Yale University

Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the "Collegiate School" by a group of Congregationalist ministers and chartered by the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. In 1718, the school was renamed "Yale College" in recognition of a gift from Elihu Yale, a governor of the British East India Company. Established to train Connecticut ministers in theology and sacred languages, by 1777 the school's curriculum began to incorporate humanities and sciences. 

During the 19th century Yale gradually incorporated graduate and professional instruction, awarding the first Ph.D. in the United States in 1861 and organizing as a university in 1887.

Yale is organized into twelve constituent schools: the original undergraduate college, the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and ten professional schools. While the university is governed by the Yale Corporation, each school's faculty oversees its curriculum and degree programs. 

In addition to a central campus in downtown New Haven, the University owns athletic facilities in Western New Haven, including the Yale Bowl, a campus in West Haven, Connecticut, and forest and nature preserves throughout New England. The University's assets include an endowment valued at $23.9 billion as of September 27, 2014.

Troy University

Troy University is a comprehensive public university that is located in Troy, Alabama, United States. It was founded on February 26, 1887 as Troy State Normal School within the Alabama State University System by an Act of the Alabama Legislature. 

It is the flagship university of the Troy University System with its main campus enrollment of 6,998 students and the total enrollment of all Troy University campuses of 19,579.

 Troy University is regionally accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACS) to award associate, baccalaureate, master's, education specialist, and doctoral degrees.

In August 2005, Troy State University, Montgomery; Troy State University, Phenix City; Troy State University, Dothan; and Troy State University (Main Campus) all merged under one accreditation to become Troy University to better reflect the institution's worldwide mission. 

Prior to the merger, each campus was independently accredited and merging of these campuses helped to create a stronger institution by eliminating overlapping services and barriers to students. 

University of Melbourne

The University of Melbourne (informally UniMelb, Melbourne University or simply Melbourne) is an Australian public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. 

Melbourne was named Australia's best university by Times Higher Education, Academic Ranking of World Universities and National Taiwan University Rankings. Times Higher Education ranks Melbourne as 34th in the world, while the QS World University Rankings places Melbourne 31st in the world. 

According to QS World University Subject Rankings 2014, the University of Melbourne is ranked 2nd in the world for Education, 8th in Accounting & Finance, and Law, 10th in Psychology, 12th in Medicine, and 15th in Computer Science & IT.

Melbourne's main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb north of the Melbourne central business district, with several other campuses located across Victoria. Melbourne is a sandstone university and a member of the Group of Eight, Universitas 21 and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities. 

University of Sydney

The University of Sydney (commonly referred to as Sydney University, Sydney Uni, USyd, or Sydney) is an Australian public university in Sydney. 

Founded in 1850, it is Australia's first university and is regarded as one of its most prestigious, ranked as the world's 27th most reputable university. In 2013, it was ranked 37th and in the top 0.3% in the QS World University Rankings. 

Seven Nobel or Crafoord laureates have been affiliated with the university as graduates and faculty. Its campus is ranked in the top 10 of the world's most beautiful universities by the British Daily Telegraph and The Huffington Post, spreading across the inner-city suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington.

The University of Nevada, Reno

The University of Nevada, Reno (normally alluded to as the University of Nevada or Nevada, and frequently curtailed as UNR) is a showing and exploration college built in 1874 and spotted in Reno, Nevada, USA. It is the sole area stipend foundation for the condition of Nevada. 

The grounds is home to the extensive scale structures research center in the College of Engineering, which has put Nevada analysts at the bleeding edge broadly in an extensive variety of structural designing, seismic tremor and expansive scale structures testing and displaying. 

The Nevada Terawatt Facility, found on a satellite grounds of the college, incorporates a terawatt-level Z-squeeze machine and terawatt-class high-force laser framework – a standout amongst the most compelling such lasers on any school grounds in the nation. 

Western Governors University

Western Governors University (WGU) is a private, charitable, online American college situated in Salt Lake City, Utah. The college was established by 19 U.S. governors in 1997 after the thought was formed at a 1995 meeting of the Western Governors Association. 

The college utilizes a competency-based learning model, with understudies working online as a team with staff tutors, with whom regular telephone correspondence is kept, and taking delegated tests online by means of webcam and other internet delegating advancements. 

Valdosta State University

Valdosta State University, likewise alluded to as VSU, or Valdosta State, is an American state funded college and is one of the three local colleges in the University System of Georgia. Valdosta State is spotted on a 168-section of land (0.68 km2) grounds at the heart of the city of Valdosta. 

VSU serves more than 11,000 undergrad and graduate understudies speaking to 157 Georgia provinces, every one of the 50 states, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa and Washington, D.C. what's more has more than 300 global understudies from 76 nations. 

VSU additionally offers classes at Moody Air Force Base north of Valdosta in Lowndes County, and Kings Bay Naval Base in Camden County. 

East Carolina University

East Carolina University is an open, coeducational, doctoral/research college in Greenville, North Carolina, United States. Named East Carolina University by statute and regularly known as ECU or East Carolina, the college is the third-biggest college in North Carolina. 

Established on March 8, 1907 as an instructor preparing school, today East Carolina is recorded by Forbes Magazine as a "Best Buy" and 181st among "national colleges" by U.S. News & World Report. 

It has verifiable scholarly qualities in instruction, nursing, business, music, theater, and pharmaceutical, and offers more than 100 Bachelor degree programs, 85 graduate degrees, 21 doctoral projects, Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Dental Medicine, and 62 declarations. 

Arkansas State University

Arkansas State University (otherwise called A-State) is a state funded college and is the lead grounds of the Arkansas State University System, the state's second biggest school framework and second biggest college by enlistment.

BROWN UNIVERSITY

Brown University is a private Ivy League research college in Providence, Rhode Island. Established in 1764 as "The College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations," 

Brown is the seventh-most seasoned establishment of advanced education in the United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges created before the American Revolution. At its establishment, Brown was the first school in the United States to acknowledge understudies paying little mind to their religious connection.

 Its building project, built in 1847, was the first in what is presently known as the Ivy League. Cocoa's New Curriculum—now and again alluded to in training hypothesis as the Brown Curriculum—was received by staff vote in 1969 after a time of understudy campaigning; the New Curriculum wiped out compulsory "general instruction" conveyance necessities, made understudies "the engineers they could call their own syllabus," and permitted them to take any course for an evaluation of palatable or unrecorded no-credit. In 1971, Brown's organize ladies' foundation, Pembroke College was completely blended into the college. 

University of Miami

The University of Miami (casually alluded to as UM, U Miami, Miami, or The U) is a private, nonsectarian college found in Coral Gables, Florida, United States. Starting 2012, the college at present enlists 15,613 understudies in 12 different schools, including a therapeutic school found in Miami's Civic Center neighborhood, a graduate school on the principle grounds, and a school concentrated on the investigation of oceanography and environmental sciences on Virginia Key. 

These universities offer give or take 115 undergrad, 114 master's, 51 doctoral, and two expert zones of study. Through the years, the University's understudies have spoken to every one of the 50 states and near to 150 outside nations. With more than 13,000 full and low maintenance employees and staff, UM is the sixth biggest manager in Miami-Dade County. 

University of South Florida

The University of South Florida, otherwise called USF is a part foundation of the State University System of Florida and an open examination college spotted in Tampa, Florida, USA. 

Established in 1956, USF is the fourth-biggest state funded college in the condition of Florida, with an aggregate enlistment of 47,646 as of the 2012–2013 scholarly year. The USF framework involves three establishments: USF Tampa, USF St. Petersburg and USF Sarasota-Manatee. 

Every establishment is independently certify by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The college is home to 14 universities, offering more than 80 undergrad majors and more than 130 graduate, authority, and doctoral-level degree programs. 

Jacksonville State University

Jacksonville State University (JSU) is a provincial open coeducational college spotted in Jacksonville, Alabama, USA. Established in 1883, Jacksonville State offers projects of study in five scholarly units prompting Bachelor's, Master's, Education Specialist, and Doctorate not withstanding proceeding with and separation training projects. 

In the Fall semester of 2011, JSU started offering the school's first doctoral degree, Doctor of Science in Emergency Management. 

The college was established as Jacksonville State Normal School, and in 1930 the name changed to Jacksonville State Teachers College, and again in 1957 to Jacksonville State College. 

The college started working as Jacksonville State University in 1967. In 2008, the college praised its 125th commemoration. 

Stanford Junior University

Leland Stanford Junior University, or all the more normally Stanford University, is a private exploration college in Stanford, California, and one of the world's most prestigious establishments, with the most noteworthy undergrad selectivity and the top position in various reviews and measures in the United States. 

Stanford was established in 1885 via Leland Stanford, previous legislative leader of and U.S. representative from California and driving railroad big shot, and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford, in memory of their just youngster, Leland Stanford, Jr., who had kicked the bucket of typhoid fever at age 15 the earlier year.

Stanford was opened on October 1, 1891 as a coeducational and non-denominational establishment. Educational cost was free until 1920. 

The college battled monetarily after Leland Stanford's 1893 passing and after a significant part of the grounds was harmed by the 1906 San Francisco seismic tremor. 

Life University

Life University was founded in 1974 by Dr. Sid Williams as Life Chiropractic College. 

The school was established on the site of a placer gold mine, next to Southern Technical Institute (now Southern Polytechnic State University). 22 students attended the first classes in January 1975. 

By 1990, the school had grown to become the largest college of chiropractic in the world. Appointed in March 2004, the university's current president is Dr. Guy Riekeman, former Chancellor of the Palmer Chiropractic University System. In 2006, Life University remains the largest school in the chiropractic profession.

Dalton State College

The college was founded as Dalton Junior College in July 1963 and opened in September 1967 offering programs designed to provide the first two years of college work for students preparing to transfer to four-year degree granting institutions. 

The addition of a technical division in 1976 enabled the school to serve students wishing to develop work skills at the certificate or associate degree level.

In 1987, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia removed the word "Junior" from the college's name and it became Dalton College.

Brenau University in Gainesville

Brenau University in Gainesville, Georgia, United States, founded in 1878, is a private, not-for-profit, undergraduate- and graduate-level higher education institution with multiple campuses and online programs. Currently the university enrolls about 2,800 students who seek degrees ranging from two-year Associate of Arts through doctorates.

With a curriculum that blends professional preparation informed by the liberal arts, Brenau degree tracks include a special “early college” program for exceptional high school-age students. Terminal degrees include a Master of Fine Arts in Interior Design and a Doctor of Nursing Practice. 

The main campus of the Georgia-based institution, which includes the Brenau Women’s College, is in Gainesville with other campuses in Augusta, Kings Bay and in two metro Atlanta locations, Norcross and Fairburn.

Emory University

Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States.  

The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by the Methodist Episcopal Church and was named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory. In 1915 the college relocated to metropolitan Atlanta and was rechartered as Emory University.

Emory University has nine academic divisions: Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Oxford College, Goizueta Business School, Laney Graduate School, School of Law, School of Medicine, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Rollins School of Public Health, and the Candler School of Theology.

Georgia State University

Georgia State University (GSU) is a public research university in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Founded in 1913, it is one of the University System of Georgia's four research universities. It has a student population of 32,022, including 24,096 undergraduates.

Georgia State University offers more than 250 undergraduate and graduate degree programs spread across eight academic colleges with around 3,500 faculty members. 

Georgia State University is a part of the University System of Georgia and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. GSU is a commuter school with 61% of first-year students living off-campus and 17% of all undergraduates living on campus. Approximately 27% of the student population is considered part-time while 73% of the population is considered full-time. 

Mercer University

Mercer University is a private, coeducational university with its main campus in Macon, Georgia, United States.

Mercer enrolls more than 8,500 students in 12 colleges and schools: liberal arts, business, engineering, education, music, continuing and professional studies, law, theology, medicine, pharmacy, nursing, and health professions.

Mercer has three campuses: the main campus in Macon, a graduate and professional education campus in Atlanta, and a four-year campus of the School of Medicine in Savannah. 

Mercer also has regional academic centers in Henry County, Douglas County, Eastman, and Newnan; the Walter F. George School of Law on its own campus in Macon; teaching hospitals in Macon, Savannah, and Columbus; a university press and a performing arts center, the Grand Opera House, in Macon; and the Mercer Engineering Research Center in Warner Robins. 

The Mercer University Health Sciences Center encompasses Mercer's medical, pharmacy, nursing, and health professions programs in Macon, Atlanta, Savannah, and Columbus.

Armstrong State University

Armstrong State University is a four-year public university, part of the University System of Georgia. It is located on a 268-acre (1.08 km2) campus in suburban Savannah, Georgia, United States. 

The campus is approximately fifteen minutes from downtown Savannah and 25 miles (40 km) from Tybee Island beaches. Armstrong offers undergraduate and graduate degrees; 

it has a student enrollment of approximately 7,600 students, including close to 1,000 graduate students. Armstrong was founded in 1935 by Thomas Gamble, mayor of Savannah, as Armstrong Junior College. 

The institution expanded into a four-year university in 1964.

Albany State University

In July 1996 the university system's Board of Regents approved a name change, and the school officially became Albany State University. 

Today Albany State University continues to provide a wide range of educational opportunities to the residents of southwest Georgia. 

The school participates in an engineering transfer program and a dual degree program with the Georgia Institute of Technology, one of the top engineering schools in the nation. 

Auburn University

Auburn University (AU or Auburn) is a public university located in Auburn, Alabama, United States. With more than 20,000 undergraduate students, and a total of over 25,000 students and 1,200 faculty members, it is one of the largest universities in the state. 

Auburn was chartered on February 7, 1856, as the East Alabama Male College, a private liberal arts school affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In 1872, the college became the state's first public land-grant university under the Morrill Act and was renamed the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. In 1892, the college became the first four-year coeducational school in the state. 

University of Lima

The University of Lima (Spanish: Universidad de Lima) is a private university in Lima, the capital of Peru. It was founded in 1962. 

The decision to create the University of Lima was made in the early 1960s by a group of university professors, along with important commerce and industry representatives.

 It was after two years of effort that they managed to start it. It officially started operating the 25th of April 1962. At the beginning only accounted with 120 students in a small campus in the Jesús María District. Due to the university's quick growth, the campus in the Monterrico area of Surco was inaugurated to serve the university's space needs.

Universidad de Piura

The Universidad de Piura (UDEP) is a private university in Peru. It has two campuses, the main one is in Piura, while a more recently built one is located in the Miraflores District of Lima.

In 1964, Josemaría Escrivá, founder of Opus Dei, at a meeting with professors from the University of Navarra in Spain, decided to create a new university. 

It was founded by St. Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer and in 1969, it was officially recognized as a university.

The University of Ruhuna

The University of Ruhuna was established by Dr. Nissanka Wijeyeratne the Cabinet Minister of Education & Higher Education at the time. 

It was opened on 1 September 1978 as Ruhuna University fulfilling a long cherished desire of the people of the south to have a university in the region. It was housed in the Technical College buildings at Meddawatte, Matara with about 40 academics, 50 non-academics and 275 students. 

A new building complex for the university was designed by the world-renowned architect Geoffrey Bawa and was constructed at Wellamadama with a unique architectural landscape. The RUC was shifted to the new premises in 1984 and it was elevated to full university status.

During the past 25 years, it has witnessed considerable progress and development in the academic, research and outreach spheres with substantial improvement in intellectual and infrastructure resources and has emerged as a leader of higher education in Sri Lanka.

California State University San Marcos

California State University San Marcos (CSUSM or Cal State San Marcos) is a public comprehensive university in San Marcos, California, United States, and one of the 23 campuses of the California State University system. San Marcos is a suburban town in the North County area of San Diego County. 

It was founded in 1989 as the 20th CSU campus. The first class was admitted in 1990.

CSU San Marcos offers 62 different Bachelor's degrees, 15 master's degrees, an Ed.D. program, and 13 teaching credentials. 

The university has four colleges: the College of Business Administration; the College of Science and Mathematics; the College of Humanities, Arts, Behavioral and Social Sciences; and the College of Education, Health and Human Services.

Pontifical Catholic University of Peru

Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (Spanish: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, PUCP) is a private university in Lima, Peru. It was founded in 1917 by Catholic priest Father Jorge Dintilhac SS.CC as Peru's first non-profit private institution of higher learning. 

Academically, PUCP ranks alternatively as first or second in Peru.

In July 2012, after an Apostolic Visitation, begun earlier, in 2011, by Cardinal Peter Erdo, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary, the Holy See withdrew from the university the right under canon law to use the titles Catholic and Pontifical in its name, but it was not possible because the legitimate law was the Peruvian Law.

University of the Pacific

The University of the Pacific (Pacific) is a private university in Stockton, California that is the only private school with fewer than 10,000 students to offer degrees from eight different professional schools. 

Pacific is the oldest chartered university in California. 

It was the first independent co-educational campus in California, opened the first conservatory of music on the west coast, and founded the first medical school on the West Coast.

It was first chartered on July 10, 1851, in Santa Clara, CA under the name California Wesleyan College. The school moved to San Jose in 1871 and then to Stockton in 1923.

University of Iowa

The University of Iowa (also known as the UI, or simply Iowa) is a flagship public research university in Iowa City, Iowa. Founded in 1847, Iowa is the oldest university in the state, and it is considered a Public Ivy. The University of Iowa is organized into eleven colleges offering more than 200 areas of study and seven professional degrees.

The Iowa campus spans 1,700 acres centered along the banks of the Iowa River and includes the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, named one of "America’s Best Hospitals" for the 25th year in a row. 

The university was the original developer of the Master of Fine Arts degree and it operates the worldrenowned Iowa Writers’ Workshop. 

University of Kansas

The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university and the largest and oldest public university in the U.S. state of Kansas. 

KU campuses are located in Lawrence, Wichita, Overland Park, Salina, and Kansas City, Kansas, with the main campus located in Lawrence on Mount Oread, the highest location in Lawrence.

 The university was opened in 1866, under a charter granted by the Kansas Legislature in 1864 following enabling legislation passed in 1863 under the Kansas Constitution.

The university's Medical Center and University Hospital are located in Kansas City, Kansas. The Edwards Campus is in Overland Park, Kansas, in the Kansas City metropolitan area. 

University of Wyoming

The University of Wyoming is a land-grant university located in Laramie, Wyoming, situated on Wyoming's high Laramie Plains, at an elevation of 7,220 feet (2194 m), between the Laramie and Snowy Range mountains. It is known as UW (often pronounced "U-Dub") to people close to the university. 

The university was founded in March 1886, four years before the territory was admitted as the 44th state, and opened in September 1887. 

The University of Wyoming is unusual in that its location within the state is written into the state's constitution. The university also offers outreach education in communities throughout Wyoming and online.

The University of Wyoming consists of seven colleges: agriculture and natural resources, arts and sciences, business, education, engineering and applied sciences, health sciences, and law. 

University of Alabama at Birmingham

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is a public university in Birmingham in the U.S. state of Alabama. 

Developed from an academic extension center established in 1936, the institution became an autonomous institution in 1969 and is today one of three institutions in the University of Alabama System. 

In the fall of 2013, 18,568 students from more than 110 countries were enrolled at UAB pursuing studies in 140 programs of study in 12 academic divisions leading to bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and professional degrees in the social and behavioral sciences, the liberal arts, business, education, engineering, and health-related fields such as medicine, dentistry, optometry, nursing, and public health.

The UAB Health System, one of the largest academic medical centers in the United States, is affiliated with the university. UAB Hospital sponsors residency programs in medical specialties, including internal medicine, neurology, surgery, radiology, and anesthesiology. 

Samford University

Samford University is a private, coeducational university located in Homewood, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham. In 1841, the university was founded as Howard College. 

Samford University is the 87th oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Samford Univeristy is Alabama's top-ranked private university. 

The university enrolls 4,933 students from 44 states and 25 countries. Samford University has been nationally ranked for academic programs, value and affordability by Kiplinger's Personal Finance, The Princeton Review and Colleges of Distinction.

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, established in 1636. Its history, influence and wealth have made it one of the most prestigious universities in the world.

Established originally by the Massachusetts legislature and soon thereafter named for John Harvard (its first benefactor), Harvard is the United States' oldest institution of higher learning, and the Harvard Corporation (formally, the President and Fellows of Harvard College) is its first chartered corporation. 

Although never formally affiliated with any denomination, the early College primarily trained Congregationalist and Unitarian clergy. Its curriculum and student body were gradually secularized during the 18th century, and by the 19th century Harvard had emerged as the central cultural establishment among Boston elites. 

Following the American Civil War, President Charles W. Eliot's long tenure (1869–1909) transformed the college and affiliated professional schools into a modern research university; Harvard was a founding member of the Association of American Universities in 1900. 

James Bryant Consonant led the university through the Great Depression and World War II and began to reform the curriculum and liberalize admissions after the war. The undergraduate college became coeducational after its 1977 merger with Radcliffe College.

University of Maryland University College

The University of Maryland University College (UMUC) is an American state funded college found in the unincorporated group of Adelphi in Prince George's County, Maryland in the United States. 

It is known fundamentally for its separation learning classes and projects, yet UMUC additionally offers classes on grounds at its Academic Center in Largo, and at satellite grounds over the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area, all through Maryland, and in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. 

UMUC serves more than 90,000 understudies overall and is one of the biggest separation learning foundations on the planet. 

University of North Carolina

The University of North Carolina is a multi-grounds state funded college framework made out of each of the 16 of North Carolina's state funded colleges, and the NC School of Science and Mathematics, the country's first open private secondary school for talented understudies. 

Usually alluded to as the University of North Carolina framework or the UNC framework to separate it from the first grounds in Chapel Hill, the college has an aggregate enlistment of more than 183,000 understudies and presents more than 75% of all baccalaureate degrees in North Carolina in 2008.

UNC grounds presented 43,686 degrees for 2008–2009, the heft of which were Bachelor's level with 31,055 degrees granted.

Established in 1789, the University of North Carolina UNC at Chapel Hill is the most seasoned state funded college in the United States. 

Emporia State University

Emporia State University, frequently alluded to as Emporia State or ESU, is a state funded college in Emporia, Kansas, United States, east of the Flint Hills. 

Created in March 1863 and initially known as the Kansas State Normal School, Emporia State is the third most seasoned state funded college in the condition of Kansas. 

Emporia State is one of six state funded colleges administered by the Kansas Board of Regents. 

The college offers degrees in more than 80 courses of study through 4 universities: the School of Business, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, School of Library and Information Management, and The Teachers College. 

Independence University

Independence University, previously known as California College for Health Sciences, is an online college headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

Autonomy University is the online branch of Stevens–Herbage College and is an individual from the Center for Excellence in Higher Education.

Fortification Hays State University

Fortification Hays State University (FHSU) is an open, co-instructive college situated in Hays, Kansas, United States. It is the fourth-biggest of the six state colleges administered by the Kansas Board of Regents, with an enlistment of roughly 11,200 understudies (4,000 undergrad, 1,200 graduate, and 6,000 online understudies). 

FHSU was established in 1902 as the Western Branch of Kansas State Normal School which is presently known as Emporia State University. The organization was initially situated on the grounds of Fort Hays, a wilderness military station that was shut in 1889.

Bradley Polytechnic Institute and University

The Bradley Polytechnic Institute was established by humanitarian Lydia Moss Bradley in 1897 in memory of her spouse Tobias and their six youngsters, every one of whom passed on right on time and all of a sudden, leaving Bradley a childless dowager. 

The Bradleys had examined creating a shelter in memory of their expired youngsters. After some study and go to different foundations, Mrs. Bradley chose rather to establish a school where youngsters could figure out how to do commonsense things to set them up for living in the present day world. 

As an initial move toward her objective, in 1892 she acquired a controlling enthusiasm for Parsons Horological School in LaPorte, Indiana, the first school for watchmakers in America, and moved it to Peoria. 

Clarion University of Pennsylvania

Clarion University was established Sept. 10, 1867, as the Carrier Seminary of Western Pennsylvania. Bearer Seminary started operation and offered an ordinary program in 1871. 

Then again, it wasn't official for an additional 16 years. Clarion State Normal School, the successor to Carrier Seminary, opened its entryways on the old Seminary grounds April 12, 1887. 

The ward's buy of Clarion was official in December 1915 with the state expecting full control the accompanying year. Clarion turned into a school level organization in 1920. 

New England College of Business and Finance

New England College of Business (or NECB) is a private, for-benefit online school placed in Boston, Massachusetts. 

Established in 1909, NECB gifts associate's, undergrad and graduate degrees in Business, Digital Marketing and International Business. All courses are conveyed through a separation learning stage. The school is certify by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC).

NECB was initially established as the American Banking Institute (ABI) in 1909, the organization was later consolidated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1914.

ABI got their degree-conceding power in 1979 from the Board of Regents of Higher Education in Massachusetts to offer a partner's degree in business administration. 

Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University (authoritatively Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, frequently alluded to as LSU) is an open coeducational college found in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 

The University was established in 1853 in what is currently known as Pineville, Louisiana, under the name Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy. 

The momentum LSU fundamental grounds was devoted in 1926, and comprises of more than 250 structures built in the style of Italian Renaissance modeler Andrea Palladio, and possesses a 650-section of land (2.6 km²) level on the banks of the Mississippi River.

LSU is the lead organization of the Louisiana State University System, and the biggest foundation of advanced education in Louisiana as far as understudy enlistment. 

In 2011, the University selected about 24,000 undergrad and more than 5,000 graduate understudies in 14 schools and universities. A few of LSU's doctoral level colleges, for example, the E.J. 

Jones International University

In 1987 Glenn R. Jones dispatched the high quality TV station Mind Extension University (ME/U, later Knowledge TV), which empowered 30,000 understudies to take courses from more than 30 schools and colleges by means of TV. 

In 1993, Jones began JIU, guaranteeing to be the first college anyplace to exist totally on the web. 

In 1999, JIU turned into the first completely online college in the U.S. to be licensed by the Higher Learning Commission, and an individual from the North Central Association. 

Western New England University

Western New England University is a private college in Springfield, Massachusetts. Scholastic projects are given through its College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business, College of Engineering, School of Law, and College of Pharmacy. 

In distinguishment of its ace's and doctoral projects, the foundation authoritatively transformed its name fromWestern New England College to Western New England University on July 1, 2011. 

This denoted the reappearance of "college" to the school's name, precisely 60 years in the wake of differentiating from Northeastern University. It had long been named a college by the Carnegie Foundation. 

Grand Canyon University

Grand Canyon University (GCU) is a private, revenue driven Christian college placed in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. GCU was established in 1949 as a non-benefit liberal expressions school, and was obtained by Grand Canyon Education, Inc. (NASDAQ: LOPE) in February 2004.

Grand Canyon University is licensed by the Higher Learning Commission and gives grounds based and also online postsecondary instruction administrations concentrated on graduate and college degree programs in training, liberal expressions, business, and medicinal services through its eight schools.

The school was established as a philanthropic organization in 1949. Arizona Southern Baptists felt the need to create a religious organization that would permit neighborhood Baptists the chance to acquire a Bachelor's or Master's degree without setting off east to one of the Baptist schools in Texas or Oklahoma.