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Rutgers University (/ ˈ r ʌ t ɡ ər z / RUT-gərz), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, [11] and was affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church.
The University of Chicago was re-incorporated as a coeducational [33]: 137 institution in 1890 by the American Baptist Education Society, using $400,000 donated to the ABES to supplement a $600,000 donation from Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller, [34] and land donated by Marshall Field. [35]
Northeastern University (NU or NEU) is a private research university with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts.Established in 1898, it was founded by the Boston Young Men's Christian Association as an all-male institute before being incorporated as Northeastern College in 1916, gaining university status in 1922.
Sir George Birkbeck, founder of Birkbeck, University of London Part of the main Birkbeck campus in Bloomsbury, showing the main entrance (on the right).. In 1823, Sir George Birkbeck, a physician and graduate of the University of Edinburgh and an early pioneer of adult education, founded the then "London Mechanics' Institute" at a meeting at the Crown and Anchor Tavern on the Strand.
The university maintains the largest university library system in the UK, [21] and, with over 11 million volumes housed on 120 miles (190 km) of shelving, the Bodleian group is the second-largest library in the UK, after the British Library.
The University of Hertfordshire (UH) is a public university in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.The university is based largely in Hatfield, Hertfordshire.Its antecedent institution, Hatfield Technical College, was founded in 1948 and was identified as one of 25 Colleges of Technology in the United Kingdom in 1959. [5]
As of 2017 Coventry is the highest-ranked modern university in the UK in both the Guardian University Guide [17] – in which it ranks 12th overall – and the Complete University Guide. [18] It also places in the top 200 in the Times Higher Education Young University Rankings 2017, [ 19 ] which ranks universities around the world that are aged ...
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City, United States.Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, [13] NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin [14] as a non-denominational all-male institution near City Hall based on a curriculum focused on a secular education.