are both, University of British Columbia and American University of Sharjah,universities in the same country ?
no
American University of Sharjah
American University of Sharjah (abbreviated AUS; Arabic: الجامعة الأميركية في الشارقة‎ ‎ ) is a co-educational institution of higher education in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia, commonly referred to as UBC, is a public research university with campuses and facilities in British Columbia, Canada.
 Founded in 1908 as the McGill University College of British Columbia, the university became independent and adopted its current name in 1915.
 It is British Columbia's oldest institution of higher learning and has over 60,000 students at its Vancouver and Okanagan Valley campuses.
 Most students are enrolled in five larger faculties: Arts, Science, Applied Science, UBC Faculty of Medicine and the Sauder School of Business.
 UBC's 4.02 km2 Vancouver campus is within the University Endowment Lands, about 10 km west of Downtown Vancouver.
 The 2.09 km2 Okanagan campus, acquired in 2005, is in Kelowna.
Suad Joseph
Suad Joseph (born 6 September 1943).
 Dr. Joseph received her doctorate in Anthropology from Columbia University in 1975.
 Dr. Joseph is Professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies at the University of California, Davis and current President of the Middle East Studies Association of North America.
 Her research addresses issues of gender; families, children, and youth; sociology of the family; and selfhood, citizenship, and the state in the Middle East, with a focus on her native Lebanon.
 Her earlier work focused on the politicization of religion in Lebanon.
 Joseph is the founder of the Middle East Research Group in Anthropology (now the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association), the founder and coordinator of the Arab Families Working Group, the founder of the Association for Middle East Women's Studies, the General Editor of the "Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures", and the Founding Director of the Middle East/South Asian Studies Program at the University of California at Davis.
 She is also the founder and facilitator of a six-university consortium of the American University of Beirut, American University in Cairo, Lebanese American University, University of California at Davis, and Birzeit University Consortium. University City of Sharjah
Sharjah University City is an education district in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates close to the Sharjah International Airport.
 It contains the American University of Sharjah, the Higher Colleges of Technology alongside its men and women campuses and the University of Sharjah alongside its medical and fine arts campuses.
 The area includes the Sharjah Police Academy, University Hospital of Sharjah, University Dental Hospital of Sharjah and the Sharjah Library. Allied American University
Allied American University (AAU) was a for-profit university located in Laguna Hills, California, that offers online learning degree and certificate programs.
 Allied American University was founded in 2008 and received national accreditation by the Distance Education Accrediting Commission (DEAC) in that same year.
 The university offered bachelor’s and associate degree programs in business administration, criminal justice, general studies, and allied health.
 Allied American University offers seven undergraduate degree programs and 10 certificate programs for career or skill enhancement.
 Since 2009, for the sixth consecutive year, G.I. Jobs magazine has ranked Allied American University as one of the top Military Friendly Schools, along with other top-tier universities, trade schools, and colleges across the country.
 Allied American University was also named a Top School in Military Advanced Education's Guide to Colleges and Universities for three consecutive years. University Endowment Lands
The University Endowment Lands (UEL) is an unincorporated area that lies to the west of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, surrounding the University of British Columbia.
 Pacific Spirit Regional Park lies within the UEL, and although geographically located within the UEL, the University of British Columbia and private housing on university land are not under the administration of the UEL.
 This housing, comprising 6000 residents in 2009, is administered by a partnership between the University of British Columbia and the University Neighbourhoods Association (UNA), with the UNA providing most municipal functions.
 The UEL is part of Metro Vancouver and sometimes considered part of Vancouver (for example, Canada Post uses Vancouver for UEL addresses).
 The governance arrangements for these three areas are different, however. University Act (British Columbia)
The University Act was enacted by the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia to establish one degree-granting universities for British Columbia.
 The first University Act was passed in 1890, which act continues in force and defines the first Convocation of The University of British Columbia.
 A subsequent Act was passed in 1908 (in conjunction with the University Endowment Act of 1907).
 Under this new statute, the governance of the University of British Columbia was clarified. Rob Fleming
Rob Fleming is a Canadian politician who represents the riding of Victoria-Swan Lake in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.
 Fleming was elected the British Columbia New Democratic Party Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the district of Victoria-Hillside in the 2005 British Columbia general election, defeating incumbent British Columbia Liberal Party MLA Sheila Orr.
 He was re-elected on May 12, 2009 in the renamed constituency of Victoria-Swan Lake.
 In the 38th Parliament Fleming was the New Democrat critic for Advanced Education, sat on the Select Standing Committee on Education, and introduced two education-related private member bills: the "Private Post-Secondary Accountability and Student Protection Act, 2007" and the "Restoring Credibility to Universities Act, 2008".
 He was also assigned to the Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts and introduced the "Payday Lending Act, 2006" which sought to regulate the conditions of payday loans and led to the government adopting the "Business Practices and Consumer Protection (Payday Loans) Amendment Act" a year later. List of state universities in the United States
In the United States, a state college or state university is one of the public colleges or universities funded by or associated with the state government.
 In some cases, these institutions of higher learning are part of a state university system, while in other cases they are not.
 Several U.S. territories also administer public colleges and universities.
 The U.S. federal government does not run colleges or universities except for the service academies, the Community College of the Air Force, the Naval Postgraduate School, the Air Force Institute of Technology, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, military war colleges and staff colleges, and Haskell Indian Nations University.
 Additionally, Georgetown University, Gallaudet University, Howard University, and American University are private universities that are federally chartered.
 However, the federal government does make grants to state universities. The University Transition Program
The University Transition Program, often called the Transition Program, is an early college entrance program funded by the Vancouver School Board, the University of British Columbia and the BC Ministry of Education that is based in the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
 Each year, the program accepts around 20 new students between the ages 12 and 15, half of which are from outside the Vancouver School District.
 This is out of approximately 200 applicants; rigorous testing must be performed to select acceptable candidates.
 Over the course of two years, students aim to complete the required high school curriculum along with some university level coursework.
 When they graduate from the program, the students usually are accepted into UBC earlier than they would if they had graduated from a regular high school (aged 14–16 instead of 17–18).
 The program was first established in 1993 by the Vancouver School Board, British Columbia Ministry of Education and the University of British Columbia.
 Students of the program have access to most UBC facilities and possess UBC undergraduate student cards.
 The program held its 20th anniversary on May 15-17, 2015.