Harvard University … [1st in U.S.]
(Cambridge, MA, USA)
Harvard University is the standard by which all other
research
universities are measured. No school has ever challenged its
position as the world’s premier academic institution in the
history of the Shanghai rankings.
Founded in 1636 (only 16 years after the Mayflower touched
down at Plymouth Rock), Harvard is the oldest school in the
world’s richest nation, and it has capitalized on the benefits
this grants. Under manager Jack Meyer’s leadership, the
school’s endowment fund grew from $4.6 billion to $25.8
billion in 15 years. Today, the university possesses over $36
billion, and its fortune is still growing.
But there is much more to Harvard than massive wealth. The
school has
produced 47 Nobel Laureates, 32 heads of state, and 48
Pulitzer Prize
winners. It boasts the largest academic library in the world
(Widener
Library, home to some 6 million volumes), as well as leading
medical,
law, and business schools. It has an integrated alumni
network that
stretches around the globe.
It would be invidious to single out any of Harvard’s many
academic
departments for its excellence, for the school’s principal
claim on the #1
position lies in the fact that it is at or very near the top in
nearly every
field across the entire spectrum of the sciences and the
humanities!
Not only is Harvard dominant across a multitude of
academic fields, it is
also ideally situated to work alongside a variety of other
schools. The
most obvious example is MIT, but the greater Boston
metropolitan area is
also home to Boston College, Boston University,
Northeastern, Tufts,
Brandeis, and several other research universities. This fact
equips both
students and faculty with endless opportunities for
collaborative research.
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2 Stanford University … [2nd in U.S.]
(Stanford, CA, USA)
With an $18.7 billion endowment Stanford has access to
numerous world-class research resources.
The school’s 1,189 acre Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve lets
scientists study ecosystems first hand. Its 150-foot radio
telescope, nicknamed “The Dish,” studies the ionosphere.
Stanford also boasts a 315-acre habitat reserve which is
actively trying to bring back the endangered California tiger
salamander. And the SLAC Accelerator Laboratory actively
advances the U.S. Department of Energy’s research.
Stanford is also affiliated with the prestigious Hoover
Institution, which is
one of the nation’s leading social, political, and economic
think tanks.
But it takes more than just great laboratories and facilities to
build a great
research center. Stanford also has some of the finest minds
in the world
working for it. The school’s faculty currently include 22
Nobel Laureates,
51 members of the American Philosophical Society, three
Presidential
Medal of Freedom recipients, 158 National Academy of
Science members,
five Pulitzer Prize winners, and 27 MacArthur Fellows.
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3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) … [3rd in
U.S.]
(Cambridge, MA, USA)
In the century and a half since its founding in 1861, MIT has
become the world’s preeminent science research center.
The university is known for a focused approach that uses
first-
class methodologies to tackle world-class problems. This
pragmatic creativity has produced legions of scientists and
engineers, as well as 80 Nobel Laureates, 56 National
Medal of Science winners, 43 MacArthur Fellows, and 28
National Medal of Technology and Innovation winners.
Nevertheless, the school’s more than $10 billion
endowment still leaves plenty of room for the arts and
humanities. This is why MIT Press can publish 30 prestigious
journals
and 220 state-of-the-art books every year. Since 1899, MIT
Technology
Review has continuously researched developing trends in
the industrial
sciences and other related fields, making their publications
essential for
anyone trying to understand where future innovation is
headed.
Notable people affiliated with MIT include Apollo 11
astronaut Buzz
Aldrin, father of linguistics Noam Chomsky, former U.N.
Secretary
General Kofi Annan, and former Federal Reserve Chairman
Ben
Bernanke.
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