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.

University of Florida

The University of Florida (commonly referred to as Florida or UF) is an American accessible land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant analysis university amid on a 2,000-acre (8.1 km2) campus in North Central Florida. Howard and Matthew Greene accustomed Florida as a Accessible Ivy in 2001, a about adjourned university advised as accouterment a superior of apprenticeship commensurable to those of the Ivies.In 2014, U.S. News & World Report ranked Florida as the fourteenth best accessible university in the United States. It is a chief affiliate of the Accompaniment University System of Florida and traces its actual origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus back September 1906.
The University of Florida is an adopted affiliate of the Affiliation of American Universities (AAU), the affiliation of capital North American analysis universities.The University is classified as a Analysis University with Very High Analysis by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The university is accepted by the Southern Affiliation of Colleges and Schools (SACS). Florida Governor Rick Scott and the accompaniment Legislature appointed the University of Florida as one of two "preeminent" accompaniment universities in the bounce of 2013. It is the third better Florida university by apprentice population, and is the eighth better single-campus university in the United States with 49,913 acceptance enrolled for the abatement 2012 semester. The University of Florida is home to sixteen bookish colleges and added than 150 analysis centers and institutes. It offers assorted alum able programs—including business administration, engineering, law, dentistry, medicine, and veterinary medicine—on one abutting campus, and administers 123 master's amount programs and seventy-six doctoral amount programs in eighty-seven schools and departments.
The University of Florida's intercollegiate sports teams, frequently accepted by their "Florida Gators" nickname, attempt in Civic Collegiate Athletic Affiliation (NCAA) Division I and the Southeastern Conference (SEC). In their 108-year history, the university's varsity sports teams accept won 34 civic aggregation championships, 28 of which are NCAA titles, and Gator athletes accept won 267 alone civic championships.
In absolute the University of Florida campus encompasses over 2,000 acreage (8.1 km2). The campus is home to abounding notable structures, such as Century Tower, a 157-foot (48 m) alpine angelus belfry in the centermost of the celebrated district. Other notable accessories cover the Health Science Center, Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Reitz Apprentice Union, Smathers Library, Phillips Centermost for the Performing Arts, Harn Museum, University Auditorium, O'Connell Center, and The Hub.

Arizona State University

Arizona State University (commonly referred to as ASU or Arizona State) is a accessible city analysis university amid on 5 campuses beyond the Phoenix, Arizona, City Area.A sixth campus amid in northwestern Arizona is accepted as the ASU Colleges at Lake Havasu City.
ASU is the better accessible university by acceptance in the United States. Founded in 1885 as the Territorial Normal Academy at Tempe, the academy underwent a alternation of changes in name and curriculum. In 1945 it was placed beneath the administration of the Arizona Lath of Regents and renamed Arizona State College.A 1958 statewide election admeasurement gave the university its present name. ASU was classified as a Analysis I convention in 1994, thus, authoritative it one of the newest above analysis universities (public or private) in the nation.
ASU is classified as a analysis university with actual top analysis action (RU/VH) by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Since 2005 ASU has been ranked a part of the top analysis universities, accessible and private, in the U.S. based on analysis output, innovation, development, analysis expenditures, amount of awarded patents and awarded analysis admission proposals. The Center for Measuring University Performance currently ranks ASU 31st a part of top U.S. accessible analysis universities.
ASU's charter, accustomed by the lath of regents in 2014, is based on the "New American University" archetypal created by accepted ASU President Michael Crow. It defines ASU as “a absolute accessible analysis university, abstinent not by whom we exclude, but rather by whom we cover and how they succeed; advancing analysis and analysis of accessible value; and bold axiological albatross for the economic, social, cultural and all-embracing bloom of the communities it serves.”
ASU awards bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees through 16 colleges and schools beyond all of its campuses: the aboriginal Tempe campus, the West campus in northwest Phoenix, the Polytechnic campus in eastern Mesa, the Downtown Phoenix campus, The Mayo Clinic/ASU Medical Academy in Scottsdale, and the Colleges at Lake Havasu City. ASU’s Online campus offers 41 undergraduate degrees, 37 alum degrees and 14 alum or undergraduate certificates which calm accept becoming ASU a top 10 baronial for Best Online Programs.
Students will attempt in 24 varsity sports alpha in 2016. In affiliation with the alteration of the men's ACHA club hockey aggregation to Division I of the NCAA, the 24th varsity action will be an NCAA women’s team: Rowing is a part of the advantaged possibilities. The Arizona State Sun Devils are associates of the Pacific-12 Conference and accept won 23 NCAA championships. Along with assorted able-bodied clubs and recreational facilities, ASU is home to added than 1,100 registered apprentice organizations, absorption the assortment of the apprentice body. To accumulate clip with the advance of the apprentice population, the university is continuously renovating and accretion infrastructure. The appeal for new bookish halls, able-bodied facilities, apprentice amusement centers, and residential halls is getting addressed with donor contributions and public-private investments. ASU's residential halls board one of the better residential populations in the nation.

Duke University

Duke University is a clandestine analysis university amid in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the abreast boondocks of Trinity in 1838, the academy confused to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric ability baron James Buchanan Duke accustomed Duke University, at which time the academy afflicted its name to account his asleep father, Washington Duke.
The university's campus spans over 8,600 acreage (35 km2) on three abutting campuses in Durham as able-bodied as a abyssal lab in Beaufort. Duke's capital campus—designed abundantly by artist Julian Abele—incorporates Gothic architectonics with the 210-foot (64 m) Duke Abbey at the campus' centermost and accomplished point of elevation. The first-year-populated East Campus contains Georgian-style architecture, while the capital Gothic-style West Campus 1.5 afar abroad is adjoining to the Medical Center. Duke is aswell the 7th wealthiest clandestine university in America with $11.4 billion in banknote and investments in budgetary year 2014.
Duke's analysis expenditures in the 2012 budgetary year were $1.01 billion, the seventh better in the nation. The University is awful ranked by a lot of civic and all-around alliance tables, agreement 18th and 8th appropriately on THE World University Rankings and US News' Civic Universities Rankings. In 2014, Thomson Reuters called 32 Duke advisers to its account of Awful Cited Researchers, authoritative it fourth globally in agreement of primary affiliations. Duke aswell ranks 5th a allotment of civic universities to accept produced Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Goldwater, and Udall Scholars.  8 Nobel laureates, 3 Turing Award winners and 25 Churchill advisers are aswell affiliated with the university. Duke's sports teams attempt in the Atlantic Bank Conference and the basketball aggregation is acclaimed for accepting won 5 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championships.
Duke University owns 254 barrio on 8,547 acreage (34.59 km2) of land, which includes the 7,044 acreage (28.51 km2) Duke Forest.The campus is disconnected into four capital areas: West, East, and Central campuses and the Medical Center, which are all affiliated via a chargeless bus service. On the Atlantic bank in Beaufort, Duke owns 15 acreage (61,000 m2) as allotment of its abyssal lab. One of the above accessible attractions on the capital campus is the 54-acre (220,000 m2) Sarah P. Duke Gardens, accustomed in the 1930s.
Duke acceptance generally accredit to the campus as "the Gothic Wonderland," a appellation apropos to the Collegiate Gothic architectonics of West Campus. Much of the campus was advised by Julian Abele, one of the aboriginal arresting African-American architects and the arch artist in the offices of artist Horace Trumbauer. The residential quadrangles are of an aboriginal and somewhat direct design, while the barrio in the bookish quadrangles appearance influences of the added busy backward French and Italian styles. The freshmen campus (East Campus) is composed of barrio in the Georgian architectonics style. In 2011, Travel+Leisure listed Duke a allotment of the a lot of admirable academy campuses in the United States.
The rock acclimated for West Campus has seven primary colors and seventeen shades of color.The university administrator of planning and architecture wrote that the rock has "an older, added adorable aged effect" and a "warmer and softer appearance than the Princeton stone" that gave the university an "artistic look." James B. Duke initially appropriate the use of rock from a quarry in Princeton, New Jersey, but after adapted the affairs to acquirement a bounded quarry in Hillsborough to abate costs.Duke Abbey stands at the centermost of West Campus on the accomplished ridge. Constructed from 1930 to 1935, the abbey seats 1,600 humans and, at 210 anxiety (64 m) is one of the tallest barrio in Durham County.
In aboriginal 2014, the Nicholas Academy of the Environment opened a new home, Environmental Hall, a five-story, glass-and-concrete architecture that incorporates the accomplished acceptable appearance and technologies, and meets or exceeds the belief for LEED platinum certification. The Academy of Nursing in April 2014 opened a new 45,000-square-foot accession to the Christine Siegler Pearson Building. In summer 2014, a amount of architecture projects were completed or abroad in abounding swing, including renovations to the David M. Rubenstein David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, housed in Duke's aboriginal West Campus library building. The activity is allotment of the final appearance of renovations to Duke's West Campus libraries that will transform one of the university's oldest and a lot of apparent barrio into a advanced analysis facility. Renovation plan began in backward 2012; aperture is appointed for summer of 2015.
In 2013 architecture projects included transforming barrio like Gross Hall and Baldwin Auditorium, additional new architecture such as the Events Pavilion. About 125,000 aboveboard anxiety was adapted at Gross Hall, including new lighting and windows and a skylight. Baldwin's upgrades cover a beyond stage, added able air conditioning for performers and admirers and added acoustics that will acquiesce for the amplitude to be "tuned" to anniversary alone performance. The 25,000-square-foot Events Pavilion opened to acceptance in 2013 and serves as acting dining amplitude while the West Campus Union undergoes above renovations. From February 2001 to November 2005, Duke spent $835 actor on 34 above architecture projects as allotment of a five-year cardinal plan, "Building on Excellence."Completed projects back 2002 cover above additions to the business, law, nursing, and divinity schools, a new library, an art museum, a football training facility, two residential buildings, an engineering complex, a accessible action building, an eye institute, two abiogenetic analysis buildings, a apprentice plaza, the French Family Science Center, and two new medical-research buildings.

University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin, artlessly UT Austin, UT, University of Texas, or Texas in sports contexts, is a accessible analysis university and the flagship academy of The University of Texas System.Founded in 1883 as "The University of Texas," its campus is amid in Austin—approximately 1 mile (1,600 m) from the Texas State Capitol. The academy has the fifth-largest single-campus acceptance in the nation, with over 50,000 undergraduate and alum acceptance and over 24,000 adroitness and staff.The university has been labeled one of the "Public Ivies," a about adjourned university advised as accouterment a superior of apprenticeship commensurable to those of the Ivy League.
UT Austin was inducted into the American Association of Universities in 1929, acceptable alone the third university in the American South to be elected. It is a above centermost for bookish research, with analysis expenditures beyond $550 actor for the 2013–2014 academy year.The university houses seven museums and seventeen libraries, including the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Architecture and the Blanton Architecture of Art, and operates assorted abetting analysis facilities, such as the J. J. Pickle Analysis Campus and the McDonald Observatory. Among university adroitness are recipients of the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, the Wolf Prize, and the National Medal of Science, as able-bodied as abounding added awards.
UT Austin apprentice athletes attempt as the Texas Longhorns and are associates of the Big 12 Conference. Its Longhorn Arrangement is different in that it is the alone sports arrangement featuring the academy sports of a individual university. The Longhorns accept won four NCAA Division I National Football Championships, six NCAA Division I National Baseball Championships and has claimed added titles in men's and women's sports than any added academy in the Big 12 back the alliance was founded in 1996. Current and above UT Austin athletes accept won 130 Olympic medals, including 14 in Beijing in 2008 and 13 in London in 2012. The university was accustomed by Sports Illustrated as "America's Best Sports College" in 2002.
The University's acreage totals 1,438.5 acreage (582.1 ha), absolute the 423.5 acreage (171.4 ha) for the Capital Campus in axial Austin and the J. J. Pickle Analysis Campus in arctic Austin and the added backdrop throughout Texas. The capital campus has 150 barrio totalling over 18,000,000 aboveboard anxiety (1,700,000 m2).

Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
One of the University's a lot of arresting appearance is the Beaux-Arts Capital Building, including a 307-foot (94 m) belfry advised by Paul Philippe Cret. Completed in 1937, the Capital Architecture is in the average of campus. The belfry usually appears aflame in white ablaze in the black but is lit orange for assorted appropriate occasions, including able-bodied victories and bookish accomplishments; it is against blurred for austere occasions. At the top of the belfry is a angelus of 56 bells, the better in Texas. Songs are played on weekdays by apprentice carillonneurs, in accession to the accepted pealing of Westminster Quarters every division hour amid 6 am and 9 pm[46] In 1998, afterwards the accession of aegis and assurance measures, the ascertainment accouter reopened to the accessible indefinitely for weekend tours.
The university's seven museums and seventeen libraries authority over nine actor volumes, authoritative it the seventh-largest bookish library in the country. The backing of the university's Harry Ransom Humanities Analysis Centermost cover one of alone 21 actual complete copies of the Gutenberg Bible and the aboriginal abiding photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras, taken by Nicéphore Niépce.The newest museum, the 155,000-square-foot (14,400 m2) Blanton Architecture of Art, is the better university art architecture in the United States and hosts about 17,000 works from Europe, the United States, and Latin America.
The University of Texas at Austin has an all-encompassing underground adit arrangement that links all of the barrio on campus. Complete in the 1930s beneath the administration of architect Carl Eckhardt, again arch of the concrete plant, the tunnels accept developed forth with the university campus. They currently admeasurement about six afar in absolute length. The adit arrangement is acclimated for communications and account service. It is bankrupt to the accessible and is attentive by bashful alarms. Back the backward 1940s the university has generated its own electricity. Today its accustomed gas cogeneration bulb has a accommodation of 123 MW. The university aswell operates a TRIGA nuclear reactor at the J. J. Pickle Analysis Campus.
The university continues to aggrandize its accessories on campus. In 2010, the university opened the advanced Norman Hackerman architecture (on the area of the above Experimental Sciences Building) apartment allure and analysis analysis and teaching laboratories. In 2010, the university bankrupt arena on the $120 actor Bill & Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex and Dell Computer Science Hall and the $51 actor Belo Centermost for New Media, both of which are now complete. The new LEED gold-certified, 110,000-square-foot (10,000 m2) Apprentice Activity Centermost (SAC) opened in January 2011, apartment abstraction rooms, lounges and aliment vendors. The SAC was complete as a aftereffect of a apprentice election anesthetized in 2006 which aloft apprentice fees by $65 per semester. In 2012 the Moody Foundation awarded the Academy of Advice with $50 actor authoritative it the better award any advice academy has received, so allotment it the Moody Academy of Communication.
The university operates two accessible radio stations, KUT with account and information, and KUTX with music, via bounded FM broadcasts as able-bodied as reside alive audio over the Internet. The university uses Capital Metro to accommodate bus busline for acceptance about the campus and throughout Austin.

University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a accessible analysis university amid in the Westwood adjacency of Los Angeles, California, United States. It became the University of California Southern Branch in 1919, authoritative it the second-oldest undergraduate campus of the ten-campus arrangement afterwards the aboriginal University of California campus in Berkeley (1873). It offers 337 undergraduate and alum amount programs in a advanced ambit of disciplines. With an almost acceptance of 30,000 undergraduate and 12,000 alum students, UCLA is the university with the better acceptance in the accompaniment of California and the a lot of activated to university in the United States with over 112,000 applications for abatement 2015.

The university is organized into 5 undergraduate colleges, seven able schools, and four able bloom science schools. The undergraduate colleges are the College of Letters and Science; Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Activated Science (HSSEAS); School of the Arts and Architecture; School of Theater, Film, and Television; and School of Nursing. Fifteen[14][15] Nobel laureates, one Fields Medalist,and three Turing Award winners accept been faculty, researchers, or alumni. Among the accepted adroitness members, 52 accept been adopted to the Civic Academy of Sciences, 28 to the Civic Academy of Engineering, 39 to the Institute of Medicine, and 124 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.The university was adopted to the Association of American Universities in 1974.
UCLA student-athletes attempt as the Bruins in the Pacific-12 Conference. The Bruins accept won 125 civic championships, including 112 NCAA aggregation championships. UCLA student-athletes accept won 250 Olympic medals: 125 gold, 65 argent and 60 bronze. The Bruins accept competed in every Olympics back 1920 with one barring (1924), and accept won a gold badge in every Olympics that the United States has alternate in back 1932.

Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a clandestine analysis university in Stanford, California, and one of the world's a lot of celebrated institutions,with the accomplished undergraduate selectivity and the top position in abundant surveys and measures in the United States.
Stanford was founded in 1885 by Leland Stanford, above governor of and U.S. agent from California and arch railroad tycoon, and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford, in anamnesis of their alone child, Leland Stanford, Jr., who had died of typhoid agitation at age 15 the antecedent year. Stanford was opened on October 1, 1891 as a coeducational and non-denominational institution. Tuition was chargeless until 1920. The university struggled financially afterwards Leland Stanford's 1893 afterlife and afterwards abundant of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.Following Apple War II, Provost Frederick Terman accurate adroitness and graduates' entrepreneurialism to body arrogant belted industry in what would after be accepted as Silicon Valley. By 1970, Stanford was home to a beeline accelerator, and was one of the aboriginal four ARPANET nodes (precursor to the Internet).
Stanford is amid in arctic Silicon Valley abreast Palo Alto, California. The University's bookish departments are organized into seven schools, with several added holdings, such as laboratories and attributes reserves, amid alfresco the capital campus. Its 8,180-acre (3,310 ha) campus is one of the better in the United States.The University is aswell one of the top fundraising institutions in the country, acceptable the aboriginal academy to accession added than a billion dollars in a year.
Students attempt in 36 varsity sports, and the University is one of two clandestine institutions in the Division I FBS Pacific-12 Conference. It has acquired 105 NCAA aggregation championships, the second-most for a university, 465 alone championships, the a lot of in Division I,[28] and has won the NACDA Directors' Cup, acquainted the university with the best all-embracing able-bodied aggregation achievement, every year back 1994-1995.
Stanford adroitness and alumni accept founded abounding companies including Google, Hewlett-Packard, Nike, Sun Microsystems, and Yahoo!, and companies founded by Stanford alumni accomplish added than $2.7 abundance in anniversary revenue, agnate to the 10th-largest abridgement in the world.[30] Fifty-nine Nobel laureates accept been affiliated with the University, and it is the alma academy of 30 active billionaires and 17 astronauts. Stanford has produced a absolute of 18 Turing Award laureates. It is aswell one of the arch producers of associates of the United States Congress.
Stanford University is amid on an 8,180-acre (3,310 ha) campus on the San Francisco Peninsula, in the northwest allotment of the Santa Clara Valley (Silicon Valley) about 37 afar (60 km) southeast of San Francisco and about 20 afar (32 km) northwest of San Jose. In 2008, 60% of this acreage remained undeveloped. The capital campus is adjoining to Palo Alto, belted by El Camino Real, Stanford Avenue, Junipero Serra Boulevard, and Sand Hill Road. The university aswell operates at several added limited locations (see below).
Stanford's capital campus is a census-designated abode aural unincorporated Santa Clara County, although some of the university acreage (including the Stanford Shopping Center and the Stanford Analysis Park) is aural the city-limits banned of Palo Alto. The campus aswell includes abundant acreage in unincorporated San Mateo County (including the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve), as able-bodied as in the city-limits banned of Menlo Park (Stanford Hills neighborhood), Woodside, and Portola Valley. The United States Postal Service has assigned Stanford two ZIP codes: 94305 for campus mail and 94309 for P.O. box mail. It lies aural breadth cipher 650.
The university campus was listed by Travel + Leisure in September 2011 as one of the a lot of admirable campuses in the United States and by MSN as one of the a lot of admirable academy campuses in the world.

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania (usually alluded to as Penn or UPenn) is a private, Ivy League, research college situated in Philadelphia. Consolidated as The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn is one of 14 establishing individuals from the Association of American Universities and one of the nine unique Colonial Colleges. Penn has cases to being the most established college in the United States of America.

Benjamin Franklin, Penn's organizer, upheld an instructive project that concentrated as much on handy training for business and open administration as on the classics and religious philosophy. The college crest highlights a dolphin on the red boss, received specifically from the Franklin family's own particular layer of arms.Penn was one of the first scholastic establishments to take after a multidisciplinary model spearheaded by a few European colleges, focusing numerous "resources" (e.g., religious philosophy, classics, drug) into one institution.It was likewise home to numerous other instructive developments. The main institute of pharmaceutical in North America (Perelman School of Medicine, 1765), the first university business college (Wharton, 1881) and the first "understudy union" building and association, (Houston Hall, 1896) were all conceived at Penn.

Penn offers a wide scope of scholastic divisions, a broad examination endeavor and various group effort and open administration programs. It is especially surely understood for its therapeutic school, dental school, outline school, business college, graduate school, designing school, interchanges school, nursing school, veterinary school, its sociologies and humanities programs, and its biomedical showing and exploration abilities. Its undergrad system is likewise among the most particular in the nation, with an acknowledgement rate of 10 percent.One of Penn's most no doubt understood scholarly qualities is its accentuation on interdisciplinary training, which it advances through various joint degree projects, exploration focuses and residencies, a brought together grounds, and the capacity for understudies to take classes from any of Penn's schools (the "One University Policy").

The majority of Penn's schools display high research action. Penn is reliably positioned among the top examination colleges on the planet, for both quality and amount of research. In monetary year 2011, Penn topped the Ivy League in scholarly research going through with a $814 million financial plan, including in the range of 4,000 workforce, 1,100 postdoctoral colleagues and 5,400 bolster staff/graduate assistants. As a standout amongst the most dynamic and productive exploration establishments, Penn is connected with a few essential advancements and disclosures in numerous fields of science and the humanities. Among them are the first universally useful electronic PC (ENIAC), the rubella and hepatitis B antibodies, Retin-A, subjective treatment, conjoint examination and others.

Penn's scholastic and exploration projects are driven by a vast and very profitable faculty. Nine Penn employees or graduates have won a Nobel Prize in the most recent ten years. Over its long history the college has additionally created numerous recognized graduated class. These incorporate twelve heads of state (counting one U.S. President), three United States Supreme Court judges, and incomparable court judges of different states, organizers of innovation organizations, universal law offices and worldwide budgetary establishments, and college presidents. As per a recent report, the University of Pennsylvania has created the most uber rich people of any college at the undergrad level.

Princeton University

Princeton University is a clandestine Ivy League analysis university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton was the fourth accountant academy of college apprenticeship in the American colonies and appropriately one of the nine Colonial Colleges accustomed afore the American Revolution. The academy confused to Newark in 1747, again to the accepted website nine years later, area it was renamed Princeton University in 1896.
Princeton provides undergraduate and alum apprenticeship in the humanities, amusing sciences, accustomed sciences, and engineering. It offers able degrees through the Woodrow Wilson Academy of Public and International Affairs, the Academy of Engineering and Applied Science, the Academy of Architecture and the Bendheim Center for Finance. The University has ties with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the Westminster Choir College of Rider University. By award per student, Princeton is the wealthiest academy in the United States.
The University has accelerating abounding notable alumni. It has been associated with 37 Nobel laureates, 17 National Medal of Science winners, the a lot of Abel Prize winners and Fields Medalists of any university (two and eight, respectively), nine Turing Award laureates, three National Abstract Medal recipients and 204 Rhodes Scholars. Two U.S. Presidents, 12 U.S. Supreme Cloister Justices (3 of whom currently serve on the court), abundant active billionaires and adopted active of accompaniment are all counted a part of Princeton's alumni.[quantify] Princeton has aswell accelerating abounding arresting associates of the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Cabinet, including eight Secretaries of State, 3 Secretaries of Defense, and two of the accomplished four Chairs of the Federal Reserve.
The capital campus sits on about 500 acreage (2.0 km2) in Princeton. In 2011, the capital campus was called by Travel+Leisure as one of the a lot of admirable in the United States.The James Forrestal Campus is breach amid adjacent Plainsboro and South Brunswick. The University aswell owns some acreage in West Windsor Township.The campuses are anchored about one hour from both New York City and Philadelphia.
The aboriginal architecture on campus was Nassau Hall, completed in 1756, and anchored on the arctic bend of campus adverse Nassau Street. The campus broadcast steadily about Nassau Hall during the aboriginal and average 19th century. The McCosh admiral (1868–88) saw the architecture of a amount of barrio in the High Victorian Gothic and Romanesque Revival styles; abounding of them are now gone, abrogation the actual few to arise out of place. At the end of the 19th aeon Princeton adopted the Collegiate Gothic appearance for which it is accepted today. Implemented initially by William Appleton Potter and after activated by the University's authoritative architect, Ralph Adams Cram, the Collegiate Gothic appearance remained the accepted for all new architecture on the Princeton campus through 1960. A flurry of architecture in the 1960s produced a amount of new barrio on the south ancillary of the capital campus, abounding of which accept been ailing received. Several arresting architects accept contributed some added contempo additions, including Frank Gehry (Lewis Library),I.M. Pei (Spelman Halls), Demetri Porphyrios (Whitman College, a Collegiate Gothic project), Robert Venturi (Frist Campus Center, a part of several others), and Rafael Viñoly (Carl Icahn Laboratory).
A accumulation of 20th-century sculptures broadcast throughout the campus forms the Putnam Collection of Sculpture. It includes works by Alexander Calder (Five Disks: One Empty), Jacob Epstein (Albert Einstein), Henry Moore (Oval With Points), Isamu Noguchi (White Sun), and Pablo Picasso (Head of a Woman).Richard Serra's The Hedgehog and The Fox is amid amid Peyton and Fine halls next to Princeton Stadium and the Lewis Library.
At the southern bend of the campus is Basin Carnegie, a counterfeit basin called for Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie financed the lake's architecture in 1906 at the bidding of a acquaintance who was a Princeton alumnus. Carnegie hoped the befalling to yield up canoeing would affect Princeton acceptance to abdicate football, which he advised "not gentlemanly."The Shea Canoeing Center on the lake's bank continues to serve as the address for Princeton rowing.

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (also referred to as Berkeley, UC Berkeley, California or artlessly Cal)[8] is a accessible analysis university amid in Berkeley, California. It is the flagship campus of the University of California system, one of three locations in the state's accessible college apprenticeship plan, which aswell includes the California State University arrangement and the California Community Colleges System.
UC Berkeley is the a lot of careful – and accomplished ranked in U.S. News and ARWU – accessible university in the apple for undergraduate education. It is advised by Times College Apprenticeship as a affiliate of the aristocratic accumulation of six universities that advance in apple acceptability rankings in 2015 and is ranked third on the U.S. News' 2015 Best Global Universities rankings conducted in the U.S. and about 50 added countries. The Bookish Ranking of Apple Universities aswell ranks the University of California, Berkeley as the fourth in the world's 500 top universities, third in engineering, fourth in amusing sciences and aboriginal in mathematics & action sciences.Aside from its bookish prestige, the university is aswell able-bodied accepted for bearing a top amount of entrepreneurs.

Established in 1868 as the aftereffect of the alliance of the clandestine College of California and the accessible Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College in Oakland, UC Berkeley is the oldest academy in the UC arrangement and offers about 350 undergraduate and alum amount programs in a advanced ambit of disciplines. The University of California has been answerable with accouterment both "classical" and "practical" apprenticeship for the state's people. Cal co-manages three United States Department of Energy National Laboratories, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy.
Berkeley faculty, alumni, and advisers accept won 72 Nobel Prizes (including 30 alumni Nobel laureates), nine Wolf Prizes, seven Fields Medals, 18 Turing Awards, 45 MacArthur Fellowships,20 Academy Awards, and 11 Pulitzer Prizes. To date, UC Berkeley scientists accept apparent six actinic elements of the alternate table (californium, seaborgium, berkelium, einsteinium, fermium, lawrencium). Along with Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley advisers accept apparent 16 actinic elements in absolute – added than any added university in the world.[24] Berkeley is a founding affiliate of the Association of American Universities and continues to accept actual top analysis action with $730.7 actor in analysis and development expenditures in the budgetary year catastrophe June 30, 2014.[25][26] Berkeley physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the accurate administrator of the Manhattan Project that developed the aboriginal diminutive bomb in the world, which he alone headquartered at Los Alamos, New Mexico, during Apple War II. Adroitness affiliate Edward Teller was (together with Stanislaw Ulam) the "father of the hydrogen bomb". Former United States Secretary of Energy and Nobel laureate Steven Chu (PhD 1976), was Administrator of Berkeley Lab, 2004–2009.

Organization and administration
The University of California is absolute by a 26-member Board of Regents, 18 of which are appointed by the Governor of California to 12-year terms, 7 confined as ex officio members, a alone apprentice agent and a non-voting apprentice regent-designate.[99] The position of Chancellor was created in 1952 to advance alone campuses. The Board appointed Nicholas Dirks the 10th Chancellor of the university in 2013 afterwards Robert J. Birgeneau, originally appointed in 2004, appear his resignation.[100] 12 carnality chancellors address anon to the Chancellor. The Executive Carnality Chancellor and Provost serves as the arch bookish administrator and is the appointment to which the deans of the 14 colleges and schools report.

Haas School of Business
The 2006–07 account totaled $1.7 billion; 33% came from the State of California. In 2006–07, 7,850 donors contributed $267.9 actor and the award was admired at $2.89 billion.
UC Berkeley employs 24,700 humans anon and advisers are acceptable to unionize and are represented by AFSCME, California Nurses Association (CNA), CUE-Teamsters Local 2010 (formerly the Coalition of University Advisers (CUE)), UAW, UC-AFT, and UPTE.

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City-limits of New York, or artlessly Columbia University, is an American clandestine Ivy League analysis university amid in Morningside Heights, in Upper Manhattan, New York City.
Columbia is the oldest academy of academy acquirements in New York state, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded afore the American Revolution. It was founded in 1754 as King's Academy by aristocratic allotment of George II of Great Britain. Afterwards the American Revolutionary War, King's Academy briefly became a accompaniment entity, and was renamed Columbia Academy in 1784. The University now operates beneath a 1787 allotment that places the academy beneath a clandestine lath of trustees, and in 1896 it was added renamed Columbia University. That aforementioned year, the university's campus was confused from Madison Avenue to its accepted area in Morningside Heights, area it occupies added than six city-limits blocks, or 32 acreage (13 ha).Today the university operates Columbia Global Centers across in Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Paris, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago and Nairobi.
The university encompasses twenty schools and is affiliated with abundant institutions, including Teachers Academy (which is Columbia University's Graduate Academy of Education), Barnard College, and the Union Theological Seminary, with collective undergraduate programs accessible through the Jewish Theological Seminary of America as able-bodied as the Juilliard School.
Columbia annually administers the Pulitzer Prize.Many humans associated with Columbia accept aswell accustomed prizes; for instance, 101 Nobel Prize laureates accept been affiliated with the university as students, faculty, or staff. Columbia is one of the fourteen founding associates of the Association of American Universities, and was the aboriginal academy in the United States to admission the M.D. degree.Notable alumni and above acceptance of the university and its predecessor, King's College, cover 5 Founding Fathers of the United States; nine Justices of the United States Supreme Court;43 Nobel Prize laureates; 20 active billionaires; 29 Academy Award winners;and 29 active of state, including three United States Presidents.
Columbia University is an independent, abreast supported, nonsectarian academy of academy education. Its official accumulated name is "The Advisers of Columbia University in the City-limits of New York." The university's aboriginal Allotment was accepted in 1754 by King George II; however, its avant-garde Allotment was aboriginal allowable in 1787 and endure adapted in 1810 by the New York Accompaniment Legislature. The university is absolute by 24 Trustees, commonly including the President, who serves ex officio. The Advisers themselves are amenable for allotment their successors. Six of the 24 are nominated from a basin of candidates recommended by the Columbia Alumni Association. Another six are nominated by the Lath in appointment with the Controlling Committee of the University Senate. The actual 12, including the President, are nominated by the Advisers themselves through their centralized processes. The appellation of appointment for Advisers is six years. Generally, they serve for no added than two afterwards terms. The Advisers accredit the Admiral and added arch authoritative admiral of the university, and analysis and affirm adroitness accessories as required. They actuate the university's banking and investment policies, accredit the budget, administer the endowment, absolute the administering of the university's absolute acreage and added assets, and contrarily baby-sit the administering and administering of the university.
The University Senate was accustomed by the Advisers afterwards a university-wide election in 1969. It succeeded to the admiral of the University Council, which was created in 1890 as a physique of faculty, deans, and added administrators to adapt inter-Faculty diplomacy and accede issues of university-wide concern. The University Senate is a unicameral physique consisting of 107 associates fatigued from all constituencies of the university. These cover the admiral of the university, the Provost, the Deans of Columbia Academy and the Graduate Academy of Arts and Sciences, all who serve ex officio, and 5 added representatives, appointed by the President, from the university's administration. The Admiral serves as the Senate's authoritative officer. The Senate is answerable with reviewing the educational policies, concrete development, budget, and alien relations of the university. It oversees the abundance and bookish abandon of the adroitness and the abundance of students.
The Admiral of Columbia University, who is called by the Advisers in appointment with the Controlling Committee of the University Senate and who serves at the Trustees' pleasure, is the arch controlling administrator of the university. Assisting the Admiral in administering the University are the Provost, the Arch Controlling Carnality President, the Controlling Carnality Admiral for Health and Biomedical Sciences, several added carnality presidents, the General Counsel, the Secretary of the University, and the deans of the Faculties, all of whom are appointed by the Advisers on the choice of the Admiral and serve at their pleasure. Lee C. Bollinger became the 19th Admiral of Columbia University on June 1, 2002. A arresting apostle of acknowledging action, he played a arch role in the accompanying Supreme Court cases—Grutter v Bollinger and Gratz v Bollinger—that upheld and antiseptic the accent of assortment as a acute absolution for acknowledging activity in academy education. A arch Aboriginal Amendment scholar, he is broadly appear on abandon of accent and press, and currently[when?] serves on the adroitness of Columbia Law School.
Columbia has three official undergraduate colleges: Columbia Academy (CC), the advanced arts academy alms the Bachelor of Arts degree, Columbia Engineering, aforetime accepted as SEAS, is the engineering and activated science academy alms the Bachelor of Science degree, and The Academy of General Studies (GS), the advanced arts academy alms the Bachelor of Arts amount to non-traditional acceptance adventure full- or part-time study.The university is affiliated with Teachers College, Barnard College, and Union Theological Seminary, all amid adjacent in Morningside Heights. Collective undergraduate programs are accessible through the Jewish Theological Seminary of America as able-bodied as through the Juilliard School.Affiliated institutions – Barnard College, Teachers College, and Union Theological Seminary – are aswell Faculties of the university. One affiliated institution—Teachers College—is additionally an bookish administration of the university.

Yale University

Yale University is a clandestine Ivy League analysis university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the "Collegiate School" by a accumulation of Congregationalist ministers and accountant by the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest academy of academy apprenticeship in the United States. In 1718, the academy was renamed "Yale College" in accepting of a allowance from Elihu Yale, a governor of the British East India Company. Established to alternation Connecticut ministers in canon and angelic languages, by 1777 the school's chic began to absorb abstract and sciences. During the 19th aeon Yale gradually congenital alum and able instruction, application the aboriginal Ph.D. in the United States in 1861 and acclimation as a university in 1887.
Yale is organized into twelve basic schools: the aboriginal undergraduate college, the Alum Academy of Arts & Sciences, and ten able schools. While the university is absolute by the Yale Corporation, anniversary school's adroitness oversees its chic and amount programs. In accession to a axial campus in city New Haven, the University owns able-bodied accessories in Western New Haven, including the Yale Bowl, a campus in West Haven, Connecticut, and backwoods and attributes preserves throughout New England. The University's assets cover an award admired at $23.9 billion as of September 27, 2014, the additional better of any educational academy in the world.
Yale Academy undergraduates chase a advanced arts chic with authoritative majors and are organized into a arrangement of residential colleges. Almost all adroitness advise undergraduate courses, added than 2,000 of which are offered annually. The Yale University Library, confined all twelve schools, holds added than 15 actor volumes and is the third-largest bookish library in the United States. Besides bookish studies, accepting attempt intercollegiately as the Yale Bulldogs in the NCAA Division I Ivy League.
Yale has accelerating abounding notable alumni, including 5 U.S. Presidents, 19 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, 13 active billionaires, and abounding adopted active of state. In addition, Yale has accelerating hundreds of associates of Congress and abounding high-level U.S. diplomats, including above U.S. Secretary of Accompaniment Hillary Clinton and accustomed Secretary of Accompaniment John Kerry. Fifty-two Nobel laureates accept been affiliated with the University as students, faculty, or staff, and 230 Rhodes Scholars accelerating from the University.
Undergraduate accepting to Yale Academy is advised awful competitive. In 2014, Yale accustomed 1,935 accepting to the Chic of 2018 out of 30,932 applicants, an accepting amount of 6.3%. 98% of accepting alum aural six years.
Through its affairs of need-based banking aid, Yale commits to accommodated the abounding approved banking charge of all applicants. Most banking aid is in the anatomy of grants and scholarships that do not charge to be paid aback to the university, and the boilerplate need-based aid admission for the Chic of 2017 was $46,395.[105] 15% of Yale Academy accepting are accepted to accept no affectionate contribution, and about 50% accept some anatomy of banking aid. About 16% of the Chic of 2013 had some anatomy of apprentice accommodation debt at graduation, with an boilerplate debt of $13,000 a part of borrowers.[104]
Half of all Yale undergraduates are women, added than 39% are indigenous boyhood U.S. citizens (19% are underrepresented minorities), and 10.5% are all-embracing students. Fifty-five percent abounding accessible schools and 45% abounding private, religious, or all-embracing schools, and 97% of accepting were in the top 10% of their top academy class. Every year, Yale Academy aswell admits a baby accumulation of non-traditional accepting through the Eli Whitney Accepting Program.

University of South Alabama

The University of South Alabama (USA) is an open, national exploration college in Mobile, Alabama, USA. It was made by the Alabama Legislature in May, 1963, and supplanted existing augmentation projects worked in Mobile by the University of Alabama.

USA is the main significant open establishment of higher adapting on the upper Gulf Coast. With Alabama's two more seasoned colleges more than 200 miles inaccessible, the University is deliberately situated in the more noteworthy Mobile zone, which has a populace of more than a million inside a 100-mile range.

Presently, USA is isolated into ten schools and schools and incorporates one of Alabama's two state-bolstered medicinal schools. The college has an enlistment of around 15,000 students.To date, the University has granted more than 75,000 degrees.

USA has a yearly finance of $404 million (US), with more than 5,500 workers, and is the second biggest head honcho in Mobile, Alabama. It has stayed one of Alabama's quickest developing colleges for as long as a few years.[4] The college has gone under incredible feedback; starting 2014 the college keeps up a 14% graduation rate, and was named the 8th most perilous school in the nation by Business Insider.[5] South Alabama likewise has a yearly financial effect of US$2 billion.[3] South Alabama possessed healing centers treat more than 250,000 patients every year.

The college offers an extensive variety of undergrad and graduate degrees in ten universities and schools. A few projects offer bosses level degrees notwithstanding college degrees. Doctoral level degrees are offered in a few territories, including Business Administration, Nursing, Medicine, Basic Medical Sciences, Instructional Design, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Audiology, Marine Science, Psychology, Physical Therapy, and a Doctor of Pharmacy degree offered as a team with Auburn University.

The college will include doctoral projects in Business and Engineering starting in 2013, with the business doctorate being the state's first doctorate in business organization.

The brain research doctoral project was started in 2009 and is one of a modest bunch of such projects across the nation that offers a Combined degree, accentuating both Clinical Psychology and Counseling Psychology. Huge examination is finished by employees in the above fields.

On the whole, college understudies at South Alabama can browse more than 50 four year certification and testament projects while there are more than 40 graduate degree programs. Starting 2011, USA positions as the 22nd best state funded college in the southern United States, and 52nd generally (in the South). It has an acknowledgement rate of 86.5%.

The understudy personnel proportion at USA is 22:1, and the school has 41.5 percent of its classes with less than 20 understudies. USA understudies are 57% female and 43% male.

Schools Name:

Shelby Hall - College of Engineering

The University of South Alabama has ten schools:

Pat Covey College of Allied Health Professions

School of Arts and Sciences

Mitchell College of Business

School of Education

School of Engineering

School of Medicine

Specialist of Pharmacy Program (Collaborative project with Auburn University)

School of Nursing

School of Computing

School of Continuing Education and Special Programs

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, built in 1636. Its history, impact and riches have made it a standout amongst the most prestigious colleges on the planet.

Made initially by the Massachusetts council and before long named for John Harvard (its first advocate), Harvard is the United States' most established establishment of higher learning,and the Harvard Corporation (formally, the President and Fellows of Harvard College) is its initially contracted company. Albeit never formally associated with any section, the early College essentially prepared Congregation­alist and Unitarian church. Its educational program and understudy body were continuously secularized amid the 18th century, and by the 19th century Harvard had developed as the focal social foundation among Boston elites. Taking after the American Civil War, President Charles W. Eliot's long residency (1869–1909) changed the school and partnered proficient schools into a present day research college; Harvard was an establishing individual from the Association of American Universities in 1900.James Bryant Conant drove the college through the Great Depression and World War II and started to change the educational module and change confirmations after the war. The undergrad school got to be coeducational after its 1977 merger with Radcliffe College.

The University is composed into eleven different scholarly units—ten resources and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study—with grounds all through the Boston metropolitan area:[17] its 209-section of land (85 ha) fundamental grounds is focused on Harvard Yard in Cambridge, more or less 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Boston; the business college and sports offices, including Harvard Stadium, are situated over the Charles River in the Allston neighborhood of Boston and the medicinal, dental, and general wellbeing schools are in the Longwood Medical Area. Harvard has the biggest money related blessing of any scholarly organization on the planet, remaining at $32.3 billion as of June 2013

Harvard is an extensive, exceptionally private examination university.The ostensible expense of participation is high, however the University's vast gift permits it to offer liberal money related support packages.[20] It works a few expressions, social, and logical exhibition halls, nearby the Harvard Library, which is the world's biggest scholarly and private library framework, containing 79 individual libraries with more than 18 million volumes.

It has numerous prominent graduated class. Eight U.S. presidents and a few remote heads of state have been graduates. It is likewise the place of graduation of 62 living elite rich people and 335 Rhodes Scholars, both the most in the nation. To date, by most accounts 150 Nobel laureates have been subsidiary as understudies, personnel, or