Questions tagged [university]
Queries related to universities, as an institution of higher eduacation that grants academic degrees and provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education.
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Inquiry about Japanese Universities [closed]
Good day,
I am a prospective applicant for a Japanese Scholarship Program. I have a question regarding Japanese universities, please.
I am looking for practical information from an international ...
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Does economy of scale apply to universities?
On the one hand, it seems like "no" - hence some universities like Caltech choose to remain small, while others like Boston University & MIT don't merge into a single super-university in ...
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Postgraduate medschool
If an undergraduate in medicine and surgery(MBBS) from India wants to practice in UK, the person will have to register with NHS after the licensing exam. And after that the student is put through FY1+...
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For my PhD, should I go with the more prestigious university, or the one that is a better research match? [closed]
I will be starting a PhD in computer science in the UK this year, but have to decide between two offers that I'm pretty torn about. I've communicated with the supervisors from both universities in ...
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Is it possible to get a bachelor's degree just by having more than the required credit hours? [closed]
I have around 126 completed credit hours and I know the required amount is 120. My major is in education and I was originally planning on becoming a teacher however I am no longer sure if that is the ...
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Did they do some of the project without telling me?
So I am doing this bachelor thesis for a research institute and they wanted me to do different kinds of development.
Like conversions of files and implementing a system (I call it system A for ...
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What warrants acknowledgement or citation in a dissertation?
I have just finished my dissertation and just have a question about acknowledgements and citation.
There was a line in a proof of a paper that I did not follow and someone told me what it meant.
Does ...
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Moving from a modest research laboratory to a laboratory with a prestigious research portfolio. Tips to be successful?
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I have done my PhD (Computer Science) at a university (in a third world country) with very limited resources. My research was not funded, my previous lab didn't provide any research support ...
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Visa preparation for the postdoc will take weeks. Can I start research (with the PI?)
As it's mentioned in the title. I am going to receive a formal letter this week. During my meeting with HR, they told me the visa will take 12 weeks so we can agree on the start-date at the point. My ...
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Double major in creative writing/computer science (career in game development) [closed]
I've learned that computer science is a good gateway into video game development which I've had a dying passion for in all its elements such as programming game engines, level design, script structure ...
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Can I do bachelor’s, master’s and PhD at different universities?
Is it possible that I do undergraduation and post graduation from a university and Ph.D from other university?
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Paths to mathematics/university/research while dealing with a few difficult situations
I'm a (just turned) 17 year old student (Year 11) from Australia in a bit of a tricky situation. Unfortunately, I spent most of the last few years and am currently in a psychiatric unit. I've also ...
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Allegation of Academic Offence [duplicate]
I received an email from the university saying that the similarity report for my work identified that one of my answers shows a similarity to the answer within the script of a fellow student. They are ...
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Can we study University level subjects without getting admitted into a university? [closed]
I am currently a senior high school, and next year I will enroll for my undergraduate studies but I am afraid that my grades would not be good enough to be admitted in good universities like MIT, ...
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How to call colleagues who was once your professor or advisor?
After finishing my PhD in the US, I am now working in a university in an Asian country where I studied for my master. All of my colleagues are 20 years senior than me and are full professors except ...
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Is It Okay to Continuously Use One's Private Email Address?
I would have a question: Is it okay to use one's private email address to reply to all the university-related emails after having set up a forwarding to one's private email address - be it as a ...
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What do I write as response for an academic misconduct investigation?
I am a first year student at a UK university and submitted an essay for one of the courses a couple of months ago. Now, I received an email in which I am informed that some passages of my essay are ...
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Is it SOP for a university course to claim to teach a coding language, and then have the coding portion of the course be completely self taught? [closed]
Is it standard practice for universities to have completely self taught portions of a course? For example, a statistics course that is said to teach R (among other things) and then simply quizzes over ...
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How to compensate students who face technical issues in online exams
I am teaching a college level course, and a few students had technical issues during exam 1 (held online) and where not able to complete various parts of the exam. One option that I could think of is ...
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Potential downsides to requesting an extension
I am curently working on my final year project which has a deadline in 3 weeks. This deadline has already been extended by 1 month from the previous deadline (which would have just passed) for ...
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Is it ethical for PhD advisor to collect ideas or even project description text from students/postdocs for his/her own funding proposal?
Is it ethical for PhD advisor to collect ideas or even project description text from students/postdocs for his/her own funding proposal? Not sure how common this situation is, but this seems strange. ...
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Applying for postdoctoral fellowships: priorities? [closed]
I am going to graduate with a PhD in applied math/CS in early fall (I am studying in Europe). Due to various factors, there are not too many places that would fit my previous research well enough for ...
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Are Graduate Fellowships or Research assistants in state university considered a government employees in US?
I am applying for a post which asks me
you ever part of government entity like federal/state/local government entities including publicly funded universities.
I was a research assistant with ...
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How can I compare schools of business between universities in terms of research productivity and impact?
In trying to assess the learning, research and engagement opportunities of different universities at the undergraduate level (acknowledging that at undergrad level they all offer much more than the ...
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Is it acceptable to hide your affiliation in research paper?
I am a Ph.D. student enrolled in one of the top universities. I was working on a research problem. And, it turns out that my results are not of as high quality as one would expect from a student from ...
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What types of questions should I be expecting for my final year project viva for my undergrad? [closed]
Currently doing a final year project in artificial intelligence and was curious to know how this presentation(viva) works ? and how I should prepare for it ? are there common questions I should ...
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Can we use online video lectures to free university professors from lecturing for lower-division courses in mathematics? [closed]
During the 2020-2021 Covid-19 season, universities and colleges around the world made most of their math classes online over Zoom and many professors have their recorded lectures.
Most math lectures ...
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Informing a university about an offer from another university [duplicate]
I've received an offer from university A and I'm waiting for a decision from university B (both prestigious).
Would it be sensible to inform university B about my offer from university A and tell them ...
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Is physics (and engineering) at university more like high school physics or high school math? [closed]
I am in high school and I find myself enjoying math a lot more than physics, probably because of the more focused teaching approach found in physics, which looks at specific cases and experiments and ...
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Is a policy of asking questions covering material not covered by lectures common in universities? [closed]
I have come to know a prominent EU university in which it is an official policy that examination questions will be external to the lectures.
For example, say, they are teaching Probability & ...
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Is it possible to get an estimate of the average CGPA or conventional system of marks for an engineering course in any Indian university? [closed]
How can a student of engineering compare themselves to other students of the same studies in their own university and elsewhere in the country?
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About to leave academia? [closed]
I am about to leave my university in the UK, however I still have access to services for the next few months.
For some background, I initially did my BSc(Hons) at another institution, worked in ...
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Dis-/advantages for faculty position in private vs public university hospitals in Germany
In Germany, several private medical universities (e.g. MSH Medical School Hamburg) have formed and partnered with companies such as Helios and alike running the hospitals. Looking for a new senior ...
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Am I receiving “good” higher education for graphic design? [closed]
my name is Asfand and I'm currently in my Junior year at a university in Lahore, Pakistan, studying Graphic Design.
However, I'm not sure if I'm receiving a quality education or not.
All the classes ...
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Can I do an MS in CS in USA after a 5-year integrated MSc degree in CS?
I'm currently pursuing a 5 year integrated MSc. course in Theoretical CS in India. In my search online, a little under half of the 'top' universities in the US explicitly state that they won't take ...
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Articles about different types of colleges and universities, from math faculty perspective
I'm looking for an article, web site, book chapter, whatever, that I can share with some math graduate students so that they can read and learn a little about some of the different types of colleges ...
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Does a late reference letter to UWaterloo accepted? [duplicate]
One of my referees had to take an emergency leave because of a family death and because of that she would not be able to complete the recommendation to University of Waterloo(for MDSAI program) by end ...
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Math Stack Exchange, and College [closed]
What college rules would there be about posting a math homework exercise with one's work from a math class in the Math.SE?
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When do I tell my advisor that I'm leaving the PhD?
I am doing a funded PhD in humanities and don't really enjoy what I am doing (the topic and area). I applied for another PhD and got admitted. The problem is that I need to apply for visa and wait a ...
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What happens if letter of recommendation to a university contains a wrong fact?
My teacher recently uploaded some letter of recommendations for post graduate applications but the letter was a generic one she typed for me and in the last paragraph, she wrote "applicant wants ...
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Is following an online tutorial plagiarism?
This might be a silly question, I'm doing a primary education uni degree and my subject study is computing. For our assignment, we have to create a basic website from scratch using HTML. I'm ...
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Is it appropriate for professors to ask students to type notes for their classes (with or without paying students) in United States?
I wonder if it is appropriate for professors to ask their students in class to type notes (in latex whatever) for the classes they are teaching and if there is any "elegant" way for students ...
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How does one use the Chegg bulk-takedown request form?
Cheating in online tests has accelerated and become rampant this year. I'm in the U.S. and my institution has had all-online courses from March 2020 to at least September 2021. Many of my test ...
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How to accurately check for cause of plagiarism for programming assignments with online content
I heard that most of the code plagiarism checkers use MOSS for evaluation. But MOSS doesn't check for any content in GitHub or present on the internet. How do we exactly tackle the problem of checking ...
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Is a low undergrad GPA a career killer? [duplicate]
I graduated with a 6.4/10 GPA from a Non-IIT University in India - BE in CS in 2019. I pretty much messed up during my early 2 years of UG while taking part in non-academics such as workshops and ...
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Are there cases when UoPeople degrees are not accepted?
UoPeople (University of the People) is an extremely non-expensive (because it is a non-profit organization and is run mainly on donations and volunteer work) online university offering several ...
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Is it ethical for students to be required to consent to their final course projects being publicly shared?
In a course, students were required to sign a consent form to share their final course project. There were two options that they could choose from: either anonymous sharing or sharing with attribution/...
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Should an engineering product research at a university be always released in a journal?
For example, a research team (we name it A) of a university makes an engineering product that they claim is capable of doing X, Y, and Z. Initially the product was not intended to be commercialized, ...
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Having just started a Master's in Economics degree I am feeling ambivalent, how do I change paths?
This question is from a young person who feels a bit lost and who would like some career advice—and possibly some encouragement, too. I will try to be as concise as possible and get straight to the ...
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Choosing between a funded PhD offer and a possibly funded one
I have been admitted into two PhD programs at universities A and B. A offered me funding, however B asked me to apply for state funding before discussing internal funding. The deadline to accept the ...
