in 1986, it has been providing technical education for 165 years.

On January 8, 1842, King Willem II founded the ‘Royal Academy for the education of civilian engineers, for serving both nation and industry, and of apprentices for trade’. The Academy also educated civil servants for the colonies and revenue officers of the Dutch East Indies.

An Act passed on May 2, 1863, imposing regulations on technical education as well as bringing it under the influence of the rules applying to secondary education. Then, on the 20th of June, 1864, a Royal Decree was issued, ordering that the Royal Academy in Delft be disbanded in order to make way for a new ‘Polytechnic School’. The School went on to educate architects, and engineers in the fields of civil works, shipbuilding, mechanical engineering and mining.

On May 22, 1905, an Act was passed, acknowledging the academic level of the School’s technical education – it became a ‘Technische Hogeschool’, or an ‘Institute of Technology’. Queen Wilhelmina attended the Institute’s official opening ceremony on July 10, 1905. The Institute’s first Rector Magnificus was the professor of hydraulic engineering ir. J. Kraus. The Institute was granted corporate rights by an Act passed on June 7, 1956.

It was an Act which took effect on 1st September, 1986, that officially transformed the Institute of Technology into Delft University of Technology, also known as ‘TU Delft’.

Undergraduate Programs
Aerospace Engineering
Applied Earth Science
Applied Mathematics
Applied Physics
Architecture
Civil Engineering
Computer Science
Electrical Engineering
Industrial Design Engineering
Life Science & Technology
Marine Technology
Mechanical Engineering
Molecular Science & Technology
Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis & Management

Graduate Programs
The university offers the following graduate programs (sorted by faculty). All programs lead to a M.Sc. degree.
Aerospace Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
Geomatics
Applied Sciences
Applied Physics
Biochemical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Life Science & Technology
NanoScience
Science Education & Communication
Teacher programme (TULO)
Architecture
Architecture
Building Technology
Real Estate & Housing
Urbanism
Civil Engineering and Geosciences
Applied Earth Sciences
Civil Engineering
Geomatics
Offshore Engineering
Transport, Infrastructure & Logistics
Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Applied Mathematics
Computer Engineering
Computer Science
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Power Engineering (track)
Microelectronics (track)
Telecommunications (track)
Embedded Systems
Media & Knowledge Engineering
Bioinformatics (track)
Industrial Design Engineering
Design for Interaction
Integrated Product Design
Strategic Product Design
Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Marine Technology
Materials Science & Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Offshore Engineering
Systems & Control
Transport, Infrastructure & Logistics
Technology, Policy and Management
Engineering & Policy Analysis
Geomatics
Management of Technology
Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis & Management
Transport, Infrastructure & Logistics

TU Delft ranked 63rd in the 2007 THES-QS World University Ranking

ETH Zurich University Ranked 42th in the 2007 THES-QS World University Ranking

ETH Zurich was founded in 1855 as Federal Polytechnical School. In view of its 150th anniversary 2005, the chair for the history of technology of ETH Zurich has produced the «ETHistory 1855–2005» web site.

The ETH is a federal institute (i.e., under direct administration by the Swiss government), whereas the University of Zurich is a cantonal institution. The decision for a new federal university was heavily disputed at the time, because the liberals pressed for a “federal university”, while the conservative forces wanted all universities to remain under cantonal control, with the goal of giving liberal thoughts no refuge. In the beginning, both universities were co–located in the buildings of the University of Zurich.

In 1909, the course program of the ETH was restructured to that of a real university, from its early, very schoolish agenda, and the ETH was granted the right to award doctorates. In 1911, it was given its current name, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule. In 1924, another reorganization structured the university in 12 departments.

Since 1993 the ETH Zürich, the EPFL, and four associated research institutes were joined and administered together as the “ETH Bereich”.

The ETH is regularly ranked among the top universities in the world. It is placed between 3rd and 6th in Europe and between 10th and 27th in the world in international rankings by the Academic Ranking of World Universities and the Times Higher Education Supplement World University Rankings. It was also ranked 12th by the latter in both sciences and technology in 2005.

Historically, the ETH achieved its reputation particularly in the fields of chemistry, mathematics and physics. There are 21 Nobel Laureates who are associated with the ETH, counting only graduates of the ETH and Professors who have been honored for their work at ETH. The most recent Nobel Laureate is Kurt Wüthrich who was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2002.

Education
The basis of education at the ETH Zurich is formed by the core areas of engineering, natural sciences, architecture and mathematics. In addition, courses in physical education and military sciences are offered. The goal of instruction is to enable the students to acquire solid technical knowledge, practical skills, and the ability to take part in interdisciplinary activities. Relying on an atmosphere of a mutual trust among teachers and students, and a reciprocal awareness of social and ethical concerns, the ETH Zurich encourages in its students both individual creativity and the ability to reflect on and evaluate their own actions, with the aim of achieving a comprehensive outlook and a responsible mode of behaviour. Considering the need for a new approach to knowledge and technology and a better understanding of the nature of man, the ETH Zurich treats the humanities and social sciences as integral parts of its educational profile.

Further education
The ETH Zurich takes into account the fact that learning is being seen more and more as a life-long process. Correspondingly, the basic curriculum is kept relatively short and is later supplemented by postgraduate and further education courses. This is to promote a more rapid transfer of knowledge and technology between the university and the world outside.

Research
At the ETH Zurich teaching and research are closely linked. Equal standing is assigned to knowledge-oriented basic research and to problem-solving research. Both areas are dedicated to fulfilling the highest standards, and are long-term oriented. The ETH Zurich is specially committed to the continuous development of that innovative potential within society and industry.

International links
As an institute of higher learning and research, the ETH Zurich cultivates an international standing. It is aware that its scientific contribution has to be confirmed by the international research community. Thus the ETH Zurich strongly supports international co-operation in all fields of research and education. As a long-term strategy, it also devotes special attention to structurally and economically underdeveloped countries.

Co-operation
The ETH Zurich encourages partnerships and interdisciplinary co-operation among members of its community, with other educational and research institutions, with industry, and with the public administration, and it believes in keeping the public informed regarding these activities. The sustainable development of human society depends on our efforts both to create and support a strong and innovative economy.

Self-management
The ETH Zurich sets itself the goal of efficient self-management in the sense of providing optimal services to education and research within the given juridical framework. It endeavours to gain additional financial support, beyond the allotted public funds, from industry and private sources. Faithful to the basic principles of research and teaching, the ETH Zurich practices an economical use of resources such as land, materials and energy, and assigns high priority to security for human beings and the environment.

Employer
In its relationship with staff, the ETH Zurich conceives itself to be a responsible employer committed to observing up-to-date employment practices and working conditions. It adheres to a co-operative, fair style of management, allowing forms of participation appropriate to employeesí occupation and position, and it maintains an open information policy. No discrimination among its members is permitted on the basis of sex or social, ethnic or religious origin. The ETH Zurich wants to increase the proportion of women in all fields of research, teaching and administration. The ETH Zurich demands a high level of human and professional competence from senior personnel in all categories.

Location Zurich
The ETH Zurich benefits greatly from Zurichís urban setting. It feels closely tied to and responsible towards the city and canton. For its part it contributes to the cultural life of the city and region, and in all its activities pays regard to urban needs.

ETH Zurich Ranked 42th in the 2007 THES-QS World University Ranking

University of Sydney Ranking in World and Information:

The University of Sydney, founded in 1850, is Australia’s first university, and has an international reputation for outstanding teaching, as a centre of research excellence and as an active and engaged community leader.

The Quadrangle, photo, copyright David White.

The University of Sydney continues to rise in global rankings, confirming its place within the top 40 universities in the world.

The University’s humanities teaching and research was ranked fifth best in the world in the UK’s Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) World University Rankings published in October 2006.

The University as a whole was ranked 35th in the world in the same league table.

In the Newsweek global 100 for 2006, the University of Sydney was one of two Australian universities placed in the top 50 in the world.
As one of Australia’s leading universities, the University of Sydney is a key member of:

the Group of Eight – representing Australia’s leading research-intensive universities

Academic Consortium 21 (AC21) – an international network of educational, research and industrial organisations in Asia, the United States and Europe

the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) – Sydney is one of three Australian institutions in this group of prestigious universities drawn from Asia, the United States and South America, and

the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) – an international alliance of 16 leading research universities.
The University of Sydney measures its organisational performance by benchmarking against world class peers and industry. Key benchmarking activities include:

benchmarking of student data with Oxford, Queensland and Melbourne Universities

the provision of expert advice to parallel programs at UCL, Edinburgh and Hong Kong Universities, and

ICT policy development in collaboration with the Open University.

The benefits from such benchmarking activities are clear. The Learning Community Scale was developed in conjunction with Oxford University. The development of the MEd (Higher Education) program was a result of benchmarking with Edinburgh University.

Professional accreditation is another way the University’s professional faculties benchmark themselves and the quality of their programs. The University has relationships with 41 accrediting bodies, including six international bodies.
The University is committed to the communities to which it belongs internationally, nationally and locally. Numerous community links have been forged by academic and research disciplines as well as dedicated units such as the Koori Centre and Yooroang Garang, which work closely with Indigenous communities.

Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney College of the Arts, the University Museums and the Seymour Theatre Centre open the University’s cultural life to the community. In 2006, around 50,000 people visited the University’s outstanding Museums; a further 22,000 attended Conservatorium performances and 170,000 went to performances and public lectures at the Seymour Centre. A further 21,000 people participate each year in community education courses offered by the Centre for Continuing Education.

Many student organisations, such as the debating club and drama society, have long traditions of enriching student life and providing a springboard for future careers. High profile Australians such as Prime Minister John Howard, Justice Michael Kirby and radio presenter Adam Spencer have been University of Sydney debaters.

Sydney University Sport has produced more Australian representatives and won more major competitions than any other club. Most recently:

basketball player Belinda Snell and 400m relay runner Clinton Hill both won gold medals at the 2006 Commonwealth Games

another four Sydney University athletes took silver medals at the Commonwealth Games

Sydney University Rugby Club retained the Tooheys New Cup, winning the premier Sydney grade championship

Sydney University’s Men’s VIII rowing team won the Oxford and Cambridge Cup for the third year in a row, and

the Australian Women’s Water Polo team, featuring Sydney University Lions Fiona Hammond and Tanielle Gofers, won the World Championship.

The University of Sydney, Ranked 31st in the recent THES-QS 2007 World University Ranking

Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League. Particularly well-known are its undergraduate school, Yale College, and the Yale Law School, each of which has produced a number of U.S. presidents and foreign heads of state.

In 1861, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences became the first U.S. school to award the Ph.D. degree. Also notable is the Yale School of Drama which has produced many prominent Hollywood and Broadway actors, as well as the art, forestry and environment, music, medical, management and architecture schools, each of which is often cited as among the finest in its field.

The university’s assets include a $22.5 billion endowment (the second-largest of any U.S. academic institution) and more than a dozen libraries that hold a total of 12.1 million volumes (the second-largest university library system). Yale has 3,300 faculty members, who teach 5,300 undergraduate students and 6,000 graduate students.

Yale’s 70 undergraduate majors are primarily focused on a liberal curriculum, and few of the undergraduate departments are pre-professional in nature. About 20% of Yale undergraduates major in the sciences, 35% in the social sciences, and 45% in the arts and humanities. All tenured professors teach undergraduate courses, more than 2,000 of which are offered annually.

Yale uses a residential college housing system modeled after those at Oxford and Cambridge. Each of 12 residential colleges houses a representative cross-section of the undergraduate student body, and features facilities, seminars, resident faculty, and support personnel.

Yale’s graduate programs include those in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences — covering 53 disciplines in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering — and those in the Professional Schools of Architecture, Art, Divinity, Drama, Forestry & Environmental Sciences, Law, Management, Medicine, Music, Nursing, and Public Health.

Yale and Harvard have been rivals in almost everything for most of their history, notably academics, rowing and American football.

Yale president Richard C. Levin summarized the university’s institutional priorities for its fourth century: “First, among the nation’s finest research universities, Yale is distinctively committed to excellence in undergraduate education. Second, in our graduate and professional schools, as well as in Yale College, we are committed to the education of leaders.”

The nicknames “Elis” (after Elihu Yale) and “Yalies”are often used, both within and outside Yale, to refer to Yale students.

Admissions
The acceptance rate for Yale College for the Class of 2011 was 9.6%.For the Class of 2010, the acceptance rate was 8.9% with a 71.1% yield; 728 were waitlisted, of which 56 were admitted.

Yale College offers need-blind admissions and need-based financial aid to all applicants, including international applicants. Yale commits to meet the full demonstrated financial need of all applicants, and more than 40% of Yale students receive financial assistance. Most financial aid is in the form of grants and scholarships that do not need to be paid back to the University, and the average scholarship for the 2006–2007 school year will be $26,900.

Half of all Yale undergraduates are women, more than 30% are minorities, and 8% are international students. Furthermore, 55% attended public schools and 45% attended independent, religious, or international schools.

Admissions policies
Yale, like nearly all of its peer institutions, has been criticized for its supposed preferential admissions policies toward certain groups. These groups include African-Americans and Hispanics (affirmative action), children of alumni (legacy preferences), and athletes (athletic recruitment). However, Yale offers need-blind admissions and need-based financial aid to all applicants, including applicants from lower income groups and international applicants.

In the 2005 book The Chosen, Jerome Karabel unfavorably chronicles the use of non-academic criteria at Yale and its peer institutions throughout their histories. In the 2006 book The Price of Admission, Daniel Golden makes similar points regarding preferences given to wealthy and famous applicants.

In 2006, Yale came under public pressure for its admission of Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former ambassador-at-large for the Taliban, as a non-degree student. Critics on both the right and left questioned the University’s decision, both in light of Yale’s refusal to allow ROTC on campus and the University’s lack of support for programs offering educational opportunities for victims of the Taliban regime. In the summer of 2006, Yale denied Hashemi’s application to its more selective degree-granting program, now called the Eli Whitney Students Program.

Yale University ranked 4th in the 2007 THES-QS World University Ranking

The University Of California (UC) has been ranked amongst the World’s Top 20 and Top 5 universities in USA the QS World University Rankings 2008 conducted by the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES). University Of California (UC) was ranked 7th in world.

The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state’s three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University system and the California Community Colleges system.

The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States).Its first campus, UC Berkeley, was founded in 1868, while its tenth and newest campus, UC Merced, opened in the fall of 2005. All campuses enroll both undergraduate and graduate students, with two exceptions: the University of California, San Francisco campus enrolls only graduate and professional students in the medical and health sciences, and the independently administered Hastings College of the Law (also located in San Francisco) enrolls only graduate students. Six of its undergraduate campuses are ranked among the top 50 universities by both the U.S. News and World Report and the Academic Ranking of World Universities.

The University of California’s campuses boast large numbers of distinguished faculty in almost every field. The University is considered a model for public institutions across the United States, although as of the 2005-06 fiscal year, only 29% of its total budget comes from the State.

Academics

UC researchers and faculty are responsible for 5,505 inventions and 2,497 patents. UC researchers create 3 new inventions per day. At 32 million items, the University of California library system contains the third largest collection in the world, after the Library of Congress and the British Library.

Collectively, the system counts among its faculty (as of 2002):
389 members of the Academy of Arts and Sciences
5 Fields Medal recipients
19 Fulbright Scholars
25 MacArthur Fellows
254 members of the National Academy of Sciences
91 members of the National Academy of Engineering
13 National Medal of Science Laureates
32 Nobel laureates. Nobel laureates are present at all campuses except Davis, Merced, Riverside, and Santa Cruz.
106 members of the Institute of Medicine

AAU and AASCU
The University of California and most of its campuses are members of the Association of American Universities (AAU), while the California State University and several of its campuses are members of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU).

The University of California is governed by the Regents of the University of California, as required by the current Constitution of the State of California. Eighteen regents are appointed by the governor for 12-year terms. One member is a student appointed for a one-year term. There are also 7 ex officio members — the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Speaker of the Assembly, Superintendent of Public Instruction, president and vice president of the Alumni Associations of UC, and the UC President.

The Academic Senate, made up of faculty members, is empowered by the Regents to set academic policies. In addition, the systemwide faculty chair and vice-chair sit on the Board of Regents as non-voting members.

Originally the President ran only the first campus, Berkeley. Now, the Regents appoint a president to run the entire system. The UC Office of the President is located in downtown Oakland and effectively serves as the system headquarters. Individual campuses are managed by Chancellors, who are given a great degree of autonomy.

Admissions

Each UC school handles admissions separately, but a student wishing to apply for undergraduate admission uses one application for all UCs. If it is not already in electronic form, the application is then scanned into a computer and distributed to the individual campus undergraduate admission offices. Graduate and professional school admissions are handled directly by each department or program to which one applies.

Prior to 1986, students who wished to apply to a UC for undergraduate study could only apply to one campus. If the student was rejected at that campus, but otherwise met the UC minimum eligibility requirements, he or she would be redirected to another campus with available space. For students who did not wish to be redirected, the application fee was returned. In 1986, that system was changed to the current “multiple filing” system, in which a student can apply to as many or as few UC campuses as he or she wants on one application, paying a fee for each campus. This system significantly increased the numbers of applications to the Berkeley and Los Angeles campuses, since students could choose which campus they wanted to attend after they received acceptance letters, without the fear of being redirected to a campus they did not want to attend.

The University of California accepts fully eligible students from among the top eighth of California public high school graduates through regular statewide admission, or the top 4% of any given high school class through Eligibility in the Local Context (see below). All eligible California high school students who apply are accepted to the University, though not necessarily to the campus of choice. Eligible students who are not accepted to the campus(es) of their choice are placed in the “referral pool”, where campuses with open space may offer admission to those students.

Undergraduate admissions are conducted on a two-phase basis. In the first phase, students are admitted based solely on academic achievement. This accounts for between 50 to 75% of the admissions. In the second phase, the university conducts a “comprehensive review” of the student’s achievements, including extracurricular activities, essay, family history, and life challenges, to admit the remainder. Very rarely, students who do not qualify for regular admission are “admitted by exception.” In 2002, 2% of these exceptions were granted.

The process for determining admissions varies. At some campuses, such as Davis, Santa Barbara, and San Diego, a point system is used to weight grade point average, SAT Reasoning or ACT scores, and SAT Subject scores, while at Berkeley, Irvine, and Los Angeles, academic achievement is examined in the context of the school and the surrounding community.

Race, sex, national origin, and ethnicity have not been used as UC admission criteria since the passing of Proposition 209. However, this information is collected for statistical purposes.

The University of Otago (Māori: Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo) in Dunedin is New Zealand’s oldest university with over 20,000 students enrolled during 2006. It is the South Island’s largest employer and claims to have the world’s 2nd longest continuously running annual student revue (the Capping Show) and New Zealand’s oldest ballet company (the Selwyn Ballet).

The University is known throughout the country for its unique student lifestyle and particularly its flatting culture, where students generally share semi-dilapidated housing units with a unique name and “character building” domestic life. The nickname Scarfie applies to the students after the cold weather and traditional habit of wearing a scarf for most of the year.

Otago graduates are known to be among the most dispersed alumni in the world, with many graduates ultimately settling in Australia, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, United States, China, Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka, Japan or elsewhere in New Zealand.

Founded in 1869 by a committee including Thomas Burns, the university opened in July 1871. Its motto is “Sapere aude” (“Dare to be wise”). (The University of New Zealand subsequently adopted the same motto.) The University of Otago Students’ Association answers this with its own motto, “Audeamus” (“let us dare”).

Between 1874 and 1961 the University of Otago was a part of the University of New Zealand, and issued degrees in its name.

The University of Otago, founded in 1869 by an ordinance of the Otago Provincial Council, is New Zealand’s oldest university. The new University was given 100,000 acres of pastoral land as an endowment and authorised to grant degrees in Arts, Medicine, Law and Music.

The University opened in July 1871 with a staff of just three Professors, one to teach Classics and English Language and Literature, another having responsibility for Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and the third to cover Mental and Moral Philosophy. The following year a Professor of Natural Science joined the staff. With a further endowment provided in 1872, the syllabus was widened and new lectureships established: lectures in Law started in 1873, and in 1875 courses began in Medicine. Lectures in Mining were given from 1872, and in 1878 a School of Mines was established; this later became the Department of Mineral Technology and was transferred to the University of Auckland in 1987.

The University was originally housed in a building (later the Stock Exchange) on the site of John Wickliffe House in Princes Street but it moved to its present site with the completion of the northern parts of the Clocktower and Geology buildings in 1878 and 1879. The School of Dentistry was founded in 1907 and the School of Home Science (now Consumer and Applied Sciences) in 1911. Teaching in Accountancy and Commerce subjects began in 1912. Various new chairs and lectureships were established in the years between the two world wars, and in 1946 teaching began in the Faculty of Theology. The School of Physical Education was opened in 1947.

A federal University of New Zealand was established by statute in 1870 and became the examining and degree-granting body for all New Zealand university institutions until 1961. The University of Otago had conferred just one Bachelor of Arts degree, on Mr Alexander Watt Williamson, when in 1874 it became an affiliated college of the University of New Zealand. In 1961 the University of New Zealand was disestablished, and the power to confer degrees was restored to the University of Otago by the University of Otago Amendment Act 1961.

Since 1961, when its roll was about 3,000, the University has expanded considerably (in 2002 there were some 18,000 students enrolled) and has broadened its range of courses to include undergraduate courses in Surveying, Pharmacy, Medical Laboratory Science, Education, Teaching and Physiotherapy, as well as specialised postgraduate courses in a variety of disciplines.

Faculties

Administratively, the university is divided into four divisions: Commerce, Health Sciences, Humanities, and Sciences. For external and marketing purposes, the Division of Commerce is known as the School of Business, as that is the term commonly used for its equivalent in North America. Historically, there were a number of Schools and Faculties, which have now been grouped with standalone departments to form these divisions.

In addition to the usual university disciplines, the Otago Medical School (founded 1875) is one of only two in New Zealand (with constituent branches in Christchurch and Wellington), and is the only university in the country to offer training in Dentistry. Other professional schools and faculties not found in all New Zealand universities include Pharmacy, Physical Education, Physiotherapy, Medical Laboratory Science, and Surveying. It was also home to the School of Mines, until this was transferred to the University of Auckland in 1987. Theology is also offered, traditionally in conjunction with the School of Ministry, Knox College, and Holy Cross, Mosgiel.

University of Otago ranked 114th in the 2007 THES-QS World University Ranking

University of Calgary ranked 166th in the 2007 THES-QS World University Ranking

The University of Calgary is a research-intensive public university in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The University is composed of 24,000 undergraduate and 5,500 graduate students.

Initially the Calgary Branch of the University of Alberta in the first half of the 20th century, the University of Calgary separated from the University of Alberta, and was founded in 1966. The University of Calgary, or “U of C”, is composed of 16 faculties including a teachers’ college, law school, and medical school. In 2008 the University of Calgary opened a veterinary school bringing the number of faculties to 17. The campus is in the north-west quadrant of Calgary.

The University of Calgary is one of the top research-intensive universities in Canada with seventh most Canada Research Chairs.It is a member of the G13 (Group of Thirteen), Association of Commonwealth Universities, International Association of Universities, and the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada. The university has a sponsored research revenue of $282 million, with total revenues exceeding $800 million. Being in Calgary, with Canada’s highest concentration of engineers and geoscientists, both the Faculty of Science, Department of Geosciences and the Schulich School of Engineering maintain ties to the petroleum and geoscience industry

Academics

he University of Calgary has a full complement of academic programs ranging from pure science to social science in areas such as psychology and economics, to several options in the field of health sciences. With access to several professional schools, including the Haskayne School of Business, the Schulich School of Engineering, the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, students keep their options open, and discover their own personal passion. The U of C also encourages multi-disciplinary programs, meaning students can combine their interest areas and create an education that suits them.
The University of Calgary has 17 faculties with more than 60 departments and more than 30 research institutes and centres. The 17 faculties are: Law; Nursing (Calgary); Nursing (Qatar); Social Work; Communication and Culture; Education; Environmental Design; Fine Arts; Haskayne School of Business; Humanities; Kinesiology; Medicine; Schulich School of Engineering; Science; Social Sciences; Veterinary Medicine; Graduate Studies; and Continuing Education.
The university recently opened a campus in Doha, Qatar, offering internationally accredited nursing degrees to students in the Middle East. University of Calgary-Qatar will work with the Hamad Medical Corporation to offer world-class clinical nursing education to educate nurses for clinical specialties and to develop a sustainable nursing workforce. Graduates from the Qatar program will meet the same Canadian and international standards for nursing as students from the Calgary campus.
Canada’s fifth veterinary school and the first newly created program in more than 20 years—the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine—opened its doors to students in September 2008. This innovative four-year doctor of veterinary medicine program leverages the principles of integration, collaboration and technology to offer a multi-species/multidisciplinary core as well as three specialized curricular streams: food production, population medicine and investigative medicine.

The Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine are located on the south campus adjacent to the Foothills Hospital. The Kananaskis Field Station, located a short drive from the city on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, and the Rothney Astrophysical Observatory, located in the foothills south of the city, represent satellite institutes of the university.

Faculty

The faculties are:
Faculty of Communication and Culture
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Environmental Design
Faculty of Fine Arts
Faculty of Graduate Studies
Haskayne School of Business
Faculty of Humanities
Faculty of Kinesiology
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Nursing
Schulich School of Engineering
Faculty of Science
Faculty of Social Sciences
Faculty of Social Work
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

University of Calgary ranked 166th in the 2007 THES-QS World University Ranking

There are a number of computer science schools in the United States that offer computer courses and have sprung up due to the increasing demand for trained Information Technology (IT) professionals. from research work it is announced the top ranked computer science graduate school/college in United State (US) for year 2009 is given below. and MIT is given a first rank for computer science degree in US.

In the year 2009 and upcoming years person having Computer Science degree will have very bright future, because now a day everything in this world became to be computerize and we must needs the good programmer or we can say enough intelligent to understand and solve the computer programming language problems. So for that you student needs to get the knowledge of Computer Science from right university and here are the list of top ranked university in United State for Computer Science.

Graduate School Rankings – Computer Science 2009
Below are the list of top ranked 26 Colleges for Computer Science in US for year of 2009

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Stanford University (SU)
University of California Berkeley (UC)
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Cornell University
Princeton University
University of Washington (UW)
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Texas Austin (UT)
California Institute of Technology (CIT)
University of Wisconsin Madison
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
University of Maryland College Park
University of Michigan
Columbia University (CU)
Harvard University
University of California, San Diego
Purdue University
Brown University
Duke University
Rice University
University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)
University of Southern California (USC)
Yale University

Top ranked Computer Science University – Artificial Intelligence

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Stanford University
University of California Berkeley (UC)
University of Texas Austin (UT)
University of Washington

Top ranked Computer Science University – Programming Language

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
University of California Berkeley (UC)
Stanford University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Cornell University

Top ranked Computer Science University – Systems

University of California Berkeley (UC)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Stanford University
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
University of Washington

Top ranked Computer Science University – Theory

University of California Berkeley (UC)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Stanford University
Cornell University
Princeton University

Source: usnews.com

List of Top Ranked Medical Colleges in USA:
USA has many university and colleges but out of which some of are the best for study medical courses. Here we have provided the top ranked medical colleges in USA. The ranking of USA medical colleges is taken by US News & World Report.

Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School is ranked as the number 1 according to U.S.News & World Report. Located in Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts Harvard Medical School was established on September 19, 1782. Harvard Medical School(HMS) has 627 MD, 141 MD-PhD and 577 PhD Students.

TUITION AND FEES: $41,647

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Johns Hopkins Medicine is ranked as the number 2 according to U.S.News & World Report. Located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States Johns Hopkins Medicine was established in 1876. Johns Hopkins Medicine has 482 MD and 758 PhD Students.

TUITION AND FEES: $51,478

Penn Medicine

Penn Medicine is ranked as the number 3 according to U.S.News & World Report. Located in University City section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, it was the United States’s first school of medicine, founded at the College of Philadelphia, as the University was then called. Penn Medicine was established in 1876. Penn Medicine has 720 Students.

TUITION AND FEES: $42,706

Washington University School of Medicine

Washington University School of Medicine is ranked as the number 4 according to U.S.News & World Report. Located in St. Louis, Missouri, it is one of the most competitive and highly regarded medical schools and biomedical research institutes in the United States. Washington University School of Medicine was established in 1891. Penn Medicine has 588 MD, 155 MD-PhD and 435 PhD Students.

TUITION AND FEES: $43,380

UCSF School of Medicine

UCSF School of Medicine is ranked as the number 5 according to U.S.News & World Report. Located in California, Sansfrancisco, it is one of the world’s leading centers of health sciences research, patient care, and education. University of California–San Francisco was established in 1873. University of California–San Francisco has 594 Students.

TUITION AND FEES: $35,683

Duke University School of Medicine

Duke University School of Medicine is ranked as the number 6 according to U.S.News & World Report. Located in Durham, North Carolina, United States Duke University School of Medicine was established in 1838. Duke University School of Medicine has 404 Students.

TUITION AND FEES: $41,817

University of Washington School of medicine

University of Washington School of medicine is ranked as the number 7 according to U.S.News & World Report. University of Washington School of medicine is a public medical school located in Seattle, Washington, United States. University of Washington School of medicine was established in 1946 now having 810 Students. The UW School of Medicine also ranks as one of the top medical schools in receipt of federal researching funding, having been awarded US$573 million in grants by the National Institutes of Health in fiscal year 2006.

TUITION AND FEES: $41,904

Stanford University School of Medicine

Stanford University School of Medicine is ranked as the number 8 according to U.S.News & World Report. Located in Stanford University Medical Center in Stanford, California, adjacent to Palo Alto and Menlo Park, United States it was established in 1959. Stanford University School of Medicine has 472 Students.

TUITION AND FEES: $41,760

University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine

University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine is ranked as the number 9 according to U.S.News & World Report. Located in Los Angeles, California, United States it was established in 1881. University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine has 693 Students. The Geffen School of Medicine has an acceptance rate of only 4.5%.

TUITION AND FEES: $34,796

Yale School of Medicine

Yale School of Medicine is ranked as the number 10 according to U.S.News & World Report. Located in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. it was established in 1810. Yale School of Medicine has 413 MD, 74 MD/PhD, 71 PA. The faculty includes 25 National Academy of Sciences members and 24 Institute of Medicine investigators.

TUITION AND FEES: $40,770