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  2. University of the People - Wikipedia

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    University of the People was started by Shai Reshef in January 2009. [2] The university has no campus due to its online distance learning nature; it uses a shared office in California as an office of admission. [3] The first UoPeople students began classes in September 2009, studying for associate and bachelor's degrees in business ...

  3. College and university rankings - Wikipedia

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    College and university rankings. College and university rankings order higher education institutions based on various criteria, with factors differing depending on the specific ranking system. These rankings can be conducted at the national or international level, assessing institutions within a single country, within a specific geographical ...

  4. Criticism of college and university rankings (North America)

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    Reed College Reed College. In 1995, Reed College refused to participate in U.S. News & World Report annual survey. According to Reed's Office of Admissions, "Reed College has actively questioned the methodology and usefulness of college rankings ever since the magazine's best-colleges list first appeared in 1983, despite the fact that the issue ranked Reed among the top ten national liberal ...

  5. Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University of Russia

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    The Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (Russian: Российский университет дружбы народов имени Патриса Лумумбы), also known as RUDN University and until 1992 and after March 2023, as Patrice Lumumba University in honour of the Congolese politician Patrice Lumumba, is a public research university located in Moscow, Russia.

  6. University of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.It is one of nine colonial colleges and was chartered prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence when Benjamin Franklin, the university's founder and first president, advocated for an educational institution that trained leaders in academia, commerce, and public service.

  7. Boston University - Wikipedia

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    Boston University. /  42.34889°N 71.10028°W  / 42.34889; -71.10028. Boston University ( BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodists with its original campus in Newbury, Vermont, before being chartered in Boston in 1869.

  8. Johns Hopkins University - Wikipedia

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    Johns Hopkins University. /  39.32889°N 76.62028°W  / 39.32889; -76.62028. Johns Hopkins University [a] (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins was the first American university based on the European research institution model. [6]

  9. University of Liverpool - Wikipedia

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    The University of Liverpool (abbreviated UOL) is a public research university in Liverpool, England. Founded as a college in 1881, it gained its Royal Charter in 1903 with the ability to award degrees, and is also known to be one of the six ' red brick ' civic universities, the first to be referred to as The Original Red Brick.