2007 - 16 top and famous national universities in USA

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This are the top 16 national universities in USA as of 2007. For those who plan to come in States & study here in the future, you will have an idea why this Universities are so famous & the best among the nations. For those who are already here, you can still pick the best one you like for your college degree.

1. Princeton University(NJ)
2. Harvard University(MA)
3. Yale University(CT)
4. California Institute of Technology OR CALTECH
5. Stanford University(CA)
6. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology OR MIT
7. University of Pennsylvania
8. Duke University(NC)
9. Dartmouth College(NH)
10. Columbia University(NY)
11. University of Chicago
12. Cornell University(NY)
13. Washington University in St. Louis
14. Northwestern University(IL)
15. Brown University(RI)
16. Johns Hopkins University(MD)


1. Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States of America. It is one of the eight Ivy League universities.
Originally founded at Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1746 as “the College of New Jersey”, it relocated to Princeton in 1756 and was renamed “Princeton University” in 1896.[2] Princeton was the fourth institution of higher education in the U.S. to conduct classes, and Princeton says it was "the fourth college to be established in British North America."
Rankings
For the past seven years, Princeton University has been ranked 1st among national universities by U.S. News and World Report (USNWR). Princeton University has been home to scholars, scientists, writers, and statesmen, including four United States presidents, two of whom graduated from the university. James Madison and Woodrow Wilson graduated from Princeton


Woodrow Wilson - President of USA

FAMOUS PRINCETON ALUMNI
James Madison A.B. 1771 - 4th President of the United States
Woodrow Wilson A.B. 1879 - 28th President of the United States
Queen Noor of Jordan A.B. 1973 - Her Majesty Queen of Jordan
Aaron Burr A.B. 1772 - 3rd Vice President of the United States
John C. Breckinridge A.B. ? - 14th Vice President of the United States
George M. Dallas A.B. 1810 - 11th Vice President of the United States
Malcolm Forbes A.B. 1941 - businessman and publisher
Steve Forbes A.B. 1970 - son of Malcolm Forbes, =  of Forbes magazine
Charles "Pete" Conrad, B.S.E. 1953 - astronaut, third man to walk on the moon
Charlie Gibson A.B. 1965 - journalist, anchor of ABC World News Tonight
John Stossel A.B. 1969 - Television reporter-correspondent for ABC News, 20/20
Dean Cain A.B. 1988 - actor, played Superman in the television series Lois and Clark
Brooke Shields A.B. 1987 - model/actress, from "The Blue Lagoon"
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2.  Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.
The institution was named Harvard College on March 13, 1639, after its first principal donor, a young clergyman named John Harvard. A graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge in England, John Harvard bequeathed about four hundred books in his will to form the basis of the college library collection, along with half his personal wealth worth several hundred pounds. The earliest known official reference to Harvard as a "university" rather than a "college" occurred in the new Massachusetts Constitution of 1780.
In 1999, Radcliffe College, founded in 1894 as an outgrowth of the "Harvard Annex" for women, merged formally with Harvard University, becoming the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
US News and World Report's "America's Best Colleges 2007" ranked Harvard as the second-best undergraduate college in the United States, one point behind Princeton University.



John Kennedy - President of USA

HARVARD UNIV. = FAMOUS ALUMNI
Seven Presidents of the United States have graduated from Harvard University. These include John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, John F. Kennedy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Theodore Roosevelt. George W. Bush received his Master's Degree there. Bush and Hayes graduated from Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, respectively, while the others graduated from Harvard College. Some fifty Nobel Prize winners have been associated with the University.
William H. Gates (born 1955) Co-founder of Microsoft; as of 2006, wealthiest person in the world Attended College, dropped, given honorary degree.
Al Gore (born 1948) Vice President of the United States College 1969
Tommy Lee Jones (born 1946) Actor College 1969
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg (born 1957) Writer; daughter of John F. Kennedy Radcliffe 1980
Edward Kennedy (born 1932) United States Senator College 1956
Masako Owada (born 1963) Crown Princess of Japan College 1985
Natalie Portman (born 1981) Actress College 2003
Chris Wallace (born 1947) Television host College 1969
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3. Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League. Particularly well-known are its undergraduate school, Yale College, and the Yale Law School, each of which has produced a number of U.S. presidents and foreign heads of state. In 1861, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences became the first school in the United States to award the Ph.D. degree. Also notable is the Yale School of Drama which has produced many prominent Hollywood and Broadway actors, as well as the art, music, medical and architecture schools, each of which is often cited as among the finest in their respective fields.


George W H Bush SR ---41st President of the USA ---- the father of  President George W.Bush Jr.


George W. Bush JR  - Current 43rd President of the USA


Famous alumni

George H. W. Bush (B.A. 1948), 41st President of the United States (1989-1993),
George W. Bush (B.A. 1968), 43rd  President of the United States (2001-present),
d*ck Cheney (Class of 1963*), Vice President of the United States (2001-present)[84]
Bill Clinton (J.D. 1973), President of the United States (1993-2001),
Gerald Ford (LL.B. 1941), President of the United States (1974-1977),
William Howard Taft (B.A. 1878, honorary LL.D. 1893), 27th President of the USA
Ernesto Zedillo (Ph.D. 1981), President of Mexico (1994-2000)[
Hillary Rodham Clinton (J.D. 1973), U.S. senator (D-New York, 2001-present)
Jodie Foster (B.A. in literature, magna c*m laude), Academy Award-winning actress 
Paul Newman, Academy Award-winning actor
Meryl Streep (MFA), Academy Award-winning actress
Anderson Cooper (B.A. 1989), CNN anchor of Anderson Cooper 360°
Henry Winkler (MFA 1970), actor, best known as "Fonzie" on Happy Days
David Duchovny (M.A. English literature), actor in The X-Files
Hillary Clinton - senator of NY - wife of Pres.Bill Clinton
John Kerry --- Senator USA -- presidential candidate 2004

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4. The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech) is a private, coeducational university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. Caltech maintains a strong emphasis on the natural sciences and engineering. Caltech also operates and manages the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), an autonomous-space-flight complex that oversees the design and operation of most of NASA's space-probes. Caltech is a small school, with only about 2100 students, but is ranked in the top 10 universities worldwide by metrics such as citation index, Nobel Prizes, and general university rankings
The Spitzer Science Center (SSC), located on the Caltech campus, is the data analysis and community support center for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The SSC, part of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC), works in collaboration with the Jet Propulsion Labor


William Shockley- inventor of transistor

FAMOUS ALUMNI
Mark M. Mills, PhD 1948 - nuclear physicist, developer of atomic weapons, and deputy director of Livermore
William Shockley, BS 1932 - Nobel laureate in physics (1956) for invention of the transistor
Walter Bright, BS 1979 - Computer scientist, developed first native C++ compiler (Zortech C++), first classic strategic computer wargame (Empire), and designed the D programming language.
York Liao, BS 1967 - inventor of liquid crystal displays
Charles Francis Richter, PhD 1928, faculty - seismologist, creator of the Richter scale
Chester Carlson, BS 1930 - Inventor of the photocopier, the foundation of Xerox
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5. STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles northwest of San José in Stanford, California. Situated adjacent to the city of Palo Alto, California, Stanford lies at the heart of the Silicon Valley, both geographically and historically.


Herbert Hoover - President of USA

FAMOUS ALUMNI
Herbert Hoover (1895), 31st President of the United States
Lou Henry Hoover, First Lady
Vint Cerf (B.S. 1965), Internet pioneer, co-inventor of TCP/IP internet protocol, Turing award winning computer scientist
John Cioffi (M.S., Ph.D.), father of DSL (broad band internet connection)
Ted Hoff (Ph.D. 1962), inventor of microprocessor, winner of kyoto prize
Paul Flaherty (MS, Ph.D), inventor of AltaVista search engine
Brent Townshend (Ph.D), inventor of 56k modem
Ted Koppel (MA), journalist
Elizabeth Farnsworth (MA), broadcast journalist
Eileen Collins (MS) first female commander of a space shuttle
Sergey Brin, (MS), Google co-founder
Larry Page, (M.S.), Google co-founder
Jerry Yang, Yahoo! co-founder
David Filo, (MS), Yahoo! co-founder
William Hewlett (1934), Hewlett-Packard co-found
David Packard, (1934), Hewlett-Packard co-founder
Jawed Karim (current Master's student), YouTube co-founder
Chelsea Clinton (B.A. 2001), First Daughter
Eunice Kennedy Shriver,, sister of John F. Kennedy (1944)
Dianne Feinstein (1955), U.S. Senator
Sandra Day O'Connor (1950, LL.B. 1952), former U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice
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6.  MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private, coeducational research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing 32 academic departments,[3] with a strong emphasis in theoretical, applied, and interdisciplinary scientific and technological research. MIT is one of two private land-grant universities as well as a sea-grant and space-grant university.
MIT was founded by William Barton Rogers in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States. Although based upon European models of an institute of technology, MIT's founding philosophy of "learning by doing" made it an early pioneer in the use of laboratory instruction,undergraduate research, and progressive architectural styles. As a federally funded research and development center during World War II, MIT scientists developed defense-related technologies that would later become integral to computers, radar, and inertial guidance. After the war, MIT continued to have a high profile throughout the Space Race and Cold War and its reputation expanded beyond its core competencies in science and engineering into the social sciences including economics, linguistics, political science, and management.


Ray Tomlinson - invented the Email

FAMOUS ALUMNI
Kofi Annan — Secretary-General of the United Nations
Ahmed Chalabi — controversial Iraqi politician, now  deputy prime minister of Iraq
Benjamin Netanyahu — former Prime Minister of Israel
Carly Fiorina — Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard
William Clay Ford, Jr. — Chairman and CEO of Ford Motor Company
Ray Tomlinson - innovator of email systems, pioneered the use of the @ symbol for email
Andrew Tanenbaum — computer scientist and creator of Minix, the precursor to Linux
Dan Bricklin — co-inventor of Visicalc, the first WYSIWYG PC spreadsheet program
David D. Clark - led the development of TCP/IP -- the protocol that underlies the Internet
Wesley A. Clark - computing pioneer, creator of the LINC (the first minicomputer)
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7. UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA
The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn ) is a co-educational, private, nonsectarian research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to the university, it is America's first university[5] and is the fourth-oldest[6] institution of higher education in the United States. Penn is also a member of the Ivy League and is one of the Colonial Colleges.
Nine signers of the Declaration of Independence and eleven signers of the Constitution are associated with the University. Benjamin Franklin, Penn's founder, advocated an educational program that focused as much on practical education for commerce and public service as on the classics and theology. Penn was one of the first academic institutions to follow a multidisciplinary model pioneered by several European universities, concentrating several "faculties" (e.g., theology, classics, medicine) into one institution.

Penn is acknowledged as a leader in the arts and humanities, the social sciences, architecture, communications and education.[7] [8] Penn is particularly noted for its schools of business, law and medicine The institution was known as the College of Philadelphia from 1755 to 1779. In 1779, not trusting then-provost Rev. William Smith's loyalist tendencies, the revolutionary State Legislature created a University of the State of Pennsylvania [13]. The result was a schism, with Rev. William Smith continuing to operate an attenuated version of the College of Philadelphia. In 1791 the legislature issued a new charter, merging the two institutions into the University of Pennsylvania with twelve men from each institution on the new board of trustees.
Penn has two claims to being the first university in the United States, according to university archive director Mark Frazier Lloyd: founding the first medical school in America in 1765, makes it the first university de facto, while, by virtue of the 1779 charter, "no other American institution of higher learning was named University before Penn."


Donald Trump - Businessman

FAMOUS ALUMNI
Some noted University of Pennsylvania alumni include the ninth President of the United States, William Henry Harrison, real estate mogul Donald Trump, CEO and investor Warren Buffett [28], Cisco Systems co-founder Len Bosack, linguist and activist Noam Chomsky, American industrialist Jon Huntsman, philanthropist Walter Annenberg, E. Digby Baltzell who is credited with the popularization of the acronym WASP, U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Drew Gilpin Faust, president-elect of Harvard University, and numerous other past and present U.S. Ambassadors, members of congress, governors, cabinet members, and corporate leaders.
Maury Povich: Talk-show host
Andrea Mitchell: NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent
John Heisman: The Heisman Trophy is named after him
Steve Wynn: Chairman and CEO Wynn Resorts, Mirage Resorts.Las Vegas CASINOS
Oscar Goodman: Mayor of Las Vegas and Attorney.
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8. DUKE UNIVERSITY
Duke University is a private coeducational research university located in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892.[2] In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B. Duke established The Duke Endowment, prompting the institution to change its name in honor of his deceased father, Washington Duke.
The university is organized into two undergraduate and eight graduate schools. The undergraduate student body, containing 37% ethnic minorities, come from all 50 U.S. states and 85 countries.[3] In its 2007 edition, U.S. News & World Report ranked the undergraduate division eighth in the nation,[4] while ranking the medical, law, and business schools among the top eleven in the country.[5] Duke's research expenditures are among the largest in the U.S. and its athletic program is one of the nation's elite..


Richard Nixon - President of USA

FAMOUS ALUMNI
Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States,
Elizabeth Dole, senior United States Senator from North Carolina
Ricardo Lagos, 33rd President of Chile
Nobel Prize in Physics include Hans Dehmelt for his development of the ion trap , Robert Richardson for his discovery of superfluidity in helium-3, and Charles Townes for his work on quantum electronics.
Several alumni hold top positions at large companies. The current or former Chairman, President, Vice president, or CEO of each of the following Fortune 500 companies is a Duke alumnus: BB&T Corporation (John A. Allison IV), Bear Stearns (Alan Schwartz), Boston Scientific Corporation (Peter Nicholas), Cisco Systems (John Chambers),
ExxonMobil (Rex Adams), General Motors Corporation (Rick Wagoner), Morgan Stanley (John J. Mack), Norfolk Southern (David R. Goode), Northwest Airlines (Gary L. Wilson), PepsiCo, Inc. (Karl von der Heyden), and Pfizer (Edmund T. Pratt, Jr.). Kevin Martin is Chairman of the FCC, and Rex Adams serves as the Chairman of PBS.
Melinda Gates, co-founder Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, wife of Bill Gates (Microsoft corp )
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9. DARMOUTH UNIVERSITY
Dartmouth College is a private, coeducational university located in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States. It is a member of the Ivy League and is one of the nine colonial colleges founded before the American Revolution.
Founded in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, with funds partially raised by the efforts of a Native American preacher named Samson Occom, it is the ninth-oldest college in the United States and the seventh-wealthiest in terms of funds per student. In addition to its liberal arts undergraduate program, Dartmouth has medical, engineering, and business schools, as well as 21 graduate programs in the arts and sciences; hence it would tend to be called a university in standard American usage.[8] For the sake of tradition—in part stemming from the legacy of the landmark Dartmouth College Case—and to emphasize the central importance accorded to undergraduate education, however, it is called "Dartmouth College, instead of "Dartmouth University." With a total enrollment of 5,753 (4,078 of whom are undergraduates), Dartmouth is the smallest school in the Ivy League. It is incorporated as Trustees of Dartmouth College.
In 2005 Booz Allen Hamilton selected Dartmouth College as one of the "World's Ten Most Enduring Institutions," recognizing its ability to overcome crises that threatened its survival (most famously Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward).[11] Dartmouth alumni are famously involved in their college, from Daniel Webster to the many donors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.


Nelson Rockefeller - Vice Pres.of the USA


FAMOUS ALUMNI
Notable graduates and students at Dartmouth include:
Salmon P. Chase – Chief Justice of the United States
Robert Frost – poet who won four Pulitzer Prizes
Henry Paulson, Jr. – current U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Nelson Rockefeller – Vice President of the U.S.
Theodor Seuss Geisel – the children's author better known as Dr. Seuss
Daniel Webster – U.S. Senator from New Hampshire and U.S. Secretary of State
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10. COLUMBIA UNIV.
Columbia University is a private research university in the United States. Its main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan, in New York City. The university is legally known as Columbia University in the City of New York, incorporated as The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, and it is one of the eight Ivy League universities.
The institution was established as King's College by the Church of England, receiving a royal charter in 1754 from George II of Great Britain. It was the first college established in New York, and the fifth college established in the Thirteen Colonies. After the American Revolution it was briefly chartered as a state entity from 1784-1787, however the university now operates under a 1787 charter that places the institution under a private board of trustees.
Columbia has the most Nobel Prize affiliations of any institution in the USA. It is home to the prestigious Pulitzer Prize, which, for over a century, has rewareded outstanding achievement in journalism, literature and music. It has been the birthplace of FM radio, the first American university to offer anthropology and political science as academic disciplines, and where the foundation of modern genetics was discovered. Its Morningside Heights campus was the first North American site where the uranium atom was split. Literary and artistic movements as varied as the Harlem Renaissance and post-colonialism all took shape within Columbia's gates in the 20th century.
The university is affiliated with Barnard College (BC), an undergraduate liberal arts college for women, and one of the Seven Sisters; the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS); and the Union Theological Seminary (UTS); all located nearby in Morningside Heights. A joint undergraduate program is available through the Juilliard School.[2]


Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( FDR )  = 32nd President of the United States

FAMOUS ALUMNI
Two former Presidents of the United States have attended Columbia. Six Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States and 39 Nobel Prize winners have obtained degrees from Columbia. Today, three United States Senators and 16 current Chief Executives of Fortune 500 companies hold Columbia degrees, as do three of the 25 richest Americans.
Attendees of King's College, Columbia's predecessor, included Founding Fathers Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Robert R. Livingston, and Gouverneur Morris.
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justices Harlan Fiske Stone, Charles Evans Hughes and Associate Justice Benjamin Cardozo,
US Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, were all educated at the law school.
Daniel D. Tompkins, who also served as a Vice President of the United States.
current U.S. Senators Barack Obama of Illinois
former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright,
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11. University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. Founded in 1890 by oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, the University of Chicago held its first classes on October 1, 1892. Chicago was one of the first universities in the country to be conceived as a combination of the American interdisciplinary liberal arts college and the German research university.
Affiliated with 79 Nobel Prize laureates, the University of Chicago is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost research institutions. Historically, the university is noted for its unique undergraduate core curriculum as well as other educational innovations pioneered by Robert Maynard Hutchins in the 1930s (including the academic quarter system), and for influential academic movements such as the Chicago School of Economics, the Chicago School of Sociology, the Chicago School of Literary Criticism, and the law and economics movement in legal analysis. The University of Chicago was the site of the world's first man-made self-sustaining nuclear reaction. It is also home to the largest university press in the United States.


Enrico Fermi - developer of the first nuclear reactor

FAMOUS ALUMNI
former U.S. Attorneys General John Ashcroft, Ramsey Clark, and Edward H. Levi; former Vice President of Taiwan and the Kuomintang Lien Chan;
Nobel Prize-winning economists Gary Becker, Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, and Robert Lucas; acclaimed Nobel Prize-winning writers Saul Bellow and J.M. Coetzee; Nobel Prize-winning physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar;
current Governor of New Jersey and former U.S. Senator Jon Corzine (D-NJ);
influential philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer John Dewey;
Nobel Prize-winning Modernist poet and dramatist T. S. Eliot,
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and developer of the first nuclear reactor Enrico Fermi;
paleontologist Michael Foote;
New York Times columnist David Brooks;
astronomer and pioneer of physical cosmology Edwin Hubble;
current U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL);
banker and internationalist David Rockefeller;
influential anthropologist Marshall Sahlins;
current U.S. Supreme Court justices Antonin Scalia and John Paul Stevens;
playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder;
former U.S. Deputy Secof State and current head of the World Bank Paul Wolfowitz
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12. Cornell University(NY)
Cornell University is a private university located in Ithaca, New York, USA. Its two medical campuses are in New York City and Education City, Qatar.
The youngest member of the Ivy League, Cornell was founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White as a coeducational, non-sectarian institution where admission was offered irrespective of religion or race. Inaugurated shortly after the American Civil War, its founders intended that the new university would teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge — from the classics to the sciences and from the theoretical to the applied. These ideals, unconventional for the time, are captured in Cornell's motto, an 1865 Ezra Cornell quotation: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study."
The university is organized into seven undergraduate colleges and seven graduate divisions, each defining its own academic programs in near autonomy. Since the mid-20th century, the university has been expanding both its campus resources and influence worldwide. From a new residential college housing system to its 2001 founding of a medical college in Qatar, Cornell claims "to serve society by educating the leaders of tomorrow and extending the frontiers of knowledge."[5] Cornell counts more than 240,000 living alumni, 28 Rhodes Scholars and 40 Nobel laureates affiliated with the university as faculty or students.
Research is a central element of the university's mission; Cornell spent $605 million on research and development in a diverse group of fields during the July 2005 to June 2006 fiscal year.


Supreme Court justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg,

FAMOUS ALUMNI
. Taiwan's former President Lee Teng-hui,
former President of Cuba Mario García Menocal,
and former Iranian Prime Minister Jamshid Amuzegar .
Supreme Court justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, .
Alamo Rent-A-Car by Michael Egan,
Burger King by David Edgerton,
Citigroup by Sanford Weill,
Coors Brewing Company by Adolph Coors,
Gannett by Frank Gannett,
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13. Washington University in St. Louis  ( Missouri )
Washington University in St. Louis is a private, coeducational, non-sectarian research university located in St. Louis, Missouri. The University was co-founded in 1853 by William Greenleaf Eliot and Wayman Crow[4] as Eliot Seminary in downtown St. Louis, and it functioned as a night school until 1856.[5]The university offered its first four-year Bachelor of Arts degree in 1859 under the title of Washington University, and moved to its current location six miles west of downtown St. Louis in the spring of 1905
The University includes 7 graduate and undergraduate schools[7], encompassing a broad range of academic fields. In the 2007 U.S. News & World Report rankings, its undergraduate program is ranked 12th in the nation (tied with Cornell University). Highly-ranked schools include the Medical School, which is tied for fourth in the nation in research, architecture which is ranked sixth, and the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, ranked second.
Despite its official letterhead name, the school is legally incorporated as The Washington University, and popular nicknames for the university include Wash. U. and WUSTL, derived from the initials of the university's name. To prevent confusion over its location, the Board of Trustees added the phrase “in St. Louis” in 1976
The University has an endowment of 4.7 billion USD [9], one of the largest in the nation. The current Chancellor is Mark S. Wrighton, who has led the university since 1995. He is among the highest paid university heads in the United States



Tennessee Williams - playwright

FAMOUS ALUMNI
Tennessee Williams (student 1936-37): playwright
Julian Hill (BS 1924): chemist; co-inventor of nylon
George Herbert Walker (LLB 1897): founder of Walker Cup in golf; grandfather and great-grandfather of Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, respectively
Phoebe Couzins (LLB 1871): first female U.S. marshal; leader in the women's suffrage movement
C. P. Wang (M.Arch 1973): architect for Taipei 101, the world's tallest building as of 2005[1]
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14. Northwestern University(IL)
Northwestern University is a private, coeducational, non-sectarian research university located in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois. Northwestern's main campus is a 240-acre (97 ha) parcel in Evanston, along the shore of Lake Michigan. Several of Northwestern's professional schools are located in Chicago, on a 25-acre (10 ha) campus near the Magnificent Mile. As of 2006, Northwestern's endowment and other trust funds total approximately $5.9 billion.
Northwestern University enrolls approximately 15,000 full-time students[citation needed] (including approximately 8,000 undergraduates[citation needed]) and employs nearly 7,100 faculty and staff members[citation needed].
The school is commonly referred to as simply Northwestern, and although some refer to the university as "NW" or "NWU," NU is the abbreviation that the school uses.


Charlton Heston --- Actor

FAMOUS ALUMNI
Northwestern's film and theater programs have also produced a steady stream of talented actors, actresses, and filmmakers. Alumni who have made their mark on film and television include Academy Award-winner Charlton Heston, Ann-Margret, Warren Beatty, David Schwimmer, Zach Braff, and Stephen Colbert. Alumni such as Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Heather Headley, and Walter Kerr have seen prominence on Broadway. Amsterdam-based comedy theater Boom Chicago was founded by Northwestern alumni, and the school has become a training ground for future Second City, I.O., ComedySportz, Mad TV and Saturday Night Live talent.
The Medill School of Journalism has produced notable journalists such as Elisabeth Bumiller, Mike Greenberg, co-host of the nationally-syndicated ESPN radio show, "Mike
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15. Brown University(RI)
Brown University is a private university located in Providence, Rhode Island. Founded in 1764 as Rhode Island College, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in New England and the seventh-oldest in the United States. It is a member of the Ivy League and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered in the American Colonies before the American Revolution and reviewed in the 1907 edition of The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Brown merged with nearby Pembroke College, its sister school, in 1971.
Brown was the first college in the nation to accept students of all religious affiliations. The University is home to the only undergraduate Egyptology department in the United States, founded by Richard Anthony Parker in 1948. The school also has the oldest undergraduate engineering program in the Ivy League (1847) and the only History of Mathematics department in the world (housed in the same building as Egyptology). Brown was also one of the first institutions to emphasize computer science as well as media studies, with its department of Modern Culture and Media, where students study film production, film criticism, and critical theory.
The Brown "New Curriculum," instituted in 1969, eliminates distribution requirements and mandatory A/B/C grades (allowing any course to be taken on a "satisfactory/no credit" basis). Moreover, there are no pluses (+) or minuses (-) in the grading system.
Since 2001, Brown's current and 18th president is Ruth J. Simmons, the first African American president, and second female president, of an Ivy League institution, as well as the first permanent female president of Brown.
The school colors are seal brown, cardinal red, and white. Brown's mascot is the bear[2] and the sports teams are called the Brown Bears. The costumed bear mascot named "Bruno" makes appearances at athletic games. The use of a bear as the University's mascot dates back to 1904. People associated with the University are known as Brunonians or, in informal tone or jocularity, Brownies.


Ted Turner  - media proprietor and philanthropist; founder of CNN, TBS,

FAMOUS ALUMNI
Stanley Falkow - father of microbiology and professor at Stanford Medical School
John Hay - U.S. Secretary of State (1898-1905)
Horace Mann (1819) - educationist; father of American public school education
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1897) - philanthropist; son of John D. Rockefeller; built Rockefeller Center in New York City
Ted Turner (Class of 1960) - billionaire media proprietor and philanthropist; founder of CNN, TBS,
Amy Carter (Class of 1989) - daughter of former President Jimmy Carter
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16. Johns Hopkins University(MD)
The Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
Johns Hopkins offers its main undergraduate and graduate programs at the Homewood campus in Baltimore and maintains full-time campuses in greater Maryland, Washington, D.C., Italy, and China. Johns Hopkins was the first university in the United States to emphasize research applying the German university model developed by Alexander von Humboldt and Friedrich Schleiermacher.


Michael Bloomberg  - Mayor of New York City

FAMOUS ALUMNI
Woodrow Wilson - President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize, 1919
Spiro T. Agnew - Vice President of the United States
Madeleine Albright* - Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton
Michael Bloomberg - founder of Bloomberg L.P., Mayor of New York City
John Mauchly - Co-inventor of the ENIAC Computer
Michael Coderre - Cosmonaut


John Hopkins Medical building

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[d_palapuz]

nice info, homie..!
kahit na malabo akong makapunta diyan sa isa sa mga universities na yan..
loL!
i kaw ba homie, nasubukan mo na mag-aral sa isa sa mga universities na yan..?

[dominicuz]

wow ... me nadagdag na kaalaman na naman sa akin ...
thanks for the info pocapoca :35:

[-JaJa-]

ang gaganda ng mga universities sa U.S. ang laki laki ng place.. hindi tulod dito sa pinas

[pocahonta]

(06-02-2007 12:16 AM)-JaJa- Wrote:  ang gaganda ng mga universities sa U.S. ang laki laki ng place.. hindi tulod dito sa pinas

You are right Jaja……all the universities  here in States are all huge, …they have .hundreds of buildings inside the campus. You will get lost  if you don,t know your way around. Students usually use their car or Bikes to go around the campus.

Here is an example of  the different buildings inside the  Duke University alone…..Look how big they are.  They look nice inside.  .They have several libraries, chapels, parks, gardens, museums, stadiums, dorms.  This are only few of the bldgs at Duke, they have more….but it is too many to post here.


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DUKE UNIVERSITY  ----- CAMPUS / BUILDINGS


1. Levine Science research Ctr - Duke



2. Duke Chapel  - Duke


3. Bostock Library - Duke


4. Allen Bldg - Duke


5. Chemistry bldg - Duke


6. Nasher Museum -- Duke


7.  Duke West Bldg


8. Duke East Bldg



9. Campus Garden - Duke


10. Divinity Chapel --- Duke


11. Perking Library - Duke


12. Medical Center Bldg -- Duke


13. Cameron  Indoor Stadium - Duke


14. Wade outdoor Starium - Duke



15  Wade outdoor Stadium --- duke
All Colleges & Univ. in USA has Football Stadium . It is the no.one sport played in colleges. Every College & Univ. played against each other  to compete for the Championship Trophy for the Best Football Team in USA . The final game is played on New Years Day in Pasadena, California called the Tournament of  Roses Bowl Game ( for College Championship )


16  Union Dining Hall - Duke


17 . West Campus - Duke


18. Vonder Heyden Pavilion--- Duke



19. Epworth Dorm -- Duke  ------ There are about 14 dormitory Buildings  in  the Campus. Too many to post here.  This is the old original dorm of duke. The other dorm are more modern in structure.

The best medical school here is Stanford and John Hopkins.  For Law, it is Harvard, Princeton, & Yale. For computer engineering the best one is  Carnegie, MIT, Stanford & UC Berkeley.

                  End of tour for Duke Univ. Campus 

[d_palapuz]

(06-02-2007 06:36 AM)pocahonta Wrote:  You are right Jaja……all the universities  here in States are all huge, …they have .hundreds of buildings inside the campus. You will get lost  if you don,t know your way around. Students usually use their car or Bikes to go around the campus.

wahehe..
same here in Canada...
we have 2 popular universities/colleges here in our city of Winnipeg..
the University of Winnipeg, and Red River College...
and there's also another university, the University of Manitoba, somewhere in Brandon, Manitoba..
its near Winnipeg, it takes less than an hour driving to go to there..
i choose to study college in Red River College kc gusto ko yung ma-e-experience ko yung ginagawa, di tulad sa mga university, puro lesson..
and the fact that i like about the red river college is that you will be done college within 1 and a half years up to 6 years of studying in there...
sa universities, it takes like 4 to 6 years before graduating...
lalo na ako, ayoko na matagal, gusto ko makatapos agad para mawalan ng problema..
and then, i will achieve one of my goals in life..!

&& malaki nga mga college/universities d2 sa states...
yung Red River ang luwang ng building, magkabilaan yung site niya, may building A hanggang E yung sa kanan, tapos iba nmn na buildingsa sa kaliwa..
tapos may road in between dun sa mga building na yun..
even though i've never seen the rest of the universities here in my place yet, i know its big too...!