Rice University

Rice University is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1912. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 3,965, its ambience is urban, and the campus admeasurement is 285 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Rice University's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Universities, 19. Its charge and fees are $40,566 (2014-15).

Rice University, amid in the affection of Houston’s Museum District, offers a activating apprentice activity in the nation’s fourth-largest city. The Rice Coffeehouse, Valhalla Pub and Willy’s Pub are all student-run institutions alms on-campus aliment and drink. Before dispatch bottom on campus, all acceptance are assigned to one of 11 residential colleges, of which they abide associates even if they adjudge to move off campus. The residential colleges accommodate housing, dining, and bookish and amusing events. The Rice Owls avowal 14 varsity NCAA Division I able-bodied teams and are able-bodied accepted for their able baseball program. Acceptance accept chargeless tickets to all varsity able-bodied events.

Rice is comprised of eight schools, including the Academy of Amusing Sciences, Academy of Humanities and Wiess Academy of Natural Sciences. Its alum schools cover the awful ranked Jesse H. Jones Alum Academy of Business and George R. Brown Academy of Engineering. Rice aswell has a well-regarded Academy of Architecture and the Shepherd Academy of Music. Rice is home to the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, a detached anticipate tank, which offers coursework, internships and lectures. When a clandestine detective begin Rice’s baseborn owl amulet at battling academy Texas A&M in 1917, he beatific a coded bulletin aback to Rice acceptance absolution them apperceive that "Sammy" was OK, appropriately bestowing a name on the school’s mascot.

Brown University

Brown University is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1764. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 6,455 and the campus admeasurement is 146 acres. Brown University's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Universities, 16. Its charge and fees are $47,434 (2014-15).

Located aloft College Hill in Providence, R.I., Brown University has a college-town feel with Thayer Street confined as a centermost of action for arcade and dining. The Brown Bears accept about 35 NCAA Division I able-bodied teams and attempt in the Ivy League. The Bears are able-bodied accepted for their men’s soccer team, which consistently ranks a part of the top 25 teams in the nation. All acceptance at Brown are appropriate to reside on campus for their aboriginal six semesters, and apartment options cover acceptable singles, doubles and suites. With about 400 apprentice organizations on campus alignment from The Brown Jug ball anniversary to Brown Ballroom Dance, acceptance can acquisition a way to accompany their interests. Brown aswell has a baby but active Greek association with about 10 chapters, including a few co-ed Greek organizations.
Brown offers a amount of a alum studies through its Alum School, which offers well-regarded programs in English and history, and the awful ranked Warren Alpert Medical School. The centermost area of the Van Wickle Gates on Brown’s campus opens alone alert a year: already to let admission acceptance assimilate campus and already to let contempo graduates avenue afterwards commencement. Brown hosts an anniversary celebratory "Spring Weekend" with able-bodied events, concerts and chargeless food. Notable alumni cover John D. Rockefeller Jr., John F. Kennedy Jr. and CNN architect and media mogul Ted Turner.

Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1900. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 6,306, its ambience is urban, and the campus admeasurement is 147 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Carnegie Mellon University's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Universities, 25. Its charge and fees are $48,786 (2014-15).
Carnegie Mellon University, founded by baron and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, is amid in Pittsburgh, which offers dining and ball options as able-bodied as able sports teams including the Penguins (hockey), Steelers (football) and Pirates (baseball). Only freshmen are appropriate to reside on campus, but the university guarantees apartment for all four years, and the majority of acceptance accept to abide on campus. Nearly 20 percent of the apprentice citizenry is affiliated with Greek life, which consists of added than 20 fraternities and sororities. The Carnegie Mellon Tartans attempt in NCAA Division III competitions, and the Kiltie Band, which sports abounding Scottish regalia, performs at every home football game.

Carnegie Mellon is accepted for its programs in science and technology, but its seven schools and colleges cover a College of Fine Arts and College of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Its alum programs cover the awful ranked Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Institute of Technology and School of Computer Science. Undergraduates at Carnegie Mellon accept the befalling to participate in analysis and can even accept grants or summer fellowships to abutment analysis in their acreage of study. Randy Pausch, columnist of the New York Times acknowledged book "The Last Lecture," was a assistant at Carnegie Mellon.