Posts
All the articles I've posted.
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STEM designation
US DHS "STEM Designated Degree Program List" — which academic majors qualify graduates for 24-month OPT extension.
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LLM
Master of Laws — 1-year postgraduate specialisation for lawyers, commonly used by international lawyers for US/UK bar admission.
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MD
Doctor of Medicine — 4-year graduate-entry in US/Canada; undergraduate-entry MBBS equivalent elsewhere.
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ARWU (Shanghai Ranking)
Academic Ranking of World Universities — first published 2003 by Shanghai Jiao Tong; heavy weight on Nobel Prizes, Fields Medals, highly cited researchers, Nature/Science publications.
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Coimbra Group
The Coimbra Group — ~40 long-established European universities founded 1985, promoting research collaboration and mobility.
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HBCUs
Historically Black Colleges and Universities — ~100 US institutions founded before 1964 to serve Black students, including Howard, Spelman, Morehouse, FAMU.
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G5
The G5 — an informal grouping of Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, UCL, and LSE as the UK's leading research universities.
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Group of Eight (Go8)
The Group of Eight — Australia's 8 leading research universities (ANU, Melbourne, Sydney, Monash, UQ, UWA, Adelaide, UNSW).
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Ivy League
The 8-member US Ivy League athletic conference — Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Penn, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth — evolved into shorthand for elite Northeastern universities.
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Ivy Plus
Ivy Plus — informal expansion of the Ivy League typically adding Stanford, MIT, Duke, Chicago, and sometimes Johns Hopkins, Caltech, Northwestern.
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LERU
League of European Research Universities — 23 comprehensive research-intensive European universities founded 2002.
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Oxbridge
Oxbridge — the collective shorthand for the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the UK's oldest and most selective universities.