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Burnett Honors College is an academic college of the University of Central Florida located in Orlando, Florida, United States. [1] Founded in 1998 as the University Honors Program, it was expanded and renamed in 2002 in response to a $1.5 million gift by Al and Nancy Burnett. [2]
UCF's admission rate for first-time-in-college freshmen has declined from 61% of prospective students admitted in the fall of 2005, to 42% for fall 2020. [71] 34% of accepted applicants were in the top ten percent of their graduating class, while 72% of accepted applicants were in the top quarter of their high school class rankings. [72]
King Hamad University of Nursing and Associated Medical Sciences, Islamabad has been established at Chak Shehzad Islamabad with the cooperation of government of Bahrain. King of Bahrain Hamad bin Essa al Khalifa supported the project for establishing the first ever state-of-the-art Nursing university in Pakistan .
Originally called the Division of Graduate Studies, in August 2008 the UCF Board of Trustees changed the name to "College of Graduate Studies" to better reflect the school's responsibilities for graduate education. [4] Since 2008, the dean of the College of Graduate Studies has concurrently held the title of vice provost.
In October 2005, a local Orlando investment company, the Tavistock Group, donated $12.5 million and 50 acres (0.20 km 2) of land to UCF to help establish the UCF Medical School at Lake Nona, and issued a challenge to the Orlando community to help the university raise an additional $12.5 million to boost the total amount of raised funds to $25 million.
Islamabad: 1967 Public National Defence University, Pakistan: Islamabad: 1970 [3] General Public Allama Iqbal Open University: Islamabad: 1974 General Public International Islamic University, Islamabad: Islamabad: 1980 General Public National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan: Islamabad: 1991 Quetta: General Public COMSATS ...
The university is the first multi-campus university in Pakistan, having five modern campuses based in different cities. [3] These campuses are located in Chiniot-Faisalabad, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, and Peshawar, providing a standard educational environment and recreational facilities to 11,000 students, out of which 500 are faculty members and a quarter is covered by female students.
Under this policy, all two-year colleges were transformed to university status under the state-controlled policy, and privatized universities were nationalized. During this time, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had spent 70% of natural resources on higher education efforts; enrollment in the universities increased to 56%. [ 9 ]