The University of Cambridge’s mission is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence. It is made up of 31 colleges and more than 100 departments that cater for some 12,000 undergraduate and 6,000 postgraduate students. In a beautiful setting by the River Cam, Cambridge is famed for the architecture of its historic colleges but also for its wealth of modern research and teaching facilities. The University’s reputation for outstanding academic achievement is known worldwide and reflects the intellectual achievement of its students, as well as the world-class original research carried out by the staff of the University and the Colleges. Some of the world’s most significant scientific breakthroughs have occurred at the University, including the splitting of the atom, invention of the jet engine and the discoveries of stem cells, plate tectonics, pulsars and the structure of DNA.  From Isaac Newton to Stephen Hawking, the University has nurtured some of history’s greatest minds and has produced more Nobel Prize winners than any other UK institution with more than 80 laureates. Cambridge's great libraries and collections housed in eight world-class museums and in the colleges are scholarly resources of outstanding international significance. Cambridge attracts the brightest and best students, researchers and academics from across the world, with a student population drawn from 135 different countries.
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The flagship of the Texas A&M University System, Texas A&M University is a tier one research institutionand one of only62 invited members of the prestigious Association of American Universities. As the state’s first public institution of higher learning, Texas A&M has strategically grown into one of the nation’s most diverse and comprehensive universities, offering more than 190 undergraduate majors and 244 graduate degree programs as well as professional degrees inlaw, veterinary medicine, medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy and public health.With a current student body of more than 62,185, it ranks among the nation’s largest universities.
Committed to the values of its land-grant heritage, Texas A&M ensures accessible and affordable quality education – 25 percent of its students are the first in their family to attend college -- while creating a culture of excellence in teaching, research and service.Itconsistently ranks among the top 10 universities in the number of science and engineering doctorates produced and in the top 20 in the number of doctoral degrees awarded to minorities.
Other top rankings include:
·        #5 - Among public universities in “Best Value Schools” category and 25thoverall among publics (2015U.S. News and World Report)
·        #4 –In nation among all universities in “research, service, social mobility and contributions to society” (2014Washington Monthly)
·        #2 – In nation among all universities in preparing graduates for the workforce. (Wall Street Journal)
·        #6 – Among public universities nationally when combining quality, affordability and how an institution’s graduates fare monetarily in their careers. (2014Money)
·        #6 – Among top 50 “Best Value Graduate Schools” (2015 valuecolleges.com)
Texas A&M faculty are committed to providing students with high-impact learning experiencesto promote deep rather than superficial learning and achieve specific learning outcomessuch as critical thinking, collaboration, communication, problem-solving and personal and social responsibility. There are more than 3,900 students involved in study abroad programs in 150 countries, perhaps the most effective way to enhance personal and social responsibility.
Texas A&M’s faculty researchers and scholars, collaborating with undergraduate and graduate students, are tackling the real-world challenges of today and tomorrow – the global demand for energy; the connections between human, animal and environmental health; 21stcentury educational needs with an emphasis on STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) and other daunting problems that require creative and innovative solutions.With two branch campuses (at Galveston, Texas and Doha, Qatar) Texas A&M’s purpose is to develop educated leaders of character dedicated to serving the greater good . . . in their state, nation and in the global society.
Texas A&M is one of only 17 universities holding land-, sea- and space-grant designations. Among the 891 institutions eligible for the National Science Foundation’s most recent Higher Education Research and Development Survey (FY 2013)Texas A&M ranked 19thin the nation. Research expenditures exceeded $854 million in FY 2014. 
Some examples of significant research:
College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, the only veterinarycollege in Texas, conducts advanced research in signature areas of biomedical genomics,cardiovascular sciences, infectious diseases, neuroscience, reproductive biology, toxicology, and veterinary clinical research.The College is pioneering the study of human cancer using the Texas A&M-Texas Veterinary Cancer Registry for pets diagnosed with cancer, the model for the National Veterinary Cancer Registry.
Giant Magellan Telescope Organization(of which Texas A&M is one of 11 internationalpartners) is constructing the largest optical telescope in the world, which is scheduled to become fully operational by 2024 in Chile.
International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP)is an international research collaboration that coordinates seagoing expeditions to study the history of the earth as recorded in sediments and rocks beneath the ocean floor. Texas A&M is the scientific operator of the drillship JOIDES Resolution on behalf of the National Science Foundation.
Center for Innovation in Advanced Development and Manufacturing(CIADM), founded in 2012 on an initial $285.6 million public-private partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is designed to enhance the nation's emergency preparedness against emerging infectious diseases, including pandemic influenza, and chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats. The Center will perform research and advanced development to accelerate vaccines and other medical products through pre-clinical and clinical development and produce these products in cases of pandemics or other national emergencies.
Cyclotron Institute,one of only four university-based, United States Department of Energy-funded laboratories, is home to one of a handful of K500 superconducting cyclotrons worldwide with an unmatched capability for nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry research.
Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases (IIAD)collaborates with agriculture industries, major research universities, the national laboratories, and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) to develop countermeasures needed to protect the US food supply – through funding from three federal departments: Homeland Security, Agriculture and Defense.
English Language Learning and AcquisitionThe U.S. Department of Education awarded a $16.3 million grant to Texas A&M College of Education and Human Development for its research on improving student achievement through its ongoing English Language Learning and Acquisition, providing a national model to close the achievement gap between English learners and their native English-speaking classmates.

Researchers at Texas A&M are involved in projects on every continent, with more than 600 initiatives underway in more than 80 countries. Student researchers can work in doctoral degree programs in every subject, including one of the nation’s few post-doctoral programs in biostatistics
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Resultado de imagen de Carnegie Mellon UniversityCarnegie Mellon University is a top-tier global research university and a birthplace of innovation since its founding in 1900. Our award-winning faculty are renowned for working closely with students to solve major scientific, technological and societal challenges. Our students are recruited by some of the world’s most successful and innovative companies, from Broadway to Bangalore.
Carnegie Mellon puts a strong emphasis on making things, from art to robots. Carnegie Mellon alumni, students, faculty and staff are also encouraged to advance their novel ideas from the laboratory to the marketplace. The university ranked first among U.S. institutions in the number of startup companies created per research dollar spent between 2008 and 2012, according to the Association of University Technology Managers.

In addition to U.S. locations in Pittsburgh, Pa., and Silicon Valley, Calif., Carnegie Mellon has a campus in Doha, Qatar, and offers degree programs in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and Latin America. Carnegie Mellon is one of only 25 universities invited to be a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global University Leaders Forum.

More than 98,000 Carnegie Mellon alumni around the world embody founder Andrew Carnegie’s famous words, “My heart is in the work.
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The University of Michigan is consistently ranked among the top 20 universities in the world, and among the top 5  institutions in the country. Many of the University's 706 degree programs, and its professional schools, consistently score high in national rankings as well.
Founded in 1817, U-M has become a national and international model of a diverse and comprehensive public institution that supports excellence in research; provides outstanding undergraduate, graduate, and professional education; and serves people and organizations in the community, region, state, nation, and world through its many partnerships and collaborations.
The University of Michigan is located in Ann Arbor, a city of 117,000 that is known for its lively arts environment, fine dining, and excellent public schools. Ann Arbor was listed as #1 in Forbes magazine's 2014 listing of "Most Education Cities in America."
The Ann Arbor campus enrolls more than 43,000 students and includes professional schools in Dentistry, Law, Medicine, and Pharmacy. Each year, U-M awards 14,000 degrees. The University's instructional staff includes Pulitzer Prize, Guggenheim, Mac Arthur Fellowship, and Emmy Award winners.
Michigan is widely recognized as one of the leading research universities in the world. With its 19 top-ranked schools and annual research budget of more than one billion dollars, U-M is a national treasure trove of intellectual achievement and social impact.
U-M's research successes span nearly every field of science, engineering, medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities. The opportunities the University provides for connections across campus and beyond has played a critical role in this exceptional record of achievement.
The University's athletic heritage is as storied as its academic past. Michigan played in the first Rose Bowl in 1901, beginning the tradition of New Year's Day bowl games. In 1973, the U-M began offering varsity teams for women in basketball, field hockey, swimming and diving, tennis and volleyball. Today, the U-M competes in 27 varsity sports (13 men, 14 women). To date, Michigan athletic teams have claimed 56 national championships in 12 sports
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The Georgia Institute of Technology, also known as Georgia Tech, is one of the nation’s leading research universities, providing a focused, technologically based education to more than 21,500 undergraduate and graduate students. Georgia Tech has many nationally recognized programs, all top-ranked by peers and publications alike, and is ranked in the nation’s top 10 public universities by U.S. News and World Report. It offers degrees through the Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Sciences, the Scheller College of Business, and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. As a leading technological university, Georgia Tech has more than 100 centers focused on interdisciplinary research that consistently contribute vital research and innovation to American government, industry, and busines
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Founded in 1867, the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign is one of the premier public universities in the United States. Our commitment to undergraduate and graduate education, our world-class faculty and our unique cultural history combine to make the campus a home to
innovation and exploration.
At the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign: 
• We embrace and advance our Land Grant mission by serving the state and the nation through education, research, outreach and economic development. 
• We pursue excellence through the diversity of our students, faculty, and staff. 
• We foster innovative teaching, research and engagement, demanding and rewarding breakthrough knowledge creation and learning from our faculty and students. 
• Our educational programs promote innovation, cultivate justice, enhance social mobility, and improve the quality of life by responding to local, national and global societal needs. 
• We are one campus dedicated to comprehensive excellence in the service of Illinois
and the nation. 
• We maximize our impact by carefully stewarding and enhancing the resources entrusted to the institution
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Berkeley is internationally noted for its academic excellence. Its faculty include seven Nobel laureates, 140 members in the National Academy of Sciences, 77 Faculty Fulbright Scholars, and 235 fellows in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In national surveys, Berkeley’s academic departments consistently rank among the top five in the country.By any standard, Berkeley ranks as one of the world’s leading intellectual centers, renowned for the size and quality of its libraries and laboratories, the scope of its research and publications, and the distinction of its faculty and students. Around 5,000 Berkeley undergraduates engage in off-campus public service projects annually. Students study, work, and relax among Neoclassical buildings, wooded glens, and parklands spread across 1,232 scenic acres overlooking the San Francisco Bay. With more than 37,000 students, a distinguished faculty, some 275 degree programs, and alumni in positions of national and international leadership, Berkeley today is a large and complex institution offering students a vast range of scholarly endeavor and a wide arena for personal growth.The campus is surrounded by wooded, rolling hills and by the city of Berkeley (population 116,000). Berkeley has a long history as one of America’s most lively, culturally diverse, and politically adventurous cities. The surrounding San Francisco Bay Area offers culture, entertainment, and natural beauty without rival, much of which is accessible by BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit). Research programs at Berkeley are conducted within teaching departments, institutes, and centers (sometimes referred to as Organized Research Units or ORUs). Institutes and centers are established and administered separately from the teaching units. They are interdisciplinary in nature and organized around the work of a group of faculty and graduate students whose research interests transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries. They do not offer courses of instruction or degrees, although several work in conjunction with interdepartmental instruction programs which lead to bachelor’s or advanced degrees. Institutes and centers provide invaluable experience for graduate students in basic and applied research and greatly enhance Berkeley’s educational program and the overall academic quality of the University.The quality of Berkeley’s student body complements the stature of its faculty. Most students are Californians, but nearly every state and 100 foreign countries are represented. The student body can best be characterized by its diversity; more than half of the students are minorities, helping to produce the wide range of opinion and perspective essential to a great university.
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Stanford University was founded in 1885 by former California Governor and Senator Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane, to memorialize their son, Leland Stanford Junior. Their intent was to establish a "University of high degree" that would “qualify students for personal success and direct usefulness in life and promote the public welfare by exercising an influence on behalf of humanity and civilization.” Stanford opened in 1891.

Stanford is highly selective for both undergraduate and graduate students. In 2013, Stanford accepted 5.7 percent of undergraduate applicants and 11 percent of graduate school applicants. Stanford enrolls about 7,000 undergraduate students and 9,000 graduate and professional school students.

Students who derive pleasure from learning for its own sake thrive at Stanford. We look for distinctive students who exhibit energy, curiosity and a love of learning in their classes and lives. Academic excellence is the primary criterion for admission, and the most important credential is the transcript. We seek outstanding students who have selected a rigorous academic program and achieved distinction in a range of courses. 114 Stanford students have been Rhodes Scholars.

Stanford has 1,934 tenure-line faculty, senior fellows and center fellows at specified policy centers and institutes, and Medical Center faculty. Fifty-five percent of the faculty have earned tenure. Faculty at Stanford are expected to be among the best teachers and researchers in their fields. Stanford faculty have won 31 Nobel Prizes since the university's founding. The faculty currently includes 22 Nobel laureates, 5 Pulitzer Prize winners, 27 MacArthur Fellows and 20 recipients of the National Medal of Science.

The synthesis of teaching and research is fundamental to Stanford. All faculty do scholarly research, most often in association with graduate students or advanced undergraduates. Stanford is noted for multidisciplinary research within its schools and departments, as well as its independent laboratories, centers and institutes.
There are more than 5,100 externally sponsored projects throughout the university, with the total budget for sponsored projects at $1.35 billion during 2013-14, including the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, a facility run by Stanford for the U.S. Department of Energy. Of these projects, the federal government sponsors approximately 83 percent, including SLAC. In addition, nearly $210 million in support comes from non-federal funding sources. Approximately 2000 postdoctoral scholars are involved in research at the university. Basic research at Stanford has made possible applications from microwaves to GPS, heart transplants to gene splicing, digital sound synthesis to modern web-search algorithms.

Stanford’s entrepreneurial spirit, the result of its California location and the legacy of Leland and Jane Stanford, has helped spawn more than 3,000 companies in high technology and other fields. Stanford played a key role in the creation of the high-technology region known as Silicon Valley. Among the companies started by Stanford graduates or faculty are Google, Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard, Gap, eBay, Electronic Arts, Taiwan Semiconductor, Cisco Systems, Nike, Sun Microsystems and VMware.
Stanford has 19 libraries that support Stanford’s mission of teaching, learning and research. The libraries have amassed collections of books, journals, scores and printed reference works numbering more than 8.5 million physical volumes. The libraries hold 1.5 million e-books, nearly 1.5 million audiovisual materials, more than 75,000 serials, thousands of other digital resources and nearly 6 million microform holdings. Stanford also houses one of the most extensive computing environments of any university.
There are an estimated 191,519 living Stanford degree holders, including 75,183 undergraduate alumni, 97,367 graduate alumni and 18,969 dual-degree holders. Stanford alumni can be found in 143 countries, 20 territories and all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Stanford offers its students study opportunities at Stanford centers in Australia, Barcelona, Beijing, Berlin, Cape Town, Florence, Kyoto, Madrid, Moscow, Oxford, Paris and Santiago. The Bing Stanford in Washington Program enables undergraduates to work and study through courses and internships in a residential program in the U.S.  Capital. The Hopkins Marine Station allows students to live in Pacific Grove while studying marine biology.

Stanford is located in California on the San Francisco Bay Peninsula, midway between San Francisco and San Jose. With more than 49 miles of roads, a 49-megawatt power plant, three separate water systems, three dams and lakes, 88 miles of water mains, a central heating and cooling plant, a high-voltage distribution system and a post office, the university is a self-sustaining community. There are more than 690 major buildings at Stanford that incorporate 14.7 million square feet. Stanford is considered one of the top universities in the United States for sustainable practices and development. Ninety-six percent of undergraduates live on campus, as do about 57 percent of graduate students and 30 percent of faculty members.
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Resultado de imagen de Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) The essence of MIT is our appetite for problems–especially those big, intractable, complicated problems whose solutions make a permanent difference. While MIT is a research university committed to world-class inquiry in math, science, and engineering, MIT has equally distinguished programs in architecture, the humanities, management, and the social sciences. A diverse, supportive campus environment–with an incredible range of student groups and athletic and fitness opportunities–ensures that it's not all about the work. And in MIT's intensely creative atmosphere, the arts flourish in all their forms.

MIT admits some of the most talented students in the world on a need-blind basis. The Institute is committed to meeting the financial need of each admitted undergraduate student through MIT scholarships; the average student scholarship was 34,551 per year in 2014. As a result, the MIT community is incredibly diverse, and organically collaborative, with students coming from many different backgrounds, across the country and around the world.

Students are frequently encouraged to unite MIT’s engineering excellence with public service. For example, the required senior capstone design course for mechanical engineering majors centers on making the world a better place through engineering. Recent years have focused on projects using alternative forms of energy, and machines that could be used for sustainable agriculture. Beyond academic coursework, MIT’s D-Lab, Poverty Action Lab, and Public Service Center all support students and professors in the research and implementation of culturally sensitive and environmentally responsible technologies and programs that alleviate poverty and improve quality of life in low-income areas locally, nationally, and worldwide.

The MIT community brings its energy and creativity outside the classroom as well with 450+ student-run groups, 33 varsity sports, 18 intramural sports, 33 club sports, and more than 60 music, theater, visual arts, writing, and dance groups. It’s just a short walk across the Charles River to Boston where students can enjoy the city’s fabulous restaurants or take in Boston culture. Many programs around MIT allow students to get reduced-price tickets to various events, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the American Repertory Theater, and Bruins, Celtics, and Red Sox games. Students get free admission daily to the Museum of Science, the Museum of Fine Arts, and all Harvard University and MIT museums.
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