University of California, Irvine

The University of California, Irvine (UCI, UC Irvine, or Irvine), is a accessible analysis university amid in Irvine, California, and one of the 10 accepted campuses in the University of California (UC) system. UCI has over 30,000 students, 1,100 adroitness associates and 9,000 staff. Times Higher Education (London, UK) in 2014 ranked UC Irvine 1st a part of all US universities and 7th a part of the top 100 all-around universities beneath 50 years old.

UC Irvine is advised a Accessible Ivy and offers 80 undergraduate degrees and 98 alum and able degrees. The university is appointed as accepting actual top analysis action in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, and in budgetary year 2012 had $350 actor in analysis and development expenditures according to the Civic Science Foundation. UC Irvine became a affiliate of the Association of American Universities in 1996, and is the youngest university to authority membership. The university aswell administers the UC Irvine Medical Center, a ample teaching hospital, and its affiliated bloom sciences arrangement in the city-limits of Orange; the University of California, Irvine, Arboretum; and a allocation of the University of California Natural Reserve System.
UCI was one of three new UC campuses accustomed in the 1960s to board growing enrollments beyond the UC system. A website in Orange County was articular in 1959, and in the afterward year the Irvine Company awash the University of California 1,000 acreage (400 ha) of acreage for one dollar to authorize the new campus. President Lyndon B. Johnson committed the campus in 1964. Fifty years after President Barack Obama batten at UCI's 2014 admission ceremony, captivated at Angel Stadium.
The UC Irvine Anteaters attempt in 18 men's and women's sports in the NCAA Division I as associates of the Big West Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. The Anteaters accept won 28 civic championships in nine altered aggregation sports, 64 Anteaters accept won alone civic championships, and 53 Anteaters accept competed in the Olympics.
The blueprint of the amount campus resembles a asperous amphitheater with its centermost getting Aldrich Park (initially accepted as Axial Park), lined up by the Ring Mall and barrio surrounding the road. To added accent the layout, bookish units are positioned about to the center, wherein undergraduate schools are afterpiece to the centermost than the alum schools.
Aldrich Park is buried with over 11,120 copse (there are over 24,000 copse on the absolute campus), including 33 breed of eucalyptus. Two august copse were buried in 1990, one for Arbor Day and the additional for above adjudicator Daniel Aldrich who had died that year. On the aboriginal ceremony of the September 11th tragedies, the adjudicator buried a bay account timberline in afterthought of the heroes and victims of the contest of September 11, 2001. The timberline itself was a allowance from the UCI Agents Assembly. Aldrich Park is the website for “Wayzgoose,” a medieval apprentice anniversary captivated anniversary year in affiliation with the “Celebrate UCI” accessible house. It aswell hosts abounding extracurricular activities.
Ring Mall is the capital banal alley acclimated by acceptance and adroitness to biking about the amount campus. The alley measures up to a absolute mile and absolutely encircles Aldrich Park.Most schools and libraries are lined up by this alley with anniversary of these schools accepting their own axial capital which aswell connects to the Aldrich Park.
Other areas of the university alfresco of the amount campus such as the School of Arts are affiliated by four banal bridges. Beyond the amount campus and the bridges, the blueprint of the campus is added suburban.

Ohio State University

The Ohio Accompaniment University, frequently referred to as Ohio Accompaniment or OSU, is a accessible analysis university in Columbus, Ohio. Founded in 1870, as a land-grant university and ninth university in Ohio with the Morrill Act of 1862, the university was originally accepted as the Ohio Agronomical and Automated College.
The academy began with a focus on training acceptance in assorted agronomical and automated disciplines but was developed into a absolute university beneath the administration of Governor Rutherford B. Hayes and in 1878 the Ohio Accepted Assembly anesthetized a law alteration the name to "The Ohio Accompaniment University".It has back developed into the third better university campus in the United States. Forth with its capital campus in Columbus, Ohio Accompaniment aswell operates a bounded campus arrangement with bounded campuses in Lima, Mansfield, Marion, Newark, and Wooster.
The university is aswell home to an all-encompassing apprentice activity program, with over 1,000 apprentice organizations; intercollegiate, club and recreational sports programs; apprentice media organizations and publications, fraternities and sororities; and an alive apprentice government association. Ohio Accompaniment able-bodied teams attempt in Division I (Football Bowl Subdivision for football) of the NCAA and are accepted as the Ohio Accompaniment Buckeyes. The university is a affiliate of the Big Ten Conference for the majority of sports. The Ohio Accompaniment Buckeyes men's ice hockey affairs competes in the Big Ten Conference, and its women's hockey affairs competes in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. In addition, the OSU men's volleyball is a affiliate of the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Affiliation (MIVA) while the men's lacrosse aggregation is a affiliate of the Big Ten Conference. OSU is one of alone fourteen universities in the nation that plays Division I FBS football and Division I ice hockey. Alumni and above acceptance accept gone on to arresting careers in government, business, science, medicine, education, sports, and entertainment.
Michael V. Drake, above adjudicator of the University of California, Irvine, affected the role of university admiral on June 30, 2014.
Ohio State's 1,764 acreage (7.14 km2) of capital campus is about 2.5 afar (4.0 km) arctic of the city's downtown. Four barrio are currently listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Enarson Hall, Hayes Hall, Ohio Stadium, and Orton Hall. Unlike beforehand Ohio accompaniment universities such as Ohio University and Miami University, which accept campuses with a constant architectural style, architectonics on the Ohio Accompaniment campus does not accommodate to a accumulation affair such as Gothic awakening or Georgian. Instead, the barrio at Ohio Accompaniment are a mix of traditional, avant-garde and post-modern styles. The William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library, anchoring the western end of the Oval, is Ohio Accompaniment library's capital annex and individual better repository. The Thompson Library was advised in 1913 by the Boston close of Allen and Collens in the Italianate Renaissance Awakening style, and its adjustment on the Oval was appropriate by the Olmsted brothers who had advised New York City's Axial Park. In 2006, the Thompson Library began a $100 actor advance with the declared aims of acceptable a "global criterion twenty-first century" library while advancement the building's classical Italian Renaissance architecture.
Overall, Ohio Accompaniment operates the 18th better university analysis library in Arctic America with a accumulated accumulating of over 5.8 actor volumes. Additionally, the libraries accept about 35,000 consecutive titles on a approved basis. Its contempo acquisitions were 16th a allotment of university analysis libraries in Arctic America. Ohio State's library arrangement encompasses twenty-one libraries amid on its Columbus campus. An added eight branches are amid at off-campus analysis facilities, bounded campuses, and a book accumulator archive abreast campus. In all, the Ohio Accompaniment library arrangement encompasses fifty-five branches and specialty collections. Some of the added cogent collections awning The Byrd Arctic Analysis Centermost Archival Program, which contains the athenaeum of Admiral Richard E. Byrd as able-bodied as a cogent accumulating of arctic analysis materials; The Hilandar Analysis Library, which contains the world's better accumulating of medieval Slavic manuscripts on microform; The Ohio Accompaniment Cartoon Library & Museum, the world's better athenaeum of aboriginal cartoons; The Lawrence and Lee Theatre Analysis Institute; and the athenaeum of Senator John Glenn.

Detail of the Wexner Center
Anchoring the acceptable campus aperture at the eastern end of the Oval is the Wexner Centermost for the Arts. Advised by architects Peter Eisenman of New York and Richard Trott of Columbus, the centermost opened in 1989. Its founding was financed in ample allotment by Ohio Accompaniment alum Leslie Wexner with a allowance of twenty-five actor dollars in the 1980s. The centermost was founded to be a absolute beheld arts centermost encompassing all aspects of beheld and assuming arts with a focus on new commissions and artisan residencies. Allotment of its architectonics was to pay accolade to the arsenal that aforetime had the aforementioned location. Its groundbreaking deconstructivist architectonics has resulted in it getting acclaimed as one of the a lot of important barrio of its generation. Its architectonics has aswell been criticized as proving beneath than ideal for abounding of the art installations that it has attempted to display. The centerpiece of The Wexner Center's abiding accumulating is Picasso's Nude on a Black Armchair, which was purchased by alum Leslie Wexner at bargain for blaster actor dollars.
To the south of the Oval is another, somewhat smaller, amplitude of greenspace frequently referred to as the South Oval. At its eastern end, it is anchored by the Ohio Union. To the west are Enarson Hall, the Kuhn Honors House, Browning Amphitheatre (a acceptable rock Greek theatre) and Mirror Lake. Knowlton Hall, committed in October 2004, is amid at the bend of West Woodruff Avenue and Tuttle Park Place, adjoining to Ohio Stadium. Knowlton Hall forth with the Fisher Academy of Business and Hitchcock Hall anatomy an bookish basis in the Northwestern bend of Arctic campus. Knowlton Hall is home to the KSA Café, the disciplines of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, City and Bounded Planning, and about 550 undergraduate and alum students. Knowlton Hall stands out from the accepted brownish brick of Ohio State's campus with characteristic white marble tiles that awning the absolute exoteric of the building. This different bank cladding was requested by Austin E. Knowlton, the namesake of and capital angel to the conception of Knowlton Hall. Knowlton aswell requested that 5 white marble columns be erected on the site, anniversary cavalcade apery one of the classical orders of Architecture.
The Ohio Accompaniment Academy of Anesthetic is amid on the southern bend of the axial campus. It is home to the James Blight Hospital, a blight analysis convention and one of the National Blight Institute's forty-one absolute blight centers, forth with the Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital, a analysis convention for cardiovascular disease.

Brown University

Brown University is a private Ivy League research college in Providence, Rhode Island.

Established in 1764 as "The College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations," Brown is the seventh-most seasoned foundation of advanced education in the United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges made before the American Revolution.
At its establishment, Brown was the first school in the United States to acknowledge understudies paying little heed to their religious affiliation. Its building project, built in 1847, was the first in what is presently known as the Ivy League. Cocoa's New Curriculum—now and again alluded to in training hypothesis as the Brown Curriculum—was embraced by workforce vote in 1969 after a time of understudy campaigning; the New Curriculum killed required "general instruction" dissemination necessities, made understudies "the engineers they could call their own syllabus," and permitted them to take any course for an evaluation of agreeable or unrecorded no-credit.In 1971, Brown's organize ladies' establishment, Pembroke College, was completely converged into the college.

Undergrad confirmations is among the most particular in the nation, with an acknowledgement rate of 8.5 percent for the class of 2019.The University involves The College, the Graduate School, Alpert Medical School, the School of Engineering, the School of Public Health, and the School of Professional Studies (which incorporates the IE Brown Executive MBA program). Cocoa's universal projects are sorted out through the Watson Institute for International Studies. The Brown/RISD Dual Degree Program, offered in conjunction with the Rhode Island School of Design, is a five-year course that honors degrees from both organizations.

Brown University is a  primary grounds is situated in the College Hill Historic District in the city of Providence, the third biggest city in New England. The University's neighborhood is a governmentally recorded design region with a thick amassing of old structures. On the western edge of the grounds, Benefit Street contains "one of the finest durable accumulations of restored seventeenth- and eighteenth-century building design in the United States".

Brown is home to numerous conspicuous graduated class, known as Brunonians, including (to say just brokers) current seat of the Federal Reserve Janet Yellen '67, president of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim '82, and executive and CEO of Bank of America Brian Moynihan '81. Cocoa has delivered 57 Rhodes Scholars, incorporating three declared in November 2014 (ten percent of the 32 honored in the United States);five National Humanities Medalists, and 10 National Medal of Science laureates. Cocoa is additionally a main maker of Fulbright, Marshall, and Mitchell researc

Boston University

Boston University (most frequently referred to as BU or contrarily accepted as Boston U.) is a clandestine analysis university amid in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian,but is historically affiliated with the United Methodist Church.


The university has added than 3,800 adroitness associates and 33,000 students, and is one of Boston's better employers. It offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctorates, and medical, dental, business, and law degrees through eighteen schools and colleges on two burghal campuses. The capital campus is anchored forth the Charles River in Boston's Fenway-Kenmore and Allston neighborhoods, while the Boston University Medical Campus is in Boston's South End neighborhood. BU aswell operates 75 abstraction away programs in added than 33 cities in over twenty countries and has internship opportunities in ten altered countries (including the United States).
BU is categorized as an RU/VH Analysis University (very top analysis activity) in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. BU is a affiliate of the Boston Consortium for Higher Education and the Association of American Universities.
The university counts seven Nobel Laureates including Martin Luther King, Jr. (PhD '55) and Elie Wiesel, 35 Pulitzer Prize winners, nine Academy Award winners, Emmy and Tony Award winners a part of its adroitness and alumni. BU aswell has MacArthur, Sloan, and Guggenheim Fellowship holders as able-bodied as American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Civic Academy of Sciences associates a part of its accomplished and present graduates and faculty.
The Boston University Terriers attempt in the NCAA's Division I. BU able-bodied teams attempt in the Patriot League, and Hockey East conferences, and their amulet is Rhett the Boston Terrier. Boston University is able-bodied accepted for men's hockey, in which it has won 5 civic championships, a lot of afresh in 2009.

University of California, Davis

The University of California, Davis (also referred to as UCD, UC Davis, or Davis), is a accessible analysis university amid in Davis, California, just west of Sacramento. It encompasses 5,300 acreage of land, authoritative it the additional better UC campus in agreement of acreage ownership, afterwards UC Merced. UC Davis aswell has the third-largest acceptance in the UC System afterwards UCLA and UC Berkeley.
The 2015 U.S. News & World Report academy rankings called UC Davis as the 9th best accessible university, 38th nationally, and 4th of the UC schools, afterward UC Berkeley, UCLA, and UC San Diego.UC Davis is one of 62 associates in the Association of American Universities.
The Carnegie Foundation classifies UC Davis as a absolute doctoral analysis university with a medical program, and actual top analysis activity. UC Davis adroitness includes 23 associates of the National Academy of Sciences, 25 associates of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 17 associates of the American Law Institute, 14 associates of the Institute of Medicine, and 14 associates of the National Academy of Engineering. Among added honors, university faculty, alumni, and advisers accept won the Nobel Peace Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Pulitzer Prize, MacArthur Fellowship, National Medal of Science, and Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering.
The university has broadcast over the accomplished aeon to cover alum and able programs in anesthetic (which includes the UC Davis Medical Center), law, veterinary medicine, education, nursing, and business management, in accession to 90 analysis programs offered by UC Davis Alum Studies. UC Davis' School of Veterinary Anesthetic is the better in the United States and is ranked aboriginal in the nation.
The UC Davis Aggies able-bodied teams attempt in the NCAA Division I level, primarily in the Big West Conference as able-bodied as the Big Sky Conference (Football only) and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. In its aboriginal year of abounding Division I status, 11 UC Davis teams able for NCAA post-season competition

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (U of I, University of Illinois, UIUC, or artlessly Illinois) is a accessible research-intensive university in the U.S. accompaniment of Illinois. A land-grant university, it is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system. The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (founded, 1867) is the additional oldest accessible university in the accompaniment (after Illinois Accompaniment University), and is a founding affiliate of the Big Ten Conference. It is a affiliate of the Association of American Universities and is appointed as a RU/VH Analysis University (very top analysis activities). The campus library arrangement possesses the second-largest university library in the United States afterwards Harvard University.
The university comprises 17 colleges that action added than 150 programs of study. Additionally, the university operates an extension that serves 2.7 actor registrants per year about the accompaniment of Illinois and beyond. The campus holds 647 barrio on 4,552 acreage (1,842 ha) in the accompanying cities of Champaign and Urbana (together accepted as Champaign–Urbana); its anniversary operating account in 2011 was over $1.7 billion.
The Morrill Act of 1862 accepted anniversary accompaniment in the United States a allocation of acreage on which to authorize a above accessible accompaniment university, one which could advise agriculture, artisan arts, and aggressive training, "without excluding added accurate and classical studies." This byword would arouse altercation over the University's antecedent bookish philosophies, polarizing the accord amid the humans of Illinois and the University's aboriginal president, John Milton Gregory.
After a angry behest war amid several cities, Urbana was alleged in 1867 as the website for the new school.From the beginning, Gregory's admiration to authorize an academy durably ashore in the advanced arts tradition, which was at allowance with abounding Accompaniment association and assembly who capital the university to action classes based alone about "industrial education"The University opened for classes on March 2, 1868, with two adroitness associates and 77 students.The agitation amid the advanced arts class and automated apprenticeship connected in the University's countdown address, as Dr. Newton Bateman categorical the assorted interpretations of the Morrill Act in his speech. Gregory's thirteen-year administration would be bedridden by this debate. Clashes amid Gregory and legislators and assembly affected his abandonment from his column as admiral in 1880, adage " amazing beneath too abundant a amount of cares, and affronted by what has sometimes seemed as causeless opposition."Nevertheless, Gregory is abundantly accustomed with establishing the University as it is today. Gregory's grave is on the Urbana campus, amid Altgeld Hall and the Henry Administration Building. His headstone (mimicking the epitaph of British artist Christopher Wren) reads, "If you seek his monument, attending about you."
In the years afterward World War II, beneath admiral David Henry the university accomplished accelerated growth. The acceptance angled and the bookish continuing improved.  This aeon was aswell apparent by ample advance in the Graduate Academy and added federal abutment of accurate and abstruse research. What's more, during these times, the university accomplished the agitation accepted on abounding American campuses. Among these were the baptize fights of the fifties and sixties. The fights, aswell alleged baptize riots, began in 1957 and connected into the aboriginal sixties.
The accompaniment of Illinois supplied about two-thirds of the university's account while the federal government adjourned 90% of research. In contempo years, accompaniment abutment has beneath from 4.5% of the state's tax appropriations in 1980 to 2.28% in 2011, a about 50% decline. As a result, the university's account has acerb confused abroad from relying on accompaniment abutment with about 84% of the account now advancing from added sources.
The campus is accepted for its mural and architecture, as able-bodied as characteristic landmarks.It was articular as one of 50 academy or university 'works of art' by T.A. Gaines in his book The Campus as a Work of Art.
The capital analysis and bookish accessories are disconnected about analogously amid the accompanying cities of Urbana and Champaign. The Academy of Agriculture, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences' analysis fields amplitude south from Urbana and Champaign into Savoy and Champaign County. The university maintains academic area and a appointment centermost in adjacent Monticello at Allerton Park.
U of I is one of the few educational institutions to own an airport. Willard Airport, called for above University of Illinois admiral Arthur Cutts Willard, is amid in Savoy. It was completed in 1945 and began account in 1954. Willard Airport is home to University analysis projects and the University's Institute of Aviation, forth with flights from American Airlines.
Four capital quads compose the centermost of the university and are abiding from arctic to south. The Beckman Quadrangle and the John Bardeen Quadrangle absorb the centermost of the Engineering Campus. Boneyard Creek flows through the John Bardeen Quadrangle, allegory Green Street. The Beckman Quadrangle is primarily composed of analysis units and laboratories, and appearance a ample solar agenda consisting of an brace and several chestnut fountains. The Capital Quadrangle and South Quadrangle chase anon afterwards the John Bardeen Quad. The above makes up a ample allotment of the Advanced Arts and Sciences allocation of the campus, while the closing comprises abounding of the barrio of the Academy of ACES advance beyond the campus map.

University of Maryland, College Park

The University of Maryland, College Park (often referred to as The University of Maryland, Maryland, UM, UMD, or UMCP) is a accessible analysis university amid in the city-limits of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, about 8 afar (13 km) from Washington, D.C. Founded in 1856, the University of Maryland is the flagship academy of the University System of Maryland. It is advised a Accessible Ivy institution, acceptation it is a accessible university with a superior of apprenticeship commensurable to those of the clandestine Ivy League. With a abatement 2010 acceptance of added than 37,000 students, over 100 undergraduate majors, and 120 alum programs, Maryland is the better university in the accompaniment and the better in the Washington Metropolitan Area. It is a affiliate of the Association of American Universities and competes athletically as a affiliate of the Big Ten Conference.
The University of Maryland's adjacency to the nation's basic has resulted in able analysis partnerships with the Federal government. Many associates of the adroitness accept analysis allotment and institutional abutment from agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Department of Homeland Security.
The operating account of the University of Maryland in budgetary year 2009 was projected to be about US$1.531 billion. For the aforementioned budgetary year, the University of Maryland accustomed a absolute of $518 actor in analysis funding, before its 2008 mark by $118 million.As of May 11, 2012, the university's "Great Expectations" attack had exceeded $950 actor in clandestine donations.
The University of Maryland offers 127 undergraduate degrees and 112 alum degrees in thirteen altered colleges and schools:
A. James Clark School of Engineering
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
College of Arts and Humanities
School of Music
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences
College of Education
College of Information Studies
Philip Merrill College of Journalism
Robert H. Smith School of Business
School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
School of Accessible Health (formerly the College of Health & Human Performance)
School of Accessible Policy
Office of Undergraduate Studies
The Alum School
Undergraduate apprenticeship is centered about both a student's called bookish affairs and the alternative of amount coursework to accomplish accepted apprenticeship requirements. For Spring 2010, the boilerplate undergraduate GPA for women was 3.22 and 3.05 for undergraduate men.