10 Global Universities that Students die to study in
10 Global Universities that Students dream of Joining
There are some top universities of the world which have acceptance rate as low as 7%. They are the most elite universities of the world that give thire students excellent facilities and world class faculties. In addition to that they have produced some of the greatest academicians, Scholars, Nobel Laureates, Olympic winners, Businessmen, Politicians etc. These Universities have a great alumini network and once you study in them, you are set for life!
So, Let’s look at the Top 10 Global Universities of the world.
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Cornell University, USA (10)
Cornell University was founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White. It is one of the prestigious Ivy League college of USA. Cornell has three campuses in New York and even has International Campuses. The university is broadly organized into seven undergraduate colleges and seven graduate divisions defining its own admission standards and academic programs with full autonomy. Campus is around 19 km2 in area. Cornell is famous for it variety of courses. Its graduate schools include the highly ranked S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, College of Engineering, Law School and Weill Cornell Medical College. It has a separate department of Agricultural Sciences and Environmental and life sciences. Its alumini consists of 34 Marshall Scholars, 29 Rhodes Scholars, 7 Gates Scholars, 44 Nobel laureates, and 14 living billionaires.
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ETH Zurich (09)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich is one of the best European Universities and is famous for engineering, science, technology, mathematics and management. It was founded by the Swiss Federal Government in 1854 and is a hub of Scientific developments. It is a founding member of the IDEA League and the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) and a member of the CESAER network. It has around 18,600 students and it boasts of rich student life with active participation in sports and extra curricular activities. It has given 21 Nobel Laureates, great Mathematicians and Architects. Einstein and Niels Bohr were among its alumni.
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Imperial College London (08)
It can be termed as Royal University of London. It was formed by Royal Charter and it grew to prominence by absorbing several smaller institutions, including the Royal College of Chemistry, the Royal School of Mines, the Royal College of Science, and the City and Guilds College. The yearly grant is around £113 million and the campus has around 16,600 students. According to NY times, recruiters consider its students among the top ten most valuable graduates in the world, receiving the highest salaries of any UK university. Imperial faculty and alumni include 15 Nobel laureates, 2 Fields Medalists, 70 Fellows of the Royal Society, 82 Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering and 78 Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
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Princeton University (07)
Princeton University was founded in 1747, way before than US independence. It is famous for its courses such as Mathematics, Economics, Political Science and Government, Molecular Biology, Psychology and Public Policy Analysis. It also has a high Student satisfaction ratio and dropout rate is less than 2%. It has around 8,000 students and has an annual grant for a whopping $22 Billion. Its alumni include 41 Nobel laureates, 17 National Medal of Science winners, the most Abel Prize winners and Fields Medalists of any university (four and eight, respectively), ten Turing Award laureates, five National Humanities Medal recipients, 209 Rhodes Scholars, and 126 Marshall Scholars. It also gave two US presidents and 12 US Supreme Court Justices.
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California Institute of Technology, USA (06)
California Institute of Technology or popularly known as CalTech is one of the most prestigious institutes dedicated in the field of Science and Technology. It is one of the small group of Institutes in the United States which tends to be primarily devoted to the instruction of technical arts and applied sciences. It get $322 million just from sponsorship in research and has an annual budget of $2 billion. It is so impactful that it manages NASA’s Jet propulsion Lab. It has just 2200 students but despite its small size, Caltech alumni and faculty have won a total of 34 Nobel Prizes! It’s impact can be seen clearly as the famous Mravel comic inventor character, Iron Man was shown a graduate of CalTech.
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Oxford University (05)
Oxford University is the oldest English speaking university of the world and it dates back to 1096 AD. It has some 26,000 students, annual endowment of £4.35 billion and 38 constituent colleges. The most famous courses of Oxford are Philosophy, Politics and Economics. It has a active student life and there are numerous competitions and extra co-curricular activities. The university also operates the largest university press in the world. It has a vast alumni network including 27 Nobel laureates, 26 British prime ministers and many foreign heads of states. India’s two PM have been to Oxford, Indra Gandhi and Manamohan Singh.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (04)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts founded in 1861 for development in the field of Technology. In WWII, It made immense contribution in US defense. It is known for the course in the field of physical sciences and engineering, and more recently in biology, economics, linguistics, and management as well. It has around 11,000 students and an annual endowment of around $13.475 billion. It’s alumini consists of 85 Nobel laureates, 52 National Medal of Science recipients, 65 Marshall Scholars, 45 Rhodes Scholars, 38 MacArthur Fellows, 34 astronauts, and 2 Fields Medalists. It also has produced some of the greatest companies of the world such as Intel, HP, Bose etc.
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University of Cambridge, UK (03)
University of Cambridge was founded in 1209 and interestingly by scholars who left the University of Oxford after a dispute with the townspeople. It’s colleges include 31 constituent colleges and over 100 academic departments organised into six schools. Cambridge University Press is the world’s oldest publishing house and the second-largest university press in the world. The university also operates eight cultural and scientific museums and the total income of University is over one billion pounds with additional endowment of £5.89 billion. It has given eminent mathematicians, scientists, politicians, lawyers, philosophers, writers, actors, and foreign Heads of State including 92 Nobel laureates.
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Stanford University, USA (02)
Stanford University is a private funded University in USA and is one of the Ivy League Colleges. It was founded in the memory of Leland Stanford, Jr in 1891. The University is famous for its technological research but also made significant contributions in the field of Economics and Management. The university is so advanced that by 1970, Stanford was home to a linear accelerator, and was one of the original four ARPANET nodes (precursor to the Internet). It has 11,000 student and an annual endowment of $22 billion. It is the alma mater of 30 living billionaires, 17 astronauts, and 18 Turing Award laureates. It is also one of the leading producers of members of the United States Congress. The University has affiliated with 60 Nobel laureates and 2 Fields Medalists. In addition to that its students have founded companies like Google, Nike, Yahoo etc.
Harvard University (01)
Harvard University is an Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, It was established in 1636. It is one of the leading universities of the world and has an annual endowment of $37 billion. It is famous for almost all of its courses. The University is organized into eleven separate academic units and operates several arts, cultural, and scientific museums, alongside the Harvard Library, which is the world’s largest academic and private library system. It has around 21,000 students and its alumni includes eight U.S. presidents, several foreign heads of state, 62 living billionaires, 335 Rhodes Scholars, and 242 Marshall Scholars, some 150 Nobel laureates and 5 Fields Medalists as students, faculty, or staff. Some famous companies by Harvard alumni includes Microsoft, Facebook etc.
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