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The University of the Western Cape ( UWC; Afrikaans: Universiteit van Wes-Kaapland) is a public research university in Bellville, near Cape Town, South Africa. The university was established in 1959 by the South African government as a university for Coloured people only. Other universities in Cape Town are the University of Cape Town ...
United World Colleges ( UWC) is an international network of schools and educational programmes with the shared aim of "making education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future." [1] The organization was founded on the principles of German educator Kurt Hahn in 1962 to promote intercultural understanding.
The United World College Costa Rica (UWC Costa Rica, also known by its acronym UWCCR) ( Spanish - Colegio del Mundo Unido Costa Rica ), located in the Santa Ana suburb of San José, is the 11th college in the UWC movement and the first to offer instruction in both English and Spanish. The College, formerly the " Colegio Internacional SOS ...
Pennsylvania State University. / 40.79833°N 77.86000°W / 40.79833; -77.86000. The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State and sometimes by the acronym PSU, is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania. Founded in 1855 as Farmers' High School of ...
UWC Atlantic. / 51.40139°N 3.53250°W / 51.40139; -3.53250. UWC Atlantic (formally the United World College of the Atlantic, and often referred to by its original name, Atlantic College) is an independent boarding school in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales. Founded in 1962, it was the first of the United World Colleges and was ...
All UWC students are selected based on merit, promise and potential. Each of the nearly 160 United World College National Committees makes recommendations for admission to UWC schools independently and according to their individual selection procedures. Admission is competitive and is deliberately intended to reflect diversity in all respects.
Admission is need-blind for domestic applicants. The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a college-sponsor of the National Merit Scholarship Program and sponsored 10 Merit Scholarship awards in 2020. In the 2020–2021 academic year, 30 freshman students were National Merit Scholars.
University of Wisconsin Colleges. The University of Wisconsin Colleges, established in 1971 [1] was a unit of the University of Wisconsin System composed of 13 local two-year campuses and one online campus, University of Wisconsin Colleges Online. These campuses offered a liberal arts, transfer-parallel curriculum.