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  2. Durham College - Wikipedia

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    Durham College is a public college in Ontario, Canada, with two main campuses in Oshawa and Whitby. Durham College offers over 145 [ clarification needed ] academic programs, including five honours bachelor degrees and nine apprenticeship programs, to around 13,600 full-time students.

  3. Durham University - Wikipedia

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    For the undergraduate admissions cycle 2013–14, Durham received 26,030 applications (for around 4,200 places), of which 38.4 per cent were from independent schools and 13.8 per cent (of UK applications) from ethnic minorities, overall 64.2 per cent of applicants were successful in receiving an offer of admissions.

  4. Duke University - Wikipedia

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    In 1892, Trinity College moved to Durham, largely due to the generosity of Julian S. Carr and Washington Duke, powerful and respected Methodists who had grown wealthy through the tobacco and electrical industries. Carr donated land in 1892 for the original Durham campus, which is now known as East Campus. At the same time, Washington Duke gave ...

  5. British Universities and Colleges Sport - Wikipedia

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    University College Sport (UCS) Official website. www .bucs .org .uk. British Universities and Colleges Sport, commonly abbreviated as BUCS, is the governing body for higher education sport in the United Kingdom. BUCS is responsible for organising 54 inter-university sports in the United Kingdom, as well as representative teams for the FISU ...

  6. Yale University - Wikipedia

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    History This section may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. (July 2021) Early history of Yale College Origins Charter creating the Collegiate School, which became Yale College, October 9, 1701 Yale traces its beginnings to "An Act for Liberty to ...

  7. Trinity College, Oxford - Wikipedia

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    The college was founded in 1555 by Sir Thomas Pope, on land previously occupied by Durham College, home to Benedictine monks from Durham Cathedral. [7] Despite its large physical size, the college is relatively small in terms of student numbers at approximately 400.

  8. Sarah Lawrence College - Wikipedia

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    Sarah Lawrence College was established in 1926 by the real-estate mogul William Van Duzer Lawrence on the grounds of his estate in Westchester County and was named in honor of his wife, Sarah Bates Lawrence. The college was originally intended to provide instruction in the arts and humanities for women.

  9. University of New Hampshire - Wikipedia

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    www .unh .edu. The University of New Hampshire ( UNH) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Durham, New Hampshire. It was founded and incorporated in 1866 as a land grant college in Hanover and moved to Durham in 1893, and adopted its current name in 1923.