L’année dernière, ces facultés ont aidé à lancer 705 start-up et ont perçu en contrepartie 2,6 milliards de dollars de revenus de licences, selon des données de l'Association des dirigeants technologiques universitaires.
Juste avant d'être diplômé de l'Université du Michigan en 2012, Calvin Schemanski a démarré une startup : avec deux autres étudiants, il a obtenu un bureau gratuit sur le campus et 7.500 dollars de financements. Son application de recommandation de restaurants MyFab5 prépare aujourd'hui son lancement national.
Ce projet est l'un des milliers à travers les Etats-Unis à recevoir le soutien d'incubateurs créés par des universités, avec l'espoir de dénicher l'inventeur du prochain Google ou Facebook. Suite...

By Jeff Gammage. On the third day of the federal government shutdown, the people who run an important regional science-education center began to get worried.
About paying their rent. Making payroll. About their ability to pay the hotel bills of the expert they dispatched to Egypt to help that troubled land revise its entire education system.
The 21st Century Partnership for STEM Education, a nonprofit research agency whose work influences schools across the Philadelphia region, gets 92 percent of its funding from the federal government. And that money has stopped flowing. More...

Last week the U.S. Census reported college enrollment declined for the first time in six years in the fall of 2012. That, in turn, threatens higher education revenue, said Moody'sInvestors Service in a special report on Monday. Already, "precipitous enrollment declines for fall 2013" have hurt the credit quality of two private colleges - Loyola University in Louisiana and Central College in Iowa - and a public one, St. Mary's College in Maryland.
"Enrollment declines in higher education are credit negative because they heighten competitive pressure for all universities. This limits opportunity to grow tuition revenue, now the primary revenue for the majority of public and private universities," said Moody's. Read more...

QS University Rankings: Latin America
Established in 2011, the QS University Rankings: Latin America ranks the region’s top 300 universities. The ranking methodology is based on seven key indicators, selected to reflect regional strengths and priorities. The ranking is a helpful tool for those seeking more information on higher education in this dynamic and diverse region.

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Previous Years

• 2012 QS University Rankings: Latin America
• 2011 QS University Rankings: Latin America

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• 2013 QS University Rankings: Latin America
• 2012 QS University Rankings: Latin America
• 2011 QS University Rankings: Latin America

By Victor Ferreira. University of Guelph programming students lined up in waves Wednesday to buy a computer that would fit in the palm of a hand. Raspberry Pi is a small, inexpensive computer created in the U.K. for programming students. The device can work as a substitute for a desktop tower. It comes complete with audio and visual input, USB, HDMI, and Ethernet ports and slots to hook up a mouse and keyboard. 
Local non-profit community workshop Diyode supplied the school of computer science with the Raspberry Pi computers. Diyode board member Mark Zander says this is the largest project the group has been involved in. More...