Questions tagged [university]
Queries related to universities, as an institution of higher education that grants academic degrees and provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education.
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Late start times of university lectures
My son is starting university (in the UK) next week and has been given his timetable. The face to face lectures are from 5pm or 6pm until 7pm (just one starts earlier than this on a Friday, 1-2pm). ...
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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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Principal Investigator would not let me publish conference paper. What should i do?
So a little bit of background first. I work in research and while i am fairly new to the profession ( going to be 10 months soon ), i am nearing the completion of a Conference paper.
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How to apologize for declining an offer from a potential PhD advisor?
I sent many emails to prospective PhD advisors looking for a position in their research groups. Recently, I got two offers from professors in different universities and I choose one of them as his ...
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What is the difference between academic and administrative department heads?
In a comment, it was quoted that some universities have administrative or academic department head. I sensed this difference before (but do not remember specifically), but I always thought that the ...
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Do all 3 recommendation letters carry equal weight? [closed]
In most of the universities in the USA/Canada, they want 3 letters of recommendation (LOR). I am curious to know do the admission committee reads or reviews all 3 LORs equally or do they give more ...
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Is there any rule in US that prohibits recruiting as faculty the students studied in the same university/institution?
There is a phenomenon in my country. I am not judging whether it is correct or not because of my ignorance on it. My honest opinion, as per my current knowledge, is that the phenomenon is bad as whole....
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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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Should PTAs be allowed to mark exam scripts? [closed]
PTA - Postgraduate Teaching Assistant
Because I love information (I'm at university, right?), I was looking through some manifestos of my department, and came across a proposal to allow PTAs to mark ...
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My professor says he'll send me recommendation letters once he finished writing them, what should I respond?
I asked for a recommendation letter from a professor and sent him all the required materials. He agreed to write me the letters, but he also said that he will send me the letters later next week. Is ...
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Dual job within German university with 25% contract
If someone currently working 100% with employer 1 in a public job. Is it possible to get employed by a university or public organisation (employer 2) with 25% or 35% contract after having a Master's ...
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Should I mention research I conducted at University X in my application to other universities
I am a high school student and in grade 9 and 10 I conducted research for my science fair project at a recognized university under the mentorship of a professor and his PhD student. I designed and ...
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How to deal with lots of information as a Computer Science student?
As a Computer Science student, I have to deal with a lot of new information every day. While learning new concepts, we also have to learn multiple programming languages at the same time, learning ...
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On some cases where exam results are manipulated
This problem has been bothering me as a lecturer and future PhD student for a while now.
A student just finishes filling his exam sheet. He then gives the sheet to the lecturer. The lecturer is then ...
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Qualifications to be computer science undergrad TA? [closed]
so I've applied to be a teaching assistant for System Fundamentals (undergrad course) and am meeting with a Professor tomorrow.
I did well in the class, but I'm not sure how "smart" one has to be in ...
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Who is typically in charge of a typical US graduate school?
I was studying the website of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences ...
Obviously an impressive institution with a broad scope. But I wonder who is in charge of the operation. For example, ...
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Difference between faculty position at a public university and state university
Is there a difference between faculty position at a State university and between public university in terms of employment conditions, salaries, research funding and politics (e.g. faculty position at ...
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I found a trove of Computer Science Masters thesis unprotected on a respected uni's website
I was looking for some technical documentation in relation to development of a specific piece of software, using a Google search such as "ACMESoft" "ACME_Rhino" filetype:pdf.
I found a PDF hosted on ...
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Context based teaching
In areas such as information and computer science, what is meant by teaching in different contexts? I have noticed some teaching positions require a document detailing contexts one has taught in. I ...
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The Impact of UK University Lecturing Experience on Faculty Positions in Leading Universities Abroad [closed]
Can the experience of being a university lecturer in one of the best universities in the UK enhance the chances of securing a faculty position in top universities in the USA and Australia? ...
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What are the procedures for a high school graduate to only do exams at university for upper division courses, graduate and become a PhD candidate? [closed]
Suppose that a high school student has mastered physics and math subjects taught at university at the level expected for a graduate student. The student has done research in collaboration with a ...
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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.
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Conducting independent research while in a university
This could possibly be very specific to each university, but I was wondering if there is a rule prohibiting researchers who are working within a university from conducting independent research — ...
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will I get money back if I drop out of college? [closed]
Alright, hear me out.
it’s the second day of college, and I want to drop out. I never should have accepted enrollment at this college, I knew deep down for months that I didn’t want to go, but I felt ...
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Postdocs (Bioinformatics/NGS data science) from university of Toronto get Salary or stipend [closed]
I am bit puzzled, regarding the payment made to postdocs in Canada. I am a PhD and in my first postdoc (Europe). For my next assignment, I am in my final stages of negotiating a position of postdoc at ...
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How is the PhDs' (in Logics in Math) employment rate? [closed]
I am an undergraduate student who is majored in Math now. I plan to continue my phD degree in Logics in Math. My ultimate job plan is to be professor (I know instructor first). So I really want to ...
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Can i go to university without finished high school? [closed]
I wasn't sure if this would be off-topic or not.
Basically i have half finished high school here in Slovenia, it's slightly different here, i went to 3+2 program. I have finished 3 years but i don't ...
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Can most functions of universities be categorized as teaching, research and service?
I am writing a research proposal and I plan to approach it by dividing the most important functions of university into three categories--teaching, research and service.
Teaching will include all ...
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Second master's degree in another field without bachelors
Question: Can I study master's degree in another field (or adjacent field) if I have a master's degree already without a bachelor degree?
Explanation: At the moment I am studying master's degree in ...
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How do universities verify qualifications?
I want to apply for an academic job in the US or UK. I am curious how the universities verify my academic degrees. Do they call/write to my home university to verify my qualifications. In my home ...
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What path should I take to make my vision a reality?
I love German literature, but I am not interested in literary criticism/theory; just in close-reading, by which I mean, "reading while analyzing the grammar, syntax, usages of words, etc."
As my ...
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Can I include my contribution to a internationally recognized research project in my college apps, if I wasn't part of the presenting team [closed]
I am from a non-US high school, facing a dilemma about mentioning my involvement in a successful research project (Project A) on my college applications. I contributed significantly to Project A, ...
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sending good/bad rec letter without waiving my rights
Would a professor send a recommendation letter whether good or bad to the grad university or the research summer program I am applying to without my permission? if she did not like me in her lab for ...
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Website/forum about reviews for universities
Is there any website/forum that people share their experiences or personal opinions in their university?
I find it hard to get reviews other than rankings made by large companies that provide useful ...
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Can i continue studying architecture in Germany after i did two year of bachelor degree in architecture in Lebanon
I started studying architecture in Lebanon and I have finished two years of bachelor degree and when I started the third and final year I decided to continue studying abroad,
So my question is: can I ...
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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.
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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 ...
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What universities (especially in the USA) prohibit or restrict duplicate advanced degrees? [closed]
For example, University of California - Berkeley says
The Graduate Council views academic degrees as evidence of broad
research training, not as vocational training certificates; therefore,
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positioning yourself for research positions after graduating from a PhD in a different country
I asked this on Reddit also but didn't get any responses so I am trying here.
I am a first year PhD student thinking about how I can start to better position myself to get a research position after ...
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Interview question
I have a question regarding an interview at a university. The candidates are asked to prepare a presentation on the topic of 'How will you contribute to the teaching, learning, and research in the ...
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Accused of cheating by proctor due to information on scrap sheet [closed]
Sorry if this is a bit long. I took a final for an intro elective (I'm a college senior), a pretty easy A- GPA booster class (average before this final was 90+).
I have learning disorders so I get ...
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Raw score for GRE?
I am currently completing my application for MIT, and they demand the raw scores for the GRE general and subject tests. However, on my ETS account, I only see my percentile and my scaled score. How ...
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Why would a professor assign more grades to a presentation than a report in a software engineering subject? [closed]
I am doing my master's in Software Engineering at a German university. I had been told that the seminar presentation influences the final grade more than the contents of the seminar paper.
But the ...
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Where does the US Department of Education report university graduation rates?
Where can I find the report that states the fact below, quoted in a CNN article?
Only 40% of middle-class college entrants who were high school seniors in 2004 had secured bachelor's degrees by ...
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Questions to speaker per Smartphone in University lectures
I was at the MIT-Vienna-Conference and they had a pretty nice App-System (Superevent), where Questions to the Speaker could be asked per the Superevent-app, upvoted from others and finally answered by ...
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What major is beneficial for a long-term career goal in medical robotics/ robotics/ artificial intelligence?
I have done my undergraduate degree in a Indian university in electronics and communication engineering and have done a job in one of my field of interest medical image processing and I worked in ...
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What is the difference between a concentration and a track within the major?
We want to improve our undergraduate curriculum in my department by offering new concentration. Looking at many different programs in the US, the following questions came to mind:
If there is a ...
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Is a second bachelors degree worth it? [duplicate]
I'm about to finish up a BA in linguistics and am looking at some interdisciplinary options for grad school (specifically in cognitive science).
I have a competitive GPA in my last two academic ...
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Do graduate schools have more courses & less of a student-teacher ratio than undergraduate?
On average do grad schools offer more distinct courses than undergraduate schools?
If that is the case, then it must mean there are more professors teaching in graduate schools. And common sense ...
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