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Institute of Science Tokyo (東京科学大学)
Institute of Science Tokyo (東京科学大学), branded Science Tokyo, is a Japanese national university formed in 2024 by merging Tokyo Medical and Dental University and Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Institute of technology
Institute of technology: a higher education institution for technical training and applied research, also called polytechnic or Fachhochschule; distinct from research-intensive technical universities like MIT.
International English Language Testing System
International English Language Testing System (IELTS), also ELTS: English proficiency test on a 0–9 band scale for study, work, and migration, jointly owned by the British Council, IDP IELTS, and Cambridge; computer-only delivery from mid-2026.
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
IIIT Hyderabad (IIITH), founded 1998, is India's first IIIT under a not-for-profit public-private partnership model, an autonomous research university in Gachibowli, Hyderabad, organized around research centers, with NIRF 2025 ranks: Engineering 38, University 55, Overall 89.
International student
International student: a student who crosses a border for tertiary education, defined by prior schooling (UNESCO/OECD/Eurostat) rather than citizenship. Covers mobility scale, STEM and doctoral concentration, funding, and recent visa policy reversals in the US, Canada and UK.
Iowa State University
Iowa State University (Iowa State University of Science and Technology), public land-grant university in Ames, Iowa; founded 1858, first state to accept the Morrill Act, coeducational from 1869, about 30,772 students.
Iowa Wesleyan University
Iowa Wesleyan University, founded 1842 in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, was a United Methodist-affiliated liberal arts university and Iowa's first coeducational institution; it closed May 31, 2023 after 181 years amid $26 million USDA debt.
Iran University of Medical Sciences
Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), Tehran: public medical university founded 1974, affiliated to Iran's Ministry of Health; ~9,400 students, 17 teaching hospitals, THE 2026 rank 601–800, first Iranian university with international institutional accreditation (EQAA, 2024).
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences (دانشگاه علوم پزشکی اصفهان) is a public medical university in Isfahan, Iran, whose Faculty of Medicine began instruction in 1946. It offers a 6.5-year Persian MD and an English International MBBS (since 2019), hosts a PhD in medical education (since 2010), and ranks in THE's 801–1000 band.
Istanbul University
Istanbul University (İstanbul Üniversitesi), Turkey's first and oldest state university in Istanbul, traces its roots to 1453 madrasahs, became Darülfünun in 1846, and was re-founded on 1 August 1933 under Atatürk's university reform.
Ithaca College
Ithaca College, founded 1892 as the Ithaca Conservatory of Music by violinist W. Grant Egbert, is a private residential college on South Hill in Ithaca, New York, with about 4,700 students, five schools, NCAA Division III Bombers athletics, and Middle States accreditation reaffirmed in 2026.
Ivey Business School
Ivey Business School is a Canadian university business school in London, Ontario, renamed in 1995 for lawyer and businessperson Richard Ivey. It specializes in case method teaching.
Ivory tower
An ivory tower is a metaphor for a place cut off from the problems of ordinary life, used disapprovingly and most often aimed at academics and universities.
Ivy League
Ivy League, or Council of Ivy Group Presidents, the Ancient Eight: an NCAA Division I athletic conference of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale, founded 1954, with no athletic scholarships.
Ivy Plus
Ivy Plus (Ivy+) is an informal label for the eight Ivy League universities plus peer schools, most precisely Stanford, MIT, Duke, and the University of Chicago in mobility research; it also names a 13-member library consortium and other collaborations.
J Batt
J Batt, born Jason Michael Batt, is an American college athletics director who became Kentucky's athletics director and CEO of Champions Blue LLC in 2026.
J. Larry Jameson
J. Larry Jameson is an American endocrinologist and the tenth president of the University of Pennsylvania, appointed permanently in March 2025 after interim service from December 2023; formerly dean of Penn's Perelman School of Medicine and Northwestern's Feinberg School.
Jackson State University
Jackson State University, also called Jackson State College or J-State, is a public historically black university in Jackson, Mississippi, founded in 1877 as Natchez Seminary and now classified as an R2 research university.
Jacksonville State University
Jacksonville State University (Jax State, JSU), public university in Jacksonville, Alabama, founded 1883 as a state normal school; 10,433 students Fall 2026, five colleges, Gamecocks athletics in Conference USA.
Jadavpur University (যাদবপুর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়)
Jadavpur University (যাদবপুর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) is a public state university in Kolkata, West Bengal, established 24 December 1955 from the 1906 National Council of Education, Bengal; top-ranked state public university in NIRF 2025, with campuses at Jadavpur and Salt Lake.
Jagiellonian University
Jagiellonian University (Uniwersytet Jagielloński), Poland's oldest university, founded in Kraków by Casimir III in 1364, refounded by Jagiełło in 1400; 16 faculties, ~50,000 students, Collegium Medicum, QS 2026 rank 303.
James Madison University
James Madison University (JMU) is a public university in Harrisonburg, Virginia, founded in 1908 as a women's normal school, renamed Madison College in 1938 and JMU in 1977; it is a Carnegie R2 university with about 23,000 students joining the American Conference by 2028.
Jamia Millia Islamia
Jamia Millia Islamia, a central university in New Delhi founded at Aligarh in 1920, moved to Delhi in 1925 and became a central university in 1988; NAAC A++, NIRF university rank 3 in 2022-2024.
Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research
JIPMER (Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research), Puducherry, is an Institution of National Importance founded 1823 as Ecole de Medicine de Pondicherry, with a 2,059-bed hospital, MBBS through super-specialty programs, and NIRF 2025 medical rank 4.
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, a central university under the JNU Act 1966, opened 1969. Known for multidisciplinary Schools, CUET-based admissions, deprivation points policy, and NIRF 2025 rank 2 among Indian universities.
Jeffrey R. Holland
Jeffrey R. Holland (1940–2025), American educator and Latter-day Saint apostle; ninth president of BYU (1980–1989), Commissioner of Church Education, Quorum of the Twelve member from 1994; founded the BYU Jerusalem Center.
Jerry Falwell Jr.
Jerry Falwell Jr., lawyer and Liberty University chancellor-president 2007-2020, eldest son of founder Jerry Falwell Sr.; resigned August 2020 after a sex scandal, later settled with Liberty for roughly $15 million.
Jesus College, Cambridge
Jesus College, Cambridge: a constituent college of the University of Cambridge founded in 1496 by Bishop John Alcock on the site of the nunnery of St Radegund; formerly one of the smallest colleges, now among the larger ones with about 500 undergraduates.
Jim Davis (university administrator)
James E. (Jim) Davis, American lawyer and university administrator; 31st president of the University of Texas at Austin since February 2025; former UT COO, Navy cryptologist, Locke Lord partner, and Texas deputy attorney general; known for 2026 department consolidations and core-curriculum overhaul.
Jim Fiore
Jim Fiore (born 1968) is an American sports executive, ninth athletic director at Stony Brook University 2003-2013, 2011-12 NACDA Northeast Region AD of the Year, dismissed in 2013 amid harassment allegations, later CEO of Dynamic Sports Management.