DURHAM UNIVERSITY

                                                                                                 

                                                                                                             

Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charter in 1837. It was the first recognized university to open in England for more than 600 years, after Oxford and Cambridge, and is thus, following standard historical practice, the third-oldest university in England. As a collegiate university, its main functions are divided between the academic departments of the university and its 17 colleges. In general, the departments perform research and provide teaching to students, while the colleges are responsible for their domestic arrangements and welfare. The university is a member of the Russell Group of British research universities and is also affiliated with the regional N8 Research Partnership and international university groups including the Matariki Network of Universities and the Coimbra Group. The university estate includes 83 listed buildings, ranging from the 11th-century Durham Castle to the 1960s brutalist students' union. The university also owns and manages the Durham World Heritage Site in partnership with Durham Cathedral. The university's ownership of the world heritage site includes Durham Castle, Palace Green, and the surrounding buildings including the historic Cosin's Library.

RANKINGS:-

The university has earned many rankings such as, ranked 78^th in the QS World University Ranking 2024, and 27 in the QS World University Ranking 2024. 7^th in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024, and 8^th in the Complete University Guide 2024. Ranked 7^th in the Guardian University Guide 2024, got 6^th rank by The Complete University Guide 2023. In 12 subjects it ranked in the top 50 by QS World University Ranking by Subjects 2023.

Governance:-

The day-to-day running of the university is in the hands of the University Executive Committee (UEC), which is also responsible for the development of policies and strategies. This is a joint subcommittee of Senate and Council and consists of the Vice-Chancellor and Warden, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost (Chief Academic Officer), the five pro-vice-chancellors (Colleges and Student Experience; Education; Equality, Diversity and Inclusion; Global; and Research, the executive deans of the four faculties, the chief financial officer, the chief information officer, the university secretary, and the directors of four support divisions (Estates and Facilities; Human Resources and Organisational Development; Strategy Delivery; and Advancement, Marketing and Communications). All heads of departments and colleges report directly to one of the members of the UEC.

  

Campus

Durham University owns a 257-ha estate of which 251 ha is in Durham. This contains part of the Durham Castle and Cathedral UNESCO World Heritage Site and multiple other heritage assets including three ancient monuments (the Maiden Castle Iron Age promontory fort,  Cosin's Library and Divinity House, four grade I listed buildings (including Kingsgate Bridge,  the Exchequer Building on Palace Green, the gatehouse, keep, north range and west range of Durham Castle, and multiple listings covering surviving sections of the castle walls around the north of the castle and along the top of the river bank behind Hatfield College and St Cuthbert's Society) and 79 grade II or listed buildings. As of 2023, the estate in Durham includes 112 ha of woodland scrub (with 46 ha of woodland designated as Areas of High Landscape Value, including the 32.4 ha of Great High Wood, Hollingside Wood, and Blaid's Wood additionally designated as Ancient Semi-Natural Woodlands, Sites of Nature Conservation Importance and Sites of Ecological Value), 53 ha of farming and grazing land, and 27 ha of amenity grassland, alongside 51.4 ha of built environment. The estate also includes the Queen's Campus in Stockton-on-Tees. One of the major public attractions in Durham City is the 10-ha Botanic Gardens, established (on the current site) in 1970, with over 80,000 visitors annually. As of 2021, the university estate contains over 380 buildings with a floor area of 424,600 square meters (4,570,000 sq ft), including 189,400 square meters (2,039,000 sq ft) of residential area in 170 residential buildings (not including the independent St Chad's and St John's colleges, which are not owned by the university.

QUEEN’S CAMPUS

The colleges and academic departments were relocated to Durham City (or transferred to Newcastle University in the case of the School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Health) between 2017 and 2018, and the Queen's Campus became an International Study Centre (ISC), run by Study Group. This prepares non-EU foreign students to enter degree courses at the university, with the first students having started in September 2017. The ISC has taken over the former college accommodation on the campus, with the former Stephenson College buildings becoming Endeavour Court and the former John Snow College buildings becoming Infinity House. The ISC also continues to use the privately owned Rialto Court accommodation, which was previously used by the Queen's Campus. The university had said, as part of its 2017–2027 masterplan that it is continuing to explore other options for the use of the Queen's Campus and will be developing a separate masterplan for the campus.

LIBRARY:

In 2012 the university, together with the British Library and Durham Cathedral, purchased Europe's oldest intact book, the St Cuthbert Gospel, for the nation for £9 million. It is displayed equally in London and Durham, being shown at the university's Palace Green Library for the first time as part of the Lindisfarne Gospels Durham exhibition in 2013. In addition to the central library system, each College maintains its own library and reading rooms such as the Bettenson, Brewis, Williams, and Fenton Libraries of St. Chad's College, which contain over 38,000 volumes. Many departments also maintain a library in addition to the subject collections in the central and college libraries. Readers are also entitled to use the theology library housed by Durham Cathedral in its cloister. In February 2017, the university announced a £2 million investment to establish a residential research library at Ushaw College. This would be the first residential research library at a UK university and would offer researchers access to the collections of Ushaw College and Durham Cathedral as well as the university's special collections at the Palace Green Library. It is planned that visiting researchers will also participate in the public engagement program at Ushaw.

MUSEUM:

The university manages a number of museums. Built-in the 1960s, the Durham University Oriental Museum grew predominantly from the acquisitions of the university's former School of Oriental Studies. Initially housed across the university and used as a teaching collection, the size of the collection led to the building of the current museum to house the material. The collection to date contains over 30,000 objects from Asian art to antiquities, covering the Orient and Levant to the Far East and the Indian Sub-continent, with over a third of the collection relating to China. The national importance of the Chinese and Egyptian collections can be seen in the Designated Status from the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council achieved in 2008.  The Durham University Museum of Archaeology moved to Palace Green in 2014, having previously been housed in the Old Fulling Mill on the banks of the Wear. The museum was opened in 1833, being the second university museum in England to allow admittance to the general public. The museum focuses on the heritage of North East England and includes national and international collections spanning the Prehistoric, Ancient Greek, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, and post-medieval periods.

Faculty of Social Sciences & Health

·  Department of Anthropology

·  Department of Archaeology

·  Combined Honours in Social Sciences programme

·  Durham Centre for Academic Development

·  School of Education

·  Department of Geography

·  School of Government and International Affairs

·  Durham Law School

·  Department of Sociology

·  Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences

Faculty of Arts and Humanities

·  Department of Classics & Ancient History

·  Department of English Studies

·  Department of History

·  Liberal Arts program

·  School of Modern Languages and Cultures

·  Department of Music

·  Department of Philosophy

·  Department of Theology and Religion

Faculty of Science

·  Natural Sciences programme

·  Department of Biosciences

·  Department of Chemistry

·  Department of Computer Science

·  Department of Earth Sciences

·  Department of Engineering

·  Department of Mathematical Sciences

·  Department of Physics

·  Department of Psychology

Durham University Business School

·  Department of Accounting

·  Department of Economics

· Department of Finance

·  Department of Management and Marketing

There are some basic requirements that are to be fulfilled by international students to get admission to this university:

1. Graduate Requirements:

• Application fees: 60 GBP (For Business SchoolMasters Program)
• 3 to 5-year bachelor's degree from a recognized university
• GPA or Aggregate: 60 to 70 % depending upon the university
• English Language Proficiency: TOEFL IBT - 102, IELTS - 7.0 bands overall
• LOR
• SOP
• Resume

    2. Master of Business Administration Requirements:

• No application fees
• Undergraduate degree
• GPA or Aggregate 60 to 70% depends upon the university
• English Language Proficiency: TOEFL IBT- 102, IELTS - 7.0 bands overall
• LOR
• SOP
• Resume
• Interview

   3. Undergraduate Admissions:

• No application fees
• Higher Secondary Exam Transcript
• GPA or Aggregate 85 to 95% depending upon the university
• English Language Proficiency: TOEFL IBT - 102, IELTS - 7.0 bands overall
• SOP
• Resume

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Mountclair State University

                                                 

                                                                                    

Montclair State University (MSU) is a public research university in Montclair, New Jersey, with parts of the campus extending into Clifton and Little Falls. As of fall 2018, Montclair State was, by enrollment, the second-largest public university in New Jersey. As of November 2021, there were 21,005 total enrolled students: 16,374 undergraduate students and 4,631 graduate students. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". The campus covers approximately 252 acres (1.02 km²). The university offers more than 300 majors, minors, and concentrations. In 2004, NJ Transit opened the Montclair State University station, which links the university to New York City.  In 2015, the university established the School of Communication and Media and added two new buildings to its campus; the Feliciano School of Business and the Center for Environmental and Life Sciences (CELS). Partridge Hall was fully renovated and in 2016, became the new School of Nursing, which welcomed its inaugural class of students that fall. In 2016, Montclair State University was designated by the U.S. Department of Education as a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). In 2017, Montclair State was designated a public research university by the New Jersey Legislature. The new state-of-the-art home for the School of Communication and Media opened in the fall of 2017, followed in 2018 by the opening of the Center for Computing and Information Science in the former Mallory Hall, which underwent a complete renovation and expansion. In 2016, the university's classification was changed from a Master's to a Doctoral Research University, and in 2019, was changed to R2: Doctoral University - High Research Activity.

RANKINGS:

U.S. News & World Report listed Montclair State as No. 179 among all national universities in its 2022 rankings, No. 19 in Top Performers on Social Mobility, and No. 88 in Top Public Schools. U.S. News & World Report 2022 Best Graduate Schools ranked several of the University’s programs among the best in the nation, including its education program (second in New Jersey and 103 in the nation), its Master’s in Public Health program (second in New Jersey and 135 in the country) and its Master’s in Business Administration program (fourth in New Jersey and 185 in the nation). Montclair State University’s online Master of Arts in Educational Leadership program was ranked No. 1 in New Jersey and No. 25 in the nation in the U.S. News & World Report 2020 Best Online Programs rankings. The Feliciano School of Business was included in the 2020 edition of "The Best Business Schools" published by The Princeton Review. The Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges: 2019 Edition included Montclair State in its rankings of America’s greenest campuses. Money magazine ranked Montclair State among the nation’s "Best Colleges for Your Money" in 2020. Money also ranked the university at No. 16 on its 2020 "Most Transformative Colleges" list. Campus Pride named Montclair State a "Premier Campus" in its 2020 Campus Pride Index, the national listing of LGBTQ-friendly colleges and universities. Montclair State earned the maximum five stars out of five, one of only two institutions in New Jersey to do so.

CAMPUS:-

The original Montclair State University campus consisted of College Hall, Russ Hall, Chapin Hall, and Morehead Hall, all built between 1908 and 1928. Housing for students returning from World War II was added near the end of the war. Between 1950 and 1980, Montclair State gradually acquired land from a former trap rock quarry and expanded its facilities with an additional 23 buildings. Montclair State University began its next phase of growth in the late 1990s to accommodate New Jersey's growing student population. Dickson Hall was dedicated in 1995. The building is named for David W.D. Dickson, the first African-American president of Montclair State University. The Floyd Hall Arena, an ice skating rink, was built in 1998. Science Hall, the home of the Department of Biology, opened in 1999. The Red Hawk Diner was built in 2001, making it the first diner on a university campus in the United States.

Athletics:

Montclair State University's athletic teams have played under many names in the school's history. From the late 1920s to the '30s, the school played as the "Big Red" and featured a large scarlet "M" on its uniforms. Next, Montclair State Teacher's College competed as the Indians, using a logo with a Native American chief's profile with the initials "MSTC" emblazoned on the caricature's headdress. The initials were changed to "MSC" when the school became Montclair State College in 1958. In response to the growing concerns voiced by Native Americans, the school changed its nickname to the Red Hawks, named after the Red-tailed Hawks that are indigenous to the area.

Sports fields and facilities

·         Sprague Field

    The 6,000-seat field is home to the MSU football team, men's and women's lacrosse, and field hockey teams.

·         Panzer Athletic Center Gymnasium

  The 1,200-seat arena is home to the MSU men's and women's basketball teams and volleyball teams.

·         Panzer Athletic Center Pool

  The 500-seat Panzer Pool is home to the Red Hawk men's and women's swimming and diving teams.

·         MSU Soccer Park at Pittser Field

The 3,000-seat artificial turf field, which opened in 1998, is the main home for both the men's and women's soccer teams. Starting in 2017, Pittser Field will be the home of New York Red Bulls II.

·         Yogi Berra Stadium

   The 3,400-seat stadium is home to the MSU baseball team and the Yogi Berra Museum. It was the former home of the New Jersey Jackals of the independent Frontier League from 1998-2022.

·         MSU Softball Stadium

The 300-seat stadium opened its doors in 2004 is home to the MSU softball team, and also hosted the 2009 NCAA Division III Women's College World Series.

·         Montclair State University Ice Arena

The ice skating arena, formerly known as Floyd Hall Arena, opened in March 1998 with two NHL-sized rinks, an off-ice training area, meeting rooms, a concession stand, a pro shop, and facilities for birthday parties. The arena now attracts over 500,000 visits per year and has become the home to many groups including The MSU Hockey Club, the Montclair Hockey Club, The North Jersey Figure Skating Club, the Clifton HS Mustangs, and Nutley and Passaic Valley High School Hockey Teams. In 2020, the arena was acquired by the university and re-named Montclair State University Ice Arena.

·         Student Recreation Center

  The 77,000-square-foot facility is home to two fitness floors, a six-lane swimming pool, two racquetball courts, a full-size basketball court with an overhead track, and two multi-purpose rooms. Montclair State University's Student Recreation Center hosts 13 intramural sports, a variety of fitness classes, and many special events throughout each year.

 

ACADEMICS:-

 John J. Cali School of Music:-

The John J. Cali School of Music is part of the College of the Arts. The Cali School of Music provides a wide range of study and performance opportunities for its undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a professional certification program in Music Education and the Artist's Diploma and Performer's Certificate degrees in classical and jazz performance. The noted string quartet, the Shanghai Quartet, was in residence at MSU from 2002-2020. In 2021, the Cali School implemented the Cali Pathways Project, a scholarship program designed to create dynamic and comprehensive pathways to higher education and careers in music for talented student musicians from underrepresented backgrounds.

 

School of Communication and Media

Included in the College of the Arts is the School of Communication and Media.

School of Communications and Media Building:

The school opened a well-equipped, modern facility in the fall of 2017. It features a 187-seat Sony Digital Cinema Presentation Hall, four broadcast-ready HD + 4K studios and control rooms, a motion picture stage for digital filmmaking, and an Audio Production Center featuring a Foley stage, a performance stage, and audio sound labs.

 

College of Education and Human Services

The College of Education and Human Services houses the Center of Pedagogy, which oversees the Teacher Education program. Majors across the university earning teacher credentials are administered jointly by the Center of Pedagogy and the department that houses the student's major. 

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Montclair State offers 20 undergraduate majors and more than 40 minors. The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is the largest college by enrollment within Montclair State. Montclair State supports and encourages interdisciplinary programs. In 2019, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the College of Science and Mathematics have teamed up to offer the only Master of Science in Computational Linguistics program in New Jersey.

 

College of Science and Mathematics

The College of Science and Mathematics (CSAM) offers programs in the natural, physical, life, and computational sciences. Located in Richardson Hall are the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and the Student Success Center. Science Hall houses the Department of Biology. The School of Computing and the Department of Mathematics are housed in the Center for Computing and Information Science. The Center for Environmental and Life Sciences (CELS) houses the Department of Earth and Environmental Studies, which includes Earth and Environmental Science; Geographic, Environmental and Urban Studies; and Sustainability Science. CELS also houses the PSEG Institute for Sustainability Studies, New Jersey Center for Water Science and Technology, Clean Energy and Sustainability Analytics Center, Microscopy and Microanalysis Research Lab, Sokol Institute for Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences, and the interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Environmental Science and Management.

Requirements for international students to apply to this university:-

• Academic Evaluation Report
• Transcripts
• ELP Test
• SOP
• Essay or Resume
• LOR
• I- 20 Application form
• Proof of Finance Support
• Copy of Passport
• Affidavit
• Sponsor's Bank Statement
• TOEFL iBT- Undergraduate minimum- 70 and Postgraduate minimum- 83
• IELTS- Undergraduate minimum- 6.0 overall bands, Postgraduate minimum- 6.5 overall bands
• Duolingo - Undergraduate minimum- 95, Postgraduate minimum- 105

INTERNATIONAL VISA REQUIREMENTS:-

• Sevis fees - 350$
• D- 160 or I - 20 form
• Valid Passport
• Sevis fee receipt
• Financial proof
• Academic Transcript
• Standardized Test Scores
• Proof of Enrollment
• 2x2 Visa Passport photos
• Immunization form
• Health Insurance USA

 

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St. THOMAS UNIVERSITY

                                                                                                                                    

St. Thomas University (also St. Thomas or STU) is a Catholic, English-language liberal arts University located in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. It is a primarily undergraduate university offering bachelor's degrees in the arts (humanities and social sciences), education, and social work to approximately 1,900 students. The average class size is 30 and no class is larger than 60. The university offers a number of unique programs including recognized majors in Criminology, Journalism, Human Rights, and Communications and Public Policy. St. Thomas is the home of the Frank McKenna Centre for Communications and Public Policy. The university is unique in Canada for its sole focus on liberal arts and its commitment to social justice. St. Thomas' notable alumni include a Canadian prime minister, Brian Mulroney, a New Brunswick premier, Shawn Graham, federal and provincial cabinet ministers, prelates, university presidents as well as several Rhodes Scholars. Today, St. Thomas University has been subject to the pervasive effects of secularization that has seen the university depart from much of its rich tradition of Catholic higher education and scholarship, St. Thomas University remains the only exclusive liberal arts university in Canada.

St. Thomas University and the University of New Brunswick's Fredericton campus are located in the College Hill neighborhood in Fredericton. The two institutions share facilities for the student unions, libraries, athletics, and a common heating plant and building maintenance services. Students from STU are permitted to take a certain number of classes at UNB and vice versa. However, STU and UNBF itself are financially and academically separate. STU is able to offer many amenities other smaller schools cannot, in large part due to its UNB partnership. The two universities enjoy a good-natured rivalry.

 

Campus life

There are six academic buildings on campus housing classrooms and faculty offices. They are James Dunn Hall, Edmund Casey Hall, George Martin Hall, Brian Mulroney Hall, Holy Cross House, and Margaret Norrie McCain Hall. James Dunn Hall also contains Tim Hortons and Subway restaurants. Further, it contains a wall of flags on which flags representing the nationalities of all international students are represented. George Martin Hall contains a Meal hall that makes use of an All-You-Care-To-Eat model. Meal plans are available to students and range from 10 meals a week to unlimited dining. STU's athletic facility is called the J.B. O'Keefe Centre. There are three residence buildings at St. Thomas University. All three (Harrington Hall, Vanier Hall, and Holy Cross House) are located on campus. The university maintains its own campus police force. Campus police members are students who are hired annually by the University to maintain security at campus events. The student newspaper, The Aquinian, is available on campus and around the city during the regular academic year.

 

Athletics:

STU offers the following athletic programs for men: basketball, cross-country, soccer, and volleyball. STU offers the following athletic programs for women: basketball, cross country, soccer, volleyball, rugby, and hockey. Collectively, the St Thomas Tommies have won 41 ACAA titles and 2 AUS titles. Throughout these athletic endeavors, STU has maintained an excellent academic status with 371 national scholars and 397 academic all-Canadians.

Academics:

STU offers the following programs to students: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Applied Arts, Bachelor of Education, and Bachelor of Social Work.

STU offers the following degrees to students: Anthropology, Catholic Studies, Communications and Public Policy, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Economics, Education, English Language and Literature (with the option to additionally concentrate in Creative Writing or Drama), Environment and Society, Fine Arts, French, Gerontology, Great Books, History, Human Rights, Humanities, Interdisciplinary Studies, International Relations, Irish Studies, Journalism, Mathematics, Media Studies, Native Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Romance Languages, Science and Technology Studies, Social Work, Sociology, Spanish, Women's Studies and Gender Studies.

    Bachelor of Arts:

                                  The liberal arts approach to the Bachelor of Arts will provide you with exposure to a wide range of academic fields. The opportunity to tailor your degree to your interests—those you had before and those you discovered along the way—will allow you to diversify your knowledge, experience, and perspective. 

Bachelor of Social Work:

The School of Social Work is committed to a politicized social work practice grounded in a structural approach. This fosters greater awareness of the broad and intersecting injustices caused by oppressive structures while preparing students to be effective and ethical practitioners. The goal is that graduates are able to integrate vision, knowledge, and skills for practice that may lead to social transformation toward a more equitable and just society. While seeking to develop and teach a politicized social work practice, they strive to remain open to new ideas, analyses, and realities that challenge and inform ongoing efforts. The Bachelor of Social Work program emphasizes the importance of understanding the structural roots of social problems in Canadian society.  Therefore, social work is a political activity aimed at initiating social change at all levels of society to promote equality and inclusion. Social problems such as poverty and homelessness, gendered violence, racial discrimination, and climate change are viewed as being rooted in structural inequalities. These inequalities lead to economic, political, social, and cultural disparities for whole populations of people.

Master of Social Work:

During the Master of Social Work program, students will have the opportunity to strengthen and deepen their knowledge and skills in their chosen area of practice so that they may respond more effectively to social issues at the personal, family, cultural, community, and socio-political levels. Course objectives are congruent with the overall objectives of the program, and practice experience and applied elements form an integral part of each course.  Specific skill development in each student’s area of interest will take place in assignments and the field practicum and thesis options.

Bachelor of Education:

Our post-degree Bachelor of Education takes a cross-disciplinary approach to teaching and learning while emphasizing inclusionary teaching approaches. The university offers concentrations in elementary (K-5), secondary (6-12), or French second-language teaching through cooperative learning and teamwork, along with practical teaching techniques. The 11-month program includes two field placements in different schools and at different grade levels in New Brunswick. This offers opportunities to put theory into practice and will prepare you for a rewarding career in education. 

Certificate programs:

Criminology and criminal justice:

                                                           The certificate program of criminology and criminal justice is designed for students who encourage the law and order to evaluate critically and consider the increasing challenges of the criminal justice system.  This program is designed for part-time students who already have at least 1 year of experience in the field.

Gerontology:

                       The gerontology certificate program is designed for those who have worked in the field and want opportunities who are working in the field and understand the role of caregivers and facilitators. The program is designed part-time for 6 full years. This program is for students who are in the BA program.

With the great opportunities that the university provides the students can have the greatest future to pursue their goals and dreams. 

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