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College of Engineering, Pune

College of Engineering, Pune (COEP), now COEP Technological University, is a public engineering institution founded in 1854 in Pune, made a unitary public technological university of Maharashtra by the 2022 state act.

College of Europe

College of Europe (Collège d'Europe): postgraduate institute of European studies founded 1949 in Bruges, with campuses at Natolin (Warsaw, 1992) and Tirana (2024); one-year EU affairs master's degrees, ~500 students, tuition €29,000/year.

College of Foreign Affairs

The College of Foreign Affairs (Коллегия иностранных дел) was the Russian Empire's central institution for foreign relations, created by Peter I in 1720 in place of the Posolsky prikaz.

College of Medical Sciences

The College of Medical Sciences is a private medical college in Bharatpur, Nepal, founded in 1993, affiliated with Kathmandu University since 1996, and linked to the CMS Teaching Hospital.

College of New Rochelle

College of New Rochelle (CNR), founded 1904 by the Ursuline Order as New York State's first Catholic college for women; a four-school liberal arts college that closed in 2019 after a $20 million payroll-tax crisis, with students and campuses absorbed by Mercy College.

College of the Holy Cross

College of the Holy Cross, a private Jesuit Catholic liberal arts college founded in 1843 in Worcester, Massachusetts; exclusively undergraduate, about 3,300 students, 9:1 student-faculty ratio, ranked #22 by U.S. News, 1947 NCAA basketball champion.

College of War

The College of War (Военная коллегия) was the Russian collegium administering recruitment, supply, hospitals, and military justice, created by Peter the Great and operating from 1720 until 1802.

College of William & Mary

The College of William & Mary (W&M) is a public R1 research university in Williamsburg, Virginia, chartered February 8, 1693 by William III and Mary II, the second-oldest U.S. college and alma mater of four presidents.

College of Wooster

The College of Wooster is a private Presbyterian-founded liberal arts college in Wooster, Ohio, established 1866, known for its senior Independent Study thesis, over 1,600 undergraduates, 9:1 ratio, $79,560 sticker cost, and strong science PhD placement.

Colleges of the University of Cambridge

The Colleges of the University of Cambridge are 31 autonomous foundations, from Peterhouse (1284) onward, that admit, house, teach and support all Cambridge students alongside University departments.

Colleges of the University of Oxford

Colleges of the University of Oxford: 36 independent, self-governing chartered foundations plus three societies (Kellogg, Reuben, St Cross) and four permanent private halls, handling admissions, accommodation, and tutorial teaching with £6.4bn in endowments.

Collegia reform (1717–1721)

The Collegia reform (Учреждение коллегий) was Peter I's replacement of Russia's old prikazy with nine collegia modeled on Swedish central administration, carried out between 1717 and 1721.

Collegiate secret societies in North America

Collegiate secret societies in North America: hidden undergraduate organizations, exemplified by Yale's Skull and Bones (founded 1832), Scroll and Key, and Wolf's Head, their tombs, Tap Day selection, campus bans, and BGLO underground pledging.

Collegiums

The Collegiums (Коллегии) were the organs of central state administration in Russia, established by Peter the Great from 1717 on the Swedish model to replace the prikazy, and replaced by ministries in 1802.

Collibra

Collibra is a data governance and data intelligence software company founded in Belgium in 2008, headquartered in New York and Brussels, and valued at $5.25 billion in 2021.

Collier's

Collier's was an American weekly magazine of news, fiction, and general interest, founded by Peter Fenelon Collier in 1888 and published in New York until its final issue in 1957.

Collique

Collique is a pre-Inca polity and fortress in the Chillón River valley near Lima, Peru, the seat of the Colli lordship that resisted the Inca around 1470.

Collis P. Huntington

Collis P. Huntington (1821–1900) was an American railroad magnate who co-founded the Central Pacific Railroad as one of the Big Four and founded Newport News Shipbuilding in 1886.

Collocation

Collocation: habitual word co-occurrence such as "heavy rain"; in corpus linguistics, frequent co-occurrence measured statistically. Rooted in Firth's "meaning by collocation" and Sinclair's 1991 definition, distinct from idioms, phrases, and free combinations.

Collocation analysis

Collocation analysis is a corpus linguistics method that identifies words co-occurring with a target word more often than chance, using association measures such as log-likelihood and mutual information.

Colloquialism

Colloquialism: an informal word or phrase used in conversation but not formal speech or writing; also called conversationism (obsolete). Distinct from slang and jargon by broad comprehensibility; attested from 1810.

Collor Plan

The Collor Plan (Plano Collor) was a 1990 Brazilian stabilization program whose central measure froze 70 percent of private financial assets for eighteen months amid hyperinflation.

Collusion

Collusion, also called colluding, is an agreement among competitors to restrain competition through price fixing, market division, or bid rigging, spanning both explicit cartels and tacit coordination.

Colm F. Connolly

Colm F. Connolly is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Delaware since 2018, appointed by President Donald Trump and chief judge since 2021.

Colm Kelleher

Colm Kelleher, born 1957, is an Irish banker who has been chairman of UBS Group AG since April 2022, leading the 2023 takeover of Credit Suisse.

Colman

Colman mac Duach, also called Mac Duagh, was an early Irish bishop and hermit, venerated as the first bishop and patron of the diocese of Kilmacduagh in County Galway.

Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz

Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (Goltz Paşa), Prussian field marshal and military writer (1843-1916), author of Das Volk in Waffen (The Nation in Arms), reorganizer of the Ottoman army 1883-1896, and commander of Ottoman forces at the siege of Kut in Mesopotamia, where he died in 1916.

Cologne Mani Codex

The Cologne Mani Codex is a tiny late-4th- or 5th-century Greek parchment codex containing a biography of the prophet Mani, covering his childhood among Judeo-Christian baptists and his 240s mission.

Coloman of Hungary

Coloman of Hungary, known as Könyves Kálmán, was king of Hungary from 1095 until his death in 1116 and from 1102 also king of Croatia, remembered for enlightened laws.

Colombia–Peru War

The Colombia–Peru War (1932–1934), also called the Leticia conflict, was a border war over the Leticia Trapecio that began with the occupation of Leticia and ended with the Protocol of Rio de Janeiro.