01. University of Chicago
The University of Chicago was created
and incorporated as a coeducational, secular institution in 1890 by the
American Baptist Education Society and a donation from oil magnate and
philanthropist John D. Rockefeller on land donated by Marshall Field.
The University of Chicago also maintains facilities apart from its main
campus. The University’s Booth School of Business maintains campuses in
Singapore, London, and the downtown Streeterville neighborhood of
Chicago. The Center in Paris, a campus located on the left bank of the
Seine in Paris, hosts various undergraduate and graduate study programs.
02. Harvard University
Harvard University is an American
private Ivy League research university located in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts
legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the
United States and the first corporation chartered in the country.
Harvard has an intense athletic rivalry with Yale University
traditionally culminating in The Game, although the Harvard–Yale Regatta
predates the football game. This rivalry, though, is put aside every
two years when the Harvard and Yale Track and Field teams come together
to compete against a combined Oxford University and Cambridge University
team, a competition that is the oldest continuous international amateur
competition in the world.
03. Northwestern University
Northwestern has one of the top ten
university endowments in the United States. One of only 62 institutions
elected to the Association of American Universities, Northwestern was
awarded more than $500 million in research grants in 2010–2011, placing
it in the first tier of the top research universities in the United
States by the Center for Measuring University Performance. In Fall 2008,
Northwestern opened a campus in Education City, Doha, Qatar, joining
five other American universities: Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell
University, Georgetown University, Texas A&M University, and
Virginia Commonwealth University.
04. University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a
private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education
in the United States, and considers itself to be the first university
in the United States with both undergraduate and graduate studies. Penn
is consistently included among the top five research universities in
the US, and among the top research universities in the world, both in
terms of quality and quantity of research.
05. University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public
research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United
States. It is the state’s oldest university and the flagship campus of
the University of Michigan. U-M also has satellite campuses in Flint and
Dearborn. Michigan has one of the world’s largest living alumni groups
at 460,000 in 2007. U-M owns the University of Michigan Health System
and has one of the largest research expenditures of any American
university, passing the $1.24 billion mark during the 2010-2011 academic
year.
06. Stanford University
Stanford University or Stanford,
is an American private research university located in Stanford,
California on an 8,180-acre campus near Palo Alto, California, United
States. The university is organized into seven schools including
academic schools of Humanities and Sciences and Earth Sciences as well
as professional schools of Business, Education, Engineering, Law, and
Medicine. Stanford has a student body of approximately 6,988
undergraduate and 8,400 graduate students.
07. Columbia University
The university was founded in 1754 as
King’s College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain. After the
American Revolutionary War King’s College briefly became a state
entity, and was renamed Columbia College in 1784. The University now
operates under a 1787 charter that places the institution under a
private board of trustees, and in 1896 it was further renamed Columbia
University. The university is one of the fourteen founding members of
the Association of American Universities, and was the first school in
the United States to grant the M.D. degree.
08. Duke University
Duke University is a private research
university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by
Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the
school moved to Durham in 1892.In its 2012 edition, U.S. News &
World Report ranked the university’s undergraduate program 10th among
national universities, while ranking the medical, law, public policy,
nursing, and business graduate programs among the top 12 in the United
States.
09. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, also known as MIT, is an American private research
university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. MIT was
elected to the Association of American Universities in 1934. Researchers
were involved in efforts to develop computers, radar, and inertial
guidance in connection with defense research during World War II and the
Cold War. Post-war defense research contributed to the rapid expansion
of the faculty and campus under James Killian. MIT has a strong
entrepreneurial culture. The aggregated revenues of companies founded by
MIT alumni would rank as the eleventh-largest economy in the world.
10. University of California, Berkeley
The
University of California, Berkeley , is a public research university
located in Berkeley, California, USA. Berkeley has been charged with
providing both “classical” and “practical” education for the state’s
people and is generally considered to be the flagship institution in the
University of California system. Berkeley student-athletes have won
over 100 Olympic medals. Known as the California Golden Bears, the
athletic teams are members of both the Pacific-12 Conference and the
Mountain Pacific Sports Federation in the NCAA.
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