Cornell University

Introduction:


Once called "the first American university" by educational historian Frederick Rudolph, Cornell University represents a distinctive mix of eminent scholarship and democratic ideals. Adding practical subjects to the classics and admitting qualified students regardless of nationality, race, social circumstance, gender, or religion was quite a departure when Cornell was founded in 1865.

Today's Cornell reflects this heritage of egalitarian excellence. It is home to the nation's first colleges devoted to hotel administration, industrial and labor relations, and veterinary medicine. Both a private university and the land-grant institution of New York State, Cornell University is the most educationally diverse member of the Ivy League.

On the Ithaca campus alone nearly 20,000 students representing every state and 120 countries choose from among 4,000 courses in 11 undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools. Many undergraduates participate in a wide range of interdisciplinary programs, play meaningful roles in original research, and study in Cornell programs in Washington, New York City, and the world over.


Facts:



More Info:
www.cornell.edu

Stanford University

Introduction:
Located between San Francisco and San Jose in the heart of Silicon Valley, Stanford University is recognized as one of the world's leading research and teaching institutions.

Leland and Jane Stanford founded the University to "promote the public welfare by exercising an influence on behalf of humanity and civilization." Stanford opened its doors in 1891, and more than a century later, it remains dedicated to finding solutions to the great challenges of the day and to preparing our students for leadership in today's complex world.

Facts:
Thank you for your interest in Stanford University. As its 10th president and a faculty member since 1977, I think Stanford is a very special place.

Stanford is recognized as one of the world’s leading universities. Our renowned professors offer students a remarkable range of academic courses that are paired with an extraordinary breadth of extracurricular activities and opportunities for research, independent study and public service.

In the Founding Grant, Jane and Leland Stanford stated the university’s mission: to prepare students “for personal success and direct usefulness in life” and “promote the public welfare by exercising an influence on behalf of humanity and civilization.” More than a century later, Stanford University remains dedicated to finding solutions to the great challenges of the day and to preparing our students for leadership in today’s complex world.

In recent years, we have launched university-wide initiatives on human health, the environment and sustainability, international affairs and the arts. We believe that collaboration across disciplines will be key to future advances, and multidisciplinary research and teaching are at the heart of these new initiatives.

Our undergraduate students are an important part of these efforts. Over the past decade, innovations in undergraduate education at Stanford include opportunities for students to work with faculty in small classes from their first days on campus, the chance to study abroad or in Washington, D.C. and a variety of opportunities for working on research projects. For many students, there is no greater thrill than being at the edge of a field and advancing the frontier of knowledge.

The pioneering spirit that inspired Jane and Leland Stanford to start this university more than a century ago and that helped build Silicon Valley at the doorstep of the campus encourages boldness in everything we do — whether those efforts occur in the library, in the classroom, in a laboratory, in a theater or on an athletic field.

We hope that you, too, find your place at Stanford.

More Info:
www.stanford.edu/

University of HONG KONG

Introduction:
The University of Hong Kong, founded in 1911, is the oldest tertiary institution in Hong Kong. It was granted a shield and a motto by the College of Arms in 1913, and throughout its history the University's visual identity has been firmly based on their display, often coupled the University's name. No other university in Hong Kong possesses a coat of arms. This is a distinction that resonates outside Hong Kong, particularly in the United Kingdom, other Commonwealth jurisdictions, and the United States. It is also a reminder of the University's antiquity, and a most dignified and effective corporate identity.

The aim of this website is to encourage consistency in the use of the University of Hong Kong's name and visual identity. Consistent and scrupulous use of this visual identity helps to preserve the University's image as an institution that cherishes excellence, and helps to project its core common values.

The University's Visual Identity combines the University's shield and motto and the University's name in English ("The University of Hong Kong") and Chinese ("香港大學"). As it serves as the University's official identity, it should be used discreetly and respectfully.

Vision:
The University of Hong Kong, as a pre-eminent international university in Asia, seeks to sustain and enhance its excellence as an institution of higher learning through outstanding teaching and world-class research so as to produce well-rounded graduates with lifelong abilities to provide leadership within the societies they serve.

Mission:
The University of Hong Kong will endeavour:

-To advance constantly the bounds of scholarship, building upon its proud traditions and strengths;

-To provide a comprehensive education, developing fully the intellectual and personal strengths of its students while developing and extending lifelong learning opportunities for the community;

-To produce graduates of distinction committed to lifelong learning, integrity and professionalism, capable of being responsive leaders and communicators in their fields;

-To develop a collegial, flexible, pluralistic and supportive intellectual environment that inspires and attracts, retains and nurtures scholars, students and staff of the highest calibre in a culture that fosters creativity, learning and freedom of thought, enquiry and expression;

-To provide a safe and healthy workplace to support and advance teaching, learning and research at the University;

-To engage in innovative, high-impact and leading-edge research within and across disciplines;

-To be fully accountable for the effective management of public and private resources bestowed upon the institution and act in partnership with the community over the generation, dissemination and application of knowledge;

-To serve as a focal point of intellectual and academic endeavour in Hong Kong, China and Asia and act as a gateway and forum for scholarship with the rest of the world.

More Info:
www.hku.hk

University of TOKYO

Introduction:
The University of Tokyo was established in 1877 as the first national university in Japan. As a leading research university, the University of Tokyo offers courses in essentially all academic disciplines at both undergraduate and graduate levels and conducts research across the full spectrum of academic activity. The university aims to provide its students with a rich and varied academic environment that ensures opportunities for both intellectual development and the acquisition of professional knowledge and skills.

The University of Tokyo has a faculty of over 4,000 and a total enrollment of about 29,000, evenly divided between undergraduate and graduate students. As of 2006 there were 2,269 international students, and over 2,700 foreign researchers come annually to the university for both short and extended visits. The University of Tokyo is known for the excellence of its faculty and students and ever since its foundation many of its graduates have gone on to become leaders in government, business, and the academic world.

Organisation:
The university organization consists of the College of Arts and Sciences, nine faculties, 15 graduate schools and 11 institutes (for full details see the organization chart on pages 7 and 8 ). There are also 21 university-wide centers open to scholars of all departments and faculties of the University of Tokyo (see the organization chart on page 8 for a complete list); several of these centers are also open to scholars from all universities in Japan. The university-wide centers were created with the aim of facilitating interfaculty collaboration and interdisciplinary research, and often with specific research problems in mind.

There are also many research facilities connected to the various faculties of the University (see the organization chart on page 7 ). All the institutes and research facilities work closely with their related faculties and graduate schools, and many of the faculty members associated with these institutes engage in graduate school teaching and supervise graduate students working towards advanced degrees.

The university library system, centered on the General Library, is composed as a network linking the 55 libraries affiliated with the various faculties, institutes, and graduate schools. It holds about 8.1 million books and periodicals, including many rare publications. In response to recent technological innovations, the library system has been actively digitalizing scholarly information. The University Museum is actually a system of specialized museums covering a wide range of fields from paleontology to Andean anthropology, and its collection holds nearly half of the university's 6.4 million items related to research.

More Info:
www.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Australian National Universities

About ANU:
The Australian National University is unique among its contemporaries as the only Australian university established by an Act of Federal Parliament, in 1946. It is also one of Australia’s most research-intensive universities, with a high ratio of academic staff to students.

The University campus has over 200 buildings and occupies 145 hectares adjacent to the city centre of Canberra.

The University also has smaller campuses:

* Mt Stromlo Observatory (west of Canberra)
* Siding Spring Observatory (near Coonabarabran, western NSW)
* North Australia Research Unit (Darwin, Northern Territory)
* Kioloa (coastal campus near Bawley Point, on the NSW South Coast).

Education@ANU:

ANU was established with a formidable responsibility to advance the cause of learning and research in Australia and take a rightful place among the great universities of the world.

The primary educational objective of ANU is to become the university of choice for talented students locally, nationally and internationally by offering a unique range of research-led degree programs.

Our seven Colleges, each a combination of Research Schools and Faculties, position us where few others can go. Where others derive their research from their teaching, ANU builds its teach on the base of its research. The benefits of this research-led education set our students apart.

Facts n Figures:
* An independent quality review of the University found it ranked among the world’s best research universities, with 77 per cent of external assessors ranking ANU as one of the top 50 universities in their field in the world — including 44 per cent who rated ANU in the world’s top 25 universities.

* The Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute of Higher Education’s Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked ANU ahead of every other university in the Southern Hemisphere.

* ISIHighlyCited, a ranking of researchers who have made fundamental contributions to their disciplines in the last 20 years, identifies 21 ANU researchers among the 50 Australians at the top of their field.

* ANU has more Federation Fellows – lucrative fellowships awarded by the Australian Research Council – than any other Australian university.

* ANU has more members of the Royal Society - the world’s oldest scientific academy - on staff than any other Australian university.

* The University has 14,365 students, including 3,379 international students from 106 countries.

* The youngest ANU student is 16, while the oldest is 86.

* There are more than two million volumes – and one of the largest collections on the Asia-Pacific outside of the region – in the University’s libraries.

* A 'green' campus, ANU has more than 10,000 trees within its grounds. In 2003 the University was awarded the Silver Greenhouse Challenge Award at the annual Australian Engineering Excellence Awards, placing it second of 800 signatories.


More Info:
www.anu.edu.au

University of Pennsylvania

Intro:
At the University of Pennsylvania, you'll find a historic, Ivy League school with highly selective admissions and a history of innovation in interdisciplinary education and scholarship. You'll also find a picturesque campus amidst a dynamic city and a world-class research institution.


Intellectual rigor and a practical outlook
Penn carries on the principles and spirit of its founder, Benjamin Franklin: entrepreneurship, innovation, invention, outreach, and a pragmatic love of knowledge. Franklin's practical outlook has remained a driving force in the university's development.

Top students
Today Penn is home to a diverse undergraduate student body of nearly 10,000, hailing from every state in the union and all around the globe. Admissions are among the most selective in the country and Penn consistently ranks among the top 10 universities in the annual U.S. News & World Report survey. Another 10,000 students are enrolled in Penn's 12 graduate and professional schools, which are national leaders in their fields. The Wharton School is consistently one of the nation's top three business schools. The School of Nursing is one of the two best in the U.S. The School of Arts and Sciences, Graduate School of Education, Law School, School of Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, and Annenberg School for Communication all rank among the top 10 schools in their fields.

A singular campus
With its green lawns and landmark architecture, our beautiful West Philadelphia campus houses all of Penn's activities, from student life, athletics, and academics to research, scholarship, and cultural life. All of Penn's 12 schools are located within walking distance of one another. This geographical unity, unique among Ivy League schools, supports and fosters Penn's interdisciplinary approach to education, scholarship, and research.

A vibrant city
Penn's picturesque campus is situated near the heart of Philadelphia, a vital and lively city. Our students and faculty enjoy both campus life and the expansive cultural offerings of the city. Penn makes a substantial investment in its surrounding neighborhood and offers ways for students and faculty to make community service part of their educational experience.

Crossing boundaries
True to our roots, Penn encourages both intellectual and practical pursuits. On our unified campus, this flexible mindset makes Penn a national leader in interdisciplinary programs, crossing traditional academic and professional boundaries to engage participants in the pursuit of new -- and useful -- knowledge. In addition to numerous cross-disciplinary majors and joint-degree programs, Penn is home to interdisciplinary institutions such as the Institute for Medicine and Engineering, the Joseph H. Lauder Institute for Management and International Studies, and the Management and Technology Program.

Facts:

Students
Full-time: 20,128
Part-time: 3,979
Total: 24,107
Full-time Undergraduate: 10,275
Full-time Graduate/professional: 9,853
(as of Fall 2008)


Undergraduate Admissions
Penn received 22,935 applications for admission to the Class of 2012. Of those applicants, 3,883, or 16.9 percent, were offered admission. 98.9 percent of the students admitted for Fall 2008 came from the top 10 percent of their high school graduating class and scored an average of 1,437 on the SAT. 2,430 students matriculated into this year's freshman class.

Internationalism
A total of 3,874 international students applied for admission to Penn's undergraduate schools for Fall 2008, and 392 (10.1%) received admissions offers. More than 10% of the first year class are international students. Of the international students enrolled in the Class of 2012, 9.4% were from Africa and the Middle East, 46.9% from Asia, 3.1% from Australia and the Pacific, 17.2% from Canada and Mexico, 9.0% from Central/South America and the Caribbean, and 10.9% from Europe. Penn had 3,544 international students enrolled at all levels in Fall 2008.

Study Abroad
Penn offers opportunities to undergraduate and graduate/professional students to study abroad in more than 60 countries. Penn ranks first among the Ivy League schools and sixteenth nationwide among doctoral/research institutions in the number of students studying abroad, according to the most recent data (Institute for International Education, 2008). In 2006-07, 1,768 students participated in study abroad programs.

Diversity
37.6 percent of those accepted for admission to the Class of 2012 are Black, Hispanic, Asian, or Native American. Women comprise 51.8 percent of all students currently enrolled.
Undergraduate Schools

Penn's four undergraduate schools, with their Fall 2008 student populations, are:

The College at Penn (School of Arts and Sciences), 6,404
School of Engineering and Applied Science, 1,609
School of Nursing, 488
The Wharton School, 1,866

Graduate and Professional Schools

Penn's 12 graduate and professional schools, with their Fall 2008 student populations, are:

Annenberg School for Communication, 88
School of Arts and Sciences, 2,392
School of Dental Medicine, 595
Graduate School of Education, 1,433
School of Engineering and Applied Science, 1,134
School of Design, 589
Law School, 895
School of Medicine, 1,561
School of Nursing, 474
School of Social Policy & Practice, 367
School of Veterinary Medicine, 489
The Wharton School, 2,239

Faculty

(As of December 2008)
Standing: 2,524
Associated: 1,525
Total: 4,049
Academic Support Staff: 2,278

The student-faculty ratio is 6:1

For more info:
www.upenn.edu/

Duke University

By President:
Richard H. Brodhead
As you explore the university's website, you'll get a glimpse of the Duke I know: a place where students and scholars work to understand and address important issues in our world today, where tradition is combined with a desire to ask questions and where a commitment to Durham, North Carolina and the wider global community informs our work in the University and the Health System.

You'll see a beautiful place where an 8,000-acre forest frames a campus of old Georgian and Gothic buildings, medical and research labs, a stunning art museum, colorful public gardens and a soaring Chapel.

From my first visit to the campus until today, I have been struck by the spirit of this place. It manifests itself in collaborations across academic disciplines, the research that changes lives, and a lively student body whose innovation in cheering on sports teams is matched only by its innovation in class and community work.

Facts about Duke:
Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that built a worldwide financial empire in the manufacture of tobacco products and developed electricity production in the Carolinas, long had been interested in Trinity College. Trinity traced its roots to 1838 in nearby Randolph County when local Methodist and Quaker communities opened Union Institute. The school, then named Trinity College, moved to Durham in 1892. In December 1924, the provisions of James B. Duke's indenture created the family philanthropic foundation, The Duke Endowment, which provided for the expansion of Trinity College into Duke University.

As a result of the Duke gift, Trinity underwent both physical and academic expansion. The original Durham campus became known as East Campus when it was rebuilt in stately Georgian architecture. West Campus, Gothic in style and dominated by the soaring 210-foot tower of Duke Chapel, opened in 1930. East Campus served as home of the Woman's College of Duke University until 1972, when the men's and women's undergraduate colleges merged. Both men and women undergraduates now enroll in either the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences or the Pratt School of Engineering. In 1995, East Campus became the home for all first-year students.

For more info:
www.duke.edu/

Columbia University

About:
From its beginnings in a schoolhouse in lower Manhattan, Columbia University has grown to encompass two principal campuses: the historic, neoclassical campus in the Morningside Heights neighborhood and the modern Medical Center further uptown, in Washington Heights. Today, Columbia is one of the top academic and research institutions in the world, conducting pathbreaking research in medicine, science, the arts, and the humanities. It includes three undergraduate schools, thirteen graduate and professional schools, and a school of continuing education.

For More Info:
www.columbia.edu/

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

About MIT:
The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Facts:
Burning the midnight oil may go out of fashion at MIT. The Institute is working hard to make its campus more energy efficient—and utilities are a big target, accounting for 90 percent of its greenhouse gas emissions, according to a 2004 survey.

To meet the challenge, MIT is harnessing the minds and hands (mens et manus) of faculty, staff, and particularly students, engaging the entire community in the drive toward a more sustainable campus.

Behavior changes are a big part of the solution. In 2006, student research estimated that MIT could save $1 million a year just by addressing the energy wasted when laboratory fume hoods are left open; a pilot program has already saved the Institute approximately $40,000. In 2008, undergraduates were able to cut their electricity use by 13 percent in the second annual Dorm Electricity Competition, and efforts are under way to encourage everyone to turn out lights, use revolving doors, and employ computing power-management tools that save energy.

Recognizing that older buildings can be inefficient, MIT has dedicated $500,000 to fund pilot projects for remedial energy-conservation measures such as retrofitting lightbulbs and remotely monitoring temperature-control systems. New buildings can be much greener—and at MIT, they are. Institute policy calls for all new buildings and major renovations to meet or exceed the requirements set for Silver-level certification in the US Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system.

Ashdown House, the new graduate dorm on campus (opened fall 2008) features low-usage appliances, energy-efficient roofing materials, and a storm water reuse system for landscape irrigation. Due to be completed in 2010, the new Sloan School of Management building is expected to be the greenest on campus. With eco-friendly features like daylighting and radiant ceiling panels, it is expected to merit LEED Gold.

Meanwhile, the MIT Energy Initiative's Campus Energy Task Force is working to make MIT a learning laboratory for sustainability. A grant program for student energy projects is supporting efforts to reclaim waste heat from MIT's co-generation power plant and use leftover vegetable oil to power MIT vehicles. Undergraduate research projects are putting students to work on everything from studying the impact of MIT purchasing to analyzing ways to green the MIT fleet.

Involving the whole MIT community—from the staff Working Group Recycling Committee to the student Undergraduate Association Committee on Sustainability—extends the reach of the Institute's efforts. Already MIT has won accolades for its progress, including high marks on the 2008 College Sustainability Report Card put out by the Sustainable Endowments Institute.

MIT hasn't come up with one perfect solution to greening its campus—it has thrown down the gauntlet. Its impressive constituencies are rising to the occasion.

For more Info:
web.mit.edu

UCL (University College London)

UCL Views

UCL Views is a series of images reflecting the curiosities, passions, investigations and imaginings of the UCL community.

This set of UCL Views showcases success by staff at the UCL Faculty of the Built Environment in two competitions last week.

A team from the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture has won first prize in the Hakka Cultural Park Competition in the city of Heyuan, Guangdong Province in China.

Professor Christine Hawley (Dean of the Faculty of the Built Environment), Andrew Porter, Abigail Ashton, and Bartlett graduate Moyang Yang beat off competition from Chinese and Australian practices to win first place with a design that includes plans for a museum of Hakka Culture, a city library, an exhibition hall as well as 1.3km strip of landscaped park.

The Bartlett proposal makes reference to the primary forms of Hakka housing, which are predominantly circular with central courtyards. They have a defensive perimeter wall with a single small entrance door.

The design comprises a series of rectangular frames which foreground the features of the landscape and mark the locations of the museum, the library, the exhibition hall, the sculpture park and belvedere. These five frames represent the five key waves of migration of Hakka people within China. The belvedere, a turret built for the purposes of viewing the surrounding scene, is located on a peak that offers a lookout over the city centre.

Professor CJ Lim (UCL Bartlett School of Architecture and Pro-Provost for Canada, Mexico and the USA) has won a 2009 Great Place Planning Award from the Environmental Design Research Association, USA for his project Guangming Sustainable Park, Shenzhen, China. The 2.4 square kilometre park plan was commissioned by the Chinese government in 2008.

Eschewing conventions of traditional urban parks, the plan seeks to create a framework for sustainable engagement with the urbanisation of a previously agricultural area, bringing organic farming, art, recreation, and energy production into the centre of Guangming New Town.

The jury praised both the plan’s design and the fact it has already encouraged a conversation on sustainable planning between the Chinese government, local communities, and environmental agencies. Its inclusion of both agriculture and cultural activities, recreation and energy production, provides a model for park design in China and other fast-urbanising areas of the world.

The UCL Bartlett, made up of the Schools of Architecture, Construction and Project Management, Graduate Studies, Planning and the Development Planning Unit, offers a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the built environment. The school is at the forefront of the debate on the future of cities and uses London as a unique laboratory for studying the architectural, constructional and urban situations that affect the built environment.

For more Info:
www.ucl.ac.uk/

University Of Chicago

About the University:
Located in the community of Hyde Park on Chicago’s South Side, just 15 minutes from the city center, the University of Chicago is uniquely positioned to contribute to, and draw from, the strength and diversity of this world-class metropolis. We have also made an indelible mark on the world at large.

Basic Facts:

First Classes: 1892
Founder: John D. Rockefeller
President: Robert J. Zimmer

Students
4,901 undergraduate students
9,820 graduate, professional, and other students
Faculty
2,168 faculty and other academic personnel
81 Nobel Prize winners, including 7 current faculty
Alumni
143,482 alumni worldwide
Research
$423.7 million in sponsored research awards
More than 3,200 patents filed since 1987
Manager of Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (in partnership)

Arts & Culture
Professional museums, theater, concerts, and lectures
A multitude of student-run organizations and events
Campus
In Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood on Lake Michigan
211 acres; designated a botanic garden in 1997
Blend of traditional English Gothic and award-winning modern buildings designed by renowned architects
Undergraduate College
offering 49 majors and 22 minors
Four Graduate Divisions
Biological Sciences
Humanities
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences
Six Graduate Professional Schools
Divinity School
Booth School of Business
Law School
Pritzker School of Medicine
Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies
School of Social Service Administration
Continuing Education
Graham School of General Studies
offering degree, certificate, and open enrollment programs

For More Info:
www.uchicago.edu/

California Institute of Technology(Caltech)

Mission Statement

The mission of the California Institute of Technology is to expand human knowledge and benefit society through research integrated with education. We investigate the most challenging, fundamental problems in science and technology in a singularly collegial, interdisciplinary atmosphere, while educating outstanding students to become creative members of society.


Faculty & Staff Statistics

Faculty in residence (as of December 2008)

Professorial faculty 294
Emeriti 108
Research faculty 57
Other faculty 65
Visiting faculty 138
Postdoctoral scholars 535
Senior postdoctoral scholars 36
Visitors 115

Employees as of December 2008

Campus (excludes faculty and students) 2,650
JPL (excluding contractors) 5,200

Honors & Awards (as of December 2008)

Caltech faculty and alumni have received wide recognition for their achievements in science and engineering.

Nobel Prize: 31 recipients, 32 prizes
Crafoord Prize: 5 recipients
National Medal of Science: 49 recipients
National Medal of Technology: 10 recipients
California Scientist of the Year: 15 recipients
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences: 85 faculty
Member, National Academy of Sciences: 75 faculty
Member, National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine: 4 faculty
Member, National Academy of Engineering: 30 faculty


Student & Alumni Statistics

Enrollment (first term 2008)

Undergraduate students:
610 men
311 women

Graduate students:
842 men
363 women

Total students: 2,126

Freshman class (entering September 2008)

139 men; 97 women
Middle 50% SAT scores (verbal/math): 2170-2310

Degrees awarded June 2008

BS 208 (of whom 88 graduated with honor)
MS 128
Engineer 1
PhD 185

Living alumni (as of December 2008)

Total 22,227

BS 11,282
MS 7,754
Engineer 370
PhD 6,822
Ex student 639
Certificate 78
Total Degrees 26,945

The total number of degrees is greater than the number of living alumni because many graduates have multiple Caltech degrees.

For More Info:
www.caltech.edu/

Princeton University

Overview:
Princeton simultaneously strives to be one of the leading research universities and the most outstanding undergraduate college in the world. As a research university, it seeks to achieve the highest levels of distinction in the discovery and transmission of knowledge and understanding, and in the education of graduate students. At the same time, Princeton is distinctive among research universities in its commitment to undergraduate teaching.

The University provides its students with academic, extracurricular and other resources—in a residential community committed to diversity in its student body, faculty and staff—that help them achieve at the highest scholarly levels and prepare them for positions of leadership and lives of service in many fields of human endeavor.

Through the scholarship and teaching of its faculty, and the many contributions to society of its alumni, Princeton seeks to fulfill its informal motto: “Princeton in the Nation’s Service and in the Service of All Nations."

Facts & Figures:
Princeton is the fourth-oldest college in the United States. The ambience of its earliest days is palpable in historic landmarks on campus, most notably Nassau Hall, which in 1783 was the temporary capitol of the United States.

From such a distinctive beginning grew something great—a community of learning that continues to evolve, providing abundant opportunities to talented students from around the world.

Today, more than 850 full-time faculty members, who are leaders in their respective disciplines, instruct Princeton's approximately 4,850 undergraduate students and 2,295 graduate students. Princeton also serves as a leader in ensuring admitted students can afford college; in 2001, it developed one of the strongest need-based financial aid programs in the country and was the first to eliminate loans from aid packages.

Princeton today:
Recognized globally for academic excellence, Princeton University today is a vibrant community of scholarship and learning. As President Shirley M. Tilghman noted in a recent Commencement address:

“The specific components of a Princeton education have evolved over time, but our central aim has remained the same: to instill in each graduate those qualities of mind and character necessary for good citizenship and wise leadership. They include a broad intellectual curiosity that embraces open-mindedness coupled with critical thinking; respect for our moral and cultural inheritance coupled with a capacity for innovation and change; an appreciation of the shared destiny and common humanity of all peoples; and core principles of responsibility, integrity and courage.”

There are many features that define a Princeton education, but what is most distinctive is the emphasis on providing students with ample opportunity to explore and then deepen their academic interests. It is not uncommon to hear students talk about "finding their passion" as a Princeton student—and this passion later informs choices about what to do after graduation.

Imperial College London

Overview of the College:
Consistently rated amongst the world's best universities, Imperial College London is a science-based institution with a reputation for excellence in teaching and research.

* Faculty of Engineering
* Faculty of Medicine
* Faculty of Natural Sciences
* The Business School
* Admin & Support Services
* College governance
* Rector & Principal Officers
* College organisational structure
* Mission and strategy

Facts and Figures:

* Founded 1907
* 12,129 full-time students (06-07)
* 11.2 student/staff ratio (06-07)
* Students from 123 countries
* 235 taught courses
* AAB average A level entry

League tables

*Overall
3rd in Europe and 6th in World
*Engineering and Information Technology
2nd in Europe and 7th in World
*Life Sciences and Biomedicine
3rd in Europe and 11th in World
*Natural Sciences
3rd in Europe and 14th in World

For More Info:
www3.imperial.ac.uk

University Of Oxford

Introducing Oxford:
Welcome to the University of Oxford. People from all walks of life and all parts of the world have been visiting us for nine centuries and we are delighted that via this website you are joining that long tradition. Oxford was the first University in the English-speaking world. Our aim is to remain at the forefront of centres of learning, teaching and research.

Oxford’s remarkable global appeal continues to grow. Students from more than a hundred and forty countries and territories make up a student population of over twenty thousand. Over a third comes from outside the United Kingdom.

But it is not just longevity and global reach that mark Oxford out and give the University its special character. There is also our distinctive college and tutorial system which underpins a culture of close academic supervision and careful personal support for our outstanding students. Our colleges and halls of which there are more than forty also help to foster the intense interdisciplinary approach that inspires much of the outstanding research achievement of the University and makes Oxford a leader in so many fields. It is an approach especially suited to confronting many of the hugely complex challenges that face us all. That is why we believe that the greater we can make Oxford, the greater its contribution to the well-being of the world you and I share.

For More Info:
www.ox.ac.uk

Yale University

Yale University comprises three major academic components: Yale College (the undergraduate program), the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the professional schools. In addition, Yale encompasses a wide array of centers and programs, libraries, museums, and administrative support offices. Approximately 11,250 students attend Yale.

Yale University in Brief:
Undergraduate students* 5,247
Graduate and professional students* 6,169
International students* 1,872
Faculty* 3,619
Staff* 9,176
International scholars* 1,920
Living alumni 163,921
Library holdings 12.5 million volumes
Varsity athletic teams 35
Total number of buildings 439
Endowment $22.6 billion
Operating budget* $2.31 billion

For More Info:
www.yale.edu/admissions/index.html

University of Cambridge

The University
We are one of the world's oldest universities and leading academic centres, and a self-governed community of scholars. Cambridge comprises 31 Colleges and over 150 departments, faculties, schools and other institutions.

The Colleges
A college is where students live, eat and socialise. It is also the place where students receive small group teaching sessions, known as supervisions.
Each college is an independent institution with its own property and income. The colleges appoint their own staff and are responsible for selecting students, in accordance with University regulations. The teaching of students is shared between the Colleges and University departments. Degrees are awarded by the University.

Cambridge University Press publishes the finest academic and educational writing from around the world and is dedicated to advancing knowledge, education, learning and research. Since publishing its first work in 1584, Cambridge now publishes over 2500 titles and 200 journals every year

Cambridge Assessment is Europe’s largest assessment agency and plays a highly influential role in the research and development of school examinations in the UK and around the world. Through its three examination boards it delivers mainstream qualifications to over 8 million candidates a year.

At Cambridge, we provide the world's highest-quality university education for the brightest and best, regardless of background. There are a variety of ways to study at Cambridge.

Undergraduate Studies
Find out about our courses, the colleges, life at Cambridge, how to apply, fees, finance, open days and events.


Graduate Studies
Practical information for people interested in graduate study including our courses and costs.


Lifelong Learning
Conferences and part-time courses for adult learners from the Institute of Continuing Education.

Executive Education and Training
A variety of business programmes to help you develop including short courses and summer schools.

Courses in Education
Undergraduate BA, PGCE, Higher Degrees and Practitioner Professional Development from the Faculty of Education.

Teaching Provision
How we teach at Cambridge and the resources available to students.

Other learning opportunities
Lifelong Learning, International Summer Schools, and other ways of studying at Cambridge.

Harvard University

Established
1636

Faculty
About 1,900 faculty members and more than 10,000 academic appointments in affiliated teaching hospitals
Students


* Harvard College — ~6,700
* Graduate and professional students — ~12,300
* Total — ~20,000

School color
Crimson

Living alumni
More than 300,000 - over 250,000 in the U.S.; nearly 50,000 in some 190 other
countries

Nobel Laureates
43 current and former faculty members

Motto
Veritas (Latin for “truth”)

Real estate holdings
4,947 acres

Library collection
Nearly 16 million volumes

Faculties, schools, and an institute
Harvard University is made up of 10 principal academic units — nine faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The nine faculties oversee schools and divisions that offer courses and award academic degrees.

Naming
The name Harvard comes from the college’s first benefactor, the young minister John Harvard of Charlestown. Upon his death in 1638, he left half his estate to the institution established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Undergraduate cost

* Tuition: $32,557
* Total including room, board, student service fees: $47,215

Financial aid (2008-09 academic year)
Nearly $40,000 average total aid package

University Professors
20 ‘individuals of distinction’ »

Harvard University President
Drew Gilpin Faust

University income (Fiscal Year 2007)
$3,210,506,000

University expenses (Fiscal Year 2007
$3,170,650,000

Endowment (Fiscal Year 2007
$36.9 billion

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