The university has more thanaculty members and students, and is one of Boston's largest 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 urban campuses. The main campus is situated along the Charles River in Boston's Fenway-Kenmore and while the Boston University Medical Campus is in Boston's South End neighborhood.
BU is categorized as an RU/VH Research University (very high research in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. is a member of the Boston Consortium for Higher Education and the Association of American Universities.
The university counts seven Nobel Laureates, twenty-three Pulitzer Prize winners, nine Academy Award winners, and several Emmy and Tony Award winners among its faculty and alumni. BU also has MacArthur, Sloan, and Guggenheim Fellowship holders as well as American Academy of Arts and Sciences and National Academy of Sciences members among its past and present graduates and faculty.
The Boston University Terriers compete in the NCAA's Division I. BU athletic teams compete in the Patriot League, and Hockey East conferences, and their mascot is the Boston Terrier. Boston University is well known for men's hockey, in which it has won five national championships, most recently in
London Business School is a graduate business school and a constituent college of the University of London, located in central London, England. It was established in after the Franks Report recommended the establishment of two business schools. Since inception, has become one of the top business schools in the world and benchmarks its programs against those of Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, Columbia, and Booth.
LBS offers various academic programmes including the Masters of Business Administration (MBA and Sloan Fellowship for experienced business executives Masters in Finance Masters in Management for students with up to two years of work experience PhD, and non-masters classes for business executives.
Over degree students from countries graduate from the school each year. A further executives attend the school executive education programmes each year. The school has over alumni in more than countries, organised through 65-plus alumni clubs.
The school holds the European Foundation for Management Development Equis, accreditation as well as that of the AACSB and AMBA.The MBA, Executive MBA, Sloan Masters in Leadership and Strategy, and Master's in Management programme are accredited through
research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in the university was named after its first benefactor, the American entrepreneur, abolitionist, and philanthropist Johns Hopkins.million bequesof which half financed the establishment of The Johns Hopkins Hospita was the largest philanthropic gift in the history of the United States at the time. Daniel , who was inaugurated as the institution's first president on February led the university to revolutionize higher education in the by integrating teaching and research.
Johns Hopkins is organized into ten divisions on campuses in Maryland and Washington, D.C. with international centers in Italy, China, and Singapore.The two undergraduate divisions, the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering, are located on the Homewood campus in Baltimore's Charles Village neighborhood. The medical school, the nursing school, and the Bloomberg School of Public Health are located on the Medical Institutions campus in East Baltimore. The university also consists of the Peabody Institute, the Applied Physics Laboratory, the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, the education school, the Carey Business School, and various other facilities.
The first research university in the United States and a founding member of the American Association of Universities, Johns Hopkins has been considered one of the world’s top universities throughout its history. The University stands among the top in US News' Best National Universities Rankings and top on a number of international league tables.Over the course of almost y, thirty-six Nobel laureates and a United States president havbeen affiliated with Johns Hopkins.Fouded in he Blue Jays men’s lacrosse team has captured national titles and joined the Big Ten Conference as an affiliate member in
located in Ithaca, New York. Founded in by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, the university was intended to teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge from the classics to the sciences, and from the theoretical to the applied. These ideals, unconventional for the time, are captured in Cornell's motto, a popular Ezra Cornell quotation: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study
The university is broadly organized into seven undergraduate colleges and seven graduate divisions at its main Ithaca campus, with each college and division defining its own admission standards and academic programs in near autonomy. The university also administers two satellite medical campuses, one in New York City and one in Education City, Qatar
Cornell is one of three private land grant universities in the nation and the only one in New York. Of its seven undergraduate colleges, three are state-supported statutory or contract colleges through the State University of New York ystem, including its agricultural and veterinary colleges. As a land grant college, it operates a extension outreach program in every county of New York and receives annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions.[8] The Cornell University Ithaca Campus comprises 745 acres, but is much larger when the Cornell Plantations (more than are considered, as well as the numerous university-owned lands in New York City.
Since its founding, Cornell has been a co-educational, non-sectarian institution where admission has not been restricted by religion or race. Cornell counts more than living alumni, and its former and present faculty and alumni includeMarshall Scholars, 29 Rhodes Scholars, Gates Scholars, and 44 Nobel laureates. The student body consists of nearly 1undergraduate and graduate students from all 50 American states and countrie
Alberta, Canada. It was founded in by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta, and Henry Marshall Tory,its first president. Its enabling legislation is the Post-secondary Learning Act.
The university comprises four campuses in Edmonton, the Augustana Campus in Camrose, and a staff centre in downtown Calgary. The original north campus consists of 150 buildings covering 50 city blocks on the south rim of the North Saskatchewan River valley, directly across from downtown Edmonton. More than 39,000 students from across Canada and 150 other countries participate in nearly 400 programs in 18 faculties.
The university has been recognized by the Academic Ranking of World Universities, the QS World University Rankings and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings as one of the top five universities in Canada and one of the top universities worldwide.
According to the QS World University Rankings the top Faculty Area at the University of Alberta is Arts and Humanities (ranked 89th in the world), and the top-ranked Subject is English Language and Literature
The University of Alberta has graduated more than alumni, including Governor General Roland Michener; Prime Minister Joe Clark; Chief Justice of Canada Beverley McLachlin; Alberta premiers Peter Lougheed, Dave Hancock, Jim Prentice and Rachel Notley; Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson and Nobel laureate Richard E. Taylor.
The university is a member of the Alberta Rural Development Network, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education and the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System.
The University of Alberta, a single, public provincial university, was chartered in 1in Edmonton, Alberta with the University Act in the first session of the new Legislative Assembly, with Premier Alexander C. Rutherford as its sponsor. The university was modelled on the American state university, with an emphasis on extension work and applied research.[The governance was modelled on Ontario's University of Toronto Act of 1906: a bicameral system consisting of a senate (faculty) responsible for academic policy, and a board of governors (citizens) controlling financial policy and having formal authority in all other matters. The president, appointed by the board, was to provide a link between the two bodies and perform institutional leadership.
Heated wrangling took place between the cities of Calgary and Edmonton over the location of the provincial capital and of the university. It was stated that the capital would be north of the North Saskatchewan River and that the university would be in a city south of it.The city of Edmonton became the capital and the then-separate city of Strathcona on the south bank of the river, where Premier Alexander Rutherford lived, was granted the university. When the two cities were amalgamated in Edmonton became both the political and academic capita
university in Upper Manhattan, New York City. Originally established in as King's College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in New York State, as well as one of the country's nine colonial colleges.[6] After the revolutionary war, King's College briefly became a state entity, and was renamed Columbia College charter placed the institution under a private board of trustees before it was further renamed Columbia University in 1896 when the campus was moved from Madison Avenue to its current location in Morningside Heights occupying land of . Columbia is one of the fourteen founding members of the Association of American Universities, and was the first school in the United States to grant the M.D. degree.
The University is organized into twenty schools, including Columbia College, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the School of General Studies. The University also has global research outposts in Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Paris, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago and Nairobi.It has affiliation with several other institutions nearby, including Teachers College, Barnard College, and Union Theological Seminary, with joint undergraduate programs available through the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Sciences Po Paris,and the Juilliard School.
Columbia annually administers the Pulitzer Prize.[Notable alumni and former students (including those from King's College) include five Founding Fathers of the United States; nine Justices of the United States Supreme Court; living billionaires;Academy Award winners;heads of state, including three United States PresidentsAdditionally, Nobel Prize laureates have been affiliated with it as students, faculty, or staff.
Discussions regarding the founding of a college in the Province of New York began as early as when Colonel Lewis Morris wrote to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, the missionary arm of the Church of England, persuading the society that New York City was an ideal community in which to establish a college; however, not until the founding of Princeton University across the Hudson River in New Jersey did the City of New York seriously consider founding a college. an act was passed by the general assembly of New York to raise funds for the foundation of a new college. In, the assembly appointed a commission of ten New York residents, seven of whom were members of the Church of England, to direct the funds accrued by the state lottery towards the foundation of a college
Classes were initially held in July and were presided over by the college's first president, Dr. Samuel Johnson.. Johnson was the only instructor of the college's first class, which consisted of a mere eight students. Instruction was held in a new schoolhouse adjoining Trinity Church, located on what is now lower Broadway in Manhattan.The college was officially founded on October s King's College by royal charter of King George II, making it the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United State
In 1763, Dr. Johnson was succeeded in the presidency by Myles Cooper, a graduate of The Queen's College, Oxford, and an ardent Tory. In the charged political climate of the American Revolution, his chief opponent in discussions at the College was an undergraduate of the class of Alexander Hamilton.e American Revolutionary War broke out in , and was catastrophic for the operation of King's College, which suspended instruction for eight years beginning in with the arrival of the Continental Army. The suspension continued through the military occupation of New York City by British troops until their departure in The college's library was looted and its sole building requisitioned for use as a military hospital first by American and then British forces.Loyalists were forced to abandon their King's College in New York, which was seized by the rebels and renamed Columbia University. The Loyalists, led by Bishop Charles Inglis fled to Windsor, Nova Scotia, where they founded what is now the University of King's Colle
The Gothic Revival Law School building on the Madison Avenue campus
After the Revolution, the college turned to the State of New York in order to restore its vitality, promising to make whatever changes to the school's charter the state might demand The Legislature agreed to assist the college, and on May it passed "an Act for granting certain privileges to the College heretofore called King's College.The Act created a Board of Regents to oversee the resuscitation of King's College, and, in an effort to demonstrate its support for the new Republic, the Legislature stipulated that "the College within the City of New York heretofore called King's College be forever hereafter called and known by the name of Columbia College,a reference to Columbia, an alternative name for America. The Regents finally became aware of the college's defective constitution in February and appointed a revision committee, which was headed by John Jay and Alexander Hamilton. In April of that same year, a new charter was adopted for the college, still in use today, granting power to a private board of
New Light Presbyterians founded the College of New Jersey in in order to train ministers.[The college was the educational and religious capital of Scots-Irish America. In 1 trustees of the College of New Jersey suggested that, in recognition of Governor's interest, Princeton should be named as Belcher College. Gov. Jonathan Belcher replied: "What a hell of name that would be!In the college moved to Princeton, New Jersey. Its home in Princeton was Nassau Hall, named for the royal House of Orange-Nassau of William III of England.
Following the untimely deaths of Princeton's first five presidents, John Witherspoon became president in 1768 and remained in that office until his death in 1794. During his presidency, Witherspoon shifted the college's focus from training ministers to preparing a new generation for leadership in the new American nation. To this end, he tightened academic standards and solicited investment in the college.[16] Witherspoon's presidency constituted a long period of stability for the college, interrupted by the American Revolution and particularly the Battle of Princeton, during which British soldiers briefly occupied Nassau Hall; American forces, led by George Washington, fired cannon on the building to rout them from it.
John Witherspoon, President of the College signer of the Declaration of Independence
In the eighth president the College of New Jersey, Ashbel Green, helped establish the Princeton Theological Seminary next door. The plan to extend the theological curriculum met with "enthusiastic approval on the part of the authorities at the College of New Jersey" Today, Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary maintain separate institutions with ties that include services such as cross-registration and mutual library access.
Before the construction of Stanhope Hall in Nassau Hall was the college's sole building. The cornerstone of the building was laid on September During the summer of 1783, the Continental Congress met in Nassau Hall, making Princeton the
country's capital for four months. Over the centuries and through two redesigns following major fires
Nassau Hall's role shifted from an all-purpose building, comprising office, dormitory, library, and classroom space; to classroom space exclusively; to its present role as the administrative center of the University. The class of 1879 donated twin lion sculptures that flanked the entrance until when that same class replaced them with tigers.[22] Nassau Hall's bell rang after the hall's construcon; however, the fire of 1802 melted it. The bell was then recast and melted again in the fire of
A Birds-eye view of campus in
James McCosh took office as the college's president in and lifted the institution out of a low period that had been brought about by the American Civil War. During his two decades of service, he overhauled the curriculum, oversaw an expansion of inquiry into the sciences, and supervised the addition of a number of buildings in the High Victorian Gothic style to the campus.[McCosh Hall is named in his honor.
In the first thesis for a Doctor of Philosophy Ph.D. was submitted by James F. Williamson, Class of
In 1896, the college officially changed its name from the College of New Jersey to Princeton University to honor the town in which it resides. During this year, the college also underwent large expansion and officially became a university.
In , Woodrow Wilson, graduate of the Class of was elected the president of the university.Under Wilson, Princeton introduced the preceptorial system in , a then-unique concept in the US that augmented the standard lecture method of teaching with a more personal form in which small groups of students, or precepts, could interact with a single instructor, or preceptor, in their field of interest.
Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann at Princeton,
In 1906, the reservoir Lake Carnegie was created by Andrew Carnegie. A collection of historical photographs of the building of the lake is housed at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library on Princeton's c
In Albert Einstein became a lifetime member of the Institute for Advanced Study with an office on the Princeton campus. While always independent of the university, the Institute for Advanced Study occupied offices in Jones Hall for 6 years, from its opening in until their own campus was finished and opened in This helped start an incorrect impression that it was part of the university, one that has never been completely eradicated.
