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  2. Thames Nautical Training College - Wikipedia

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    It was the London maritime interests' answer to HMS Conway, which had been established in 1859 on the River Mersey as a training ship for Liverpool's burgeoning merchant fleet. Throughout their history, Worcester and Conway were competitors, and the two met regularly on playing fields and in boats in keen sporting rivalry.

  3. List of maritime colleges - Wikipedia

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    United States Merchant Marine Academy: US service academy: Linthicum: Maritime Institute of Technology and Graduate Studies: Non-degree program; offers classes for professional licenses (e.g. 3rd Mate, Chief Mate, Master). Merged with Fremont Maritime Services. [32] Miramar: Broward College Marine Center of Excellence [31] Norfolk: Mid-Atlantic ...

  4. List of United States graduate business school rankings

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    Business school rankings are important to the various business schools because they are an important marketing tool used to recruit top students, and lure recruiters from the top companies, with M7, or "Magnificent Seven", business schools often sitting at the top of the various rankings. Business schools attempt to achieve higher rankings in ...

  5. College and university rankings in the United States

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    The rankings list 125 universities, 100 colleges, the change in the rankings over time, a "Predictive Quantities Indicator" (PQI) Index number (for relative rankings), rankings by Momentum (yearly and 90-day snapshots), and rankings by State. The most recent ranking appeared on November 1, 2009, covering 2008.

  6. U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking - Wikipedia

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    The cover of U.S. News & World Report ' s 2022 "Best Colleges Ranking" magazine. U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking is an annual set of rankings of colleges and universities in the United States, which was first published by U.S. News & World Report in 1983. It has been described as the most influential institutional ranking in the ...

  7. HMS Conway (school ship) - Wikipedia

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    In the mid-19th century, the demand for a reliable standard of merchant navy officers had grown to the point where ship owners decided to set up an organisation to train, and indeed educate, them properly—the Mercantile Marine Service Association. One of the first sites chosen for a school ship was Liverpool, in 1857.

  8. United States Merchant Marine - Wikipedia

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    The United States Merchant Marine [1] [2] is an organization composed of United States civilian mariners and U.S. civilian and federally owned merchant vessels.Both the civilian mariners and the merchant vessels are managed by a combination of the government and private sectors, and engage in commerce or transportation of goods and services in and out of the navigable waters of the United ...

  9. Merchant Navy (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    By 2012, the Merchant Navy – while still remaining one of the largest in the world – held only 3% of total tonnage. [16] In 2010 the Merchant Navy consisted of 504 UK registered ships of 1,000 gross tonnage (GT) or over. In addition, UK merchant marine interests possessed a further 308 ships registered in other countries and 271 foreign ...