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University of British Columbia 
Q. How many students does it take to change a lightbulb?
A. Five. Four to go skiing and the fifth to remember on the way up to Whistler, to call an engineering student to change the lightbulb.
Undergraduate students: 31,788 (4,367 international students -15.1% of total undergrads)
Graduate students: 15,306 (2,573 international)
You can pretty much always see the ocean or the mountains anywhere in Vancouver and the campus is no exception....UBC is looking for students who can do the work here (“readiness for university studies”), so they look at a broad range of criteria - from academic performance in specific subjects, the strength of their overall program of studies, community contributions and activities both in and out of school etc. So you’ll be asked about your extracurriculars, and expected to write some short essays on your application.
How many U of T students does it take to chance a light bulb?
Two - one student to do it and another to immediately compare U of T’s position to McGill’s in the bulb-changing...
Location: Hong Kong
Undergraduates: 11,250
Postgraduates: 3,000
If political activism isn’t quite your cup of tea (or coffee shop latte), Chinese University of Hong-Kong...
Location: Hong Kong
Undergraduates: 6,000
Postgraduates: 3,000
If you want to save time on other forms of exercise, it’s still possible to traverse the campus on the precipitous...
Location: Berlin, Germany
Students: 34,000
Despite being a large and anonymous place to study, many students report a strong identification with Humboldt as a university,...
Location: Hong Kong
Undergraduates: 22,000
Postgraduates: 10,000
‘We were split up into teams and had to solve challenges like Giant Sudoku together’ reported...
Location: Ningbo, China
Undergraduate and graduate students: 5,000
International students:160
There are sports facilities aplenty, including football pitches, a couple of tennis...
Lund University
Location: Lund, Sweden
Students: 30,000
Uppsala University
Location: Uppsala, Sweden
students: 20,000
Lund and Uppsala...
How many NUS students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
One. Get back to work.
Location: Singapore
Students: 27,000
Singapore sits near the equator, and words like “lush”...
Location: Maastricht, Belgium
Students: 13,100
Another benefit is that you can get to know your tutorial group very well, learning a lot from each other in the process....
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
Undergraduates: 5,850
Graduates: 2,000
Students are quirky, friendly and intelligent and not ashamed to show it, and hail from an eclectic...
Location: Rome, Italy
Students: 150,000
Many courses and professors are great – certainly among the best in the country if not the continent – while others leave...
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Students: 37,000
Most KU students are happy and most enjoy rich social lives; however, the individuality of the university can sometimes...
Location: Canberra, Australia
Undergraduates: 10,000 (International: 4,300)
Approximately one?quarter of all student enrolments are international students. Reputation is a big pulling...
Location: Melbourne, Victoria
Undergraduates: 25,000
Postgraduates: 11,000
International students: 12,000
Not a uni for the faint at heart, you will have to work hard...
Location: Heidelberg, Germany
Students: 27,000
Most of the university is located in the outrageously picturesque, medieval old-town, with a more modern science complex,...
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Students: 32,000
Amsterdam is perhaps the most high-flying of the Dutch universities academically, and consequently students have...
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Undergraduates: 31,800
Postgraduates: 12,000
International students: 10,500
To comfort the truly homesick, that iconic stalwart of the...
Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands
Students: 29-30,000
Utrechtians love their social life. Utrecht is in many ways perfect in this respect – it’s a true...
Location: Sydney, New South Wales
Undergraduates: 32,612
Graduates: 16,447
International students: 10,832
Sydney is truly a world city, a metropolis in a melting pot,...
How many FSU students does it take to change a light bulb?
2 – one to find a bigger, better light bulb than The University of Florida, and one to change it.
Location:...
How many students does it to take to change a light bulb at Georgetown?
Four – one to change it, one to call Congress about their progress, and two to throw the old bulb at the...
How many Georgia Tech students does it take to change a light bulb?
About 230 - ten to conceive new light bulb technology, one to sell it to NASA, 175 to build a new research facility...
How many Hunter students does it take to change a light bulb?
One, but he can do it on the subway on the way there.
Location: Upper East Side, New York
Undergrads: 15, 700
Graduates:...
How many students does it take to change a light bulb at JHU?
None - no one changes it. The less competition, the better.
Location:Baltimore,Maryland
Undergraduates: 5,454
graduates: 13,139
This...
Q. How many LC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A. Eight - two to organise a cake-bake fundraiser, five to write a song about it, and one to change it.
Location:...
How many students does it take to change a light bulb at MIT?
Five – one to design a nuclear-powered bulb that never needs changing, one to figure out how to power the rest of...
How many students does it take to change a light bulb at NYU?
Two - one to get the light bulb, one to go to the departmental advisor and see what the advisor thinks is best.
Location: New...
How many students does it take to change a light bulb at Northwestern?
Two – One to screw it in and one to tell him how to do it according to the manual.
Location: Evanston,...
How many students does it take to change a light bulb at Oberlin?
Three – one to change it and two to figure out how to get high off the old one.
Location: Oberlin,...
How many Pepperdine students does it take to change a light bulb?
2 – one to change it and one to give the sermon.
Location: Malibu, California
Undergraduates: 3,150
Graduates:...
How many Rice students does it take to change a light bulb?
4 – one to change it, one to take it out again and claim it for his own college, one to take it out yet again and...
Location: New Brunswick/Newark/Camden, New Jersey
Undergraduates: 38,900
Graduates: 13,600
Admission to Rutgers is tough but nothing like that other famous NJ college (Princeton);...
How many Johnnies does it take to change a light bulb?
16 – one to read Descartes’ famous masterpiece On the Changing of Light Bulbs, and fifteen to form a discussion...
How many Scipps students does it take to change a light bulb?
16 – ten to set up an artistic team to select the most beautiful light bulb to match the campus, five to publicise...
Location: Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Undergraduates: 1,500
Graduates: 0
One of the most competitive schools in the country, Swarthmore only accepts about 15% of applicants,...
How many students does it take to change a light bulb at Tufts?
Two – one to change the bulb and one to explain how they did it every bit as well as any Ivy Leaguer.
Location:...
How many Gators does it take to change a light bulb?
If it'll help them win the next football game, you can have as many as you need.
Location: Gainesville, Florida
Undergraduates:...
How many Tulane students does it take to change a light bulb?
1000s – Think of all the relief workers and money from charitable donations! But certainly no help from the Bush...
How many students does it take to change a light bulb at UC Berkeley?
2,001 – one to demand his right not to change the bulb and 2,000 to organize the strike in support of him.
Location:...
How many students does it take to change a light bulb at UCLA?
Five - one to change the light bulb and four to find the perfect J. Crew outfit to wear for the occasion.
Location:...
Location: Athens, Georgia
Undergraduates: 25,000
Graduates: 9,000
Athens is as cool a college town as you could hope for out in the middle of the rural South, complete with...
How many KU students does it take to change a light bulb?
Just one, and if you shine it from the top of the Fraser Building you can see it from the other side of Kansas.
Location:...
Location: Coral Gables (Miami), Florida
Undergraduates: 10,000
Graduates: 5,000
Normally parodied as cliquey, attractive, sports-car-driving, dark-shades-wearing, daddy’s-wealth-relying...
How many students does it take to change a light bulb at UMichigan?
Ten – one to change the bulb and nine to act as the Supreme Court to affirm the decision.
Location:...
How many North Carolina students does it take to change a light bulb?
Fewer than those evil Duke students.
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
At “fall fest”...
Location: Notre Dame, Indiana
Undergraduates: 8,400
Graduates: 3,400
A superb private Catholic school in the Middle Of Nowhere, Indiana, Notre Dame has for a long time maintained...
How many USC students does it take to change a light bulb?
None – they don’t bother, it’ll just get broken again at the next party.
Location: Los Angeles, California
Undergraduates:...
How many UT students does it take to change a light bulb?
7 – one to change it, three to choose a local rock band to play for the occasion, and three to argue about the best...
Location: Sewanee, Tennessee
Undergraduates: 1,400
Graduates: 200
Though there is not much beyond the campus (the tiny town of Sewanee, Tenn. is inside the university,...
How many UVM students does it take to change a lightbulb?
Eighteen: Fifteen to form a long distance trekking team to hike through the mountains to the nearest shop selling light bulbs,...
How many students does it take to change a light bulb at UVA?
Thirteen - ten to form a student committee to vote on whether changing light bulbs is a violation of the Honor Code,...
How many UW students does it take to change a light bulb?
3 - One to use Amazon to purchase the new bulb, one to make the coffee and one to put the grunge records on the turntable.
Location:...
How many students does it take to change a light bulb at Penn?
Only one – but he gets six credits for it.
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Undergraduates: 9,900
Graduates: 8,996
Whether...
Location: Blacksburg, Virginia
Undergraduates: 23,500
Graduates: 7,200
Although the name might now be forever associated with an awful college massacre, Virginia Tech...
How many Wash U students does it take to change a light bulb?
3 – one to pay too much for it, one to bring it from the East Coast, and one to put the great experience on his...
How many students does it take to change a light bulb at Williams?
The whole student body – when you’re snowed in, there’s nothing else to do.
Location:...
How many students does it take to change a light bulb at Yale?
None – New Haven looks better in the dark.
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
Undergraduates: 5,200
Graduates: 2,300
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Wherever you choose to study for a degree will be your home for the three years or longer it takes to complete the course, so it's worth choosing the right place - as well as...
UK independent schools are still widely regarded as among the best in the world, with top flight schools such as Eton remaining highly sought-after.
It's not just the quality of an...
As UK youngsters venture overseas, so a good number of overseas students choose to spend their gap-year in the UK.
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