University of Oxford
Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world and lays claim to nine centuries of continuous existence. As an internationally renowned centre for teaching and research, Oxford attracts students and scholars from across the globe, with almost a quarter of our students from overseas. More than 130 nationalities are represented among a student population of over 18,000.
Oxford is a collegiate university, with 39 self-governing
colleges related to the University in a type of federal system. There are also
seven Permanent Private Halls, founded by different Christian denominations.
Thirty colleges and all halls admit students for both undergraduate and
graduate degrees. Seven other colleges are for graduates only; one has Fellows
only, and one specializes in part-time and continuing education.
Harvard University
Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the
United States, established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of
the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was named after the College’s first
benefactor, the young minister John Harvard of Charlestown, who upon his death
in 1638 left his library and half his estate to the institution. A statue of
John Harvard stands today in front of University Hall in Harvard Yard, and is
perhaps the University’s best known landmark.
Harvard University has 12 degree-granting Schools in
addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The University has
grown from nine students with a single master to an enrollment of more than
20,000 degree candidates including undergraduate, graduate, and professional
students. There are more than 360,000 living alumni in the U.S. and over 190
other countries.
California Institute of Technology
Founded as Throop University in 1891 in Pasadena,
California, and renamed the California Institute of Technology in 1920.
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is a
world-renowned science and engineering research and education institution,
where extraordinary faculty and students seek answers to complex questions,
discover new knowledge, lead innovation, and transform our future.
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is rich in history - its famous
Colleges and University buildings attract visitors from all over the world. But
the University's museums and collections also hold many treasures which give an
exciting insight into some of the scholarly activities, both past and present,
of the University's academics and students.
The University of Cambridge is one of the world's oldest
universities and leading academic centres, and a self-governed community of
scholars. Its reputation for outstanding academic achievement is known
world-wide and reflects the intellectual achievement of its students, as well
as the world-class original research carried out by the staff of the University
and the Colleges.
Many of the University's customs and unusual terminology can
be traced to roots in the early years of the University's long history, and
this booklet looks to the past to find the origins of much that is distinctive
in the University of today.
Imperial College London
Consistently rated amongst the world's best universities,
Imperial College London is a science-based institution with a reputation for
excellence in teaching and research.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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 Chicago
“If the first faculty had met in a tent, this still would
have been a great university,” said President Robert Maynard Hutchins, the
University’s fifth president, in his 1929 inaugural address.
The first faculty assembled on Opening Day, 1892, were
indeed an impressive bunch: lured from colleges all over the country, they had
been drawn to Chicago by the idea of a community of great scholars. As Charles
O. Whitman, who left Clark University to head the biology department at the new
institution, enthusiastically put it, “The time has now come when we must
recognize and live up to the necessity for greater organic unity among kindred
sciences.”
Today, under the leadership of Robert J. Zimmer, the
University’s 13th president, UChicago continues to evolve. Gothic architecture
has made room for modern gems like the Charles M. Harper Center, home to the
Graduate School of Business, and the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts.
And the 400,000-square-foot Gordon Center for Integrative Science, which opened
in 2006, can house 800 scientists, researchers, and students.
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California was chartered in 1868 and its
flagship campus — envisioned as a "City of Learning" — was
established at Berkeley, on San Francisco Bay. Today the world's premier public
university and a wellspring of innovation, UC Berkeley occupies a 1,232 acre
campus with a sylvan 178-acre central core. From this home its academic
community makes key contributions to the economic and social well-being of the
Bay Area, California, and the nation.
Yale University
Yale University comprises three major academic components:
Yale College (the undergraduate program), the Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences, and the professional schools. In addition, Yale encompasses a wide
array of centers and programs, libraries, museums, and administrative support
offices. Approximately 11,250 students attend Yale.
Columbia University
For
more than 250 years, Columbia has been a leader in higher education in the
nation and around the world. At the core of our wide range of academic inquiry
is the commitment to attract and engage the best minds in pursuit of greater
human understanding, pioneering new discoveries and service to society.
