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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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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Should I attend Columbia University School of General Studies or the University of Southern California for my second bachelor‘s degree? [closed]
I'm an international student and my major is computer science, should I attend Columbia University School of General Studies or the University of Southern California for my second bachelor's degree? I ...
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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 ...
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My university does not do anything to prevent cheating in online exams, and grading is relative. What should I do? [duplicate]
I am from a reputed university in India and despite informing the department professors and higher authorities of the rampant cheating in the online exams, they haven't taken any steps to curb it (...
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Can a university track students’ ip for academic integrity violation? [closed]
There had been a mass email sent to students taking one class at my university. Would it be possible for them to track each one’s IP address if they were using websites or internet tool against the ...
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Can a non-enrolled/non-registered student use the instructor's intellectual property under fair use? [closed]
What is the transaction being made by paying tuition at most US colleges/universities? Are you paying for the time spent teaching, the price of education/intellectual property, or the diploma itself?
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What is an “international equivalent” in the sentence
I am applying for college in the state, one of the question in the application is "Will you have graduated from high school, earned a GED, or received and international equivalent prior to ...
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What does GE stand for in community colleges and education?
I found this comment on a youtube video:
My own community college graduation is tonight actually. I’m getting
two associate’s degrees and will be transferring to University of
California, Irvine. I ...
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Lower division vs Upper division
In the United States, what is the difference between lower division and upper division in colleges and universities?
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Does a lecturer need to cite their teaching material? [duplicate]
My lecturer uses powerpoints as a teaching material. During the first class she told me that we are using a book as resource for our class. But one day I realised that some parts are not from the book....
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Is it against the rules to see someone's exam answers after the exam? [closed]
We had an exam and got the results 2 weeks later but I got slightly less points than I expected and we could not check the corrections yet. I was a bit impatient and wanted to see where I could have ...
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Course design: basics first or teach “as you go”
I am going to offer an elective course which I am free to design. The topic is a bit special, but we can assume I give a robotics course. I will teach a fair amount of probability theory which I need ...
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What are my chances getting into a German vet school coming from the USA? [closed]
I will be graduating an American high school this year, overall my GPA would be summed up as average. I have taken one honor class and one AP class, my grades consist of mostly A's and B's. With this ...
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Are there academic institution-specific equivalents to attorneys (a professional who assists in navigating conduct and justice systems)?
There's an interesting question over at Law.SE on the possibility of suing a university over what the OP saw as unfair disciplinary practices. I have often wondered...
Is there a type of professional ...
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Is the university really important for picking a PhD? [duplicate]
I want to study for a PhD in robotics. The research laboratory is a renowned one but the associated university is not. In fact, the laboratory is part of a research institute.
Do you think that would ...
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Is there any difference between these two kind of researchers?
I tried to ask this question on Physics StackExchange because it's about physicists but it wasn't the right section, anyway the argument can be extended to almost every subject.
I am studying physics ...
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My research supervisor left the university and no one told me
I am currently doing my Masters in a program that has both a practicum component and a thesis component. My research supervisor and I had been working over the past few years on a thesis topic. The ...
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PhD forced out of university: Hong Kong
(Too Long; Didnt Read members of academia.stackexchange, read the text in bold only)
I am a PhD student in one of the Hong Kong Universities. For those that do not follow news, Hong Kong has been ...
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How do American universities handle cases of discrimination? [closed]
Many non-American students come to America in the hope of good education and support from their academic advisors.
How should anyone handle discrimination based on national origin by American ...
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How to ask for another university prof for course materials? [duplicate]
Just surfing the net to find useful resources, came across to the university course page, and course materials were well explained. However, when trying to download them, Unfortunately, there was a ...
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Academic policy does not let me earn credits from certain past courses. How can I challenge it? [closed]
I have read the policy below:
No undergraduate courses taken to satisfy prerequisite requirements for admission to a graduate program may be included in the minimum number of units required for that ...
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I found an error in my exam that caused me to lose time on other questions, resulting in a lower grade. How can I appeal?
I'm a student in college, and while I was taking a linear algebra exam, I noticed that there was a mistake in the last exercise. Our exam is composed of two parts: multiple questions and exercises. ...
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I'm worried my former collaborators are going to publish without including me as an author. What should I do?
I have worked for a project of a Ex-Postdoc, as I was promised an authorship. I was told “You will be a major author”. I did almost all the labor job as postdoc was my cosupervisor too. I trusted the ...
