Andrews University is a private Seventh-day Adventist university in Berrien Springs, Michigan.Founded in 1874 as Battle Creek College, it was the first higher education facility started by Seventh-day Adventists and is the flagship university of the Seventh-day Adventist school system, the world's second largest Christian school system.. The university consists of eight …

St. Andrews University is a private Presbyterian liberal arts college in Laurinburg, North Carolina.The university was established in 1958 as a result of a merger of Flora MacDonald College in Red Springs and Presbyterian Junior College; it was named St. Andrews Presbyterian College from 1960 until 2011 when the college changed its name to St. Andrews University.

Name Year/degree Notability Reference Andrew Bell: 1774 Anglican priest, educationalist, founder of Madras College: Normand MacLaurin: 1854 M.A.: Physician; chancellor of the University of Sydney; Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council : G. Gabrielle Starr: 10th president of Pomona College; attended graduate school at St Andrews as a Robert T. Jones Scholar

The University of Oxford's foundation date is unknown. It is known that teaching at Oxford existed in some form as early as 1096, but it is unclear when a university came into being. The scholar Theobald of Étampes lectured at Oxford in the early 1100s.. It grew quickly from 1167 when English students returned from the University of Paris. The historian Gerald of Wales lectured …

Manchester Metropolitan University (often abbreviated MMU) is a public research university located in Manchester, England.The university traces its origins to the Manchester Mechanics Institute and the Manchester School of Design, which formed Manchester Polytechnic in 1970. Manchester Polytechnic then gained university status under the government's Further and …

Keele University, officially known as the University of Keele, is a public research university in Keele, approximately three miles (4.8 km) from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England.Keele was granted university status by Royal Charter in 1962 and was founded in 1949 as the University College of North Staffordshire.. Keele occupies a 625-acre (253 ha) rural …

The QS World University Rankings are a ranking of the world's top universities produced by Quacquarelli Symonds published annually since 2004. In 2021 they ranked 1300 universities, with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard University taking the top 5 spots. According to Alexa Internet, it is the most widely viewed …

Cardiff Metropolitan University (Welsh: Prifysgol Metropolitan Caerdydd), formerly University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC), Prifysgol Athrofâu Cymru, Caerdydd (PACC) is a university located in the city of Cardiff.. In November 2021, Cardiff Met was awarded the title of UK and Ireland University of the Year 2021 by the Times Higher Education.. In September 2020 Cardiff Met …

Wayne State University (WSU) is a public research university in Detroit, Michigan.It is Michigan's third-largest university. Founded in 1868, Wayne State consists of 13 schools and colleges offering approximately 350 programs to nearly 25,000 graduate and undergraduate students. Wayne State University, along with the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, …

The Russell Group is a self-selected association of twenty-four public research universities in the United Kingdom. The group is headquartered in Cambridge and was established in 1994 to represent its members' interests, principally to government and Parliament.It was incorporated in 2007. Its members are often perceived as the UK's most prestigious universities, but this has …