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Seven Thai universities listed in QS subject rankings

Seven Thai universities listed in QS subject rankings
May 10, 2013 No Comments »

Share Seven Thai institutions made it into this year’s QS World University Rankings by Subject, which reveals the top 200 universities for 30 disciplines including degree subjects such as mathematics, economics, civil engineering, psychology and law. The Thai institutions figured ... Read More »

UCSD ranks in top research universities worldwide

UCSD ranks in top research universities worldwide
April 30, 2013 Comments Off

Share Besides UCSB, University of California campuses at Berkeley, San Francisco and Santa Cruz were ranked within the top 11. University of California San Diego is the 15th best research university in the world based on scientific impact and collaboration, ... Read More »

Japanese University expands presence at UC Riverside

Japanese University expands presence at UC Riverside
February 6, 2013 Comments Off

Share $10 million grant will allow Tohoku University to open center at UC Riverside and expand the number of students it sends to the campus A Japanese university that is one of the University of California, Riverside’s strongest international partners ... Read More »

MIT ranks as the buzzed-about university online for the second year in a row

MIT ranks as the buzzed-about university online for the second year in a row
January 28, 2013 Comments Off

Share After being ranked the best university in the world, as well as the smartest, you’d think MIT would grow tired of reeling in the praises. All that recognition, however, has helped fuel a different ranking by the Global Language ... Read More »

Top 10 U.S. Universities offering the best in Electrical Engineering

Top 10 U.S. Universities offering the best in Electrical Engineering
January 4, 2013 Comments Off

Share Electrical Engineering is among the complex courses offered to those with profound interest in the fields of mathematics, electronics and computer science. Given the complexity of work awaiting for students completing such degree, a thorough preparation is necessary. This ... Read More »

Top universities offer free online courses and certificates in the US

Top universities offer free online courses and certificates in the US
October 26, 2012 Comments Off

Share Top US universities have started offering free online courses and certificates, challenging the expensive on-campus way of studying and allowing international students to get US education straight from their computers. Universities including Stanford, Princeton and Columbia, are signing on ... Read More »

Private colleges boom as California universities falter

Private colleges boom as California universities falter
October 23, 2012 Comments Off

Share California’s public higher education crisis has a flip side: swelling enrollment, expanding faculty, and state-of-the-art construction at the state’s private colleges and universities. With five years of funding cuts causing stumbles in the state’s public higher education systems, California ... Read More »

Penn hosts undergraduate research symposium

Penn hosts undergraduate research symposium
October 8, 2012 Comments Off

Share Over 100 students from eight Ivy-plus schools gathered on campus Michelle Len, a junior majoring in computer science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has never ventured out of California or sat on an airplane her entire life. ... Read More »

Australia: Elite colleges transform online higher education

Australia: Elite colleges transform online higher education
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Share Terence Chea When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology offered its first free online course this spring, Ashwith Rego jumped at the chance to learn from some of the world’s leading researchers _ without leaving his home in India. “I ... Read More »

Top universities join free online teaching platform

Top universities join free online teaching platform
July 17, 2012 Comments Off

Share Jeevan Vasagar Coursera set to shake up higher education model after adding 12 US and European institutions including Edinburgh University Twelve leading universities in the US and Europe have joined an internet platform created by two Stanford University scientists ... Read More »