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.