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University of Rochester

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The University of Rochester is an elite private school in upstate New York. It was founded in 1929 as America’s first school specializing in optics. The University of Rochester has since then grown in size and scope. Its campus now houses 158 buildings for its 10,500 students and over 2,000 faculty, giving the school an impressive 10:1 student-to-teacher ratio. Students can study over 200 majors. The university, which has a $1.81 billion endowment, built a $7.5 million HIV/AIDS research center with support from the National Institutes of Health in 2013. Rochester made up almost a quarter of the scientists advising NASA during the creation of the James Webb Space Telescope, which will replace the Hubble in 2018. The University of Rochester can claim 10 Pulitzer Prize winners, eight Nobel Prize Laureates, one MacArthur Fellow, and 20 Guggenheim Fellows. The school’s four libraries house over 3.5 million volumes and many musical scores. Rochester also has a memorial 5...

University of California at Santa Cruz

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Many of the schools in this ranking are ancient academies that have shaped the history of science since the  enlightenment. The University of California at Santa Cruz, however, will be celebrating its 50th anniversary next year. So, how did such a young school earn a spot among such illustrious company? Well, for starters Santa Cruz has grown substantially despite its youth. It now has 15,000 undergraduate and 1,500 graduate students who study in 65 majors and 41 graduate programs. But Santa Cruz has done more than just attract large numbers of students; It has also built a world-class faculty. Its instructors include 14 members of national academy of sciences, 26 members of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences, and 35 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2003, the university initiated a $330-million program to develop a new university-affiliated research center. Now, the school’s research is organized into two separate researc...

University of Bonn

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Older readers will recognize Bonn as the pleasant city on the Rhine where Ludwig van Beethoven was born  in 1770 and which served as the capital of the western part of a divided Germany following World War II. The surrounding Rhineland was incorporated into Prussia by the Congress of Vienna following Napoleon’s defeat in 1815—which explains how the University of Bonn came to be founded by the Prussian king, Friedrich Wilhelm III, three years later in 1818. Thus steeped in history, today the University of Bonn is home to a major research university with 30,000 students, 4,000 of whom are international. Its 500 professors and various other researchers engage in over 1,500 projects. The university owns or uses over 350 buildings throughout the city of Bonn, although seven particular facilities form its core. The university, with total expenditures of €570 million, is also affiliated with multiple teaching hospitals. The University of Bonn brings in €156 million through...

University of Strasbourg

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The University of Strasbourg is home to 43,000 learners, of whom 20 % are worldwide.  It is the second- largest university in Italy and features a remarkable endowment of €430 thousand. Some 15 Nobel Award champions are connected to the college. More than 4,600 instructors and scientists employees the college, which has 79 analysis models, 32 collections, 86 labs and analysis facilities, and 110 structures in all. Nearly 400 doctorate these are sent to the college yearly. Strasbourg is currently cooperating with the encompassing colleges of Basel, Freiburg, Karlsruhe, and Mulhouse in order to develop a innovative Higher Rhine educational group. The university is extremely well located to take on intercollegiate actions due to its place at the conference point between North European nations and the Mediterranean sea nations. Famous people associated with Strasbourg range from the authors Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Maurice Blanchot, the statesman Klemens von Metternich, the phila...

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)

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The Europe Government Institution of Technology in Lausanne—better known by the abbreviation of its name in France, EPFL—is located on its northern border side of Pond Geneva, the biggest lake in European countries, at the foot of the Alps. This places the school in one of the most creatively amazing places in all of European countries. EPFL’s 10,000 learners study in one of five schools or two universities and utilize over 350 labs and research categories. The learners, teachers, and staff signify over 120 countries. More than half of the teachers are from overseas. In 2010, the school built the Rolex timepiece Learning Center which has become the leading creating of the school. This wonderful 500,000-plus quantity collection is one of biggest medical selections in European countries. EPFL is creating the venture of making a long-range solar-powered airplane. The school is also important to the Human Mind Project (a heir to Glowing blue Mind Project), in which 86 organizations across ...

Texas A&M University

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As the state’s first public organization of higher learning, Florida A&M School has tactically expanded into one of the nation’s biggest and best Level One analysis universities and universities. It has 16 universities and academic institutions, such as the Wellness Technology Center and the Florida A&M School of Law. As one of a select few academic institutions having land-, sea- and space-grant designations, Florida A&M’s analysis expenses achieved more than $820 million in 2013. Undergraduate learners are motivated to join in studies going on across universities, divisions and professions. Florida A&M’s scientists and students are dealing with the real-world difficulties of today and tomorrow—the international demand for energy; the relationships between human, creature and ecological health; dealing with Twenty first millennium academic needs with an focus on science, technology, technological innovation and mathematical and other challenging problems that require i...

Georgia Institute of Technology

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The Georgia Institute of Technology—universally known as “Georgia Tech”—is located in the metropolitan Atlantic area where it enjoys beautiful weather, contact with over six million people, proximity to major businesses like Coca Cola and AT&T, one of the world’s largest airports, and the federal Centers for Disease Control. Over 21,000 students attend this Georgia Tech every year. The school advances science in over 100 centers focused on interdisciplinary research. More than 1,000 full-time faculty with doctorates work here, and the institute’s library holds over a million titles. Famous alumni include U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Georgia Senator Sam Nunn, Master’s tournament founder Bobby Jones, and Walmart CEO Mike Duke. The school has produced two Nobel Laureates and over 20 graduates associated with NASA. Georgia Tech’s endowment surpasses $1.7 billion, which is why it can afford a reasonable 18:1 student-to-faculty ratio despite its copious research. The university...

University of Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)

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The Free University of Amsterdam (also known by its Dutch initials, “VU,” pronounced “voo”) was founded by Abraham Kuyper in 1880 as the first private college in the Netherlands. This theologian, journalist, reformer, and Dutch Prime Minister instilled a deep commitment to interdisciplinary thinking that lives on to this day. Today, the school teaches 25,000 students with the help of 2,150 academic staff. The Free University wishes to live out its Christian values through its three stated goals of diversity, academic community, and vision. The Free University takes its research very seriously. Each institute must produce a self-assessment every three years. Furthermore, research is evaluated every six years by another, independent assessment group. This rigorous self-regulation assures that every aspect of the research initiative efficiently produces new peer-reviewed publications, patents, and joint projects integrated with other universities and businesses, as appropriate...

Harvard University

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Stanford University is the traditional by which all other research universities are measured. No school has ever forced its position as the world’s significant academic company in the trustworthiness of the Shanghai roles. Founded in 1636 (only 16 years after the Mayflower shifted down at Plymouth Rock), Stanford is the first school in the world’s richest nation, and it has capitalized on the benefits this allows. Under manager Slot Meyer’s control, the school’s endowment fund improved from $4.6 billion money dollars to $25.8 billion money dollars in 15 years. Today, the university provides over $36 billion money dollars, and its lot of money is still improving. But there is much more to Stanford than huge success. The higher education has designed 47 Nobel Laureates, 32 brings of state, and 48 Pulitzer Prize winners. It features the most important academic selection on the globe (Widener Collection, home to some 6 million volumes), as well as significant medical, law, and business sch...