King's College London

King's College London

Kings College London is a public university located in London, UK, and a constituent college of the federal University of London. Kings was founded in 1829 by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington and received its Royal Charter in the same year, making it perhaps the third oldest university in England. King was one of the two founding colleges of the University of London in 1836 and grew through mergers, including Queen Elizabeth College and Chelsea College of Science and Technology in 1985, the Institute of Psychiatry in 1997 The medical and dental States and Guy St. Thomas hospitals' and Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery in 1998. King became the largest university center and post - graduate medical education and bio-medical research in Europe by the number of students and is considered a leading multidisciplinary universities worldwide.

Governance:

The head of King's College London is formally principal and president , currently held by Ed Byrne. The office was established by the Charter of King as "the principal academic and administrative college ( and Kings Statutes its main overall responsibility for the church ) to ensure that the objects of the College are met, and preservation and promotion of efficiency , discipline and good order of the Order . " the charter and bylaws granted in 2009 established the additional post of " president. " as such , the full title of the head of King's College London " principal and president. "

Admissions:

An access to information request revealed that received the university ( 31,857 ) undergraduate applications and made 13,302 offers in 2014-15 . This gave an acceptance rate of 18.9 % and 41.8% of the offer. School of Medicine received 1764 applications , only 39 offers were made , resulting in a rate of only 2.2 % of supply . Nursery & midwifery , physiotherapy and clinical dental care had the lowest rate of 14 %, 16 % and 17 % offer.

Teaching & Graduation:

King's academic year runs from the last Monday in September to the first Friday in June.Graduation ceremonies are held in January and June or July, with ceremonies held in South-wark Cathedral for the School of Medicine and the Dental Institute and in the Barbican Centre for all other Schools. Since 2008 King's graduates have worn gowns designed by Vivienne Westwood.

Princeton University

Academics:

The University has produced many notable graduates . It was with 41 Nobel Laureates , 17 National Medal of Science winners , the most Field Medalists and Abel Prize winner(8 & 4, respectively) , ten Turing award winners , five National Humanities Medal recipients and 204 Rhodes Scholars in connection to the Abel Prize winner and Fields Medal . Two US presidents , 12 Supreme Court judges ( three of them are currently on the field ) , and numerous live billionaires and foreign heads of state are all as an Alumni of Princeton . [ Quantum ] Princeton has also trained many prominent members of the US Congress and the US government , including eight secretaries , three Secretaries of Defense , and two of the last four presidents of the Federal Reserve.

Undergraduate:

Undergraduate courses in the humanities are traditionally either seminars or lectures two or three per week with an additional discussion seminar organized called "PRECEPT" times. Graduate should all (A.B) Applicants have a thesis and in most departments, one or two pieces extensive independent research, known as complete "junior papers." Juniors in some departments, including architecture and the creative arts, completely independent projects that deviate from the written exam. (A.B) Applicants should also have a three or four-semester foreign language requirement and distribution requirements with a total of 31 lessons. (B.S.E) Candidates follows a parallel track with an emphasis on a rigorous science and math curriculum, a computer science requirement, and at least two semesters of independent research including an optional essay. All (B.S.E) Students must complete a minimum of 36 lessons. (A.B) candidates have more freedom in course selection than (B.S.E) candidates because of the lower number of required classes in general. Nevertheless, in the spirit of a liberal arts education, both enjoy a relatively high degree of freedom to create a self-structured curriculum.

Graduate:

The graduate school has about 2600 students in 42 faculties and programs in the social sciences , engineering , natural sciences and humanities . In 2012-13 , received more than 11,000 applications for admission and awarded 319 Ph.D. Statements 170 degrees and master's degrees . Princeton has no medical school , law school or business school .A short-lived Princeton Law School in 1852 folded offers professional graduate degrees in architecture , engineering, economics and public policy , the latter from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs , which was founded in 1930 as the School of Public and International Affairs and in 1948 after the university president and (  US President ) Woodrow Wilson renamed .

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries

The system libraries Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT Libraries) includes five academic schools that are part of the university. Collections of print and multimedia MIT libraries contain more than 5 million more than 3 million volumes piece printed, 17,000 journal subscriptions and other series, 478 online databases, electronic journals more than 55,000 titles to licensed access, and more than 2, 8 million items in a collection of microforms, maps, photographs, scores, sound recordings and video cassettes