Univerisity Collage London (UCL)

University Collage London (UCL)

INTRODUCTION ABOUT UCL

UCL was established  in the year 1826 to open up higher education in the UK for those who had been suspended from it. Becoming the 1st university in England to accept both women  and men in the year 1878. 

UCL has the best academic to student ratio in England i.e.1:10, allowing small class sizes with outstanding individual support .

Academic excellence and research that addresses real world difficulties and problem inform our ethos till this day and are central to our twenty year strategy, UCL 2034.

EDUCATION AT UCL

UCL is one of the  two top universities in the UK by the number of professors, which means that the students are taught by the most highly qualified teachers and professors in their field.UCL delivers an environment that encourages students to be both ambitious and  idealistic. In 2013  UCL students participated in 41,500 hours of volunteering work and set up eighty social enterprises and twenty-five student businesses.

UCL FACULTIES

UCL’s academic structure is comprised of 11 faculties, each home for the world-leading research, teaching and learning in a vast-ranging variation of fields and subject. UCL is London’s one of the leading multi-disciplinary institution. More about our faculties are shown below. 

• Arts & Humanities

• Laws

• Life Sciences

• The Bartlett, UCL's Faculty of the Built Environment

• Brain Sciences

• Engineering

• UCL Institute of Education

• Mathematical & Physical Sciences

• Medical Sciences

• Population Health Sciences

• Social & Historical Sciences

ADMISSION AT UCL

Admission at UCL is highly selective and particular. For undergraduate entry several of UCL's courses require 3 A grades in A Level, or a grade equivalent of 6,6,6 on the International Baccalaureate Program. Due to a very huge proportion of applicants getting the highest school grades, UCL along with universities such as Imperial College London and the University of Cambridge, is one of the first universities in the UK to put into practice the use A* grade at A-Level (popularized in 2010) for the admissions of courses including Economics, European Social, Political Studies, Law,  Medicine, Theoretical Physics and Psychology, Mathematics.

Undergraduate law candidates are called for to take the National Admissions Test for Law students, and undergraduate medical candidates are required to take a Bio Medical Admissions Test. Candidates for European Social and Political Studies are enforced to take the Thinking Skills Assessment test should they be accepted for an assessment day. Some of the UCL departments interview undergraduate candidates prior to making an attempt of admission.

UCL'S CAMPUS AND LOCATION

UCL is primarily located in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of Camden,  Central London. The prime campus is located around Gower Street and comprises of biology, history, economics, engineering, geography, chemistry, languages,philosophy and physics departments, management, mathematics , the pre clinical facilities of the UCL Medical School,the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology , theSlade School of Fine Art, the UCL Union, the main UCL Library, the UCL Science Library, the Bloomsbury Theater, the London Centre for Nanotechnology , the Grant Museum of Zoology and the affiliated University College Hospital. Near Bloomsbury are the UCL Cancer Institute, the UCL Faculty of the Built Environment,the UCL School of Public Policy , the UCL Institute of Archaeology, the UCL Institute of Education, The Bartlett, the UCL School of Pharmacy,the UCL Faculty of Laws  and the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.

RANKING AND REPUTATION OF UCL

UCL is frequently ranked as one of the world's leading universities. In the year 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities, UCL was ranked joint eighteenth in the world and 3rd in Europe. In the subject tables it is rated eighth in the world and 2nd in Europe in the field of Clinical Medicine & Pharmacy, joint between seventy-sixth and hundredth in the world and joint thirteenth in the whole Europe for Engineering, Technology , Computer Sciences. Ninth in the world and second in Europe for Life & Agricultural Sciences, conjoint 51st to 75th in the whole world for Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

The University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge

INTRODUCTION OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY

The University of Cambridge is a studious public research university located in Cambridge, England. It was founded  in 1209 and  is the 2nd oldest university in the English speaking world and the world's 4th oldest surviving university.The university formed out of an association of scholars who had left the University of Oxford because of  a dispute with the townspeople. These two ancient universities share many similar features and are often referred to as "Ox-bridge" jointly.

Cambridge is composed of a variety of institutions that include thirty-one constituent colleges and over more than 100 academic departments categorized into six schools. Cambridge University Press which is a department of the university  is one of the world's oldest publishing house and the 2nd largest university press in the whole world. The university also conducts eight cultural and scientific museums, which includes the Fitzwilliam Museum, and also a botanic garden. Cambridge's libraries holds a total of around  fifteen million books, 8 million of which are in Cambridge University Library itself, a legal deposit library.

COLLAGE EXPERIENCE AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY

Graduate studies at Cambridge university should be a life-changing experience for the students learning there. Whatever be your ambitions for the future, you will surely  benefit from participating here as fully as you can in each and every communities, large or small, to which you belong, and by contributing to the future of the institutions with which your life here is embedded. Most of these institutions may sound familiar to you. Departments, , Museums, Libraries and Laboratories,Faculties: one of these will be where your course is taught and  where your research will be undertaken and supervised. But like every  student there in cambridge  and many of the academic staff members , you will also be a member of a College  where enthusiasts from every discipline meet and will help enrich each other across subject boundaries and generations, and you will become a member of your College for life.

Throughout the history of Cambridge, it has had Colleges, which are intimate, social and intellectual communities of scholars and graduates. These are educational charities, each moving forward with a particular mission and character, and we can say that it has evolved in response to many social pressures. They also remain flexible, functioning to the changing needs and wants of their members. But all are faithful to study and research across the range of disciplines and generations.It is governed by Fellows, that are mostly academics employed in the University who remain essential to the University's educational and research environment till today. They can offer you a home and other facilities that Universities usually provide . They also provide you experiences and opportunities that are unique to 
Cambridge.

FEES AT CAMBRIGDE

This is the fee categorized of all the teaching, supervision, student support and facilities that you will be receiving  and have access to from the University and your College. The value of the UCF is depended on your fee status.

The University Composition Fee is gathered by the College, along with the living costs accured by the college (rental of college accommodation, food brought from college)

Master of Advanced Study courses, thaty are equivalent of a 4th undergraduate year, are handled as undergraduate courses for fee purposes, and therefore international students are also charged with the undergraduate College fee that are not included in the fee table below.

The College will be making  clear to you how these payments are to be made and by which deadlines. Some colleges collect the fees for the whole year at the beginning of the course.

Course	Home/EU	Overseas
MPhil in Advanced Chemical Engineering	£ 11,175	£ 28,308
MPhil in Advanced Computer Science	£ 11,175	£ 28,308
MPhil in African Studies	£ 13,200	£ 20,535
MPhil in American History	£ 10,500	£ 20,535
MPhil in American Literature	£ 9,468	£ 20,535
MPhil in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic	£ 9,468	£ 20,535
PhD in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic	£ 7,626	£ 19,989
PhD in Animal Health	£ 7,626	£ 25,104
PhD in Antarctic Studies	£ 7,626	£ 25,104
MPhil in Applied Biological Anthropology	£ 13,200	£ 23,808
MASt in Applied Mathematics	£ 9,486	£ 17,640
PhD in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics	£ 7,626	£ 19,989
MPhil in Archaeological Research	£ 10,500	£ 20,535
MPhil in Archaeology	£ 10,500	£ 20,535
PhD in Archaeology	£ 7,626	£ 19,989

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

MIT has a mission to advance the system of knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and many other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the twenty-first century. We have been driven to bring knowledge to bear on the greatest challenges of the world.

The Institute is an independent, , privately endowed university and organized into five Schools i.e. architecture and planning;management ; humanities, arts and social sciences;engineering). It has some 1,000 faculty members with more than 11,000 undergraduate and graduate students, and as much as 130,000 living alumni altogether.

MIT, with 5 schools and 1 college which contain a total of 32 departments, is often cited as among the  top universities of the world. The Institute is usually known for the research and education in the field of physical sciences and engineering, and biology, economics, and management as well. The authorities sponsor 31 sports, most teams of which compete in the NCAA Division III's New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference.

As of 2015,19 Turing award winners , 52 National Medal of Science recipients,35 astronauts , 45 Rhodes Scholars, 38 MacArthur Fellows, 65 Marshall Scholars, 85 Nobel laureates, and 6 Fields Medalists have been affiliated with MIT. The school prevails a strong entrepreneurial culture, and the combined revenues of companies founded by MIT alumni comes to  rank as the 11th largest economy in the world.

MIT is a large,best residential, research university with a  majority in enrollments of graduate and professional programs.The university is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges from 1929.  MIT operates on a 4–1–4 academic calendar where the fall semester begins after Labor Day and ends on mid-December, a four week Independent Activities Period in the month of January, and the spring semester begins by  early February and ends in late May.

MIT students are refer d to both their  classes and majors using acronyms .  Departments and their corresponding majors are numbered in the exact order of their foundation for example;Course number one is Civil and Environmental Engineering is Course number one, while Linguistics and Philosophy comes at course 24. Students who major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , the most popular department are collectively identify as "Course 6". Students of MIT use a combination of the department's course number and the number that are assigned to the class to identify their subjects.

MIT enrolled around 4,384 undergraduates and about 6,510 graduate students in one year from 2011–2012. Women constituted of 45% of undergraduate students. Undergraduate and graduate students were drawn from all 50 state and more than 115 foreign countries.

                             

  

                                           

YALE University

YALE      

          

Yale University is a private  American Ivy League research university located in New Haven, Connecticut.It was founded in the year 1701 in Say brook Colony as a Collegiate School.  The university is the 3rd oldest institution for higher education in the United States of America.Later the school was renamed Yale College in 1718 as for the recognition of a gift from Elihu Yale (governor of the British East India Company). Established to train Congregationalist ministers in the field of theology and sacred languages, by the year 1777 the school's curriculum started to incorporate humanities and sciences. In the nineteenth century the school incorporated graduates and professional instructors, awarding the first P.H.D. in the United States in 1861 and organizing as a university in 1887.

Yale has been organized into fourteen different  constituent schools: the undergraduate college, the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and 12 professional schools. As the university is watched upon by the Yale Corporation, each and every school's faculty oversees its curriculum and degree programs.

 Yale has a central campus in downtown New Haven, with athletic facilities in western New Haven, also  including the Yale Bowl, a campus in West Haven, Connecticut, and finally the forest and nature preserves all over New England. The university's assets also include an bequest valued at $25.6 billion as of September 2015 which is  the second largest of any educational institution.Yale  Library,which serves all constituent schools, holds about 15 million volumes and is the 3rd largest academic library all over the United States.

In 2014, Yale had over 385 registered student organizations, also an additional one hundred groups in the process of registration.

The university hosts a variety of student magazines , journals, and newspapers. Established in 1872, The Yale Record is considered the world's oldest humor magazine available now. Newspapers  like the Yale Daily News,  was first published in 1878, and  Yale Herald on weekly basis, which was first published in the year 1986. Dwight Hall recognized as  an independent, non-profit community service organization, overlook more than 2,000  undergraduates working on   70 community service initiatives in New Haven.

 The College Council runs many agencies that overlook campus vast activities and student services. The Yale Dramatic Association and Bulldog Productions gratify to the theater and movie communities, respectively. In addition, the Yale Drama Coalition also assidt to coordinate  and provide resources for the various Sudler Fund sponsored film productions which run every weekend. WYBC Yale Radio is the campus's radio station owned, operated by students. 

University of Oxford

University of Oxford

Oxford is a leading centre of learning and teaching and the oldest university in the English learning world. Oxford is a renouned university, consisting of both central University and colleges. The central University is categorized of academic departments and research centers, administrative departments, libraries and museums. The thirty eight colleges are self-governing and financially independent institutions, which are related to the central University of the federal system. There are also 6 permanent private halls, which were founded by different Christian and which still retain their Christian character.


Oxford is the home of several known scholarships, including the Clarendon Scholarship which was released in 2001 and the Rhodes Scholarship which has brought graduate students to gain knowledge at the university for more than a centenary. The university conductes the largest university press in the world and the largest academic library system in London. Oxford has educated many known alumni, including 27 Nobel laureates, 26 Prime Ministers of the Uk, and many heads of state from around the world.

The university is linked with 11 winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 5 in physics and 16 in medicine. Known Oxford thinkers and scientists include Tim Berners-Lee, Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins. The actors Hugh Grant and Rosamund Pike also went to Oxford, as did the writers Oscar Wilde, Graham Greene, Vikram Seth and Philip Pullman.

Oxford’s first international student, named as Emo of Friesland, was enrolled back in 1190, while the modern day university prides itself on having an ‘international character’ with connections to almost each and every country in the world and 40% of its faculty drawn from overseas.

As a modern, research-driven university, It has numerous strengths but cites particular prowess in the sciences, having recently ranked the best in the world for medicine and among the top 10 universities globally for life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities.

Many Oxford graduates secure well-paid employment.

27% of our students take home over more than £30,000 in the first year after graduation.

Whatever your degree subject, there will be a huge range of potential employment opportunities.

Leading employers recruit across our range of subjects, and it is one of the top five universities targeted by leading graduate recruiters. For example, students from across our range of subjects go  to work in sectors including finance, law, government, media, arts, winning places using the transferable skills from any Oxford degree.

'Oxford students are self-starters, who will be able to intelligently apply themselves to a range of tasks and opportunities. They are often able to manage their time efficiently, and confidently present themselves in professional situations.

The Oxford system produces graduates who are able to think independently and creatively, and who knows how to go about continual learning. In our business, the ability to handle challenging situations, and new skills which is much more important than any specific vocational or subject-specific training.'