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University of Glasgow

The Institution of Glasgow is a public research university located in the Scottish capital of Glasgow. It was founded by a papal decree in 1451, making it the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient institutions, according to the University of Edinburgh website. During the 18th century, the institution, together with the universities of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and St Andrews, was a key component of the Scottish Enlightenment movement.
Since 1870, the university's main campus has been situated in Gilmorehill in the city's West End, where it was originally located on the city's High Street but has since relocated. Several university facilities are also situated outside of the city, including the Veterinary School in Bearsden and the Crichton Campus in Dumfries and Galloway.
Students from all over the globe are drawn to the University because of its excellent educational standards, stringent admission criteria (which are the fourth highest in the United Kingdom), and strong international research reputation. Glasgow is a World Top 100 university, which means that the institution is ranked among the top one percent of all institutions in the world. More precisely, the University of Glasgow was rated 53rd and 67th worldwide in the 2020 CWTS Leiden and 2020 QS World University Rankings, respectively, and was also listed among the top ten institutions in the United Kingdom in the latter ranking. Research accomplishments in the United Kingdom were recognised as "internationally outstanding" in 81 percent of cases, according to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014, and the university was ranked 10th in terms of research volume. It was recognised for its commitment to reparative justice by being named "THE University of the Year" for the year 2020.
Many notable figures from modern history have graduated from the University of Glasgow, including James Wilson, a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence, three Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom (William Lamb, Henry Campbell-Bannerman, and Bonar Law), two Scottish First Ministers (Nicola Sturgeon and Donald Dewar), economist Adam Smith, philosopher Francis Hutcheson, engineer James Watt, physicist Lord Kelvin, surgeon Joseph Lister, and eight Nobel laureates.
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University of Hertfordshire

In the county of Hertfordshire, located in the United Kingdom, there is a public institution known as the University of Hertfordshire (UH). The majority of the university's operations are conducted from its location in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. Its predecessor, Hatfield Technical College, was established in 1948, and in 1959 it was recognised as one of the 25 Colleges of Technology in the United Kingdom. The British government elevated Hatfield Polytechnic to the status of a university in 1992, and the institution was subsequently rebranded as the University of Hertfordshire. It is a university that was founded after the year 1992.
The majority of Hertfordshire's operations are conducted at two campuses: College Lane and de Havilland. It has about 25,130 students, including over 5,200 foreign students who together represent 100 nations as of the year 2021. With approximately 2,700 staff employees, including 812 academic members of staff, the university is one of the major employers in the county of Hertfordshire. It generates more than 235.0 million in revenue per year. 
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University of Illinois Chicago

The University of Illinois at Chicago, often known as UIC, is a public research institution that may be found in Chicago, Illinois. The Near West Side neighbourhood area, which is near to the Chicago Loop, is home to the institution's campus. The Institution of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is the biggest university in the Chicago metropolitan region and the second campus to be created within the University of Illinois system. UIC has over 33,000 students enrolled in a total of 16 different schools. The designation "R1: Doctoral Universities - Very high research activity" applies to this institution.
The Chicago College of Pharmacy, which was founded in 1859, is the progenitor of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). The University of Illinois at Chicago Circle and the University of Illinois at the Medical Center merged into a single institution in 1982, marking the beginning of the university's formal founding year. Today, the university is recognised as a pioneering institution around the globe in a variety of academic fields, including nursing, pharmacy, communication, education, legal studies, and public administration.
UIC's athletic teams, known as the UIC Flames, currently participate in the NCAA Division I Horizon League. The university will join the Missouri Valley Conference in July 2022. Home basketball games for the Flames are played in the Credit Union 1 Arena, which was previously known as the UIC Pavilion.
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, or colloquially the University of Illinois or UIUC). It is a public land-grant research university located in the Illinois twin towns of Champaign and Urbana. This flagship school of the University of Illinois system was established in 1867 and is the oldest in the state. The University of Illinois, with approximately 56,000 undergraduate and graduate students, is one of the country's biggest public institutions in terms of enrolment, ranking third in the nation.
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is a member of the Association of American Universities and is classified as one of the "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very High Research Activity" institutions. It has also been designated as a "Public Ivy" institution by Howard and Matthew Greene in their book The Public Ivies: America's Flagship Public Universities (2001). During the 2019 fiscal year, Illinois researchers spent a total of $652 million on research. The campus library system, second only to Harvard University in terms of holdings, is the second-largest university library system in the United States. Furthermore, the institution is home to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), which houses the world's fastest supercomputer on a college or university campus.
Illinois is home to 16 colleges and universities that provide more than 150 undergraduate and more than 100 graduate programmes in various fields of study. There are 651 buildings on 6,370 acres (2,578 hectares) of land within the institution, and the university's yearly operational budget in 2016 exceeded $2 billion. It also runs a Research Park, which houses innovation labs for over 90 start-up businesses and major organisations, including Abbott, AbbVie (formerly Caterpillar), Capital One (formerly Dow), State Farm (formerly Yahoo), and Yahoo (formerly AOL).
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University of Ilorin

The University of Ilorin, usually referred to as Unilorin, is a university located in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria. It is wholly owned and operated by the federal government. In August of 1975, a directive issued by the federal military administration first laid the groundwork for its establishment. The establishment's goal was to put into action one of the educational directives outlined in the Third National Development Plan. This directive was designed to increase the number of possibilities available to Nigerians who aspired to get a degree from a university and to produce high-level workforce, both of which are essential for the economy's fast expansion. The university encompasses around 15,000 hectares of land, which places it among the higher education establishments in the nation with one of the greatest land expanses. According to JAMB's projections, in the year 2021, it would be the university in Nigeria that attracts the most applicants.
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University of Johannesburg

The University of Johannesburg (abbreviated as UJ) is a public institution of higher learning that may be found in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), the Technikon Witwatersrand (TWR), and the Soweto and East Rand campuses of Vista University came together to form the University of Johannesburg on January 1, 2005. This came about as a result of a merger that took place between these three educational institutions. RAU was already home to the Daveyton and Soweto campuses of the formerly known as Vista University before the merger. As a consequence of the merger that created Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), former students and faculty often refer to the institution simply as RAU. Professor Tshilidzi Marwala currently serves as the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Johannesburg. He was sworn into office on January 1, 2018. Prof. Ihron Lester Rensburg served as Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Johannesburg from 2005 till 2017.
Out of the 26 public universities that make up South Africa's system of higher education, the recently established institution is one of the biggest comprehensive contact institutions in the country. The University of Johannesburg has a total student body of over 50,000, with over 3,000 students coming from a total of 80 different countries.
UJ is comprised of four campuses, all of which may be found within the metropolitan region of the City of Johannesburg: the Auckland Park Kingsway campus, the Auckland Park Bunting Road campus, the Doornfontein campus, and the Soweto campus.
The Senate is the entity at the university that is responsible for academic concerns, and the majority of its members are full professors as well as heads of departments. According to the legislation, it is the responsibility of the Senate to answer to the Council of the university for all of the teaching, learning, research, and academic activities of the institution, as well as for any additional tasks that have been delegated or assigned to it by the Council.
About 250 people make up the present membership of the University of Johannesburg Senate, which is presided over by Vice Chancellor Professor Tshilidzi Marwala. The Registrar serves as the Senate's Secretarial Officer at the UJ. The Department of Higher Education and Training is the largest stakeholder in the University of Johannesburg, and Minister Blade Ndzimande is now in charge of the department.
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Category:Public universities in South Africa
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University of Jos

The University of Jos, often known as Unijos, is a Federal University that can be found in Jos, which is located in Plateau State in the middle of Nigeria.
In November of 1971, what was formerly a satellite campus of the University of Ibadan was transformed into what is now known as the University of Jos. The first students were accepted as pre-degree students in January of 1972, and the first Bachelor of Arts degree programme didn't start until October of 1973. In October of 1975, the military government that was in power at the time, led by General Murtala Mohammed, founded the Unijos as its own independent institution. Professor Gilbert Onuaguluchi was the first individual to hold the position of Vice Chancellor at the Unijos. In October of 1976, the newly reformed University of Jos started offering classes to a total of 575 students. These students were distributed among the university's four current faculties: education, arts and social sciences, natural sciences, and medical sciences. In 1977, post-graduate programmes were made available to students. By 1978, the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences had been split apart, and a Faculty of Law and a Faculty of Environmental Sciences had been founded.
Unijos was awarded a grant of $2 million by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 2003 so that it could establish its own fundraising department.
Before moving to its current location in Jos, this academic library, which had previously been situated on the grounds of the University of Ibadan, had been founded in 1962 with the intention of fostering teaching, learning, and research. Presently. Along Bauchi road, just across from the Federal College of Forestry in Jos is where you'll find the library. The library is divided up into divisions such as the circulation unit, the system unit, the reserve unit, and the serial unit.
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University of Kansas

The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research institution that has multiple satellite campuses, research and educational institutes, medical facilities, and classrooms located around the state of Kansas. The main campus of the university is located in Lawrence, Kansas, in the United States. On the Kansas side of the Kansas City metropolitan region, the institution has two branch campuses: the medical school and hospital of the university are located in Kansas City, Kansas, while the Edwards Campus is located in Overland Park. At addition, there are locations for teaching and research in Garden City, Hays, Leavenworth, Parsons, and Topeka. There is also a centre for agricultural education in the more rural part of north Douglas County, and there are campuses of the medical school in both Salina and Wichita. The institution is categorised as "R1: Doctoral Universities - Very high research activity," and it is a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU).
The university was established on March 21, 1865, and it first opened its doors in 1866. It operated under a charter that had been granted by the Kansas State Legislature in 1864 and legislation that had been passed in 1863 under the State Constitution. The State Constitution had been adopted two years after the 1861 admission of the former Kansas Territory as the 34th state into the Union.
There were 23,958 students registered at the Lawrence and Edwards campuses in the fall of 2021. There were an additional 3,727 students registered at the KU Medical Center (KUMC), bringing the total number of students registered at all three campuses to 27,685. In the autumn of 2021, the university as a whole (including KUMC) had a total of 4,776 faculty members (including professors, professors' administrative assistants, graduate student workers, and librarians).
As members of the Big 12 Conference, the athletic teams from the University of Kansas participate in NCAA Division I sports under the name Jayhawks. They compete at the varsity level in sixteen different sports and also have club teams for ice hockey, rugby, and men's volleyball.
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University of Lagos

The Institution of Lagos, sometimes referred to by its acronym UNILAG, is a public research university that was established in 1962 and is situated in Lagos, Nigeria. It is one of the first generation universities in Nigeria and is listed among the top institutions in the world in major education magazines. UNILAG is also one of the first universities in Africa. Currently, the institution maintains a presence in mainland Lagos through three separate campuses. Although it has two sites in Yaba (the main campus in Akoka and a newly established campus on the location that was formerly occupied by the school of radiography), the college of medicine is situated in the neighbourhood of Idi-Araba, which is in Surulere. The primary campus spans 802 acres and is located in a region that is mostly occupied by the Lagos lagoon. At the moment, more than 9,000 first-year students are accepted each year, and the total number of students enrolled at the university is over 57,000.
A visitation panel that was established to investigate the operations of the university between the years 2016 and 2020 found instances of financial mismanagement on the part of high-ranking administrators, and as a result, the university was ordered to terminate its relationships with commercial banks.
In 1962, two years after Nigeria gained its independence from Britain, UNILAG was established as a university. It was one of the first five universities to be established in the nation. He served in that capacity until 1965, when he was succeeded in that role by Saburi Biobaku. Saburi, however, was attacked by Kayode Adams, a student radical who claimed Biobaku's appointment was unjust and racially motivated. Adams was inspired to stab Saburi because of the controversy that surrounded Biobaku's nomination.
Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe has served as the university's vice chancellor since 2017 and continues to do so now. According to a story published by the BBC in 2019, "female reporters were sexually harassed, propositioned, and placed under pressure by top instructors at the universities — all while wearing concealed cameras."
The university is responsible for the education of a significant number of notable alumni, including eminent scientists, politicians, lawyers, business icons, authors, entertainers, monarchs, countless technocrats. As of the beginning of September 2020, the University of Lagos can claim to have had one Nobel Prize winner and one Pulitzer Prize winner among its students, graduates, faculty members, or staff members.
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University of Leicester

The University of Leicester is a public research institution that can be found in Leicester, which is located in the country of England. The primary campus is located to the south of the downtown area, just close to Victoria Park. University of Leicester was established in 1957 when its predecessor, University College, Leicester, was granted university status.
In the 2019/20 academic year, the university brought in a total revenue of 323.1 million pounds, with research grants accounting for 57 million of that total.
Both the discovery and the attribution of King Richard III's remains to the correct individual were accomplished at this institution, which is why it is so well-known for these two achievements.
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Category:Educational institutions established in 1921
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University of Liberia

Monrovia, Liberia is home to the University of Liberia, often known as UL or LU in previous variations of the acronym. It is an institution of higher education that receives financial support from the government. The institution first opened its doors in 1862 under the name Liberia College after receiving authorization from the national government in 1851. Capitol Hill Campus, situated in Monrovia; Fendall Campus, located in Louisiana, outside of Monrovia; Medical School Campus, located in Congo Town; and Straz-Sinje Campus, located in Sinje Grand Cape Mount County are the four campuses that make up the University of Liberia (UL). It is estimated that there are roughly 18,000 students enrolled at the university, which is one of the oldest educational establishments in West Africa. The Liberian Commission on Higher Education has granted it the appropriate accreditation.
Liberia made its formal declaration of independence from the American Colonization Society in the year 1847. Liberia College was established in 1851 when the newly elected national assembly gave its approval to the establishment of a state college and founded the institution. Both the New York Colonization Society and the Trustees of Donations for Education in Liberia, who are both organisations based in the United States, contributed financially to the project. During the 19th century, these two organisations were responsible for practically all of the school's financial support and were also in charge of recruiting the teaching staff.
The University of Liberia has been granted accreditation by the Liberian Commission on Higher Education, making it the oldest degree-granting institution in all of West Africa. The academic year runs from September through August, and all of the instruction is provided in the English language. In undergraduate programmes, students spend four years learning the material necessary to obtain a bachelor's degree. In graduate programmes, students spend two years learning the material necessary to acquire a master's degree. Following the successful completion of a seven-year curriculum, medical doctors are awarded their degrees.
Six different colleges, three different graduate programmes, and three different professional schools make up the university. The University of Liberia is home to a number of different colleges, the most notable of which are the Liberia College of Social Sciences and Humanities, the College of Business and Public Administration, the College of General Studies, and the T. A College of Science and Technology Named After J. R. Faulkner In addition, there is the William R. Tolbert College of Agriculture and Forestry, as well as the William V. S. Tubman Teachers College, all of which were named after previous leaders of the country.
The Association of African Universities includes the University of Liberia as a member institution.
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University of Madras

The Institution of Madras, sometimes known as Madras University, is a public state university located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It was founded in 1857 by an Act of the Legislative Council of India, which was then under the control of the British government, and is one of the oldest universities in India.
It is a collegiate research institution with six campuses in the city: Chepauk, Marina, Guindy, Taramani, Maduravoyal, and Chetpet. It is a member of association of Commonwealth Universities. It offers more than 230 courses through 87 academic departments of post-graduate teaching and research organised into 18 schools, which cover a wide range of subjects in areas such as sciences, social sciences, humanities, management, and medicine. It also has 121 affiliated colleges and 53 approved research institutions, among other things. Several national centres for advanced research in nanotechnology, photonics, and neurotoxicology are housed inside the university's walls. In addition, the university has three Centers for Advanced Study (CAS) in the fields of biophysics, botany, and mathematics.
Two Indian Nobel Laureates in physics, CV Raman and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, five Indian Presidents, including A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, computer scientist and Turing Award winner Raj Reddy, and several notable mathematicians, including Srinivasa Ramanujan and Abel Prize winner S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, are all graduates of the University of Madras.
In the first cycle of accreditation, the National Assessment and Accreditation Council awarded the institution a 'five star' rating, and in the second cycle, the council awarded the university its highest possible grade, a 'A'. The University Grants Commission has designated the University of Madras as a 'University with Potential for Excellence (UPE)', indicating that it has exceptional academic potential. Aside from that, Madras University is recognised as one of 18 institutions in India that have been designated as a 'Centre with Potential for Excellence in Particular Area (CPEPA), with an emphasis on drug development and climate change.
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