A national university is mainly a university created or managed by a government, but which may also at the same time operate autonomously without direct control by the state.
Some national universities are associated with national cultural or political aspirations. For example, the National University of Ireland during the early days of Irish independence collected a large amount of information about the Irish language and Irish culture. In Argentina, the national universities are the result of the 1918 Argentine university reform and subsequent reforms, which were intended to provide a secular university system without direct clerical or government influence by bestowing self-government on the institutions.
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Among dozens of public universities, including six research universities:
Chubu University is located in Kasugai, Aichi, Japan.
An institute of technology is an institution of tertiary education that specializes in engineering, technology, applied science, and natural sciences.
This is a list of schools in Malaysia, listed by their type as follows:
A vocational university is an institution of higher education and sometimes research that provides vocational education and grants academic degrees.
Tzu Chi University (TCU; Chinese: 慈濟大學; Wade–Giles: Tz’u2 Chi4 Ta4-hsüeh2) is a private university in Hualien City, Hualien County, Taiwan. It was founded by the Tzu Chi Foundation (NGO) and is famous in Taiwan for the quality of the medical education it provides. TCU has strong ties with Hualien Tzu Chi General Hospital (on the same premises as the university) as well as five teaching hospitals in other parts of Taiwan.
Founded in 1992, Walailak University (WU.) is a public university located in Tha Sala District, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, Thailand. Although state funded, Walailak University is given a high level of autonomy, unusual among Thai public universities.
Universiti Brunei Darussalam is a national research university located in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. It was established in 1985 and has since become the largest university in the country in terms of student enrollment and curriculum offered.
Jiangsu University is a highly ranked and prestigious doctoral research university located in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China (PRC). It is a National Key University jointly developed by the Jiangsu Provincial Government, Chinese Ministry of Education, and The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of China.
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman is a non-profit private research university in Malaysia. It is ranked top 100 in the Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings 2018 and top 600 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2021, placing it overall 2nd in Malaysia only after University of Malaya.
Universitas Internasional Batam is a university which is located in Batam Island, Riau Islands Province, Indonesia. It was established in the year 2000 according to the Decree of National Education Ministry of Indonesian Republic No. 160/D/O/2000 by Yayasan Marga Tionghoa Indonesia (YMTI), an organization of Tionghoa people in Indonesia.
Saman Halgamuge was educated in Germany and Sri Lanka and he is currently a Professor of University of Melbourne, Australia. He is an elected Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA. He is a highly cited expert in his field and listed as one of the top 2% cited experts for AI and Image Processing in the Stanford University Database published in 2020. His most-cited paper being Self-organizing hierarchical particle swarm optimizer with time-varying acceleration coefficients, with over 3300 citations, according to GoogleScholar. He is a Distinguished Speaker/Lecturer on Computational Intelligence appointed by IEEE. He has supervised 45 PhD scholars to completion and delivered over 50 keynotes at International and national conferences.
The 2018 edition of the Solar Decathlon China will take place in Dezhou, China.