Study booser -Some Universities General Knowledge

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UNIVERSITIES GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY WAS CHARTERED IN 1746, AND
KNOWN AS THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY UNTIL 1896, IT WAS
BRITISH NORTH AMERICA’S FOURTH COLLEGE.


2. NSEAD IS ONE OF THE WORLD’S PREMIER BUSINESS
SCHOOLS, OFFERING A WIDE RANGE OF BUSINESS COURSES.
THE SCHOOL ALSO HAS AN ASIAN CAMPUS, LOCATED IN
SINGAPORE.


3. WASEDA UNIVERSITY IS ONE OF JAPAN’S TOP LEARNING
INSTITUTES. THE UNIVERSITY WAS FOUNDED IN 1882 BY
SHIGENOBU OKUMA WITH THE DEPARTMENTS OF POLITICAL
SCIENCE, LAW, ENGLISH, AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE.


4. THE UNIVERSITY OF LEIDEN IS THE OLDEST UNIVERSITY OF
THE NETHERLANDS, FOUNDED IN 1575. LEIDEN IS SITUATED
BETWEEN AMSTERDAM AND THE HAGUE.


5. IN 1385 POPE URBAN VI GRANTED PERMISSION FOR TH E
ESTABLISHMENT OF A UNIVERSITY WITH ALL FOUR
FACULTIES BY COUNT PALATINE AND ELECTOR RUPRECHT I
IN HEIDELBERG. THE FOLLOWING YEAR THE UNIVERSITY
WAS OPENED WITH THEOLOGY, JURISPRUDENCE AND
PHILOSOPHY BEING TAUGHT AND MEDICINE FOLLOWING IN
1388.