List of Top University in World

  ~Harvard University~

Address: Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
Motto: Veritas
Acceptance rate: 5.9% (2014)
Founder: Massachusetts General Court
Founded: September 8, 1636, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Mascot: John Harvard, the Pilgrim

Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders in many disciplines who make a difference globally. Harvard faculty are engaged with teaching and research to push the boundaries of human knowledge. For students who are excited to investigate the biggest issues of the 21st century, Harvard offers an unparalleled student experience and a generous financial aid program, with over $160 million awarded to more than 60% of our undergraduate students. The University has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a truly global education.

Established in 1636, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States. The University, which is based in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, has an enrollment of over 20,000 degree candidates, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Harvard has more than 360,000 alumni around the world.

~Stanford University~

Address: 450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, United States
Founded: November 11, 1885
Enrollment: 16,136 From 2014
Phone: +1 650-723-2300
Founders: Leland Stanford, Jane Stanford
Motto: The wind of freedom blows, Die Luft der Freiheit weht

About Stanford
Stanford University, located between San Francisco and San Jose in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, is one of the world's leading teaching and research universities. Since its opening in 1891, Stanford has been dedicated to finding solutions to big challenges and to preparing students for leadership in a complex world.

 

~Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)~

Address: 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States
Founder: William Barton Rogers
Mascot: Tim the Beaver

The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century — whether the focus is cancer, energy, economics or literature.

~University of Cambridge~

Address: The Old Schools, Trinity Lane, Cambridge CB2 1TN, United Kingdom
Motto: Hinc lucem et pocula sacra
Color: Cambridge Blue
Founded: 1209, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 1223 337733

With more than 18,000 students from all walks of life and all corners of the world, nearly 9,000 staff, 31 Colleges and 150 Departments, Faculties, Schools and other institutions, no two days are ever the same at the University of Cambridge.

At the heart of this confederation of Departments, Schools, Faculties and Colleges is a central administration team. It is small because the Colleges are self-governing and teaching staff carry out much of the daily administration at Cambridge.

~University of Oxford~

Address: Oxford, United Kingdom
Founded: Oxford, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 1865 270000
Color: Oxford Blue
Enrollment: 22,348 (2014)
Motto: Dominus Illuminatio Mea, The Lord is my Light

Oxford is a collegiate university, consisting of the central University and colleges. The central University is composed of academic departments and research centres, administrative departments, libraries and museums. The 38 colleges are self-governing and financially independent institutions, which are related to the central University in a federal system. There are also six permanent private halls, which were founded by different Christian denominations and which still retain their Christian character.

The different roles of the colleges and the University have evolved over time.

~Columbia University~

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private Ivy League research university located in Upper Manhattan, New York City, and is among the world's top universities in selectivity and prestige.

~ University of California, Berkeley~

The University of California, Berkeley (also referred to as Berkeley,UC Berkeley, California or simply Cal) is a major public research university located in Berkeley, California. It is the flagship campus of the University of California system, one of three parts in the state's public higher education plan, which also includes the California State University system and the California Community Colleges System.

~ University of Chicago ~

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. It is considered by numerous independent university rankings to be a prestigious institution of higher learning.

~Princeton University~

Address: Princeton, NJ 08544, United States
Mascot: The Tiger
Enrollment: 8,125 (2014)
Motto: Under the Protection of God She Flourishes., Dei Sub Numine Viget
Founders: John Witherspoon, Jonathan Dickinson, William Tennent, Aaron Burr, Sr.

Princeton is the fourth-oldest college in the United States. The ambience of its earliest days is palpable in historic landmarks on campus, most notably Nassau Hall, which in 1783 was the temporary capitol of the United States. From such a distinctive beginning grew something great -- a community of learning that continues to evolve, providing abundant opportunities to talented students from around the world. As a research university, it seeks to achieve the highest levels of distinction in the discovery and transmission of knowledge and understanding, and in the education of graduate students. At the same time, Princeton is distinctive among research universities in its commitment to undergraduate teaching. The University provides its students with academic, extracurricular and other resources -- in a residential community committed to diversity in its student body, faculty and staff -- that help them achieve at the highest scholarly levels and prepare them for positions of leadership and lives of service in many fields of human endeavor. Through the scholarship and teaching of its faculty, and the many contributions to society of its alumni, Princeton seeks to fulfill its informal motto: “Princeton in the Nation’s Service and in the Service of All Nations.

~ Cornell University ~

Cornell University is an American private Ivy League and federal land-grant research university located in Ithaca, New York.