Universities around the world

[reinhart87]

My beloved university, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands

[isaidso]

Originally Posted by Ashok

Concordia University - We are quite a new university, about 30 years old but a lot happenings in terms of revamping our campuses. We got a downtown campus with skyscrapers, and a much more conservative campus just outside of downtown.

Nice to see photos of Concordia, but you're not giving your school a very good reputation by using working class broken English. I'm assuming that it was a momentary lapse or a case of a francophone picking up English from illiterate anglophones?

[SoHype!]

Originally Posted by Dimethyltryptamine

The Gold Coast, Australia.

Bond University

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Bond? James Bond University? lol

[isaidso]

Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, CANADA


Dalhousie is Canada's 5th oldest university and one of the most prestigious schools in the country. Dalhousie is known for its graduate programs and has the oldest student population in Canada due to the number of people who flock here to do their Master's or Doctorate's. Dalhousie Law School is considered one of the best in the country.

This is a very serious school. Among universities in America, only Harvard, Yale, Princeton, McGill and the University of Toronto boast more Rhodes Scholars than Dalhousie.

Dalhousie College was a non-denominational university founded by General George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, the Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia. Using money acquired from the duties collected during the occupation of parts of Maine in the War of 1812, Ramsay established Dalhousie as a college open to all people regardless of class or creed. At the laying of the cornerstone on May 22, 1820, Lord Dalhousie said that this University was "founded on the principles of religious tolerance." Dalhousie remained one of only three universities founded on secular constitutional premises until as late as the 1950s.

Dalhousie University has been a leader in many respects. The Faculty of Dentistry was Canada's first. Dalhousie's campus newspaper was founded in 1868, making it the oldest student newspaper in Canada and one of the oldest continuously-running student newspapers in America.



























GO TIGERS!
Give Your All For Nova Scotia

[_BPS_]

Don't we already got one of these threads that is MUCH MUCH larger?

[isaidso]

Originally Posted by _BPS_

Don't we already got one of these threads that is MUCH MUCH larger?

Are you trying to be ironic by using broken English in a thread about universities?

[_BPS_]

I don't come here to make grammatically-detailed posts as if it was a formal essay, and if you do, then you need to get a life! And if you have troubles comprehending my broken english, then step aside.

[isaidso]

Originally Posted by _BPS_

I don't come here to make grammatically-detailed posts as if it was a formal essay, and if you do, then you need to get a life! And if you have troubles comprehending my broken english, then step aside.

Grammatically detailed? It's either correct or it's not. If you're comfortable presenting yourself as illiterate, be my guest. Why anyone would want to is beyond me. I guess you weren't making a clever joke after all. Oh dear!

[Erick-V]

I'll show you my alma matter:

Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM)
or Tec de Monterrey, as it is better known:

(photos were not taken by me)







This university has been ranked and named the second best university in México, just behind UNAM, and it has one of the most important business schools in the world according to Eduniversal: the EGADE, Escuela de Graduados en Administración y Dirección de Empresas.

[Mr Bricks]

Holloway looks amazing!

[isaidso]

University of King's College
Halifax, Nova Scotia, CANADA

The University of King's College claims to be Canada's oldest chartered university. It was founded with a strong religious affiliation and was generally modeled on older English universities which were residential, tutorial and Anglican. The University of New Brunswick was founded 4 years before King's, but did not receive its Royal Charter until 1827. Whatever! UNB is older. "The King's Quad". I'm not sure why it's called that.


King's is considered a very snooty school. It has the reputation as an institution where the rich send their kids who don't really require a paying job upon graduation. I don't know how much truth there is to this, but it's certainly a school of pedigree, gorgeous student dormitories and dining halls, and of course, steeped in tradition.

King's best known program is the Foundation Year Programme (FYP) for first year students, an intensive survey course on the history of western philosophy.


The University of King's College was founded by a group of United Empire Loyalists fleeing the American Revolution. King's was originally built in Windsor, Nova Scotia, but moved to its present location after it burned to the ground. King's student dormitories on the right and I believe a gymnasium on the left.


After the fire, the Carnegie Foundation offered King's money to rebuild, on the condition that they surrender their independence and enter into an affiliation with Dalhousie University. This is how King's ended up situated where it is. King's is now affiliated with Dalhousie, but fights complete amalgamation vigorously. Here's the King's flag.


When World War II broke out, King's was requisitioned by the military for the training of naval officers. King's functioned as a "stone frigate", providing a facility for navigation training before officers were sent to their ships. Another shot of the main building.


King's is a liberal arts university. Enrollment is 1100. Their motto is Deo Legi Regi Gregi, or For God, Law, King, People.


This is the King's Library. It's a relatively new structure, but they made an attempt to compliment the rest of the campus.

[_BPS_]

Originally Posted by isaidso

Grammatically detailed? It's either correct or it's not. If you're comfortable presenting yourself as illiterate, be my guest. Why anyone would want to is beyond me. I guess you weren't making a clever joke after all. Oh dear!

Grammatically-detailed! I don't care if it is correct or not; like I said, I don't give a f*ck if my sentences have mistakes when I type on a forum. The fact of the matter is that most people on the internet, when writing informally, really don't give a rats ass about grammar and broken english, because their audience are intelligent enough to understand despite the presence of mistakes. If you cannot, then that is your problem. And yeah, I'll be an illiterate, and why you care is beyond me. Now run along!

[Ashok]

Originally Posted by isaidso

Nice to see photos of Concordia, but you're not giving your school a very good reputation by using working class broken English. I'm assuming that it was a momentary lapse or a case of a francophone picking up English from illiterate anglophones?

I do appreciate your observations, my English is not my strongest point. Don't worry though, I have my close friends in Philosophy and English Literature helping me with it!

Hopefully by the time I graduate, I should be able to have adequate English for an Engineer. We do have a reputation for having poor communication skills.

[Ashok]

I also would like to make another point/comment. I hope you are not making a link between grammar/university or university/intelligence. One can have any one of them without the other.

[Dahupegu]

Canada has some great Universities!!!

Originally Posted by Looking/Up

Can we limit the number of photos posted? Otherwise the number of photos will ruin the thread as no one will be able to open it properly ...

Originally Posted by CrazyForID

owhh.. ok, 3 pics/post. is that okay?

Please, just 3 photos per post!!!

[Dahupegu]

Universidad de los Andes


Located in bogotá, Colombia, it was founded in 1948 by Mario Laserna Pinzón. Beyond of being one of the best universitys in my country, with hight educational standards, it's wonderful campus makes it a great place to study and grow as a human being. I'm on the school of architecture :p

http://www.uniandes.edu.co/






School of Architecture library

[empersouf]

My medical school!
Erasmus MC University, location Dijkzigt in Rotterdam, Holland

[Dahupegu]

Universidad de los Andes

School of engineering

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Inside W building

[Looking/Up]

McGil University ........ in Montreal

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/caribb/98395716/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbp_/60870169/

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[Looking/Up]

Queen's University .... Kingston

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/alarobric/3077959131/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/julep67/119559410/

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