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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]
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.
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 .
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.
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.
COMSATS University Islamabad (Sahiwal Campus) [15]; Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Technology, Multan [16]; National University of Modern Languages, Rawalpindi Campus [17]; Dr. A. Q. Khan Institute of Computer Sciences and Information Technology, Rawalpindi [18]
The Federal Medical and Dental College (Urdu: وفاقی طبی اور دندان سازی کالج) (abbreviated as FMDC) is a medical school located in Islamabad, Pakistan. The college gives admission to 110 (including 10 goodwill seats for Afghanistan ) Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) students each year.