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George Behrakis to be Honored at University of Athens

Greek-American scientist and philanthropist George D. Behrakis will receive an honorary doctorate from the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens this upcoming Friday. Behrakis is well-known for his entrepreneurial activity in the pharmaceutical industry, having helped form Tylenol. Behrakis has...

Greek Law Students Win International Law Competition

A team of undergraduate students of the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens won this year's Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot (FDI Moot) competition. The group overcame teams from 82 other universities during the last weekend. The topic...

Greek Student Named Best Oralist at International Law Competition

A Greek law student has been named the world's best oralist. Athanasios Plexidas, a law student at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, was named the best oralist at the Manfred Lachs Space Law Competition held in Jerusalem, Israel between...

Greek Universities on the World's Top 500 List

The 2014 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) lists two Greek universities amongst the world's top 500. The Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens has reached the 101-150 ranking, up from the 151-200 ranking last year, and the Aristotle...

7 Greek Universities Among World's Best

Despite the problems of higher education in Greece, seven Greek Universities ranked among world's best. According to the Center for World University Rankings, 7 Greek universities have been included in the 1,000 world's best for 2014. Of the 7 Greek universities, the...

Staff of NTUA and UoA Go on New Five-day Strike

The union for staff of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens decided to go on a new five-day strike, and now the danger of thousands of students losing the...

Athens History Museum Remains Closed

The staff of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens History Museum, released a letter to the media informing the public, that the museum will remain closed because of the employees strike against lay-offs. They also made it clear that...

University of Athens, NTUA Suspend Operations

According to a decision of its Senate, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens is suspending all of its operations. The relevant announcement goes as follows: “The Senate of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in the extraordinary meeting of...

Six Greek Universities Among World's Top 800

According to the QS World University Rankings list for 2013 that was published by Topuniversities.com, six Greek universities are among the 800 top universities in the world. The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) ranks on the top of the Greek...

Two Greek Universities In Top 500

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), commonly known as the Shanghai Ranking, has put the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) at 301st and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens at 335th in the top 500 in the...