JD
Juris Doctor — 3-year US professional law degree; prerequisite for US bar admission; LSAT-based admissions.
Posts
All the articles I've posted.
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MRes
Master of Research — 1-year UK research-methods-focused master's, explicitly designed as a PhD preparation year.
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Coimbra Group
The Coimbra Group — ~40 long-established European universities founded 1985, promoting research collaboration and mobility.
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Ivy League
The 8-member US Ivy League athletic conference — Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Penn, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth — evolved into shorthand for elite Northeastern universities.
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Seven Sisters
The Seven Sisters — historically women's liberal-arts colleges (Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar, Wellesley) — still influential.
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MPhil
Master of Philosophy — 1–2 year research-focused master's common in UK and British-system universities.
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EdD
Doctor of Education — practitioner-oriented doctorate, usually part-time, distinct from research-focused PhD in Education.
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QS World University Rankings
QS World University Rankings — global ranking; methodology: academic reputation 30%, employer reputation 15%, citations per faculty 20%, plus international indicators.
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PhD
Doctor of Philosophy — terminal research doctorate, 3–4 years UK, 4–7 years US; funded positions increasingly competitive.
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Times Higher Education World University Rankings
THE global ranking — methodology: Teaching, Research Environment, Research Quality, International Outlook, Industry. 13 indicators; English-language research bias.
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Oxbridge
Oxbridge — the collective shorthand for the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the UK's oldest and most selective universities.
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LERU
League of European Research Universities — 23 comprehensive research-intensive European universities founded 2002.