Sentences with phrase «years than universities»

The impact of faster times - to - completion is that graduate students are likely to be slightly less productive in their graduate years than universities and granting agencies have become accustomed to.

Not exact matches

Last year, nearly 800 universities banded together to offer more than 8,000 courses called «MOOCs» («massive open online courses») via Coursera to bump up your business skills.

If you want to hit the world of work sooner, you might want to pick a UK university where the courses are generally three years long, rather than the five you have to do in France.

Ronald Burt is a sociologist in the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business who for more than 30 years has studied the phenomenon of «structural holes,» i.e., gaps within organizations.

When Alexandre Pestov, a strategic consultant and research associate at York University's Schulich School of Business, compared buying a two - bedroom Toronto condominium to renting it over the past 25 years, he found that the renter ended up $ 600,000 richer than the owner if he invested the spare cash in low - risk bonds.

From Vox, citing a study at the University of Texas: «If 10 percent of the vehicles... were self - driving cars, the country could save more than $ 37 billion a year due to fewer deaths, less fuel, more free time, etc..

Harvard Management Company's CEO, N. P. Narvekar — who was recruited away from Columbia University, where he made more than $ 3 million — is being paid close to $ 6 million a year now.

Yi Fuxian, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, believes China's population is much smaller than official statistics, owing to years of slower population growth under the one - child policy.

Women are also taking longer to pay off student debt, according to a report completed this year by the American Association of University Women, despite being more likely to enroll and earning higher grades than most of their male peers.

By going to the Marines for four years prior to Ohio State he is able to enter university with a sense of purpose rather than seeing it as an escape and a chance to party.

Tory Higgins, a professor of psychology and business at Columbia University, has spent more than 20 years studying what makes people reach their goals.

Over the past 100 years, the University of California at Los Angeles has produced 13 Nobel laureates, 12 MacArthur Fellows, and a host of athletes who have won more than 250 Olympic medals combined.

Each year, Washington University supports more than 3,000 research projects, ranging from medical and health to innovation and entrepreneurship.

As a group, public universities in the top 40 performed better than their private counterparts, growing total assets by 44.5 percent compared with 24.7 percent for private schools between the 2008 and 2014 fiscal years.

While their projections are usually rosy, more than half of these businesses will fail within the first four years of operation, according to a 2012 University of Tennessee study.

At the University of Wisconsin's Business School in Madison, the average debt burden for graduating MBAs was $ 15,481, $ 106,889 less than Wharton's average, while the first - year median comp package was $ 114,694, just $ 31,609 below the median pay for a Wharton grad.

Malehorn noted that engineering graduates from the University of Illinois often leave to work for companies on the East and West coasts, despite the fact that the school churns out more engineers each year than many other top programs combined.

Galia Gichon is an independent personal financial expert with more than 14 years of experience in financial services, including nearly 10 years on Wall Street and an MBA in finance from Fordham University.

Despite her resume, at this university her likely aid package and the $ 50,000 tuition would necessitate my wife and I having to borrow more than $ 20,000 a year to bridge the gap.

The average cost of one year at a public university in the United States costs twice as much: More than $ 20,000 for in - state students, according to College Board.

The psychology professor at New York University and the University of Hamburg spent more than 20 years testing her contention that «starry - eyed dreaming isn't all it's cracked up to be.»

Starting in the mid-1980s, researchers from University College London spent twenty years examining the relationship between sleep patterns and life expectancy in more than 10,000 British civil servants.

«When you have workers that already possess much of what you need, it makes a lot more sense to retrain them than to go out and hire new workers — who may be more educated — and then wait a year or more for them to get up to speed with how the company operates,» explains Anthony Carnevale, director and research professor of Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce.

This year, 42 top universities from around the world came to the Rice campus to pitch their startup ventures to more than 275 judges.

The only other school that has sent more than one finalist over the last three years has been Purdue University, with two.

While teaching organizational behavior at Cornell University for more than 35 years, I've had the privilege of training numerous young people who have now moved on to be leaders in the private and public sector.

The Institute of International Education found that US universities admitted more than 1 million international students in the 2015 - 16 school year, nearly 329,000 of which were Chinese students.

Fuerst, along with fellow University of Miami professors Sandro Andrade and Vidhi Chhaochharia, reported in a 2012 paper that stock returns were 10 percent higher in the November - to - April half of the year than in the May - to - October period.

Helpfully, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign professor Brian Ogolsky has waded through more than 1,000 studies from 50 years of research on the subject, so you don't have to.

Over the past five years, I've heard those answers — or some variation of them — from more than 250 students in my entrepreneurship courses at Princeton University and from many of the more than 100 entrepreneurs I've counseled about their startups.

He signed up with Doba while attending the State University of New York at Brockport and to date, this now 22 - year - old college graduate / entrepreneur has sold more than $ 70,000 worth of merchandise to consumers through eBay and Amazon using the suppliers found on the Doba platform for drop shipping.

With more than 35 years of experience, Clean Harbors performs a wide range of environmental and emergency services for State government clients, including state - run schools, colleges and universities, across the United States.

In a study published this year that tracked Best Buy's ROWE program, researchers at the University of Minnesota found that, while it had helped reduce employee turnover, women who took part still spent 10 hours more on child care per week than their male flextime colleagues.

From a potential standpoint, the region has more than 30 four - year colleges and universities in the region, enrolling approximately 120,000 students, with options ranging from community and technical colleges to the esteemed Saint Louis University and the nationally recognized and prestigious Washington University in St. Louis.

A glut of liquid biopsy companies have emerged from universities and elsewhere in recent years to catch cancer by relying on a patient's DNA, rather than having to extract their tissue.

Less than a year after spinning off from the University of Waterloo's faculty of engineering, IPT has been recognized by the Federal and Ontario governments for its breakthrough technology and efforts towards commercialization.

An unpublished Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study confirms Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck's findings of more than two million defensive handgun uses (DGUs) per year.

Between the year of its signing and 2014, the U.S. lost more than 14 percent of its small community banks, while the number of large banks rose 6.3 percent, according to the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

The Pennsylvania legislature recently passed a bill that will ensure borrowers are up - to - date on their student loan debt.The average Pennsylvania college student graduates with $ 35,000 in student loans, which is higher than any other state in the U.S. And within three years of graduation, 10 percent of Pennsylvania student loan borrowers default on their debt.In order to combat this problem, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would ensure students stay informed about how much debt they are accumulating.HB 2124 would require all colleges and universities to provide annual notices to students about their outstanding student...

In 2001, when the class of 1998 was surveyed, the top - earning alumnus group was from the Wharton School's EMBA program at the University of Pennsylvania, reporting an average salary three years after graduation of just more than $ 200,000 (measured in purchasing power parity equivalents).

Or about $ 10 billion a year less than the country spends on universities alone.

(A recent study by three Boston University researchers found that patent trolls have cost publicly traded companies an average of $ 83 - billion annually over the past four years, more than a quarter of all U.S. industrial research and development spending during that period.)

Statewide, more than 610 miles of pipeline could be exposed over the next 25 years, according to one study by Louisiana State University and the Rand Corporation.

He established the Helzberg Leadership Fellows (a program to train young Jewish leadership) and has been an Adjunct Professor at Rockhurst University for more than 17 years.

A 2014 study by Towson University's Regional Economic Studies Institute found hydraulic fracturing in that area of the state could generate more than 3,000 jobs and at least $ 5 million in tax revenue each year during peak drilling.

It's much bigger and more - sweeping than this,» wrote Jeffrey Towson, a Peking University professor and private equity investor who closely follows the development of China's retail sector, in his blog earlier this year.

Powell Jobs's brothers, Brad and Greg, have more than a 30 - year friendship with Monumental vice chairman Raul Fernandez, dating to their days at the University of Maryland, College Park, one of the people close to the deal said.

After more than three years of research, university scholars Fisher Black and Myron Scholes published their model back in 1973, only a month after the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) began trading standardized options.

All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

Paul Anderson - Walsh made the comment after a report from University College London said that pensioners with a sense of meaning and purpose lived on average two years longer than those who didn't.