In Science only 50 or 60 will enter in a given year and of these 8 or 10 will eventually win degrees.
Last summer, the Apollo Group bought BPP, the first for-profit company in the UK to win degree-awarding powers.
Newcomers will now have to take the long way round if they want to win degree awarding powers which makes the handful of for profits in the UK, which already can award degrees, very special indeed.
While Cornwell has the confidence of someone with money and staff, there's an unusual and winning degree of humility to her. "I really do try to give people the very best that I can," she says.
The idea of augmenting government delivery of social services through community and religious organizations has won varying degrees of support across the ideological spectrum.
Punitive and restrictive measures like that directed solely at a group of big banks miss the point, argues Karen Petrou, managing partner of Federal Financial Analytics, who won a degree of fame for coining the phrase "complexity risk".
Stevens attended Harvard for three years, worked briefly for the New York Herald Tribune, and then won a degree (1904) at the New York Law School and practiced law in New York City.
Careful to balance church building with social welfare -- from school construction to disaster relief -- the charity has in turn won a degree of good will from local officials.
The party has won a degree of legitimacy thanks to the acceptance by mainstream politicians that there is indeed an immigration "problem".
With DaimlerChrysler, IG Metall won a degree of compromise: it preserved the 35-hour week, hallowed in Germany, but gave some ground on working hours for research and service staff, and on future cost reductions.
But he has won a degree of esteem for his equanimity and good humour in the face of global financial turmoil, as well as the onslaught against him unleashed by his own prime minister's henchmen.
