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#15 Cornell University
Founded by Ezra Cornell, Cornell' motto, and a famous quote of her reflect the fact that it was one of the first universities in USA that intended to offer knowledge in all fields: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." The university is currently ranked as 15th in the world.
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Cornell University
Founded by Ezra Cornell, Cornell' motto, and a famous quote of her reflect the fact that it was one of the first universities in USA that intended to offer knowledge in all fields: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." The university is currently ranked as 15th in the world.
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University of Michigan
Notable alumni of University of Michigan include the creator of the iPod, the founder of the search engine Google, the actor that voiced Darth Vader, the 38th President of the United States, one of the first American serial killers, and the first American to walk in space.
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Princeton University
Princeton is one of the eight Ivy League universities. It is located in New Jersey and it has around 8000 students. Famous graduates from Princeton University are David Duchovny (X-files), Michelle Obama.
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Caltech
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is located in Pasadena and has strong emphasis on science and engineering. Despite its small size, 31 Caltech graduates have won a Nobel prize. Moshe Arens, former Israeli minister of defense and foreign affairs is another famous Caltech alumni.
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Stanford University
Stanford University is located in California and is one of the best universities in the state. Famous alumni from Stanford include 17 nobel prize winners. A rather unknown fact about Stanford is that the full name of this institution of higher learning is "Leland Stanford Junior University". Jane and Leland Stanford founded the University in 1885 in memory of their only son, Leland Stanford, Jr., who died of typhoid fever one month before his 16th birthday.
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University of Columbia
University of Columbia is the best university in New York city and 10th in the world. The current USA president, Barrack Obama graduated from Columbia. Joseph Gordon Levitt (Inception, The Dark Knight rises) is another proud alumni of Columbia.
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University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania is an Ivy League university, located in Philadelphia. It was founded by the famous Benjamin Franklin. Warren Buffet and Donald Trump, two of the best investors and businessmen in the world graduated from Pennsylvania.
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University of Chicago
Motto: "Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched." Two presidents and two prime ministers have received their education at University of Chicago.
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UCL (University College London)
Located at the heart of London, UCl is ranked 7th in the world. Of its living alumni, Christopher Nolan is probably the most famous one. He is the director who gave us movies such as "The Dark Knight", "Inception", "Memento", "The Prestige"... Another famous alumni is the comedian Ricky Gervais who created the hit show "The Office"
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Imperial College London
Imperial College specialises in science, engineering, business and medicine. It is ranked 6th in the world and 3rd in the UK. With a total of 525,233 square metres of operational property, it has one of the largest estates of any higher education institution in the UK.
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University of Oxford
Oxford inspired Alice in the wonderland, Tolkien (Lord of the rings) was an Oxford alumni. One of the greatest living minds, Stephen Hawking, also received his education in Oxford. The famous actress from Harry Potter, Emma Watson, is also studying at Oxford.
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Yale University
Yale was created by clergyman who wanted to establish college where religious leaders can be trained. Before the civil war, it was a campus crime to express disbelief in the bible or express profanity towards the Sabbath. Yale is now ranked as the 4th best university in the world.
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MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the best university in the world for technology. Internet was created in MIT which by itself is enough to convince us of MIT's qualities.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is ranked as the best university in USA. Harvard alumni include names such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg (although they both dropped out), the beautiful Natalie Portman, Tommy Lee Jones and the movie directors Darren Aronofsky (Pi, The Fountain, Black Swan, Requiem for a dream) and Terrence Malick (The Tree Of Life).
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University of Cambridge
Besides its Hogwarts like look, University of Cambridge offers top education and it is currently ranked as the best university in the world. Famous people that studied in Cambridge are Churchill (prime minister of UK), the actor Ian McKellen (Magneto and Gandalf) and Hugh Laurie (Dr House).
