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.

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1851. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 8,688, its ambience is suburban, and the campus admeasurement is 231 acres. It utilizes a quarter-based bookish calendar. Northwestern University's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is Civic Universities, 13. Its charge and fees are $47,251 (2014-15).

What began as farmland and swampland in the 1850s became the Northwestern campus and the city-limits of Evanston, Ill. Northwestern University is a Division I academy in the Big Ten able-bodied conference. Northwestern's women's lacrosse aggregation has won assorted NCAA civic championships. The academy has hundreds of campus organizations accomplish students' assorted interests. Freshmen are affirmed on-campus apartment if requested in their applications. The school's 11 residential colleges action contemporary active abode for amusing and bookish programming. Northwestern's capital campuses are amid forth Lake Michigan in Evanston and Chicago. In 2008, Northwestern opened a third annex in Doha, Qatar.

Of Northwestern’s dozen schools, nine action undergraduate programs and 10 action alum and able programs. Northwestern’s highly-ranked alum schools cover the Kellogg Academy of Management, the Academy of Education and Amusing Policy, the Academy of Law, the Feinberg Academy of Medicine, the McCormick Academy of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program. Northwestern’s Medill Academy is accepted for its able journalism alum program. Northwestern’s Dance Marathon, created in 1975, is one of the better student-run philanthropies in the country and has aloft added than $14 amateur for Chicago-area charities. Notable alumni cover the 55th ambassador of Chicago Rahm Emanuel; retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens; actor, biographer and administrator Zach Braff; amateur Stephen Colbert; and Tony Award-winning extra Heather Headley.Northwestern University is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1851. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 8,688, its ambience is suburban, and the campus admeasurement is 231 acres. It utilizes a quarter-based bookish calendar. Northwestern University's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is Civic Universities, 13. Its charge and fees are $47,251 (2014-15).

What began as farmland and swampland in the 1850s became the Northwestern campus and the city-limits of Evanston, Ill. Northwestern University is a Division I academy in the Big Ten able-bodied conference. Northwestern's women's lacrosse aggregation has won assorted NCAA civic championships. The academy has hundreds of campus organizations accomplish students' assorted interests. Freshmen are affirmed on-campus apartment if requested in their applications. The school's 11 residential colleges action contemporary active abode for amusing and bookish programming. Northwestern's capital campuses are amid forth Lake Michigan in Evanston and Chicago. In 2008, Northwestern opened a third annex in Doha, Qatar.

Of Northwestern’s dozen schools, nine action undergraduate programs and 10 action alum and able programs. Northwestern’s highly-ranked alum schools cover the Kellogg Academy of Management, the Academy of Education and Amusing Policy, the Academy of Law, the Feinberg Academy of Medicine, the McCormick Academy of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program. Northwestern’s Medill Academy is accepted for its able journalism alum program. Northwestern’s Dance Marathon, created in 1975, is one of the better student-run philanthropies in the country and has aloft added than $14 amateur for Chicago-area charities. Notable alumni cover the 55th ambassador of Chicago Rahm Emanuel; retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens; actor, biographer and administrator Zach Braff; amateur Stephen Colbert; and Tony Award-winning extra Heather Headley.

Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1876. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 6,251 and the campus admeasurement is 140 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Johns Hopkins University's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Universities, 12. Its charge and fees are $47,060 (2014-15).

Johns Hopkins University has four capital campuses in and about Baltimore. The Homewood Campus, amid next to the all-embracing adjacency of Charles Village, is the primary campus for undergraduates, and three added campuses abode assorted alum schools. Hopkins aswell has three added campuses for its School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C.; Bologna, Italy; and Nanjing, China. The Hopkins Blue Jays attempt in the NCAA Division III Centennial Conference, but they are conceivably best accepted for their consistently ascendant men’s lacrosse team, which competes in NCAA Division I competitions. Freshmen and sophomores are appropriate to reside in on-campus residences. There is a abundant Greek association with a associates of added than 1,000 students.

Johns Hopkins University is disconnected into nine schools, 5 of which serve undergraduate and alum students. Hopkins’ alum programs cover the top ranked Bloomberg School of Public Health and the awful ranked School of Education, Whiting School of Engineering, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, SAIS and the well-regarded Peabody Institute for music and dance. Johns Hopkins Hospital is the top-ranked all-embracing hospital in the nation, with the majority of its specialties ranked in the top five. Above U.S. admiral Woodrow Wilson, above admiral of the NAACP Kweisi Mfume and agent and the 108th Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg all accustomed degrees from Hopkins

Duke University

Duke University is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1838. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 6,646, its ambience is suburban, and the campus admeasurement is 8,709 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Duke University's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Universities, 8. Its charge and fees are $47,488 (2014-15).

Durham, North Carolina, which surrounds Duke's campus, offers a array of activities including shopping, dining and entertainment. Its "Bull City" appellation comes from the Blackwell Tobacco Company's Bull Durham Tobacco. Acceptance at Duke are appropriate to reside on campus for their aboriginal three years, and freshmen reside calm on the East Campus. The Duke Blue Devils advance a angry animosity with the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill Tar Heels and are best accepted for their outstanding men's basketball program, one of the top 5 winningest academy basketball programs in the country. About 30 percent of the apprentice physique is affiliated with Greek life, which encompasses added than 30 fraternities and sororities.

Duke University is disconnected into 10 schools and colleges, abounding of which serve both undergraduate and alum students. Its alum programs cover the awful ranked Fuqua School of Business, Pratt School of Engineering, School of Law, School of Medicine, Sanford School of Public Policy and School of Nursing. Duke aswell offers alum programs through its well-respected Divinity School and Nicholas School of the Environment. Duke's a lot of admired undergraduate scholarship, the Robertson Scholars Program, provides about 18 acceptance from anniversary chic with a budgetary accolade and the befalling to abstraction for a division at UNC-Chapel Hill. Notable alumni cover Melinda Gates, co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; NBA amateur Carlos Boozer; and above U.S. Congressman and three-time presidential applicant Ron Paul.

Stanford University

Stanford University is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1885. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 7,061, its ambience is suburban, and the campus admeasurement is 8,180 acres. It utilizes a quarter-based bookish calendar. Stanford University's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Universities, 4. Its charge and fees are $44,757 (2014-15).
Stanford University’s aboriginal campus is amid in California’s Bay Area, about 30 afar from San Francisco. Stanford offers a advanced ambit of apprentice organizations, including the Stanford Pre-Business Association and Stanford Solar Car Project, which designs, builds and contest a solar car every two years. The Stanford Cardinals are able-bodied accepted for the acceptable "Big Game" adjoin Cal, an anniversary football antagonism that awards the Stanford Axe—a approved trophy—to the victor. Stanford aswell has acknowledged programs in tennis and golf. Only apprentice are appropriate to reside on campus, but acceptance are affirmed apartment for all four years and a lot of accept to abide on campus. Greek activity at Stanford represents about 10 percent of the apprentice body.

Four of Stanford University’s seven schools action undergraduate and alum coursework, and the actual three serve as absolutely alum schools. Alum programs cover the awful ranked School of Education, School of Engineering, Law School, School of Medicine and the top-ranked Alum School of Business. The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment oversees accord amid ecology research, teaching and outreach. Stanford has a amount of acclaimed affected and agreeable groups, including the Ram’s Head Affected Society and the Mendicants, an all-male a cappella group. Notable Stanford alumni cover above U.S. President Herbert Hoover, acclaimed NFL quarterback John Elway, extra Sigourney Weaver and golfer Tiger Woods, who began his able career at Stanford.

Columbia University

Columbia University is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1754. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 6,084, its ambience is urban, and the campus admeasurement is 36 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Columbia University's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Universities, 4. Its charge and fees are $51,008 (2014-15).

Columbia University, amid in Manhattan’s Morningside Heights adjacency in New York City, offers a advanced ambit of apprentice activities. The Columbia Lions acreage added than 25 NCAA Division I teams in the Ivy League. Added than 90 percent of acceptance reside in on-campus housing, alignment from acceptable abode halls to university-owned brownstones. Many of the brownstones are busy by the added than 25 Greek fraternity and abode capacity on campus, whose associates includes about 10 percent of the apprentice body. Organizations such as Burghal New York, which gives out chargeless tickets to city-limits events, advance apprentice alternation with activity in the Big Apple.

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 able-bodied as a amount of alum and able schools. Columbia’s alum programs cover the awful ranked Business School, Teachers College, SEAS, Law School, College of Physicians and Surgeons, School of International and Public Affairs, School of the Arts and Mailman School of Public Health. The university aswell has a well-regarded College of Dental Medicine and Alum School of Journalism. Columbia is affiliated with Barnard College for women, the Union Theological Seminary and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Distinguished alumni cover John Jay, founding ancestor and aboriginal Supreme Court Justice; President Barack Obama; songwriting aggregation Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II; and extra Maggie Gyllenhaal. Columbia aswell administers the Pulitzer Prizes.

Harvard University

Harvard University is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1636. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 6,722, its ambience is urban, and the campus admeasurement is 5,076 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Harvard University's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Universities, 2. Its charge and fees are $43,938 (2014-15).

Harvard is amid in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just alfresco of Boston. Harvard's all-encompassing library arrangement houses the oldest accumulating in the United States and the better clandestine accumulating in the world. There is added to the academy than amaranthine stacks, though: Harvard's able-bodied teams attempt in the Ivy League, and every football division ends with "The Game," an anniversary antagonism amid acclaimed rivals Harvard and Yale. At Harvard, on-campus residential apartment is an basic allotment of apprentice life. Freshmen reside about the Harvard Yard at the centermost of campus, afterwards which they are placed in one of 12 undergraduate houses for their actual three years. Although they are no best accustomed by the university as official apprentice groups, the eight all-male "final clubs" serve as amusing organizations for some undergraduate students; Harvard aswell has 5 changeable clubs.

In accession to the College, Harvard is fabricated up of 13 added schools and institutes, including the top-ranked Business Academy and Medical Academy and the awful ranked Graduate Education School, Academy of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Law Academy and John F. Kennedy Academy of Government. Eight U.S. presidents accelerating from Harvard College, including Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. Added notable alumni cover Henry David Thoreau, Helen Keller, Yo-Yo Ma and Tommy Lee Jones. In 1977, Harvard active an acceding with sister convention Radcliffe College, chain them in an educational affiliation confined macho and changeable students, although they did not clearly absorb until 1999. Harvard aswell has the better award of any academy in the world.

Yale University

Yale University is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1701. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 5,430, its ambience is urban, and the campus admeasurement is 342 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Yale University's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Universities, 3. Its charge and fees are $45,800 (2014-15).

Yale University, amid in New Haven, Connecticut, is accepted for its accomplished ball and music programs, which ability alfresco the classroom with apprentice organizations such as the Yale Whiffenpoofs, a acclaimed a cappella group, and the Yale Dramatic Association. The Yale Bulldogs attempt in the Ivy League and are able-bodied accepted for their animosity with Harvard. Acceptance are assigned to reside in one of 12 residential colleges during their time at Yale. Each academy has a adept and administrator who reside in the academy and eat with acceptance in the dining halls.

Cultural houses accommodate a amplitude for acceptance to body a faculty of cultural character on campus.

Yale is fabricated up of the College, the Alum School of Arts and Sciences and 13 able schools. Included in the able schools are the top ranked Law School and awful ranked School of Management, School of Medicine , School of Art and School of Nursing. The School of Drama, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Divinity School are aswell well-regarded alum programs. The Yale Record is the oldest academy amusement annual in the nation. Dwight Hall is an absolute awning alignment that fosters apprentice account and activism in the bounded New Haven community. Yale is able-bodied accepted for its abstruse societies, the a lot of acclaimed of which are the Skull and Bone Society, which boasts associates such as George W. Bush and John Kerry, and the Scroll and Key Society. Distinguished Yale alumni cover extra Meryl Streep, Washington Post anchorman Bob Woodward and amateur Edward Norton.