Sentences with phrase «ranks of academic science»

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Ranked in order of prestige and presumed academic difficulty, they emphasize science and technology, health, social sciences, and humanities.

UCSF «is among the top universities in the world,» placing fifth in in life sciences in Shanghai Jiao Tong University's 2014 Academic Ranking of World Universities, according to the UCSF website.

Despite being a minority of math and science faculty overall, the number of women in the academic ranks is on the rise.

The Vetmeduni Vienna plays in the global big leagues with its excellent 8th Place finish in the 2017 Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities for the «Veterinary Science» curriculum.

Dr. Williams led the Duke School of Medicine during a period notable for its ascendance from 11th to 2nd in the national rankings of NIH - grant support, a near doubling of its annual budget to more than $ 800 million, the addition of six new academic buildings, the first appointments of department chairs who are female or African - American and the founding of successful multidisciplinary institutes in genome sciences, brain sciences, global health and translational medicine.

The metric - which ranks journals by the average number of citations their articles attract in a set period, usually the preceding two years - has become «an obsession in world science», says a coalition of academics, editors, publishers and research funders, in a declaration published on 16 May.

Yet another international survey of educational achievement has ranked the United States near the bottom of the academic hierarchy («20 - Nation Study Shows U.S. Lags in Math, Science,» Feb. 12, 1992).

Add to this nebulous college entrance environment the challenge presented by the proliferation of four - year high schools, whose numbers skyrocketed from 2,526 in 1890 to 10,213 in 1910, and it is easy to see why the trustees of the Carnegie Foundation felt the need to define college: «An institution to be ranked a college must have at least six (6) professors giving their entire time to college and university work, a course of four full years in liberal arts and sciences, and should require for admission not less than the usual four years of academic or high school preparation, or its equivalent, in addition to the preacademic or grammar school studies.»

In 2009, 15 - year old American students ranked 17th in reading, 23rd in science and 32nd in mathematics in the PISA international assessment of academic achievement.

There have been fears across the schools community that the government is pushing schools away from arts education with the introduction of the EBacc — a performance measure for ranking schools whose pupils secure a grade C or above across five «core» academic subjects: English, mathematics, history or geography, the sciences and a language.

In a recent study, we calculated the consequences for economic growth, lifetime earnings, and tax revenue of improving educational outcomes and narrowing educational achievement gaps in the United States.1 Among other results, we found that if the United States were able to raise the math and science PISA test scores of the bottom three quarters of U.S. students so that they matched the test scores of the top quarter of U.S. kids (and thereby raised the overall U.S. academic ranking to third best among the OECD countries), U.S. GDP would be 10 percent larger in 35 years.