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Farmingdale State College offers an outstanding value and is the largest of SUNY`s colleges of technology (with over 9,000 students). Offering bachelor and associate degrees, Farmingdale will offer its first graduate degrees in the fall 2017. Farmingdale prepares students with the education, skills, and critical thinking needed to meet the challenges of tomorrow. Students have abundant opportunities in experiential learning—internships, clinical training, and guided research—that provide practical instruction and personal growth. Small, personalized classes, a residence hall with suite-style living, a lush 380-acre campus undergoing major renovation, and highly successful NCAA Division III athletics make Farmingdale State one of the fastest-growing colleges in the region. In the 2013 U.S. News & World Report, Farmingdale ranked one of the best regional colleges in the north and was the only SUNY college listed in the Graduating with the LEAST debt category.
Oregon Health & Science University is a nationally prominent research university and Oregon`s only public academic health center. It serves patients throughout the region with a Level 1 trauma center and nationally recognized Doernbecher Children`s Hospital. OHSU operates dental, medical, nursing and pharmacy schools that rank high both in research funding and in meeting the university`s social mission. OHSU`s Knight Cancer Institute helped pioneer personalized medicine through a discovery that identified how to shut down cells that enable cancer to grow without harming healthy ones. OHSU Brain Institute scientists are nationally recognized for discoveries that have led to a better understanding of Alzheimer`s disease and new treatments for Parkinson`s disease, multiple sclerosis and stroke. OHSU`s Casey Eye Institute is a global leader in ophthalmic imaging, and in clinical trials related to eye disease.
The ground-based Giant Magellan Telescope will be one of a next class of "Extremely Large Telescopes" or ELTs that strive to revolutionize our view and understanding of the universe. The GMT will be operational in 2022 at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. The telescope has a unique segmented mirror design that makes use of six off-axis 8.4 m (27 ft) diameter monolith mirrors surrounding a central on-axis mirror, forming a single optical surface with an aperture of 24.5 m (80 ft) in diameter. It will make use of a sophisticated adaptive optics system and enclosure and will have a resolving power 10 times greater than the Hubble Space Telescope.
Western Kentucky University is located in Bowling Green, Kentucky, a city with a population of 63,500, and located approximately 110 miles south of Louisville and 65 miles north of Nashville, Tennessee. U.S. Highway 31-W and Interstate 65 intersect with U.S. Highways 68 and 231 at Bowling Green, and the Cumberland and William H. Natcher parkways provide additional easy highway access to Bowling Green. WKU`s undergraduate division provides four-year programs leading to bachelor of arts, bachelor of fine arts, bachelor of interdisciplinary studies, bachelor of music, bachelor of science, bachelor of science in nursing, and bachelor of social work degrees. There are 101 academic majors and 108 academic minors available. Eleven associate degree programs are offered leading to associate of applied science, associate of arts, associate of interdisciplinary studies, associate of science, and associate of science in nursing degrees. Additionally, 36 undergraduate certificate programs are offered. The Graduate School offers the following degrees: master of accountancy, master of arts, master of arts in education, master of arts in teaching, master of business administration, master of fine arts, master of health administration, master of music, master of public administration, master of public health, master of science, master of science in nursing and master of social work. WKU also offers the specialist degree, Rank I and Rank II programs, and doctoral programs in Educational Leadership, Nursing Practice, Physical Therapy, and Applied Psychology. In addition, 36 graduate certificate programs are offered.