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This is a list of lists of universities and colleges by country, sorted by continent and region. The lists represent educational institutions throughout the world which provide higher education in tertiary, quaternary, and post-secondary education.
Largest share of college or university graduates in the G7. This is a list of countries by the proportions of 25- to 64-year-olds having completed tertiary education as published by the OECD. It includes some non-OECD nations. Tertiary education is the educational level following the completion of a school providing a secondary education.
The location and opening date (and, for those that joined the UWC movement after being founded as an independent institution, their joining year) for each United World College is given below: United World College of the Atlantic (Llantwit Major, Wales), 1962; Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific (Victoria, British Columbia ...
[1] [10] In the year 2020–2021, students coming from all 6 inhabited continents represented 90 countries in the world. [ 11 ] Students for all of the United World Colleges are selected by UWC National Committees or selection contacts in over 150 countries on merit, and many receive scholarships.
The Institute for the International Education of Students, or IES Abroad, is a non-profit study abroad organization that administers study abroad programs for U.S. college-aged students. [2] Founded in 1950 as the Institute of European Studies, the organization has since been renamed to reflect additional offerings in Africa , Asia , Oceania ...
The Davis United World College Scholars Program is the world’s largest privately funded international scholarship program. [1] [2] It awards need-based scholarship funding, aka the Shelby Davis Scholarship, to graduates of schools and colleges in the United World Colleges (UWC) movement to study at 106 select partner universities in the United States.
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
A young man (in bowtie) receives a scholarship at a ceremony. A scholarship is a form of financial aid awarded to students for further education.Generally, scholarships are awarded based on a set of criteria such as academic merit, diversity and inclusion, athletic skill, and financial need, research experience or specific professional experience.