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Imperial College London, London England

Imperial was placed 5th overall in the world in the 2009 Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings of universities worldwide, and 7th in 2010 and was placed 26th in the Shanghai Jiao Tong Academic Ranking of World Universities. Imperial College London is a member of the Russell Group of Universities, a part of the Golden Triangle, the IDEA League, the European University Association, AMBA, and the Association of Commonwealth Universities.
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University of California, Berkeley California

Berkeley offers around 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines, and the university has the highest number of graduate programs ranked in the top 10 for their fields by the United States National Research Council. University faculty, alumni, and researchers have won 65 Nobel Prizes, 9 Wolf Prizes, 7 Fields Medals, 12 Turing Awards, 19 Academy Awards, and 11 Pulitzer Prizes.
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University of Oxford, Oxford England

The University of Oxford does not have a clear date of foundation. Teaching at Oxford existed in some form in 1096. The University grew rapidly from 1167 when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris. In post-nominals the University of Oxford is typically abbreviated as Oxon. (from the Latin Oxoniensis), although Oxf is sometimes used in official publications.
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Stanford University, Stanford California

Leland Stanford, a Californian railroad tycoon and politician, founded the university in 1891 in honor of his son, Leland Stanford, Jr. who died of typhoid at the age of 16. The university was established as a coeducational and non-denominational institution, but struggled financially after the senior Stanford’s 1893 death and much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. [… Next …]

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Massachusetts

Founded by William Barton Rogers in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, the university adopted the European university model and emphasized laboratory instruction from an early date. Its current 168-acre (68.0 ha) campus opened in 1916 and extends over 1 mile (1.6 km) along the northern bank of the Charles River basin. [… Next …]

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Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts

Harvard was named after its first benefactor, John Harvard. Although it was never formally affiliated with a church, the college primarily trained Congregationalist and Unitarian clergy. Harvard’s curriculum and students became increasingly secular throughout the eighteenth century and by the nineteenth century had emerged as the central cultural establishment among Boston elites. [… Next …]