The US has some of the best universities in the world.
Students flock from around the planet to be able to study at these institutions with
their world class tuition and excellent reputations.
Here are 10 of the most presitgious Universities in the United States
Number 10 - Cornell University.
This universities' strong points are in research and
employability.
The main campus of Cornell is on East Hill in Ithaca, New York, overlooking the
city and Cayuga Lake.
Founded in 1865, Cornell University is a private Ivy League university with
a mission to “discover, preserve, and disseminate knowledge”.
The campus covers 2,300 acres of the Finger Lakes region, and is so big
that students can go on a hike without even leaving the
site.
Cornell counts 45 Nobel laureates among its ex students and faculty members.
Other notable alumni include Tsai Ing-wen, the president-elect
of Taiwan, and Huey Lewis, frontman for the band Huey Lewis and the News.
The college has several campus traditions and one of
most interesting is the daily bell performance by “chimesmasters”.
These performers are selected by rigorous, 10 week long competitions.
After climbing the 161 steps to the top of the
historic McGraw Tower where the bells are housed, chimesmasters play from a collection
of more than 2,500 songs, from musicians ranging
from Schubert to the Beatles.
Number 9 - Princeton University.
The New Jersey college is one of the world’s foremost
research universities and has educated two US presidents, James Madison and Woodrow
Wilson.
It has connections to more than 40 Nobel laureates, 17 winners of the National Medal of
Science and five recipients of the National Humanities Medal.Other distinguished graduates
include Michelle Obama, actors Jimmy Stewart and David Duchovny, Google chairman Eric
Schmidt and Apollo astronaut Pete Conrad.
Princeton is one of the oldest universities in the US
and is regarded as one of the world’s most illustrious higher education institutions.Founded
in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, it was
officially renamed Princeton University in 1896 in
honour of the area where it is based, opening its famous graduate school in 1900.
Princeton is consistently ranked among the world’s top
10 universities, is renowned for its campus’ park-like
beauty as well as some of its landmark buildings, designed by some of America’s most
well-known architects.
Spread across 500 acres, the Princeton campus has about 180 buildings,
including 10 libraries containing about 14 million holdings.
It is popular with visitors too, with about 800,000 people visiting its open campus
each year, generating a massive $2 billion in
revenue.
Number 8 - University of Pennsylvania.
The University of Pennsylvania is a private Ivy League
research university located in the city of Philadelphia.
It was founded in 1740 by Benjamin Franklin, who was eager to create a school
to educate future generations.
Since then, Penn has expanded into a massive 302-acre campus with
200 buildings.
It boasts many notable “first” landmarks on campus including the country’s
first student union and double-decker college football stadium.
Penn has links with over 25 Nobel Laureates including physicist Raymond
Davis Jr and economist Lawrence Klein, and has accounted for numerous heads of state
for example US president William Henry Harrison
who attended Penn in 1791.
Noted modernist poets and friends Ezra Pound and William Carlos
Williams are among the literary figures from the institution.
Number 7 - Yale University.
Which has achieved a perfect score for learning experience – the
joint highest ranked school in the US for this indicator.
It is also fourth in the country for employability.
Situated in New Haven, Connecticut, the first planned city in America, Yale was
founded by English Puritans in 1701, making it the third-oldest higher education institution
in the States.
Yale’s central campus covers 260 acres of New Haven, and includes buildings dating
back to the mid-18th century.
Around one in five students is international, and more than half of
all undergraduates receive scholarships or grants from the university.
Yale has an endowment that exceeds $25 billion, making it the second-richest
educational institution in the world, and a
library that holds more than 15 million volumes, making it the third-largest in the US.
Four Yale graduates signed the American Declaration
of Independence, and the university has educated five US presidents: William Howard Taft, Gerald
Ford, Bill Clinton and both George Bush father and son.
Other notable alumni include US secretaries of state Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, and
actress Meryl Streep.
Number 6 - University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA has a total of over 44 thousand students, of which almost 7 thousand are international
– which explains why the university achieves the
joint highest score in the country for diversity.
UCLA big draw is that offers opportunities for
inquiry, discovery, and education – but still maintains a real sense of community.
The campus is home to world-renowned faculty who teach in
230 undergraduate and graduate majors, with more than two dozen academic programmes ranked
among the top 20 in their disciplines.
The faculty provide more than 5,000 courses annually,
with two-thirds of undergraduate classes having fewer than 30 students.
UCLA also encourages students to study abroad – more than
2,400 do so each year – with more than 275 programmes in 39 countries all of which adds
to the college’s international feel.
Volunteering is also a huge part of campus life with more than
220 student groups engaged in community service – as well as on Volunteer Day, which brings
together 8,000 UCLA volunteers annually.
For more extra curricular activities, UCLA offers 1,000
student organisations providing students with great opportunities to pursue interests and
projects with fellow students.
UCLA is home to leading research centres and institutes, top
performing arts programmes, an elite Division I athletics programme and a distinguished
hospital in the Western United States so it’s easy to see why it makes this list.
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Number 5 - Columbia University.
Columbia was established in New York city in 1754 and has
produced many notable alumni, including three US presidents: Barack Obama, Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt.
Columbia has also educated Founding Father of the US
Alexander Hamilton, and actors Jake Gyllenhaal, Katie Holmes and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Its main landmark is the Low Memorial Library, which was built in the Roman Classical style
and still houses the university’s central administration
offices.
As well as its main campus in the heart of New York City on Broadway, Columbia
has two facilities outside Manhattan: Nevis Laboratories, a centre for the study of high-energy
experimental particle and nuclear physics in
Irvington, New York, and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York.
The college is also an innovative hot spot.
Columbia Technology Ventures, the institution’s technology transfer office, manages more than
400 new inventions each year and has been involved in launching over 150 start-up companies
based on Columbia’s technologies.
The university also has nine Columbia Global Centres scattered around the world, which
aim to promote and facilitate collaboration between
the university’s staff, students and alumni in order
to address the planet’s challenges.
These are in China, Jordan, Turkey, Kenya, India, France,
Chile, Brazil and New York City.
Number 4 - University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley is one of the 14 founding members of the
Association of American Universities and is home to some world-renowned research institutes,
including the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and the Space Sciences Laboratory.
Berkeley’s colours of blue and gold were chosen in 1873 – blue representing not just
the California sky and ocean but also the Yale
graduates who helped to found the institution; gold
for the “Golden State” of California.
The university is located in San Francisco’s Bay Area, where
it accommodates around 27,000 undergraduate students and 10,000 postgraduate students.
Notable past students of the college include novelist and journalist Jack London, Oscar-winning
actor Gregory Peck, former prime minister and president of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto,
author Joan Didion and Women’s World Cup-winning
US footballing star Alex Morgan.
Berkeley is also well known for its political activism.
During the 60s and 70s, the campus was a hotbed for protests against the Vietnam War.
Attractions on campus include a Botanic Garden established in the late 19th century and the
60,000-capacity California Memorial Stadium used
by the university’s sports teams.
To fill this stadium Berkeley has impressive sporting
credentials and the Golden Bear is the symbol of Berkeley’s sports teams.
Berkeley’s sporting talent was demonstrated at the 2012 Olympics
in London, when its graduates won 17 medals –
11 gold, one silver and five bronze.
To put that in perspective - If Berkeley had been a country, it
would have ranked joint sixth in the gold medal table, alongside France and Germany.
Number 3 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
MIT researchers are at the forefront of developments in artificial intelligence, climate
adaptation, HIV, cancer, and poverty alleviation, while in the past MIT research has fueled
scientific breakthroughs such as the development of
radar, the invention of magnetic core memory and the concept of the expanding universe.
In terms of technology there aren't many better
than MIT, if any.
To prove this the university lays claim to 85 Nobel Laureates, 58 National Medal
of Science winners, 29 National Medal of Technology and Innovation winners and 45 MacArthur
Fellows.
Among its extensive influential alumni is Kofi Annan, former secretary-general
of the United Nations.
It is home to around 1,000 faculty members and over 11,000 undergraduate
and graduate students.
MIT’s current areas of research include digital learning, sustainable
energy, Big Data, human health and much more.
MIT estimates that all its living alumni have between them launched more than 30,000 active
companies, created 4.6 million jobs and generated roughly $1.9 trillion in annual revenue.
Together, this ‘MIT Nation’ is equivalent, they say, to the 10th-largest economy in the
world.
Number 2 - Stanford University.
Covering 8,000 acres, Stanford has one of the largest university
campuses in the US, with 18 interdisciplinary research institutes and seven schools.
Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Stanford University
was founded in 1885 by Jane and Leland Stanford.
Since opening in 1891, Stanford's faculty and students have worked to improve the
health and wellbeing of people around the world through the discovery and application
of knowledge.
Breakthroughs at Stanford include the first successful heart-lung transplant, the
debut of the computer mouse, and the development of digital music.
Stanford is an international institution, enrolling students from all 50
U.S. states and more than 90 other countries.
It’s also an athletics factory, with 900 current student-athletes
and a history of 137 national championships and 23 consecutive Directors’
Cups, awarded to the top intercollegiate athletics program in the nation.
It’s also a money making machine.
In total, companies founded by Stanford affiliates and alumni generate more
than $2.7 trillion annual revenue.
These companies include Google, Nike, and Instagram.
Stanford alumni also have founded nonprofit organizations like Kiva and SIRUM.
The first American woman to go into space, Sally Ride,
received an undergraduate degree in physics from Stanford in 1973.
Just 10 years later, she made her ascent into space.
Number 1 - Harvard University.
The best in the country and possibly in the world - Harvard is
also the oldest university in the country, dating back to 1636.
In line with traditional British universities Harvard has a large, residential
campus.
It’s based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is well respected in a broad range of
fields, including law, business and medicine.
Dating back to 1636, Harvard University is the oldest
university in the US and is regarded as one of the
most prestigious in the world.
It’s named after its first benefactor, John Harvard, who left his
library and half his estate to the institution when he died in 1638.
The private Ivy League institution has connections to more than 45
Nobel laureates, over 30 heads of state and 48
Pulitzer prizewinners.
Thirteen US presidents have honorary degrees from the institution; the
most recent of these was awarded to John F. Kennedy in 1956.
It is also home to the largest academic library in the world, with 20.4 million
volumes, 180,000 serial titles and an estimated 400 million manuscript items.
The college receives one of the largest financial endowments of
any higher education institution in the world; creating $1.5 billion in the fiscal year ending
June 2013.
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