MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Description:-

Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private institution that was founded in 1861. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 4,512, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 168 acres. It utilizes a 4-1-4-based academic calendar. Massachusetts Institute of Technology's ranking in the 2016 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 7. Its tuition and fees are $46,704 (2015-16).

History:-

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was established in 1861 by William Barton Rogers as a response to the increasing industrialization of the US. MIT's early focus was on applied technology at the undergraduate and graduate level, which led to co-operation with industry.

Mission:- 

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.The Institute is committed to generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge, and to working with others to bring this knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges. MIT is dedicated to providing its students with an education that combines rigorous academic study and the excitement of discovery with the support and intellectual stimulation of a diverse campus community. We seek to develop in each member of the MIT community the ability and passion to work wisely, creatively, and effectively for the betterment of humankind.

Address:-

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
77 Massachusetts Ave, 
Cambridge, 
MA 02139, 
United States.


       

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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

Description:-

The University of Cambridge is a collegiate public research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, Cambridge is the second oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's fourth-oldest surviving university. 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

Museums and collections:-

The University of Cambridge has nine museums and collections which are open to the public throughout the year.

Our ambition:- 

For 800 years, the world has invested in Cambridge and Cambridge has delivered. We gave you gravity, evolution, computers and pulsars. Next we could deliver clean energy sources, longer lives, quantum computers and parallel universes. But first we need to ask more from the world.
"Cambridge scholars pioneered new interpretations of scripture, identified the building blocks of life, the origins of the universe and the origins of man. They invented the computer and the web cam, the rules of football and the jet engine."

Address:-

The Old Schools,
Trinity Ln,
Cambridge CB2 1TN,
United Kingdom

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STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Description:-

Stanford University is one of the world’s foremost research and teaching institutions. Leland and Jane Stanford founded the University in 1885 to “promote the public welfare by exercising an influence on behalf of humanity and civilization”. Located in California, Stanford’s entrepreneurial culture was vital in the creation of Silicon Valley and the high-technology industry. Stanford includes seven schools and enrolls about 15,000 students. Stanford is committed to contributing to some of the world’s most daunting environmental, health related and governance challenges. The current faculty includes 16 Nobel laureates and four Pulitzer prizewinners.

Birth of the University:-

Leland, Jane and Leland Jr. sat for this portrait at the Walery Studio in Paris c. 1881-1883.

In 1876, former California Governor Leland Stanford purchased 650 acres of Rancho San Francisquito for a country home and began the development of his famous Palo Alto Stock Farm. He later bought adjoining properties totaling more than 8,000 acres.

Twenty-first Century:-

21ST CENTURY CAMPUS

The 21st century has proven to be a period of rapid change, with growing demands on research institutions like Stanford, which was founded on the idea that teaching and research could—and should—benefit society.

Address:-

Stanford
450 Serra Mall, CA 94305
United States

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UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

Description:-

Oxford is a collegiate university, consisting of the central University and colleges. The central University is composed of academic departments and research centers, 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.

HISTORY:- 

Oxford University is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. Teaching has been taking place in Oxford since at least 1096 and developed rapidly through the 12th century. The University has played a major role in the intellectual life of the country since its early days. Over nine centuries it has been a center for debate and controversy in science, religion and the arts.During the 20th and early 21st centuries, Oxford added to its humanistic core a major new research capacity in the natural and applied sciences, including medicine.

Teaching Standards:-

Oxford has more world-leading academics (rated 3* in the 2015 national Research Excellence Framework) than any other UK university.It ranked first in terms of the volume of material assessed as world-leading in 12 out of 31 Units of Assessment.92% of the examples it submitted of impact its research has on the wider world was rated as outstanding or very considerable.

Address:-  

Oxford Information Center 
15–16 Broad Street 
Oxford, United Kingdom.

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Description:-

The oldest academic institute in the US, it dates from 1636 and is named after its first benefactor, John Harvard. It has the global academy's largest financial endowment and boasts more than 40 Nobel laureates. Its 210-acre main campus and 23 satellites house 10 faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Mission:-

The mission of Harvard College is to educate the citizens and citizen-leaders for our society. We do this through our commitment to the trans-formative power of a liberal arts and sciences education.Beginning in the classroom with exposure to new ideas, new ways of understanding, and new ways of knowing, students embark on a journey of intellectual transformation.  Through a diverse living environment, where students live with people who are studying different topics, who come from different walks of life and have evolving identities, intellectual transformation is deepened and conditions for social transformation are created.  From this we hope that students will begin to fashion their lives by gaining a sense of what they want to do with their gifts and talents, assessing their values and interests, and learning how they can best serve the world.

On Campus:-

Harvard’s campus creates a stunning backdrop for all that happens within the University.The Harvard student experience is characterized by unlimited possibilities. Opportunities abound inside the classroom and out, with over 8,000 courses from over 100 departments and countless research programs. Here, undergraduate students have access to almost every extracurricular program imaginable and the largest Division 1 Athletics Program in the country. And after graduation, students join the Harvard Alumni Association, which includes nearly 360,000 alumni worldwide.

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CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Description:-

The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is a word-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.
  This Institute is founded as Throop University in 1891 in Pasadena, California, and renamed the California Institute of Technology in 1920.

Mission:-

The mission of the California Institute of Technology is to expand human knowledge and benefit society through research integrated with education. We investigate the most challenging, fundamental problems in science and technology in a singularly collegial, interdisciplinary atmosphere, while educating outstanding students to become creative members of society.

Students:- 

977 undergraduate students
1,204 graduate students
31% female / 69% male

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UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA

The University of Alaska (UA) system has its largest campuses in Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau  but there are smaller campuses around the state.
Total number of student around in UA system is 35,000,including both full-time and part-time students.The largest campus by enrollment is UA Anchorage. Here ,the most popular majors are in nursing,education,business administration,human services,accounting,psychology and aviation technology.

Mission Statement

"The University of Alaska inspires learning, and advances and disseminates knowledge through teaching, research, and public service, emphasizing the North and its diverse peoples."

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