With the NYU brand recently expanding its satellite locations all over the world, including Abu Dhabi, Tel Aviv, numerous European countries, and Shanghai, Tisch Asia remained the only school that was not a part of Sexton’s so-called “global university”, and coincidentally, the only overseas NYU institution not created by the president himself.
Most of the growth in private institution enrollment between 2000 and 2010 occurred among for-profit institutions—their enrollment increased more than 300 percent, from 0.4 to 1.7 million students. Enrollment at private nonprofit institutions increased by 20 percent, from 2.2 to 2.7 million students.
Keri Trimble, a 33-year-old employee at a utility call center, was shopping for an online college so she could take classes at night and on weekends. Trimble rejected Apollo Group Inc. (APOL)’s University of Phoenix, the dominant player in the market for selling Internet degrees to working adults. Instead, she chose Arizona State University’s program, which typically charges almost 30 percent less.
It’s somewhat fitting that the Council of Independent Colleges’ annual institute for chief academic officers is here in the city that saw the highest population growth between 2000 and 2010, and the second-highest growth between 1990 and 2000, with much of that growth coming from Hispanics.
La Fundación Defendamos la Ciudad ingresó hoy en el Consejo para la Transparencia un documento en el cual reclama que el Ministerio de Educación no ha dado respuesta satisfactoria de la solicitud de información publica de fecha 13 de julio de 2012 respecto de datos relevantes asociados a las 60 universidades privadas que hay en Chile.
Kenyan universities edged out their East African counterparts to emerge top in a new survey focused on the adoption of information and communication technology in higher education. Private universities outperformed public institutions and Uganda’s Makerere University was placed first.
Government is to come up with new policies that will support private universities in research and development, a senior education official has announced.
Rice University’s first dual-degree doctoral program with the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), located in Brazil, was approved by the Faculty Senate on Nov. 14.
In late August, Duke University received approval from the Chinese government to start a branch campus in Kunshan, China. The controversial venture has caused a number of critics to question Duke’s rationale, as well as the rationale of other prominent American universities that have tried similar operations, with limited success.
National University College-Online, a Puerto Rico-based private, for-profit college, is expanding into Hispanic communities across the United States through its online division.
A task force convened by the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities released a final report Wednesday that recommends changes to the Department of Education's annual financial responsibility measurement, a combination of three financial ratios that helps determine whether institutions can qualify for federal financial aid.
George Mason University’s Board of Visitors has authorized the university to move forward in establishing a campus in Songdo, South Korea. This will be the Virginia university’s second attempt to establish an overseas branch: its first, in the United Arab Emirates, ended in failure. The university devoted three years to developing a degree-granting campus in the Ras-Al-Khaimah province only to withdraw in 2009 due to slow enrollment growth, funding difficulties, and disagreements with the U.A.E. government body that was financing the campus.
Free online courses offered by universities including Harvard and Princeton may one day award college credit, after a higher education trade group said it will study their eligibility.
FoI reveals moves and countermoves in struggle for state cash and influence. For-profit providers have pressed the government to give them greater access to publicly funded student loans and open up teaching grant in high-cost subjects.
At some of the private colleges and universities in North Carolina, up to 80 percent of students represent the first generation in their family to go to college.
Specially on the role of private sector in higher education, ASHE 2012 report says that the private participation in the education sector should of quality and of great intent. Taking cue from the success of private involvement in education in the 11th Plan, the report says that private sector should be encouraged to establish larger and higher quality institutions in the 12th Plan
Japanese education experts say they are unable to support the controversial rejection of applications for three new universities by new Minister of Education Makiko Tanaka, who said too many universities would erode higher education standards.
El pleno de Les Corts Valencianes ha aprobado hoy, por los votos a favor del PP y en contra de la oposición, la ley que reconoce a la Universidad Europea de Valencia como universidad privada integrada en el sistema universitario valenciano .
La Universidad Privada Boliviana (UPB), nace a iniciativa de un grupo de empresarios visionarios que decidieron crear una universidad orientada a formar profesionales altamente calificados para fortalecer al sector empresarial privado de Bolivia.