TOP 10 BEST UNIVERSITY IN WORLD 2017

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1)Harvard University(Cambridge, MA, USA)

Harvard University is a private, Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, established 1636, whose history, influence and wealth have made it one of the world's most prestigious universities

Address: Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

Acceptance rate: 5.2% (2016)

Mascot: John Harvard, the Pilgrim

Total enrollment: 21,000 (2014)

 

 

 Harvard University is the standard by which all other research universities are measured. No school has ever challenged its position as the world’s premier academic institution in the history of the Shanghai rankings.

2)Stanford University

Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California

Address: 450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, United States

Acceptance rate: 4.7% (2016)

Founded: November 11, 1885

Endowment: 22.2 billion USD (2015)

Founders: Leland Stanford, Jane Stanford

 

 

3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Address: 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States

Acceptance rate: 8% (2015)

Founder: William Barton Rogers

Founded: April 10, 1861, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Phone: +1 617-253-1000

Mascot: Tim the Beaver

Motto: Mens et Manus, Mind and Hand

 he Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1861 in response to the increasing

 

4)University of California at Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California. Founded in 1868, Berkeley is the oldest of the ten research universities affiliated with the University of California system

Address: Berkeley, CA, United States

Acceptance rate: 17.5% (2016)

Mascot: Oski

Chancellor: Nicholas Dirks

Parent organization: University of California

 

 

 The University of California--Berkeley, often referred to as Cal, is situated overlooking the San Francisco Bay. Typically, 95 percent or more of incoming

 

5)University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a collegiate public research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's fourth-oldest surviving university

Address: The Old Schools, Trinity Ln, Cambridge CB2 1TN, United Kingdom

Acceptance rate: 20.8% (2013)

Founded: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Color: Cambridge Blue

Vice-chancellor: Leszek Borysiewicz

 

As one of the oldest universities in the world (founded in 1209), Cambridge is an ancient school steeped in tradition

 

6)Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. 

Address: Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

Acceptance rate: 6.5% (2016)

Endowment: 22.72 billion USD (2015)

Mascot: Princeton Tigers

Total enrollment: 8,138 (2015)

 

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, ...... It is held only if Princeton beats both Harvard University and Yale University at football in the same season. The most recent bonfire was lighted

7)California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

The California Institute of Technology is a private doctorate-granting university located in Pasadena, California, United States

The vocational and preparatory schools were disbanded and spun off in 1910, and the college assumed its present name in 1921. In 1934, Caltech was elected to the Association of American Universities, and the antecedents of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which Caltech continues to manage and operate

Address: 1200 E California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125, United States

Acceptance rate: 9% (2015)

Mascot: Beaver

President: Thomas Felix Rosenbaum

Endowment: 2.199 billion USD (2015)

 

Caltech is frequently cited as one of the world's best universities Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphasis on science and engineering, managing $332 million in 2011 in sponsored research

 

8)Columbia University 

 Columbia University is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It was established in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain

Address: 116th St & Broadway, New York, NY 10027, United States

Acceptance rate: 6% (2016)

Mascot: Lion

 

As one of the colonial colleges and the fifth-oldest school in the United States, Columbia has a lot of history. That history has created an internationally recognized, elite university with an $8.2 billion endowment and a library containing nearly 13 million volumes

9)University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. The university, established in 1890, is composed of the College, various graduate programs, and interdisciplinary committees

Address: 5801 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, United States

Acceptance rate: 7.6% (2016)

Mascot: Phil the Phoenix

Endowment: 7.55 billion USD (2015)

President: Robert Zimmer

 

 Chicago’s 89 Nobel Prize winners, 22 have been in economics, which is remarkable given that the economics prize was only first awarded in 1969 (45 years ago at the time of this writing). Perhaps this is one reason why the university weathered the 2008 financial crisis relatively well!

In any case, the school’s approximately $7 billion endowment is now rapidly growing once more, assuring the continuation of the ample research opportunities it provides its faculty and students well into the future.

10)Oxford University

The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Oxford’s academic community includes 80 Fellows of the Royal Society and 100 Fellows of the British Academy. Over 17,200 people applied for 3,200 undergraduate places in 2014.

Address: Oxford, United Kingdom

Acceptance rate: 17.5% (2015)

Founded: Oxford, United Kingdom

Chancellor: Chris Patten

Motto: Dominus Illuminatio Mea, The Lord is my Light

Subsidiaries: University College, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum

 

However, despite thousands of undergraduate students willing to pay full tuition and centuries of accumulated assets, the highest source of income for Oxford continues to be research grants and contracts.