Grand Canyon University

Grand Canyon University was founded in 1949, and is a regionally accredited, private Christian university, recognized as offering some of the best online education programs in the nation by noteworthy sources including Fortune Small Business, Technology & Learning Magazine, Fox.com, Online Education Database (OEDb) and more.

 

Located in Phoenix, Arizona, GCU offers a variety of nursing and health care programs, including undergraduate, graduate and bridge programs. Students can elect to take courses online or through our evening classes, which meet just once a week at the Phoenix campus and other satellite locations throughout Arizona.

By the early 2000s, GCU was struggling with maintaining its operations and the quality of its academic experience in light of dwindling financial support. In 2004, the university transitioned out of non-profit status, implementing new business practices to turn around operations. The university community embraced a renewed emphasis on enhancing curriculum and opportunities for working professionals, particularly in the areas of nursing and education.

Today, the university is in the midst of its most exciting era. GCU has developed a reputation for producing some of the most effective servant leaders in the workforce today by offering bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in diverse fields, from business administration and business management to early childhood education, nursing and engineering. The student population is growing steadily and the campus is undergoing a multi-million-dollar renovation and expansion that is changing the landscape of West Phoenix.

GCU's identity and mission have remained deeply rooted in "the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints" (Jude 3) for nearly 70 years. As an interdenominational university, GCU's community is a product of the wonderful diversity of traditions and denominations that have grown out of the roots of biblical Christianity. Yet in the midst of this rich diversity, the university has consistently cultivated unity around the core doctrines and common practices of the faith.

Grand Canyon University offers over 100 majors and concentrations for bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs in some of the fastest-growing career fields including:

• Business: Accounting, Marketing, Sports Management, MBA
• Education: Elementary Education, Secondary Education,
  Special Education, M.Ed. TESOL
• Liberal Arts: Philosophy, Sociology, Christian Studies,
  Criminal Justice
• Nursing & Health: Nursing, Counseling, Health Care Admin., MHA

Grand Canyon University (GCU) grants you access to learning. Whether you are an undergraduate taking on the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program, a graduate pursuing a master's in education or a doctoral scholar performing groundbreaking research, we are here to help you find your purpose. Enhance your learning at our vibrant Phoenix campus and learn from experts in small classes. Or, take courses at one of our campus extensions strategically located throughout Phoenix, Tucson and Albuquerque. Whatever your ambition, GCU offers assorted degree programs with flexible start dates throughout the year at all locations.

Grand Canyon University (GCU) has grown with Phoenix to become one of the nation's premier private universities. For more than 65 years, GCU has welcomed diverse cultures, encouraging our students to share their unique perspectives so they can evolve into global citizens. Some of our international students' native countries include Australia, China, Denmark, Japan, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom and Vietnam. GCU is authorized under federal law to enroll nonimmigrant students, under the F-1 Student Visa program.

Dublin City University (DCU)

DCU is a young, dynamic and ambitious university with a distinctive mission to transform lives and societies through education, research and innovation. Since admitting its first students in 1980, DCU has grown in both student numbers and size and now occupies a 72 acre site in Glasnevin, just north of Dublin city.To date over 50,000 students have graduated from DCU and are now playing significant roles in enterprise and business globally. Today, in 2015, DCU delivers more than 120 programmes to over 12,000 students across its four faculties – Humanities and Social Sciences, Science and Health, Engineering and Computing and DCU Business School.

DCU’s excellence is recognized internationally with the University being ranked highly among leading global institutions. DCU regularly features in the QS Top 50 under 50 and The Young University rankings (a ranking of the Top 100 Universities under 50 years of age).DCU research creates new knowledge and technologies to enhance capabilities in four key areas: health technologies, information technology, sustainability and social resilience. 

There are over 80 programmes, divided almost equally between undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Postgraduate research supervision is provided on a broad range of subject areas across all disciplines, including technology, engineering, business, communications, humanities, science and health. 

Research activity is championed by a Research and Enterprise Hub, which is a vehicle to facilitate interactions with external stakeholders. The Hubs help to establish links with industry and other enterprises, as well as with academic collaborators. Each Hub has its own business development team which can introduce relevant DCU technologies and expertise to enterprises, and help enterprises connect with appropriate experts within DCU. 

There are 12,280 registered students at DCU in 2014/15, in which full-time undergraduate students are 10,449 and postgraduate students are 1,030 as well as students on the Distance Education degree programmes students are 801.

The John and Aileen O'Reilly library is the focal point of the entire campus. It is symbolic of the importance the university places on knowledge and learning, and the technology for acquiring information. The library has over 1,200 seats and 18 collaborative rooms where students can study in groups. There are 400 computer workstations, all of which are connected to the Internet.DCU library is the first ever to put live electronic information on an equal footing with the older medium of the printed book and journal. Although there are over 250,000 volumes in the library, DCU will continue to grow with the technological information revolution. The accommodation service provides 995 undergraduate rooms and 105 postgraduate rooms in four residential apartment blocks. There are three different types of accommodation. Standard, Superior and Deluxe. All the rooms available to the students are equipped with services such as broadband internet connections and cable connections in all Hampsted & College Park apartments. Accommodation is also available for conference attendees and groups during the summer months. 

In May 2015, plans were unveiled for a new €14m Student Centre at DCU which will significantly enhance the on-campus experience of the university’s students. The new 4 storey space in the centre of the Glasnevin campus is being developed to reflect the university’s focus on developing a rounded, 21st Century graduate through the creation of a purpose-built space for students’ social, cultural, global engagement and entrepreneurial activities..As Ireland’s University of Enterprise, DCU is strongly committed to delivering real innovation with an economic impact in partnership with Industry. Through the establishment of the DCU Innovation Campus companies can leverage the significant research expertise of DCU and its extensive partner network, particularly in the area of sustainability, thus positioning Dublin and Ireland as examples of best practice in public-private collaboration to solve global societal issues in the areas of Energy and Environment.

The campus is located adjacent to the DCU main campus and facilitates cleantech companies wishing to cluster in a single location and simultaneously leverage the capabilities of DCU in terms of cutting edge teaching and R&D in areas such as renewable energy, sustainability, green finance, ICT, big data/smart cities and sensor technology amongst others.

University College Cork (UCC)

Founded in 1845, UCC is one of three Queen's Colleges in Cork, Galway and Belfast University buildings of historical and cultural importance --the Main Quadrangle, The Honan Chapel, The Glucksman Gallery. UCC ranked in top 2% of universities worldwide, based on the quality of its research output and peer esteem. UCC - Ireland's first Five-Star university (QS Stars 2011).UCC voted Best University in Ireland by The Sunday Times three times in the past decade, the only Irish university to have won this accolade. UCC - first university in the world to be awarded the international Green Flag for environmental friendliness in 2010. UCC - the world's first third-level institution to be awarded the ISO 50001 standard in energy management.UCC --Third in world's universities for environment-friendly university management (Universitas Indonesia Greenmetric World University Ranking system 2013).

UCC was established in 1845 as one of three Queen’s Colleges at Cork, Galway and Belfast. These new colleges were founded in the reign of Queen Victoria, and named after her. Queen's College, Cork (QCC) was established to provide access to higher education in the Irish province of Munster. The site chosen for the new college was dramatic and picturesque, on the edge of a limestone bluff overlooking the River Lee. On the 7th of November, 1849, QCC opened its doors to a small group of 115 students after a glittering inaugural ceremony in the Aula Maxima (Great Hall), which is still the symbolic and ceremonial heart of the University.

From 1850, QCC was part of the Queen's University of Ireland and, from the 1880s, of the Royal University of Ireland. By the beginning the twentieth century however, it was clear that higher education in Ireland required a new arrangement to permit the next stages of development. That change came in 1908 through the National University of Ireland (NUI), of which the former QCC, now University College Cork (UCC) is a founding member. Since 1908, UCC has grown - from 115 students to over 20,000, from one building to dozens, from less than 20 staff to more than 1,600 today. Since 1997, we have become a university in our own right within the NUI, but we retain the UCC name as part of our heritage of learning since 1845.

  

UCC has 20,000 full-time students.14,000 undergraduate students and 4,000 Masters and PhD students. UCC  has over 3,000 international students representing 100-plus countries worldwide. UCC has 2,000 part-time students in Adult Continuing Education.93% of undergraduates of UCC go on to employment or further education.UCC is one of the larger employers in the region with 2,800 people.

Six Early Start options for fall and full-year students. Full-year students can earn a diploma in Irish Traditional Music, certificate in Irish Studies or diploma in European Common Law.Spring semester students can earn a certificate in Political Issues in Ireland Today.Internships involving research appropriate to its field that culminates in a faculty-supervised academic project.UCC offers over 120 degree and professional programmes in the Humanities, Business, Law, Architecture, Science, Food and Nutritional Sciences, Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing and the Clinical Therapies.

 
First professor of Mathematics at UCC was George Boole (1815-64) famous for his Boolean Algebra which is at the basis of digital computing systems. UCC research income for the past five years over €401 million. Annual research income from the European Commission/FP7 sources reached €10.6 million, a 40% increase since 2008/2009. Income from new awards from EU was €13.1 million, a 170% increase since 2008/2009. UCC - most successful university in Ireland for EU FP7 research grants at 23.7%. Non-exchequer research funding = 25% of UCC's research income, up from 17% in 2009/2011. From 2007-2012 number of citations per journal publication grew by 30%. 62% of Ireland's most highly-cited researchers are from UCC.UCC researchers collaborate with close to 700 of the world's top universities across 110 countries.

With the NUI came conferring ceremonies held in UCC for the first time (previously they were all held in Dublin). These are days of ceremony and celebration, connecting our graduates and their families to the great tradition of European scholarship that goes back a thousand years.
Student superstition has it that to cross the Quad before graduation, or even to set foot on the grass, is to risk bad luck and failure in exams. On conferring days, graduates gather to cross the Quad together, and get their photograph taken there.

Cornell University

Cornell University is an American private Ivy League and government area award research college found in Ithaca, New York. Established in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, the college was planned to show and make commitments in all fields of information — from the classics to the sciences, and from the hypothetical to the connected. These goals, unpredictable for the time, are caught in Cornell's adage, a popular 1865 Ezra Cornell rule: "I would discover an establishment where any individual can discover direction towards any kind of study.

The college is comprehensively composed into seven undergrad universities and seven graduate divisions at its fundamental Ithaca grounds, with every school and division characterizing its own confirmation measures and scholastic projects in close self-rule. The college likewise regulates two satellite medicinal grounds, one in New York City and one in Education City, Qatar. Cornell is one of three private area stipend universities. Of its seven undergrad schools, three are state-upheld statutory or contract universities, including its farming and veterinary universities. As an area gift school, it works a helpful expansion effort program in every region of New York and gets yearly subsidizing from the State of New York for certain instructive missions. The Cornell University Ithaca Campus embodies 745 sections of land, however in fact, is much bigger because of the Cornell Plantations (more than 4,300 sections of land) and the various college possessed grounds in New York.

 

Cornell is a privately endowed research university and a partner of the State University of New York. As the federal land-grant institution in New York State, it has a responsibility—unique within the Ivy League—to make contributions in all fields of knowledge in a manner that prioritizes public engagement to help improve the quality of life in our state, the nation, the world.

Cornell is a private, Ivy League university and the land-grant university for New York State. Cornell's mission is to discover, preserve, and disseminate knowledge; produce creative work; and promote a culture of broad inquiry throughout and beyond the Cornell community. Cornell also aims, through public service, to enhance the lives and livelihoods of our students, the people of New York, and others around the world.

Seven undergraduate units and four graduate and professional units in Ithaca, two medical graduate and professional units in New York City, and one in Doha, Qatar. The Cornell Tech campus in New York City is the latest addition.Since its establishing, Cornell has been a co-instructive, non-partisan establishment where affirmation is offered independent of religion or race. Cornell tallies more than 245,000 living graduated class, 34 military graduates, 29 Rhodes Scholars and 44 Nobel laureates as associated with the university.The understudy body comprises of almost 14,000 undergrad and 7,000 graduate understudies from each of the 50 American states and 122 countries. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 14,453, its setting is rural, and the campus size is 745 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Cornell University's ranking in the 2016 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 15. Its tuition and fees are $49,116 (2015-16). 

The student-faculty ratio at Cornell University is 9:1, and the school has 55.3 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at Cornell University include: Engineering; Agriculture, Agriculture Operations, and Related Sciences; Biological and Biomedical Sciences; Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services; and Social Sciences. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, is 96.8 percent. At this school, 55 percent of the students live in college-owned, -operated, or -affiliated housing and 45 percent of students live off campus. Cornell University is part of the NCAA I athletic conference. 

Cornell University offers a number of student services including nonremedial tutoring, women's center, placement service, day care, health service, and health insurance. Cornell University also offers campus safety and security services like 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, late night transport/escort service, 24-hour emergency telephones, lighted pathways/sidewalks, and controlled dormitory access (key, security card, etc). Alcohol is permitted for students of legal age at Cornell University. At Cornell University, 47.4 percent of full-time undergraduates receive some kind of need-based financial aid and the average need-based scholarship or grant award is $37,559. Cornell University, located in Ithaca, New York, has more than 1,000 student organizations on campus, which range from the Big Red Marching Band to the International Affairs Society.