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Harvard University The oldest university in the United States, founded on September 8, 1636 as a college. Since 1639 it has been named after J. Harvard, who bequeathed capital to the college. Transformed into a university in the first quarter of the 19th century. It is a member of the association of private elite American universities - the Ivy League. The university's affiliates are the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology and the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Located in Cambridge (a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, the city is named after the University of Cambridge in the UK). Among the university's graduates are 69 Nobel Prize laureates

Princeton University A private university located in Princeton, New Jersey (USA). Founded in 1746 as the College of New Jersey. In 1896 it received university status. In 1902, Woodrow Wilson (US President 1913-1921) became its rector. It is a member of the association of private elite American universities - the Ivy League. Consists of Princeton College, graduate schools, and research centers. The university includes the premier regional McCarter Theater, an art museum, and a natural history museum. Among the university's graduates are 15 Nobel Prize laureates

Yale University One of the most famous private universities in the USA, the third oldest among American universities. Founded in 1701 under the name Collegiate School, in 1718 it was renamed Yale College in honor of Elihu Yale, who donated a large sum of money to the school. In 1887 it was transformed into a university. The university consists of 12 schools and is managed by the Yale Corporation. Five US presidents graduated from the university - William Howard Taft, Gerald Ford, George Bush Sr., Bill Clinton, George W. Bush. Located in New Haven, Connecticut. Member of the Ivy League. Among the university's graduates are 20 Nobel Prize laureates

Californian Institute of Technology(California Institute of Technology; often shortened to Caltech, "Caltech" or "Caltech"). Private university. Founded in 1891 by businessman and politician Amos Throop under the name Throop University. Renamed several times. It received its current name in 1920. It is located in Pasadena (California). One of the leading universities in the USA and, along with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the most important educational institutions specializing in exact sciences Oh. The institute is home to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which launches most of NASA's unmanned spacecraft. Among the university's graduates are 19 Nobel Prize laureates

Columbia University Formed on the basis of King's College (Royal College), founded in 1754 in New York. Since 1758 he began to appropriate academic degrees. In 1784 it was incorporated into the State University of New York and renamed Columbia College, and since 1787 it has been a private university. In 1912, the college was given university status. Governed by a board of trustees. The university has over 30 libraries, including the main one - South Hall, technical, legal, medical, etc., as well as the Bakhmetyevsky Archive, one of the largest repositories of materials of Russian emigration. Located in New York, Manhattan. Member of the elite Ivy League. A famous graduate of the university is US President Barack Obama. Among the university's graduates are 39 Nobel Prize laureates

/TASS/. Of the hundred most prestigious universities ranking of the Times Higher Education magazine, prepared based on a survey of 10.5 thousand professors from 142 countries, 43 operate in the United States. Two Russian universities were included in the ranking - Moscow State University named after Lomonosov (MSU) and St. Petersburg State University (SPbSU).

Rating editor Phil Batey said that this rating is subjective, unlike the rating " Top Universities world", which THE traditionally publishes in October. This is explained by the fact that it is based only on academic opinion, and not on objective indicators of the university’s performance. At the same time, Batey emphasized that reputation for universities is extremely important, since, according to According to a study conducted by the magazine, this factor is the main one for professors when they decide to look for another university to teach.

TOP 100 most prestigious universities

1. Harvard University, USA

2. University of Cambridge, UK

3. University of Oxford, UK

4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

5. Stanford University, USA

6. University of California, Berkeley, USA

7. Princeton University (USA)

8. Yale University, USA

9. California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA

10. Columbia University, USA

11. University of Chicago, USA

12. The University of Tokyo, Japan

13. University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA, USA

14. Imperial College London, UK

15. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich), Switzerland

16. University of Toronto, Canada

17. University College London (UCL), UK

18. Johns Hopkins University, USA

19. University of Michigan, USA

20. Cornell University, USA

21. New York University (NYU), USA

22. London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK

23. University of Pennsylvania, USA

24. National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore

25. Moscow State University named after. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

26. Tsinghua University, China

27. Kyoto University, Japan

28. Carnegie Mellon University, USA

29. University of Edinburgh, UK

30. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

31. King's College London, UK

32. Peking University, China

33. University of Washington, USA

34. Duke University, USA

35-36. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

McGill University, Canada

37. University British Columbia(University of British Columbia), Canada

38-40. Heidelberg University, Germany

University of California, San Francisco, USA

University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

41-43. Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

University of California, San Diego, USA

University of Melbourne, Australia

44. University of California, Davis, USA

45. Karolinska Institute, Sweden

46. ​​University of Texas at Austin, USA

47. Northwestern University, USA

48. Federal Polytechnical School of Lausanne (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Switzerland

49. Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Tech, USA

50. University of Manchester, UK

51-60. Australian National University(Australian National University), Australia

Delftsky Technical University(Delft University of Technology), Netherlands

Free University of Berlin, Germany

Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium

University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Panthéon-Sorbonne University – Paris 1), France

University Paris 4 Sorbonne (Paris-Sorbonne University – Paris 4), France

Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

University of São Paulo, Brazil

University of Sydney, Australia

61-70. Higher normal school (École Normale Supérieure), France

Leiden University, Netherlands

National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Pennsylvania State University, USA

Technical University of Munich, Germany

University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

University of North Carolina, USA

University of Southern California, USA

Wageningen University and Research Center, Netherlands

71-80. Boston University, USA

Brown University, USA

Michigan State University, USA

National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

Purdue University, USA

Rutgers University (The State University of New Jersey), USA

Saint Petersburg State University, Russia

University of Minnesota, USA

University of Pittsburgh, USA

Utrecht University, Netherlands

81-90. Durham University, UK

Ohio State University, USA

Texas A&M University, USA

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

University of Helsinki, Finland\

University of Queensland, Australia

University of Warwick, UK

Uppsala University, Sweden

Washington University in St. Louis, USA

91-100. Polytechnical School (École Polytechnique), France

London Business School, UK

Mayo Medical School, USA

Monash University Australia

Nanyang University of Technology(Nanyang Technological University), Singapore

Pasteur Institute, France

Rhine-Westphalian Technical University Aachen (RWTH Aachen University), Germany

University of Bristol, UK

University of Maryland, College Park, USA

University of Massachusetts, USA

Fans of the academic lifestyle certainly have one common feature: They all would like to have the opportunity to study at one of the famous universities. However, only the elite have access to them, for whom renowned publications constantly rank educational institutions to identify the best of the best. You may also be interested in our list of the 10 most prestigious universities in the world.

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Columbia University

The famous Columbia University, which is located in New York, is one of eight American universities that are members of the Ivy League. It's very old and prestigious educational institution, founded in 1754 by the English King George II with the name King's College. The university is one of 14 founding members of the Association of American Universities and is the first university in the United States to offer an MD degree. Columbia University's students have included 20 modern billionaires, 29 foreign heads of state, and 100 Nobel Prize winners.

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The California Institute of Technology is a private educational institution located in Pasadena, California, USA. With great emphasis on scientific activity, the university attracts famous scientists to teach, such as George Ellery Hale, Arthur Amos Noyes and Robert Andrews Millikan. Caltech University, one of the few in the United States, primarily focuses on teaching engineering and science. Although this is a small educational institution, its 33 graduates and teachers have deservedly received 34 Nobel Prizes, 5 Fields Awards and 6 Turing Awards.

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Yale University is a member of the American Ivy League. Located in Connecticut, USA. The famous Yale was founded in 1701, it is the third oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Its original purpose was to teach theology and ancient languages, but since 1777 syllabus schools began to include the humanities and sciences. Five US Presidents and other famous politicians such as Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. studied at Yale University. 52 of its graduates are Nobel laureates.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is also part of the Ivy League. Located in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. Princeton was founded in 1746, moved to Newark in 1747, and then moved to its current location in 1896, where it took on its modern name, Princeton University. It is the alma mater of two US presidents, as well as numerous billionaires and foreign heads of state. Princeton is rightly considered one of the best universities in the world.

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University of California at Berkeley

It is one of the few public educational institutions in the United States with such a prestigious reputation. It was named one of the top six college brands for 2015. The World Academic Ranking of World Universities places the University of California at Berkeley 4th in the world among all universities and first among public universities. Berkeley faculty, alumni, and researchers have received 72 Nobel Prizes, 13 Fields Medals, 22 Turing Awards, 45 MacArthur Fellowships, 20 Oscars, 14 Pulitzer Prizes, and 105 Olympic gold medals.

Every person who wants to achieve success in life strives to get quality education. However, universities in our country, unfortunately, do not provide certificates at a level that allows you to quickly get one of the leading positions in profitable companies. Despite this, more and more of our compatriots are receiving education in, but some are trying their hand abroad. Of course, many cannot afford to pay for education, but many grants come to the rescue; if you win, you can study abroad for free. We have collected for you the best options for higher education institutions in the ranking the best universities in the world 2016 year, so that you can choose exactly what you like.

10. University of Chicago (USA)

This educational institution has a rich history: it was here that we managed to get our first nuclear reaction, prove that oncology can be caused by genetic inheritance, confirm the benefits of reading for brain development. The university has more than 120 different research centers, whose services are used by large companies, so the prospect of staying to work here is very attractive, because you can repeat the feat of one of the 89 graduates who became Nobel Prize laureates. It was here that the modern foreign policy doctrine of the United States of America was developed.

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The main marketing trump card possessed by the university, which ranks ninth in the ranking of the best universities in the world in 2016, is the presence in the list of graduates of Albert Einstein, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1921. Among the features are also unique developments, including the Large Hadron Collider, the activities of which are supervised by STI. This speaks extremely highly qualified specialists, thanks to which they have the opportunity to participate in the cutting-edge research of our time.

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This university gave the world many revolutionaries in science, because it was its graduates who identified the beneficial properties of vitamin C. One of the outstanding students of the college was Alexander Fleming, the inventor of penicillin, which allowed humanity to effectively fight infectious diseases. The clip also contains 15 Nobel laureates, including the man who gave the world the hologram. If you have a predisposition to study technical or natural sciences, then Imperial College will be the best option.

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You'll be amazed at the number of activities Princeton University has, which ranks seventh in the top ten universities in the world for 2016. Regardless of the chosen industry, he has something to be proud of. It was here that the speed of light was exceeded, game theory was developed, which is the basis of a separate discipline within economic science, and also advanced developments in the field of energy saving have been made, allowing humanity to avoid raw materials and energy crises in the future. The most famous graduate is John Nash, the first person who was able to recognize the presence of schizophrenia and successfully cope with it. This inspired American directors to create a biographical film about the outstanding mathematician.

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There are probably no people in the civilized world who have not heard at least once in their lives about Harvard, which gave the world 8 US presidents, including John Kennedy and Barack Obama, many cinema stars, the founder of the era of personal computers, Bill Gates, who is also the creator first in the world social network(Facebook), which has about two billion users today. Among the immigrants former USSR There are also several prominent figures who graduated from Harvard: Yuri Shevchuk, Orest Subtelny, Grigory Grabovich. Anyone who wants a bright future for their child strives to provide him with an education at this university.

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The second most important technical university of our time is among the top five best institutions in the world in 2016. It is here that ideas that are constantly being introduced into everyday life, such as cybernetics and artificial intelligence, were born and continue to develop. There are a lot of laboratories at MIT, including one that develops the latest military equipment for the United States Army. The total teaching staff numbers about one and a half thousand professors, and of the eleven thousand students, 15% are foreign citizens.

4. University of Cambridge (UK)

The ranking, which includes the best universities in the world 2016, cannot do without Cambridge. This educational institution is the world leader among graduates with the Nobel Prize, there are 92 of them, most of whom did revolutionary discoveries in the field of exact sciences and natural history. Thanks to long history existence, "Cambridge" also boasts outstanding physicists - Newton and Bacon. It is worth noting that leading experts in the field nuclear physics work here, among the professors were also Ernest Rutherford, who proved the existence of a nucleus in an atom with a positive charge and electrons around it with a negative charge and the creator of the world's first atomic bomb– Robert Oppenheimer.

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The university that opens the top three is the cradle of the modern computer industry, because on its basis a lot of brands were born, which are now one of the largest companies in the world. It was here that Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, studied, and it was solely thanks to the ability of teachers to adequately respond to the innovative developments of their own students that he was able to achieve such success. Stanford cordially provided scientific laboratories for MasterCard, Facebook, Xerox, which allowed the giants of the IT industry to revolutionize Everyday life, greatly simplifying it.

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Despite its small size compared to other contenders, it had a decisive influence on the United States space program, making the launch of the Hubble telescope and the Apollo lunar program possible. Every tenth graduate is awarded a medal for innovation from the government; the majority secure a place in the Federal Academy of Sciences by the age of thirty. 17 students were awarded Nobel Prize, all in the field of physics or mathematics. No other educational institution can boast of such an influence on human space exploration as KTI.

1. Oxford University (UK)

Oxford is the gold medalist of the Top 10 rating and this the best university in the world 2016 of the year. This university serves as an example of a classical university, where humanitarian, technological and medical disciplines are equally developed. It was here that the first theories about the origin of the Universe appeared, the trajectories of galaxies were calculated and research expeditions to Mars were coordinated. Interesting fact is also the presence of its own observatory, whose employees predicted the collision Milky Way and Andromeda, and a planet was discovered that consists entirely of glass.

Our university status is influenced by quite a few factors: the quality of education, the number of Nobel laureates, special programs, scientific works, awards and many others. But there are institutions that are leaders in all respects. You will learn about them now.

Harvard University

The oldest and one of the most famous universities in the USA. It was founded on September 8, 1636. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. More than forty Nobel laureates, politicians and businessmen (Theodore Roosevelt, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg) studied within its walls. Tuition cost: about $40,000 per year. It has the largest endowment fund among universities in the world ($37.6 billion). Web site

Stanford University

A private university in the USA, which is one of the most prestigious in the USA and in the world. It appeared relatively recently - in 1891 and is located near the city of Palo Alto, California. It was created with the goal of educating graduates who are not just educated, but also in demand in the labor market, so that the focus on public benefit remains at Stanford to this day. That is why among the graduates of the university there are many innovators and inventors who have made great changes in our world (Elon Musk (though he did not graduate), Larry Page, Sergey Brin).

Web site A most prestigious educational institution, famous not only for the quality of teaching, but also for its amazing international atmosphere, as it has a large number of students from all over the world. Founded in 1701. Located in New Haven, Connecticut. Tuition fee: about $40,500 per year

. Among the graduates of the university you can recognize leaders from various countries of the world, as well as famous public figures, scientists and entrepreneurs (George Bush, John Kerry, Meryl Streep, John Templeton) Website

One of the oldest universities in Europe and the real pride of the British education system. The cherished dream of thousands of students from all over the world. The exact date of the founding of Oxford University is unknown, but education at Oxford began as early as 1096. Located in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. To this day, Oxford maintains its traditions and premium level of education. Tuition fee: about $14,000 per year. Among famous alumni: Lewis Carroll, John Tolkien, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair. Web site

Cambridge university

A truly legendary educational institution, it is the oldest in Europe after Oxford. The university grew out of a meeting of learned people in the city of Cambridge (Cambridgeshire), which was founded, according to chronicles, in 1209. No university in the world can boast as many Nobel laureates as this one, equal to eighty-eight. Famous alumni: Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Francis Bacon, James Maxwell, Vladimir Nabokov, Frederick Sanger. Tuition fee: about $14,000 per year. Web site

A university in the USA with an excellent academic reputation that attracts the most talented students from all over the world. Founded in 1746 in Princeton, New Jersey. Tuition fee: about $37,000 per year. US President Woodrow Wilson, actress Brooke Shields, and US First Lady Michelle Obama studied there. Web site

Columbia University

A university in the state of New York that has produced many talented graduates in the most various fields. Among them are forty-three Nobel laureate, three presidents, as well as worldwide famous writers and public figures. Founded in 1754 in New York. Tuition fee: about $45,000 per year. Notable alumni: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Mikheil Saakashvili, Warren Buffett, Jerome Salinger, Hunter Thompson, Barack Obama, Kathryn Bigelow.