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Like many other issues, education
is also an obsession of internet surfers. People of all walks of life,
especially young generation, crave for to-the-point information on
educational facilities and sources. Internet, we firmly believe, can
serve in the best way by providing information about world-class
educational institutions and their methods. Here, in Education section
of Bangla2000, we have tried our best to serve you with information on
educational institutes and sources worldwide. For necessary information
try the following categories.
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Study
Abroad ::
Every year a good number of
people from Bangladesh go abroad for higher education. Many hover for
appropriate information concerning this. In this section we have
endeavored to provide you study overseas information that might help
you to a great extent. Just Click on the University names to learn more.
::
Road
to an American University ::
Harvard University
:- Harvard University is the oldest institution of higher
learning in the United States. Established in 1636 by vote of the Great
and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Harvard was named
after its first benefactor, John Harvard, of Charlestown,
Massachusetts. Upon his death in 1638, the young minister left his
library and half his estate to the new College. Founded 16 years after
the arrival of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, the University has grown from
nine students with a single Master to an enrollment of more than 18,000
degree candidates, including undergraduates and students in 10 graduate
and professional schools. An additional 13,000 students are enrolled in
one or more courses in the Harvard Extension School. Over 14,000 people
work at Harvard, including more than 2,000 faculty. There are also
7,000 faculty appointments in affiliated teaching hospitals. Recent
presidents James Bryant Conant, Nathan M. Pusey, and Derek Bok have
each made significant contributions toward strengthening the quality of
undergraduate and graduate education at Harvard while, at the same
time, maintaining the University's role as a preeminent research
institution. Conant (1933-53) introduced a system of ad hoc committees
from outside the University to evaluate tenure candidates being
considered for faculty positions. Conant also initiated the General
Education Program to give undergraduates breadth in fields outside
their major study.
University
of California, Berkeley :- The roots of the
University of California go back to the gold rush days of 1849, when
the drafters of the State Constitution, a group of vigorous and
farsighted people, required the legislature to "encourage by all
suitable means the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral and
agricultural improvement" of the people of California. California had
few families in 1849 and few children to educate, but these early
planners dreamed of a university which eventually, "if properly
organized and conducted, would contribute even more than California's
gold to the glory and happiness of advancing generations." The
university that was born nearly 20 years later was the product of a
merger between the College of California (a private institution) and
the Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College (a land grant
institution). The College of California, founded by former
Congregational minister Henry Durant from New England, was incorporated
in 1855 in Oakland. Its curriculum was modeled after that of Yale and
Harvard, with the addition of modern languages to the core courses in
Latin, Greek, history, English, mathematics, and natural history. With
an eye to future expansion, the board of trustees augmented the
college's Oakland holdings with the purchase of 160 acres of land four
miles north, on a site they named Berkeley in 1866.
The University of Texas,
Austin :- UT Austin is a major research
university that is home to 48,000 students, 2,700 faculty, and 17,000
staff members. The innovation, creativity and quality of teaching,
scholarship, research and public service under way at The University of
Texas at Austin touches the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.
UT Austin was founded in 1883 on 40 acres near the state capitol. As
the academic flagship of the UT System's 15 component institutions, the
University's reach extends well beyond its 357-acre main campus.UT
Austin has an annual enrollment of approximately 49,000 students. About
25 percent are enrolled in graduate and professional programs, giving
UT Austin the distinction of awarding the greatest number of doctorate
degrees of any university in the nation. We attract the best and
brightest by offering one of the widest selections of study areas among
major universities in the United States.
UT Austin is home to students from every county in Texas, all 50 states
and about 120 foreign countries. With 2,544 faculty members and 11,000
full- and part-time staff members, the University is one of Austin's
largest employers. While we are a large university, we comprise many
smaller learning communities centered on the common goal of expanding
knowledge and human understanding.
California Institute of
Technology :- The California Institute of Technology
developed from a local school of arts and crafts founded in Pasadena in
1891 by the Honorable Amos G. Throop. Initially named Throop
University, it was later renamed Throop Polytechnic Institute. Known as
the California Institute of Technology since 1920, it has enjoyed the
support of the citizens of Pasadena, and as early as 1908 the Board of
Trustees had as members Dr. Norman Bridge, Arthur H. Fleming, Henry M.
Robinson, J. A. Culbertson, C. W. Gates, and Dr. George Ellery Hale.
The dedication by these men, of their time, their minds, and their
fortunes, transformed a modest vocational school into a university
capable of attracting to its faculty some of the most eminent of the
world's scholars and scientists.
The University of
Pennsylvania :- The University of Pennsylvania,
a charter member of the Ivy Group, is ranked among the finest
comprehensive universities in the world. It was seventh among national
universities in the cover story, " America's Best Colleges
" published in the Aug. 30, 1999 issue of U.S. News & World
Report, the third consecutive U.S. News survey in which Penn has been
listed among the Top Ten institutions in America. The University of
Pennsylvania also is unique among its peers in that all of its 12
graduate and professional schools are located on its 262-acre campus in
West Philadelphia, encouraging horizontal collaboration among
undergraduate programs, and among the graduate and professional
schools, and also vertical synergies within individual schools and
between the undergraduate programs and most of the graduate and
professional schools.
The University of Pennsylvania is a place where teaching and research
are unconstrained by traditional disciplinary boundaries; a campus
environment that encourages interdisciplinary study. It is a place
where teaching embraces both theory and practice in keeping with
founder Benjamin Franklin's admonition that we "…learn every
thing that is useful and every thing that is ornamental." The
educational experience at Penn is both intellectual and utilitarian;
education that explores not only "why," but "how."
Members of the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania are engaged in
teaching, research and scholarship at the highest levels; the faculty
includes Nobel laureates, recipients of the Pulitzer Prize, Fulbright
Fellows, MacArthur Fellows and Guggenhein Fellows, among others, as
well as men and women who have been elected to membership in the most
prestigious academic societies in America, including the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the
Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences and the
National Academy of Engineering.
:: Universities with Many
Bangladeshis ::
Arizona State University
:- Arizona State University is the third largest public university in
the United States. This rapidly growing, multicampus public research
university offers programs from the baccalaureate through the doctorate
for approximately 49,700 full-time and part-time students through ASU
Main in Tempe; ASU West in northwest Phoenix; a major educational
center in downtown Phoenix; ASU East, located at the Williams Campus
(formerly Williams Air Force Base) in southwest Mesa; and other
instructional, research, and public service sites throughout Maricopa
County. ASU is a modern university that applies its research
capabilities to the rapidly evolving needs of Maricopa County and the
state.
Arizona State University’s goal is to become a world-class
university in a multicampus setting, one of the very best public
universities in the USA. Its mission is to provide outstanding programs
in instruction, research, and creative activity, to promote and support
economic development, and to provide service appropriate for the
nation, the state of Arizona, and the state’s major
metropolitan area. To fulfill its mission, ASU places special emphasis
on the core disciplines and offers a full range of degree
programs—baccalaureate through doctorate. To become
competitive with the very best public universities, ASU recognizes that
it must offer quality programs at all degree levels in a broad range of
fundamental fields of inquiry. ASU was awarded the prestigious Research
I university status in 1994, recognizing ASU as a premier research
institution.
The University of Oklahoma
:- The University of Oklahoma is one of the
major public universities in the United States. Founded in 1890, it has
more than 160,000 alumni, including three astronauts; 24 Rhodes
Scholars; more petroleum engineers than any other school in the world;
award-winning actors; most of Oklahoma's physicians, attorneys, and
judges; mayors and governors in Oklahoma and other states; U.S.
congressmen and senators; and ambassadors and high government officials
in other nations. Forbes magazine ranks OU among the top colleges and
universities in the nation for providing the undergraduate education of
the corporate world's highest paid chief executives.
The student body
of the University numbers more than 20,000 students on the 900 acre
main campus in Norman and another 3,000 students at the OU Health
Sciences Center in Oklahoma City and Tulsa. OU students come from
throughout the United States and from 101 other countries. About 1,750
students at the University are from overseas. The University seeks to
maintain a diverse student body and a campus environment that promotes
cross-cultural communication and understanding.
An outstanding faculty serve as teachers, mentors, and role models to
OU students through the challenges and rewards of their college years.
Many OU professors are national leaders in their fields and their
teaching is enriched with the newest research discoveries and
stimulated by the excitement of creativity.
University libraries house
nearly 2.3 million volumes and maintain subscriptions to more than
17,500 journals and periodicals. The library contains several
internationally known special collections, including the Western
History Collections, the Bass Business History Collection, and the
History of Science Collections, which is perhaps the finest of its kind
in the world. The Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, housed on OU's
Norman campus, contains extensive archeological, paleontological, and
natural history collections.
University
of New York :- The New York University was
founded in 1831
by a group of eminent private citizens in the early nineteenth century.
At that time a major emphasis in higher education was on the study of
Greek and Latin, with little attention to modern or contemporary
subjects. The founders of New York University intended to enlarge the
scope of higher education to meet the needs of persons aspiring to
careers in business, industry, science, and the arts, as well as in
law, medicine, and the ministry. The opening of the University of
London in 1828 convinced New Yorkers that New York, too, should have
such a university.
It is today recognized both nationally and
internationally as a leader in scholarship. Of the more than 3,000
colleges and universities in America, only 27 private institutions are
members of the distinguished Association of American Universities. New
York University is one of the 27. Students come to the University from
all 50 states and from 120 foreign countries.
The University includes
thirteen schools, colleges, and divisions at five major centers in
Manhattan. In addition, the University operates branch campus programs
in Westchester County at Manhattanville College and in Rockland County
at Dominican College. Certain of the University's research facilities,
notably the Institute of Environmental Medicine, are located in
Sterling Forest, near Tuxedo, New York. Each division is small- to
moderate-sized with its own traditions, programs, and faculty. More
than 2,500 courses are offered here, leading to more than 25 different
degrees
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