Colleges of the University of Oxford. Aerial view of many of the colleges of the University of Oxford The University of Oxford has 38 Colleges and 6 Permanent Private Halls (PPHs) of religious foundation. Colleges and PPHs are autonomous self-governing corporations within the university, and all teaching staff and students studying for a degree at the university must belong to one of the colleges or PPHs.
These colleges are not only houses of residence, but have substantial responsibility for student teaching. Generally tutorials (one of the main methods of teaching in Oxford) and classes are the responsibility of colleges, while lectures, examinations, laboratories and the central library are run by the university. Most colleges take both graduates and undergraduates, but several are for graduates only. Undergraduate and graduate students may name preferred colleges in their applications. 2008 saw the first modern merger of colleges, with Green College and Templeton College merging to form Green Templeton College.
Permanent Private Hall. A Permanent Private Hall (PPH) at the University of Oxford is an educational institution within the university. There are six Permanent Private Halls at Oxford, five of which admit undergraduates. They were founded by different Christian denominations. The principal difference between a college and a PPH is that whereas the former are governed by the fellows of the college, the governance of a PPH resides, at least in part, with the corresponding Christian denomination. Students at PPHs are members of the University of Oxford and have full access to the University's facilities and activities. Regent’s Park College is the largest PPH, and admits men and women of any age.
St Benet’s accepts only male students. In some cases, a Permanent Private Hall can be granted full collegiate status; recent examples include Mansfield College (became a full college in 1995) and Harris Manchester College (became a full college in 1996). Permanent Private Halls of the University of Oxford[edit] St Anne's College, Oxford. St Anne's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Formerly a women's college, it has been coeducational since 1979.[3] Founded in 1879 as The Society of Oxford Home-Students, it received its college status in 1952, and today it is one of the larger colleges in Oxford, with around 450 undergraduate and 200 graduate students in a roughly equal mix of men and women. History[edit] What is now St Anne's College began life as part of the Association for the Education of Women, the first institution in Oxford to allow for the education of women (see: Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford), then later the Society of Oxford Home-Students.[4] In 1942, it became the St Anne's Society, and received a university charter to be founded as a women-only college in 1952.
While it remains a common myth that it is built on land donated by St John's College, the site was acquired slowly by the purchase of existing houses and residences for the use of students.[5] The Ship[edit] Collegiate university. A collegiate university (also federal university or affiliating university) is a university in which governing authority and functions are divided between a central administration and a number of constituent colleges. Often, the division of powers in a collegiate university is realized in the form of a federation, analogous to the geopolitical arrangement in which a country comprises member regions (provinces, states, etc.) and a central federal government.
A collegiate university differs from a centralized university in that its colleges are not just halls of residence; rather, they have a substantial amount of responsibility and autonomy in the running of the university. The actual level of self-governance exercised by the colleges varies greatly among institutions, ranging from nearly autonomous colleges to dependent colleges that are integrated with the central administration itself. Loosely federated colleges[edit] Independent and federated colleges[edit] Dependent colleges[edit] St Anne's College, Oxford.
University of Sussex. The University of Sussex is a public research university situated on a large and open green field site on the South Downs, East Sussex. It is located on the edge of the city of Brighton and Hove.[4] Taking its name from the historic county of Sussex, the university received its Royal Charter in August 1961.[5] The university was shortlisted for 'University of the Year' in the 2011 Times Higher Education Awards.[6] Sussex was a founding member of the 1994 Group of research-intensive universities promoting excellence in research and teaching.
Sussex counts three Nobel Prize winners, 14 Fellows of the Royal Society, six Fellows of the British Academy and a winner of the Crafoord Prize among its faculty. The university is currently ranked 11th in the UK, 31st in Europe, and 99th in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.[7][8] The Guardian university guide 2013 placed Sussex joint 27th,[9] and the Times Good University Guide 2012 ranks Sussex 14th.
History[edit] Reader. Reader can mean a person who is reading a text, or a basal reader, a book used to teach reading. It may also refer to: The Reader Persons who read[edit] Places[edit] Newspapers and magazines[edit] Computing and technology[edit] Other[edit] See also[edit] Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Lady Margaret Hall (commonly referred to as LMH) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located at the end of Norham Gardens in north Oxford. As of 2006 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £34m.[2] Lady Margaret Hall was founded in 1878 as the first women's college in Oxford and did not accept men until 1979.
Lady Margaret Hall accepts both undergraduate and graduate students. It is currently ranked 30th in Oxford's Norrington Table.[3] History[edit] Lady Margaret Hall, the first women's college in Oxford, was founded in 1878 and opened its doors to its first nine students the following year. In 1979, one hundred years after its foundation, LMH began admitting men as well as women; it was the first of the women's colleges to do so, along with St. Its colours are blue and yellow (sometimes also with white), and its motto is "Souvent me Souviens", an Old French phrase meaning "I remember often".
Buildings and architecture[edit] Gallery[edit] Georgetown University. Georgetown University is a private research university in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Jesuit and Catholic university in the United States. Georgetown's main campus, located in Washington's Georgetown neighborhood, is noted for Healy Hall, a National Historic Landmark in the Romanesque revival style. Georgetown Law School is located on Capitol Hill and Georgetown has auxiliary campuses in Italy, Turkey, and Qatar. Campus organizations include the country's largest student-run business and largest student-run financial institution. History[edit] Founding[edit] Civil War[edit] Union soldiers across the Potomac River from Georgetown University in 1861 Enrollment did not recover from the war until the presidency of Patrick Francis Healy from 1873 to 1881.
Expansion[edit] Besides expansion of the University, Georgetown also aimed to expand its resources and student body. Jesuit tradition[edit] Students studying outside Wolfington Hall Jesuit Residence Academics[edit] German Universities Excellence Initiative. Map showing Germany's eleven elite "Universities of Excellence", in 2012 Since almost all German universities are public (most private universities do not have the official German "Universitätsstatus"), and therefore mainly paid by taxes and generally egalitarian, there is no German Ivy League of institutions of higher education.
However, the Excellence Initiative aims to strengthen some selected universities more than others in order to raise their international visibility. The initiative is conducted by the German Research Foundation (DFG) together with the German Council of Science and Humanities (WR). More than 30 universities in total received funding. It includes three lines of funding: 1st line of funding: The establishment of more than 40 research schools for young scientists and PhD candidates, which will receive one million euros each per year. Results[edit] Winners: Future Concept 2012[edit] Winners: Future Concept 2006/2007[edit] Current international standing[edit] Illinois Institute of Technology. Coordinates: Illinois Institute of Technology, commonly called Illinois Tech or IIT, is a private Ph.D.
-granting research university located in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois, with programs in engineering, science, psychology, architecture, business, communications, industrial technology, information technology, design and law. History[edit] IIT was formed in 1940 by the merger of Armour Institute of Technology (founded in 1890) and Lewis Institute (founded in 1895).[8] Armour Institute of Technology[edit] Main building of Armour Tech on right ca. 1914 Lewis Institute[edit] Lewis Institute ca. 1903 Founded in 1895 from the estate of the Chicago real estate investor Allen Cleveland Lewis, Lewis Institute stood where the United Center now stands.[13] Allen Lewis was one of many investors to descend on Chicago after the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, and helped to rebuild the city's west side. Lewis/Armour merger[edit] Growth and expansion[edit] IIT continued to expand after the merger.
IIT Institute of Design. IIT Institute of Design (ID) at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), originally founded as the New Bauhaus, is a graduate school teaching systemic, human-centered design. History[edit] 350 North LaSalle in Chicago, home of IIT's Institute of Design. The IIT Institute of Design is a school of design founded in 1937 in Chicago by László Moholy-Nagy, a Bauhaus teacher (1923–1928). After a spell in London, Bauhaus master Moholy-Nagy, at the invitation of Chicago's Association of Art and Industry, moved to Chicago in 1937 to start a new design school, which he named the New Bauhaus. The philosophy of the school was basically unchanged from that of the original, and its first headquarters was the Prairie Avenue mansion that architect Richard Morris Hunt, designed for department store magnate Marshall Field. Due to financial problems the school briefly closed in 1938.
Moholy authored an account of his efforts to develop the curriculum of the School of Design in his book Vision in Motion. Ulm School of Design. Building Ulm HfG designed by Max Bill and completed in 1955. The Ulm School of Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm) was a college of design based in Ulm, Germany. Founded in 1953 by Inge Aicher-Scholl, Otl Aicher and Max Bill, the latter being first Rector of the school and a former student at the Bauhaus.
The HfG quickly gained international recognition and is now viewed as being second only to the Bauhaus as the most influential school of design. During its operation from 1953–1968, new approaches to the design process were implemented within the departments of Product Design, Visual Communication, Industrialized Building, Information and Filmmaking. The HfG building was designed by Max Bill and remains intact today as a historically important and functional building under the auspices of Foundation Ulm. The history of HfG evolved through innovation and change, in line with their own self-image of the school as an experimental institution. History[edit] Internal conflicts[edit] Harvard Graduate School of Design. The Harvard Graduate School of Design (also known as GSD) is a professional graduate school at Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
It offers several masters degree programs, doctoral programs, several executive education programs and a career discovery program. The school also administers the Loeb Fellowship, many research initiatives and publishes the bi-annual Harvard Design Magazine and other design books and studio works. The degrees granted in the masters programs include the Master in Architecture (MArch), Master in Landscape Architecture (MLA), Master of Architecture in Urban Design (MAUD), Master of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design (MLAUD), Master in Urban Planning (MUP), Master in Design Studies (MDes) in more than eight concentrations. The school's international faculty provide a broad range of design philosophies and visions.
History[edit] Classes exclusively devoted to architecture began at Harvard in 1893. Executive Education[edit] Campus[edit] Humboldt University of Berlin. The Humboldt University of Berlin (German: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) is one of Berlin's oldest universities, founded in 1810 as the University of Berlin (Universität zu Berlin) by the liberal Prussian educational reformer and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt, whose university model has strongly influenced other European and Western universities. From 1828 it was known as the Frederick William University (Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität), and later (unofficially) also as the Universität unter den Linden after its location. In 1949, it changed its name to Humboldt-Universität in honour of both its founder Wilhelm and his brother, geographer Alexander von Humboldt. In 2012, the Humboldt University of Berlin was one of eleven German top-universities (also known as elite universities) to win in the German Universities Excellence Initiative, a national competition for universities organized by the German Federal Government.
History[edit] Enlargement[edit] The Berlin University in 1850. Open university. Open University. The Open University (OU) is a distance learning and research[5] university founded by Royal Charter in the United Kingdom. The university is funded by a combination of student fees, contract income and allocations for teaching and research by the higher education funding bodies throughout the UK. It is notable for having an open entry policy, i.e. students' previous academic achievements are not taken into account for entry to most undergraduate courses. The majority of the OU's undergraduate students are based in the United Kingdom and principally study off-campus, but many of its courses (both undergraduate and postgraduate) can be studied off-campus anywhere in the world.[6] There are a number of full-time postgraduate research students based on the 48-hectare university campus[7][8] where they use the OU facilities for research, as well as more than 1000 members of academic and research staff and over 2500 administrative, operational and support staff.[9] History[edit] Aims[edit]
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