Central Queensland University

Central Queensland University is one of Australia’s most progressive and innovative universities. It enjoys a reputation for being the:

• Number one university in Queensland for recruiting international students
  
• Only Queensland university to get a 5 star rating in Starting Salaries, Graduate Ratings, International Enrolments and Cultural Diversity

With a curriculum responsive to the marketplace, its graduates are employed at or above national levels, earning more than most other graduates. The courses offered are multi-disciplinary and are internationally recognised for their flexibility and practicality.

Visit Official Website: http://www.cqu.edu.au/

Deakin University

Deakin University is one of Australia’s most progressive and visionary universities. With more than 70,000 students in Australia and worldwide, it offers a wide range of courses that are relevant and up-to-date. For overseas and off-campus students, the courses are also well delivered through the use of state-of-the-art technology. As a recognition for its excellence in teaching and learning, the university is ranked in the top band of Australian Universities by the Australian Government's Committee for Quality Assurance in Higher Education and it has the following awards to its name:

• University of the Year for Outstanding Technology in Education (1995 & 1996)
  
• University of the Year Award for Outstanding Education and Training Partnerships (1999 & 2000)

The degrees awarded by Deakin University are recognised worldwide by foreign universities and many professional associations.

Visit Official Website: http://www.deakin.edu.au/

Griffith University

Griffith University is one of Australia’s most progressive and dynamic tertiary institutions and is regarded as one of Australia’s top 10 universities. Widely recognized as one of the most creative and influential universities in the Asia Pacific region, it offers more than 500 undergraduate and postgraduate courses and has a student enrolment of over 34,000, including 7000 international students. In the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research and community service, Griffith University is committed to:

• Innovation
  
• Bringing disciplines together
  
• Internationalisation
  
• Equity and social justice
  
• Lifelong learning

for the enrichment of Queensland, Australia and the international community. The university's commitment to academic excellence has set new benchmarks for education both in Australia and overseas. Its world-class research continues to feature prominently on the international stage.

Visit Official Website: http://www.gu.edu.au/

Murdoch University

Murdoch is a progressive and dynamic university that combines the best in university teaching with outstanding graduate satisfaction and a flexible outlook that lets students design the degree they need for their future. As a centre of excellence for higher education, the university’s roll of awards include:

• The only institution in the country to have scored 5-stars for graduate satisfaction from the Good Universities Guide, for five years in a row
  
• The best teaching campus of all Australia's public universities (by an independent national survey of university graduates)
  
• Two awards in the Prime Minister's 1998 Australian Awards for University Teaching

The University's mission is to extend knowledge, stimulate learning, and promote understanding, for the benefit of the community. Murdoch University is committed to international education and has developed important links with 73 institutions throughout the world.

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Swinburne University of Technology

Swinburne has a renowned reputation in Australia and overseas as a provider of career orientated education and as a university with a commitment to research. With a strong technology foundation, the university maintains important industrial links and its research centres are now attracting a great deal of international interest. Teaching and learning enhancement is a strategic priority for the University, and Swinburne is committed to the transfer of lifelong learning skills. It is heavily involved in international initiatives and plays a significant part in the internationalization of Australia's tertiary education system. The university is now one of a few Australian universities whose responsibilities span the range of programs from apprenticeships to PhDs.

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Benedictine International University

Founded in 1858, Benedictine International University has a history of educating generations of students from throughout the United States and the world. Situated in the state of Kansas, it currently has a student enrolment of over 1,200. Benedictine embraces a commitment to develop all-rounded individuals, focusing not only on imparting of knowledge and skills, but inculcating values and providing leadership training. Through its student-centered curriculum that emphasizes creativity and collaborative learning, the college’s vision is to be a respected and innovative institution. As an established institution known for its flexible, broad-based and high quality academic provision, Benedictine International University has strengthened its international presence, especially in Asia and the Pacific Rim, in recent years. The college has since made several articulation arrangements with private tertiary institutions in the region.

Lincoln University

Lincoln University is one of New Zealand's oldest tertiary educational institutions. Established in 1878, Lincoln enjoys a reputation for innovation and excellence in teaching and research in commerce and management, primary production and natural resources, science and engineering, and social science. The university’s forte lies in matching its disciplines with industries’ needs. Lincoln equips its graduates with qualifications that are at the top of their field and they are renowned worldwide for being adaptable, creative and resourceful.

The University's objectives include:

• to achieve excellence in teaching, research and learning that contributes socially and economically to Aotearoa New Zealand and to the well being of its people and those in its wider sphere of activity.
  
• to educate people to achieve their fullest potential in a learning environment that is enabling, innovative and focused on creating value for its clients.
  
• to work with its communities in New Zealand and beyond to address national and international issues using integrated capabilities in commerce, physical, biological and social sciences.

Lincoln University is known for its entrepreneurship, leadership, and as a catalyst for new and diverse approaches to stimulate the development and transfer of knowledge, and is acclaimed in New Zealand and the Asia Pacific region as a tertiary education institution most able to contribute to the creation of sustainable benefit from the utilisation of natural resources.

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University of Central Lancashire

The University of Central Lancashire is a centre of excellence in higher education. As an institution with over a century of history, it was established based on the mission to:

• Strive for excellence in all they do, locally, nationally and internationally
  
• Work in partnership with business, the community and other educators
  
• Encourage and promote research innovation and creativity

The University provides up-to-date courses, complemented by state-of-the-art facilities. With a focused objective of imparting relevant skills and knowledge to its students, the university’s success rate in graduate employment is one of the highest in the United Kingdom.

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University of Dundee

An independent university since 1967, the University of Dundee is growing fast in both size and reputation. It now has 12, 500 students and over 3, 000 staff across 6 faculties. Besides obtaining excellent records in teaching assessments, many spin-out companies were also the result of collaboration with the university in the field of research. Its graduates are consistently in top league placings for avoiding unemployment. As a mark of distinction, it received the prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Prize for higher education institutions in 1998.University of Dundee aspires to:

• Provide education of the highest quality coupled with a leading contribution to the advancement of knowledge
  
• Provide its students with necessary skills required for a rapidly changing global economy
  
• Enhance its international and national standing Dundee’s role at the forefront of distance learning continues to develop with an expanding portfolio of courses, as well as an increasing range of course delivery including teleconferencing, videoconferencing and the Internet.

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University of Glamorgan

Glamorgan is the first university in Wales to receive the prestigious award: "Investor in People standard" (The UK's premier award for staff training and development) - they develop their staffs especially lecturers so that students can have the best education possible. It also has an outstanding reputation for quality. In the 2000 review by the Quality Assurance Agency, one of the most rigorous bodies of its kind in the world, Glamorgan were praised in a number of areas:

• Policy of ensuring consistency of academic standards
  
• Active involvement of its staff in the management of quality standards
  
• The commitment to developing best practice

In addition, Glamorgan consistently wins honors for the quality of its courses including: Champion on three occasions in the National Partnership Awards for excellence in course design and teaching ability.

Visit Official Website: http://www.glam.ac.uk/

Heriot Watt University

Heriot-Watt University, one of thirteen Scottish Universities, was established by Royal Charter in 1966, the original college was founded in 1821 and was the first technical institute in Britain.

Set on an attractive 250-acre residential campus on the outskirts of Edinburgh, the Scottish capital, Heriot-Watt University is established as a centre of excellence in the disciplines of management, engineering and economics.
More than 10,000 students study on-campus, and a further 9,000 students are actively studying for their MBA through distance learning. Today, there are over 4,500 MBA graduates.

Edinburgh Business School

The Edinburgh Business School was established as the Graduate School of Business of Heriot-Watt University in 1995. It brings together the former Heriot-Watt University Business School and the Esmee Fairbain Research Centre, creating a centre of excellence in postgraduate management education.

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The University of Northumbria

The University of Northumbria is one of the largest Universities in the country offering over 500 study programmes to over 21,000 students. Our four campuses offer a range of lifestyles, from the bustle of a major city centre site in the heart of Newcastle, to the rural tranquillity of the Longhirst Campus set in 45 acres of parkland. Wherever our students choose to study, they are within easy access of some of the country's most spectacular scenery.

But more important than our location, is the quality of our teaching. In recent years the Higher Education Funding Council for England has audited a wide range of subjects and to date, no subject area assessed at Northumbria has received less than a Satisfactory award. Indeed, the Sunday Times listed Northumbria as "Best New University" for three consecutive years in 1998, 1999, 2000.

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Robert Gordan University

Robert Gordan UniversityThe Robert Gordan University is instituted with a mission to provide high quality, practice-based higher education and training programmes, research and consultancy services. Over the years, it has earned a formidable reputation for providing high quality, vocationally relevant education and research, the success of which is reflected in its outstanding record of graduate employment. In addition, the university’s courses enjoy national standing and professional recognition, with many allowing significant exemptions from further professional examinations. The courses are complemented by advanced facilities, as Robert Gordan continues to be a leader in the field of e-learning via the Virtual Campus and award-winning Faculty Intranets. The university continues to draw an expanding pool of international students, as it helps to develop and support links with overseas institutions.

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Swansea Institute of Higher Education

Swansea Institute of Higher Education achieved its status as an independent Higher Education Corporation in 1992. The basis of all of its courses is the application of knowledge to real-life situations, whether in the laboratory, workshop or classroom. The Institute is an Associated College of the University of Wales and an approved centre for BTEC Higher National and NVQ programmes. Hence, its standards are carefully regulated and regularly monitored by external as well as internal specialists.

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University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Founded in 1872, Aberystwyth was the first university institution to be established in Wales. The institution is committed to developing its reputation as a provider of high quality teaching and excellence in research. It aims to fulfill its special responsibility for the educational needs of its students, and to maintain and develop partnerships with industry and other institutions both within Wales and beyond, and also to promote collaboration in teaching and research between the constituent parts of the University of Wales. In a recent survey of all first year students at the end of their first year, 98% agreed that if they had to make the choice again, they would choose Aberystwyth.

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University of Wales, Bangor

Established in 1884, Bangor has a long tradition of academic excellence that continues to this day. Over half of the departments assessed to date in the teaching quality assessments have achieved the top rating of 'excellent'. With 77% of the staff assessed being placed in the top 4, 5 and 5* grades in the latest universities Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) at mid December, year 2001. Hence, The University of Wales, Bangor can truly claim to be a world-class research university.

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University of Wales, Institute Cardif

UWIC is one of a new generation of modern higher education institutes: a member of the University of Wales, it reflect the new vision of education-for-all and a commitment to lifelong learning and training while building upon a long-established and proud reputation. It is one of only two higher education institutions in the UK to been awarded the Government's Charter Mark for Excellence in Public Service for a third time. In September 2001, The Sunday Times, UK placed UWIC as the leading "new university" in Wales for the second year running.

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University of Wales, Swansea

The University of Wales, Swansea was founded in 1920 and is one of the six constituent institutions of the University of Wales. The University, which exercises a general control over university education in Wales and which is second in size only to the University of London, confers all degrees. The University has developed robust procedures for ensuring that the quality of its teaching and research is of the highest standard. In its mission to review continuously its provision, systems have also been developed to enhance procedures with the view of improving the students' learning experience.

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International Business University of Beijing

International Business University of Beijing (IBUB) is approved and recognized by Beijing Education Bureau since 1994 to co nduct international joint-programmes. It is one of the pioneer universities in PRC to be granted approval to conduct courses and programmes for overseas-born Chinese. IBUB has also undergone accreditation by Beijing Private Education Bureau in Nov 2003 certifying its stand ing as a quality institution.  It was also recognized in April 2004 as an approved test centre for conducting Higher Education examinations . I n May 2004 it was awarded the “Top 10 Distinguish Private School Award ( PRC )”.