Showing posts with label Top 500 Universities in the World. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Top 500 Universities in the World. Show all posts

Monday, November 12, 2007

WORLD'S LARGEST SWIMMING POOL

I just got these pictures and entry copied from one of my regular readers and link blogger as well...name Aron Wong the World's Largest Swimming Pool ever built......take a deep breath as you look at it and imagine the sizes....

The world’s largest swimming pool are on a mission to spread their technology across the world. Already drawing the crowds in the South American resort of San Alfonso del Mar in Chile.

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This artificial lagoon and swimming pool is eight hectares in size and contains an incredible 250,000 cubic metres of water, with self-filtering water from the Pacific ocean, there should be enough swimming room for all the guest. Equivalent in size to an incredible 6,000 standard domestic pools. The revolutionary clear water artificial lagoons, transparent to a depth of 35 metres and unprecedented in design and construction methods, are the brainchild of Crystal Lagoons founder, biochemist and Chilean businessman Fernando
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I could not imagine enough to swim such a large swimming pool..that tires you when you reach at the other side of the pool....

Sunday, June 17, 2007

TOP 500 UNIVERSITIES IN THE WORLD

Was absent for awhile and failed to post anything in here.Well,I took this article from another blog because it sounds so very interesting,I guess, specially Philippines 5 Top Universities included in the lists.Too bad, my school didn't come out on the list.

Top 500 Universities in the World

Four schools in the Philippines are among the Top 500 Universities in the World.
The research and study was undertaken by Times Higher Education Supplement-
Quacquarelli Symonds (THES-QS) World University Rankings.

The top 500 universities were chosen from among 15,000 educational institutions
worldwide. To be part of this elite list of universities, the institution has to meet
several stringent criteria, including faculty-to-student ratios and ratings given by
more than 3,000 academicians & 700 leading international employment recruiters.
The University of the Philippines (UP) was the highest ranked local
school with a global ranking of 299 and 47th among Asian universities. Behind
UP in the list are three private universities:

De La Salle (392nd),
Ateneo de Manila (484th), and the
University of Santo Tomas at 500th.


Meanwhile, the top 20 leading universities in the world are the following:
Harvard (1st), Cambridge (2nd), Oxford (3rd), Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and Yale (tying for 4th), Stanford (6th), California Institute of
Technology (7th), University of California in Berkeley (8th), Imperial
College London (9th), Princeton (10th), University of Chicago (11th),
Columbia (12th), Duke (13th), Beijing University (14th), Cornell (15th),
Australian National University (16th), London School of Economics (17th),
Ecole Normale Superieure (18th), National University of Singapore and
Tokyo University (tying for 19th).

Many of the top universities are American and British, but there are
sprinkles of representation from Australia, France, China, Singapore
and Japan. Most of the leading American universities are private; in
fact, on that top 20 list, the University of California Berkeley is the only
American public institution.

Among the leading Asia-Pacific universities on the THES-QS list of the
world's 500 leading universities, 90 are from Asia. Japan leads with 28,
followed by China (including Hong Kong) with 16, Taiwan with 8, South
Korea and Thailand with 7 each, Malaysia, Indonesia & the Philippines
with 4 each, Australia with 3, Singapore with 2 and Bangladesh with one.

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Photoblog: Baan Suan Hassadi - Thailand