Yale University

Motto: Light and truth

Summary:

Yale University is a private institution that was founded in 1701. 

The University is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. In 1718, the school was renamed Yale College in recognition of a gift from Elihu Yale, a governor of the British East India Company and in 1731 received a further gift of land and slaves from Bishop Berkeley. Established to train Congregationalist ministers in theology and sacred languages, by 1777 the school's curriculum began to incorporate humanities and sciences and in the 19th century gradually incorporated graduate and professional instruction, awarding the first Ph.D. in the United States in 1861 and organizing as a university in 1887.

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.

It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 5,477, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 343 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Yale University's ranking in the 2016 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 3. Its tuition and fees are $47,600 (2015-16).

President         Peter Salovey

Nickname    Bulldogs
Endowment  $25.6 billion

Admission:

When applying to Yale University, it's important to note the application deadline is January 1, and the early action deadline is November 1. Scores for either the ACT or SAT test are due March 1. The application fee at Yale University is $80. It is most selective, with an acceptance rate of 6.3 percent and an early acceptance rate of 15.5 percent. Academic Life: The student-faculty ratio at Yale University is 6:1, and the school has 74.6 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at Yale University include: Economics, General; Political Science and Government, General; Biology/Biological Sciences, General; History, General; and Psychology, General. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, is 98.8 percent. 

Campus Services:

Yale University offers a number of student services including non-remedial tutoring, women's center, placement service, health service, and health insurance. Yale University also offers campus safety and security services like 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, late night transport/escort service, 24-hour emergency telephones, lighted pathways/sidewalks, and controlled dormitory access (key, security card, etc). Alcohol is permitted for students of legal age at Yale University.

Alumni:

Among the best-known are U.S. Presidents William Howard Taft, Gerald Ford, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush; royals Victoria Bernadotte, Prince Rostislav Romanov and Prince Akiiki Hosea Nyabongo; heads of state, including Italian prime minister Mario Monti, Turkish prime minister Tansu Çiller, Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo, German president Karl Carstens, and 
Philippines president José Paciano Laurel; U.S. Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.

For more information, visit:www.yale.edu

University of Pennsylvania

Motto: Laws without morals are useless.

Summary:

University of Pennsylvania is a private institution that was founded in 1740. Academic life at Penn is unparalleled, with an undergraduate student body of 10,000 from every U.S. state and around the world. The entering class of 2019 is the most talented and diverse in Penn's history. Consistently ranked among the top 10 universities in the country, Penn welcomes an additional 10,000 students to our top-ranked graduate and professional schools.

All of Penn's schools exhibit very high research activity. Penn is consistently ranked among the top research universities in the world, for both quality and quantity of research. In fiscal year 2011, Penn topped the Ivy League in academic research spending with an $814 million budget, involving some 4,000 faculty, 1,100 postdoctoral fellows and 5,400 support staff/graduate assistants.

It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 9,746, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 302 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. University of Pennsylvania's ranking in the 2016
edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 9. Its tuition and fees are $49,536 (2015-16).

President         Amy Gutmann
Provost           Vincent Price
Nickname         Quakers
Endowment $10.1 billion

Admission:

When applying to University of Pennsylvania, it's important to note the application deadline is January 1, and the early decision deadline is November 1. Scores for either the ACT or SAT test are due January 1. The application fee at University of Pennsylvania is $75. It is most selective, with an acceptance rate of 10.4 percent. Academic Life: The student-faculty ratio at University of Pennsylvania is 6:1, and the school has 67.4 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at University of Pennsylvania include: Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services; Social Sciences; Health Professions and Related Programs; Biological and Biomedical Sciences; and Engineering. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, is 97.8 percent.

Campus Services:

University of Pennsylvania offers a number of student services including nonremedial tutoring, women's center, placement service, day care, health service, and health insurance. University of Pennsylvania also offers campus safety and security services like 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, late night transport/escort service, 24-hour emergency telephones, lighted pathways/sidewalks, and controlled dormitory access (key, security card, etc). Of the students at University of Pennsylvania, 3 percent have cars on campus. Alcohol is permitted for students of legal age at University of Pennsylvania.

Alumni:

Notable alumni includes Donald Trump, Warren Buffett, John Legend, Kwame Nkrumah, Elon Musk.In total, 28 Penn affiliates have won Nobel Prizes, of whom four are current faculty members and nine are alumni. Nine of the Nobel laureates have won the prize in the last decade.

For more information, visit:www.upenn.edu

Princeton University

Motto: Under God's Power She Flourishes

Summary:

Chartered in 1746, Princeton is the fourth-oldest college in the United States. Princeton is an independent, coeducational, nondenominational institution that provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering. 

Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. It offers professional degrees through the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School of Architecture and the Bendheim Center for Finance.

The University has ties with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Theological Seminary, and
the Westminster Choir College of Rider University. Princeton has the largest endowment per student in the United States.

It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 5,391, its setting is suburban, and the campus size is 600
acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Princeton University's ranking in the 2016
edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 1. Its tuition and fees are $43,450 (2015-16).

Endowment      $21.0 billion
President         Christopher L. Eisgruber
Nickname        Tigers

Admission:

When applying to Princeton University, it's important to note the application deadline is January 1, and the early action deadline is November 1. Scores for either the ACT or SAT test are due January 1. The application fee at Princeton University is $65. It is most selective, with an acceptance rate of 7.4 percent.

Academic Life

The student-faculty ratio at Princeton University is 6:1, and the school has 71.8 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at Princeton University include: Economics, General; Political Science and Government, General; Computer Engineering, General; Public Policy Analysis, General; and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, is 98.3 percent. Campus Services Princeton University offers a number of student services including non-remedial tutoring, women's center, health service, and health insurance. Princeton University also offers campus safety and security services like 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, late night transport/escort service, 24-hour emergency telephones, lighted pathways/sidewalks, and controlled dormitory access (key, security card, etc). Alcohol is permitted for students of legal age at Princeton University.

Alumni:

U.S. Presidents James Madison and Woodrow Wilson and Vice President Aaron Burr graduated from Princeton, as did Michelle Obama, the current First Lady of the United States. Former Chief Justice of the United States Oliver Ellsworth was an alumnus, as are current U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justices Samuel Alito, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor.

For more informatin, visit:www.princeton.edu

Harvard Universiy

Motto: Truth

Summary:

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, established in 1636. Its history, influence and wealth have made it one of the most prestigious universities in the world.

The name Harvard comes from the college’s first benefactor, the young minister John Harvard of Charlestown. Upon his death in 1638, he left his library and half his estate to the institution established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The mission of Harvard College is to educate the citizens and citizen-leaders for our society.The Harvard Campaign is designed to embrace the future and to ensure  Harvard’s leadership as it approaches its fifth century of education and inquiry in the pursuit of enduring truth.

The University is organized into eleven separate academic units—ten faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study—with campuses throughout the Boston metropolitan area: its 209-acre  (85 ha) main campus is centered on Harvard Yard in Cambridge, approximately 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Boston; the business school and athletics facilities, including Harvard Stadium, are located across the Charles River in the Allston neighborhood of Boston and the medical, dental, and public health schools are in the Longwood Medical Area. Harvard has the largest financial endowment of any academic institution in the world, standing at $32.3 billion as of June 2013.

It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 6,694, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 5,076 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Harvard University's ranking in the 2016 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 2.Families with students on scholarship pay an average of $11,500 annually toward the cost of a Harvard education. More than 65 percent of Harvard College students receive scholarship aid, and the average grant this year is $46,000.

The total 2015-2016 cost of attending Harvard College without financial aid is $45,278 for tuition and $60,659 for tuition, room, board and fees combined. During the 2012-2013 academic year, students from families with incomes below $65,000, and with assets typical for that income level, will generally pay nothing toward the cost of attending Harvard College.  Families with incomes between $65,000 and $150,000 will contribute from 0 to 10 percent of income, depending on individual circumstances.  Significant financial aid also is available for families above those income ranges.

President    Drew Gilpin Faust
Nickname         Harvard Crimson
Endowment       $36.4 billion

Admission:

When applying to Harvard University, it's important to note the application deadline is January 1, and the early action deadline is November 1. Scores for either the ACT or SAT test are due March 6. The application fee at Harvard University is $75. It is most selective, with an acceptance rate of 6 percent.

Academic Life:

The student-faculty ratio at Harvard University is 7:1, and the school has 74 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at Harvard University include: Social Sciences, General; Biology/Biological Sciences, General; History, General; Mathematics, General and Physical Sciences. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, is 97 percent.

Campus Services:

Harvard University offers a number of student services including non-remedial tutoring, women's center, placement service, health service, and health insurance. Harvard University also offers campus safety and security services like 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, late night transport/escort service, 24-hour emergency telephones, lighted pathways/sidewalks, student patrols, and controlled dormitory access (key, security card, etc). Alcohol is permitted for students of legal age at Harvard University.

Alumni:

Notable alumni includes  John Adams(2nd President of the United States),  John Quincy Adams (6th President of the United States),  Ban Ki-moon(Secretary-General of the United Nations), George W. Bush(43rd President of the United States,  Rutherford B. Hayes(19th President of the United States,  John F. Kennedy(35th President of the United States), Barack Obama(44th President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize laureate), many many more.

For more information, visit:www.hardvard.edu

Dartmouth College

Motto:

The voice of one crying out in the wilderness.

Summary:

Founded in 1769, Dartmouth is a member of the Ivy League and consistently ranks among the world's greatest academic institutions. Dartmouth has forged a singular identity for combining its deep commitment to outstanding undergraduate liberal arts and graduate education with distinguished research and scholarship in the Arts & Sciences and its three leading professional schools—the Geisel School of Medicine, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business.

It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 4,289, its setting is rural, and the campus size is 237 acres. It utilizes a quarter-based academic calendar. Dartmouth College's ranking in the 2016 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 12. Its tuition and fees are $49,506 (2015-16).

President          Philip J. Hanlon
Nickname         Big Green
Endowment US$ 4.5 billion (As of 2014)

Admission:

When applying to Dartmouth College, it's important to note the application deadline is January 1, and the early decision deadline is November 1. Scores for either the ACT or SAT test are due January 1. The application fee at Dartmouth College is $80. It is most selective, with an acceptance rate of 11.5 percent.

Academic Life:

The student-faculty ratio at Dartmouth College is 7:1, and the school has 64 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at Dartmouth College include: Economics, General; Political Science and Government, General; Engineering, General; History, General; and Psychology, General. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, is 98.3 percent.

Campus Services:

Dartmouth College offers a number of student services including non-remedial tutoring, women's center, placement service, health service, and health insurance. Dartmouth College also offers campus safety and security services like 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, late night transport/escort service, 24-hour emergency telephones, lighted pathways/sidewalks, and controlled dormitory access (key, security card, etc). Of the students at Dartmouth College, 19 percent have cars on campus. Alcohol is permitted for students of legal age at Dartmouth College.

Alumni:

According to a 2008 article in The Wall Street Journal, Dartmouth graduates also earn higher median salaries at least 10 years after graduation than alumni of any other American university surveyed.Popular alumni are Nelson A. Rockefeller (41st Vice President of the United States), Jake Tapper, novelist and founding editor of The Believer Heidi Julavits, "Dean of rock critics" Robert Christgau, National Book Award winner Louise Erdrich, Ebenezer Porter, Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs,York,Thomas M. Burton, Richard Eberhart.

For more information, visit:dartmouth.edu

Cornell University

Vision:

"I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study."-Ezra Cornell.

Summary:

Cornell is a private, Ivy League university and the land-grant university for New York State. Cornell's mission is to discover, preserve, and disseminate knowledge; produce creative work; and promote a culture of broad inquiry throughout and beyond the Cornell community. Cornell also aims, through public service, to enhance the lives and livelihoods of  students, the people of New York, and others around the world.

Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, the university was intended to teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge — from the classics to the sciences, and from the theoretical to the applied. Each of Cornell's 14 colleges and schools admits its own students and provides its own faculty, even though every graduate receives a degree from Cornell University.

It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 14,453, its setting is rural, and the campus size is 745 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Cornell University's ranking in the 2016 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 15. Its tuition and fees are $49,116 (2015-16).

President       Elizabeth Garrett
Provost         Harry Katz (interim)
Nickname      Big Red
Endowment $6.2 billion

Admission:

When applying to Cornell University, it's important to note the application deadline is January 2, and the early decision deadline is November 1. Scores for either the ACT or SAT test are due January 1. The application fee at Cornell University is $75. It is most selective, with an acceptance rate of 14.2 percent.

Academic Life:

The student-faculty ratio at Cornell University is 9:1, and the school has 55.3 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at Cornell University include: Engineering; Agriculture, Agriculture Operations, and Related Sciences; Biological and Biomedical Sciences; Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services; and Social Sciences. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, is 96.8 percent.

Campus Services:

Cornell University offers a number of student services including nonremedial tutoring, women's center, placement service, day care, health service, and health insurance. Cornell University also offers campus safety and security services like 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, late night transport/escort service, 24-hour emergency telephones, lighted pathways/sidewalks, and controlled dormitory access (key, security card, etc). Alcohol is permitted for students of legal age at Cornell University.

Alumini:

Its alumni constitute 31 Marshall Scholars and 28  Rhodes Scholars, and Cornell is the only university with three female winners (Pearl S. Buck, Barbara McClintock, and Toni Morrison) of unshared Nobel Prizes among its graduates. Many alumni maintain university ties through Homecoming's reunion weekend, through Cornell Magazine, and through the Cornell Club of New York.

For more information, visit:www.cornell.edu

Columbia University

Motto:   In Thy light shall we see light.

Summary:

Columbia University was founded in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of King George II of England. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States.

It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 6,170, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 36 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Columbia University's ranking in the 2016 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 4. Its tuition and fees are $51,008 (2014-15).

Columbia is comprised of three undergraduate schools—Columbia College, The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the School of General Studies—as well as a number of graduate and professional schools.

It was the first school in the United States to grant the M.D. degree.

Chairman         William Campbell and Jonathan Schiller.
President          Lee C. Bollinger.
Provost            John Henry Coatsworth.
Nickname         Columbia Lions.
Endowment $9.23 billion.

Admission:

When applying to Columbia University, it's important to note the application deadline is January 1, and the early decision deadline is November 1. Scores for either the ACT or SAT test are due February 1. The application fee at Columbia University is $85. It is most selective, with an acceptance rate of 7 percent. 

Academic Life:

The student-faculty ratio at Columbia University is 6:1, and the school has 82.4 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at Columbia University include: Engineering; Social Sciences; Biological and Bio medical Sciences; Mathematics and Statistics; and Psychology. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, is 99 percent.

Campus Services:

Columbia University offers a number of student services including non-remedial tutoring, placement service, day care, health service, and health insurance. Columbia University also offers campus safety and security services like 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, late night transport/escort service, 24-hour emergency telephones, lighted pathways/sidewalks, and controlled dormitory access (key, security card, etc). Alcohol is permitted for students of legal age at Columbia University.

Notable alumni:

Include five Founding Fathers of the United States; nine Justices of the United States Supreme Court, 20 living billionaires, 29 Academy Award winners, and 29 heads of state, including three United States Presidents. Additionally, 101 Nobel Prize laureates have been affiliated with it as students, faculty, or staff.

For more information, visit: www.columbia.edu

Brown University

Motto In God We Hope.

Summary: 

Brown is an independent, coeducational Ivy League institution comprising undergraduate and graduate programs.Founded in 1764. Located at Providence, Rhode Island.
The main campus, comprising 235 buildings and 143 acres (0.58 km2), is on College Hill in Providence's East Side.

Brown offers a number of a graduate studies through its Graduate School, which offers well-regarded programs in English and history, and the highly ranked Warren Alpert Medical School.

Brown’s vibrant, diverse community consists of about 6,200 undergraduates, 2,000 graduate students, 490 medical school students, more than 5,000 summer, visiting, and online students, and over 700 faculty members. Brown students come from all 50 states and more than 115 countries.

Brown is the only major research university in the nation where undergraduates are the architects of their own course of study.

Chancellor        Thomas J. Tisch
President         Christina Hull Paxson
Provost            Richard M. Locke
Endowment $3.3 billion (2015)
Nickname         Brown Bears

Admission:

When applying to Brown University, it's important to note the application deadline is January 1, and the early decision deadline is November 1. Scores for either the ACT or SAT test are due February 1. The application fee at Brown University is $75. It is most selective, with an acceptance rate of 8.7 percent.

Academic Life:

The student-faculty ratio at Brown University is 9:1, and the school has 68.3 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at Brown University include: Biology/Biological Sciences, General; Economics, General; Computer Science; History, General; and Neuroscience. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, is 97.5 percent.

Campus Services:

Brown University offers a number of student services including nonremedial tutoring, women's center, placement service, health service, and health insurance. Brown University also offers campus safety and security services like 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, late night transport/escort service, 24-hour emergency telephones, lighted pathways/sidewalks, student patrols, and controlled dormitory access (key, security card, etc). Of the students at Brown University, 35 percent have cars on campus. Alcohol is permitted for students of legal age at Brown University.

Prominent alumni:

Include current chair of the Federal Reserve Janet Yellen and president of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim. Brown has produced 7 Nobel Prize winners, 57 Rhodes Scholars, five National Humanities Medalists, eight billionaire graduates, and 10 National Medal of Science laureates, and has also produced Fulbright, Marshall, Mitchell scholars, John D. Rockefeller Jr., John F. Kennedy Jr. and CNN founder and media mogul Ted Turner.

For more information, visit:brown.edu

The Ivy Leauge

Ivy League schools are generally viewed as some of the most prestigious, and are ranked among the best universities worldwide.

'Ivy League' officially refers to an athletic conference in which the eight colleges' sports teams compete, it has grown to have much wider connotations, because the members of the Ivy League compete academically as well as athletically. The first known instance of the term Ivy League being used appeared in The Christian Science Monitor on February 7, 1935.

"Ivy League" is sometimes used as a way of referring to an elite class, even though institutions such as Cornell University were among the first in the United States to reject racial and gender discrimination in their admissions policies.

The Ivy League schools are highly selective, with acceptance rates since 2000 ranging from 6% to 16% at each of the universities.They are also very expensive to attend, with fees averaging $35,000 (£21,800) a year.

 Total enrollments, including graduate students, range from approximately 6,100 at Dartmouth to over 20,000 at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, and Penn. Ivy League financial endowments range from Brown's $3 billion to Harvard's $36.4 billion, the largest financial endowment of any academic institution in the world.

Ivy League members have produced many Nobel laureates, winners of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Listed from in order from greatest number of Nobel laureates are: Harvard with 153 Nobel winners, the most out of any university in the world. This is followed by Columbia with 101 winners, Yale with 52, Cornell with 45, Princeton with 37, and Penn with 29 Nobel laureates.