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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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