Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St. Louis (Wash. U., or WUSTL) is a private research university located in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1853, and named after George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all 50 U.S. states and more than 120 countries. Twenty-two Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Washington University, nine having done the major part of their pioneering research at the university. Washington University's undergraduate program is ranked 7th in selectivity and 15th overall by U.S. News and World Report.The university is ranked 32nd in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities.
Washington University is made up of seven graduate and undergraduate schools that encompass a broad range of academic fields.Officially incorporated as "The Washington University," the university is occasionally referred to as "WUSTL,"[pronunciation?] an acronym derived from its initials. More commonly, the school is referred to as "Wash. U." To prevent confusion over its location, the Board of Trustees added the phrase "in St. Louis" in 1976.

Washington University was conceived by 17 St. Louis business, political, and religious leaders concerned by the lack of institutions of higher learning in the Midwest. Missouri State Senator Wayman Crow and Unitarian minister William Greenleaf Eliot, grandfather of the poet T.S. Eliot, led the effort.

The university's first chancellor was Joseph Gibson Hoyt. Crow secured the university charter from the Missouri General Assembly in 1853, and Eliot was named President of the Board of Trustees. Early on, Eliot solicited support from members of the local business community, including John O'Fallon, but Eliot failed to secure a permanent endowment. Washington University is unusual among major American universities in not having had a prior financial endowment. The institution had no backing of a religious organization, single wealthy patron, or earmarked government support.

University of Massachusetts Amherst

The University of Massachusetts Amherst (otherwise known as UMass Amherst or simply UMass) is a public research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States, and the flagship of the University of Massachusetts system. With approximately 1,300 faculty members and more than 29,000 students, UMass Amherst is the largest public university in New England and is ranked the 29th best public university in the nation.

The university offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctoral degrees in 111 undergraduate, 75 master's and 47 doctoral programs in nine schools and colleges.The main campus is situated north of downtown Amherst. In a 2009 article for MSN.com, Amherst was ranked first in Best College Towns in the United States.In 2012, U.S. News and World Report ranked Amherst among the Top 10 Great College Towns in America.It is also a member of the Five College Consortium.

The University of Massachusetts Amherst is categorized as a Research University with Very High research activity by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.In fiscal year 2014, UMass Amherst had research expenditures exceeding $200 million.

UMass Amherst sports teams are called the Minutemen and Minutewomen, the colors being maroon, black, and white; the school mascot is Sam the Minuteman. All teams participate in NCAA Division I. The university is a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference, while playing ice hockey in Hockey East and football in the FBS level Mid-American Conference (MAC).

The University's campus is situated on 1,450 acres, mainly in the town Amherst, but also partly in the neighboring town of Hadley. The campus extends about 1 mile (1.6 km) from the Campus Center in all directions and may be thought of as a series of concentric rings, with innermost ring harboring academic buildings and research labs, surrounded by a ring of the seven residential areas and two University owned apartment complexes. These include North Apartments, Sylvan, Northeast, Central, Orchard Hill, Southwest, Commonwealth Honors College Residential Complex, as well as the two University owned apartment complexes, North Village and Lincoln Apartments. These are in turn is surrounded by a ring of athletic facilities, smaller administration buildings, and parking lots.

The campus has its own Combined Heat and Power (CHP) generation facility. The plant, which was dedicated in 2009 after ten years of planning, replaced a coal burning power plant dating back to 1918 and has reduced the campus' greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 75%. In 2011, the CHP was recognized as the cleanest plant of its size in New England and has been recognized for maintaining 80% efficiency over six consecutive quarters. In 2008, the CHP received the Combined Cycle Journal Pacesetter Award for the best Combined Heat and Power plant project in the US that year. The award refers to its innovative design, efficiency, reliability, system redundancy, and environmental benefits.In 2009, the CHP received the Sustainable Campus Leadership Award from the International District Energy Association. The award states it was given "In recognition of exemplary public leadership in advancing energy efficiency and global environmental stewardship through investment in an innovative district energy system." The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) presented the University of Massachusetts with the 2011 Combined Heat and Power Energy Star Award[dead link] in an effort to recognize the reduced emissions and increased efficiency of the plant.

Purdue University

Purdue University, amid in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system.Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university if the Indiana General Assembly, demography advantage of the Morrill Act, accustomed a donation of acreage and money from Lafayette agent John Purdue to authorize a academy of science, technology, and agronomics in his name. The aboriginal classes were captivated on September 16, 1874, with six advisers and 39 students.
The university was founded with the allowance of $150,000 from John Purdue, a Lafayette business baton and philanthropist, forth with $50,000 from Tippecanoe County, and 100 acreage (0.40 km2) of acreage from Lafayette association in abutment of the project. In 1869, it was absitively that the new academy would be congenital abreast the city-limits of Lafayette and accustomed as Purdue University, in the name of the institution’s arch benefactor.
The West Lafayette campus offers added than 200 majors for undergraduates, over 70 master’s and doctoral programs, and able degrees in pharmacy and veterinary medicine. In addition, Purdue has 18 intercollegiate sports teams and added than 900 apprentice organizations. Today, Purdue is a affiliate of the Big Ten Conference. Purdue enrolls the additional better apprentice physique of any university in Indiana as able-bodied as the fourth better all-embracing apprentice citizenry of any university in the United States.
Purdue's campus is anchored in the baby city-limits of West Lafayette, abreast the western coffer of the Wabash River, beyond which sits the beyond city-limits of Lafayette. State Street, which is circumstantial with State Road 26, divides the arctic and southern portions of campus. Academic barrio are mostly concentrated on the eastern and southern locations of campus, with abode halls and civil fields to the west, and able-bodied accessories to the north. The Greater Lafayette Public Transportation Corporation (CityBus) operates eight campus bend bus routes on which students, faculty, and agents can ride chargeless of allegation with Purdue Identification.

Full Sail University

Full Sail University is a for-profit university in Winter Park, Florida. The academy was founded in 1979 in Dayton, Ohio as Full Sail Recording Workshop.Full Sail relocated to Florida in 1980,[5] abacus video assembly and blur assembly courses and, with the move in 1989 to its accepted campus, broadcast its class to cover added ball and media-related areas of study. Full Sail began alms online degrees in 2007.The academy is partly endemic by TA Associates, a clandestine disinterestedness firm.
Full Sail is not regionally accredited, but is nationally accepted by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC) to accolade associate's, bachelor's degrees, and master's degrees in audio, film, design, computer animation, business, and added fields.The academy offers 49 amount programs and 2 alum certificates and lists a apprentice citizenry of about 16,100.
Full Sail University’s capital campus is amid alfresco of Winter Park, Florida, in unincorporated Orange County, 8.6 afar (13.8 km) northeast of city Orlando. The academy campus contains the axial authoritative offices, university library, and bookish buildings, including a assembly backlot, added than 110 studios and assembly environments, blur backlot, auditorium, and Full Sail Studios. The university confused to Winter Park in 1989. Renovation and amplification into surrounding barrio began in 1995, growing into three added barrio by 2004. In 2009, the university broadcast into a fifth building, a 49,000-square-foot (4,600 m2) amplitude abreast campus to board educators for the online amount program.
A 2.2 acre (0.89 ha) ability called Full Sail Studios opened in 2010, consisting of a 22,000-square-foot (2,000 m2) multi-purpose area and a two-story 10,600-square-foot (980 m2) recording flat and bold assembly flat called Blackmoor afterwards the backward Dave Arneson, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons and adviser from 1999 to 2009. This accession aswell completed the blur backlot, accretion 2078 beeline ft (633 m) and 19 alfresco breathtaking environments.
In November 2010 the Sports Lab Powered by ESPN was added to the campus, a ability for analysis and development of new flat and limited technologies. The lab works in affiliation with the ESPN Innovation Lab amid at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World and is the alone sports technology lab to be complete at a Florida academy or university.Two months later, about 200 Full Sail Online administering and abutment aggregation advisers confused into the Gateway Center in City Orlando. Aswell in 2011, the university appear affairs to assemble an 86,000-square-foot (8,000 m2) educational architecture to abode 475 adroitness and staff, added blur and television soundstages and classrooms, and is appointed for achievement in Spring 2012.

Northwestern University

Northwestern University (NU) is a clandestine analysis university with campuses in Evanston and Chicago in Illinois, United States, as able-bodied as Doha, Qatar. Composed of twelve schools and colleges, Northwestern offers 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 alum and able degrees.
Northwestern was founded in 1851 by John Evans, for whom the City of Evanston is named, and eight added lawyers, businessmen and Methodist leaders. Its founding purpose was to serve the Northwest Territory, an breadth that today includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and locations of Minnesota. Instruction began in 1855; women were accustomed in 1869. Today, the capital campus is a 240-acre (97 ha) bindle in Evanston, forth the shores of Lake Michigan just 12 afar arctic of city Chicago. The university's law, medical, and able schools are amid on a 25-acre (10 ha) campus in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood. In 2008, the university opened a campus in Education City, Doha, Qatar with programs in journalism and communication.
Northwestern is a ample analysis university with a absolute doctoral affairs and attracts over $550 actor in sponsored analysis anniversary year. In addition, Northwestern has one of the better university endowments in the United States, currently admired at $9.78 billion. In 2015, the university accustomed 13% of undergraduate applicants, authoritative Northwestern one of the a lot of careful universities in the country.
Northwestern is a founding affiliate of the Big Ten Appointment and charcoal the alone clandestine university in the conference.The Northwestern Wildcats attempt in 19 intercollegiate sports in the NCAA's Division I Big Ten Conference.

Georgia Institute of Technology

The Georgia Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Georgia Tech, Tech, or GT) is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. It is a part of the University System of Georgia and has satellite campuses in Savannah, Georgia; Metz, France; Athlone, Ireland; Shanghai, China; and Singapore.

The educational institution was founded in 1885 as the Georgia School of Technology as part of Reconstruction plans to build an industrial economy in the post-Civil War Southern United States. Initially, it offered only a degree in mechanical engineering. By 1901, its curriculum had expanded to include electrical, civil, and chemical engineering. In 1948, the school changed its name to reflect its evolution from a trade school to a larger and more capable technical institute and research university.

Today, Georgia Tech is organized into six colleges and contains about 31 departments/units, with emphasis on science and technology. It is well recognized for its degree programs in engineering, computing, business administration, the sciences, architecture, and liberal arts.

Georgia Tech's main campus occupies part of Midtown Atlanta, bordered by 10th Street to the north and by North Avenue to the south, placing it well in sight of the Atlanta skyline. The campus was the site of the athletes' village and a venue for a number of athletic events for the 1996 Summer Olympics. The construction of the Olympic village, along with subsequent gentrification of the surrounding areas, enhanced the campus.

Student athletics, both organized and intramural, are a part of student and alumni life. The school's intercollegiate competitive sports teams, the four-time football national champion Yellow Jackets, and the nationally recognized fight song "Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech", have helped keep Georgia Tech in the national spotlight. Georgia Tech fields eight men's and seven women's teams that compete in the NCAA Division I athletics and the Football Bowl Subdivision. Georgia Tech is a member of the Coastal Division in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (Minnesota; locally known as the U of M or simply the U) is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. The Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses are approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) apart, and the Saint Paul campus is actually in neighboring Falcon Heights.[6] It is the oldest and largest campus within the University of Minnesota system and has the sixth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 51,853 students in 2012–2013. The university is organized into 19 colleges and schools, and it has sister campuses in Crookston, Duluth, Morris, and Rochester.

Minnesota's athletic teams at the Twin Cities campus are known as the Minnesota Golden Gophers and compete in the NCAA's Division I as members of the Big Ten Conference.
The original Minneapolis campus overlooked the Saint Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River, but it was later moved about a mile (1.6 km) downstream to its current location. The original site is now marked by a small park known as Chute Square at the intersection of University and Central Avenues. The school shut down following a financial crisis during the American Civil War, but reopened in 1867 with considerable financial help from John S. Pillsbury. It was upgraded from a preparatory school to a college in 1869. Today, the University's Minneapolis campus is divided by the Mississippi River into an East and West Bank.

The campus now has buildings on both river banks. The "East Bank", the main portion of the campus, covers 307 acres (124 ha). The West Bank is home to the University of Minnesota Law School, the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, the Carlson School of Management, various social science buildings, and the performing arts center. The St. Paul campus is home to the College of Biological Sciences (CBS), the College of Design (CDes), the College of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS), and the veterinary program.

University of Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Roman Catholic analysis university amid abreast South Bend, Indiana, in the United States. In French, Notre Dame du Lac agency "Our Lady of the Lake" and refers to the university's angel saint, the Virgin Mary. The capital campus covers 1,250 acreage in a burghal ambience and it contains a amount of apparent landmarks, such as the Golden Dome, the "Word of Life" mural (commonly accepted as Touchdown Jesus), and the Basilica.
The academy was founded on November 26, 1842 by Father Edward Sorin, CSC, who was aswell its aboriginal president, as an all-male academy on acreage donated by the Bishop of Vincennes. Today, abounding Holy Cross priests abide to plan for the university, including as its president. Notre Dame's Catholic appearance is reflected in its charge to the Catholic faith, abundant ministries adjourned by the school, and the architectonics about campus. Notre Dame rose to civic bulge in the aboriginal 1900s for its Fighting Irish football team, abnormally beneath the advice of the allegorical drillmaster Knute Rockne.Above improvements to the university occurred during the administrion of Rev. Theodore Hesburgh amid 1952 and 1987 as Hesburgh's administering abundantly added the university's resources, bookish programs, and acceptability and aboriginal enrolled women undergraduates in 1972.
Notre Dame is a large, four-year, awful residential University with actual top analysis activity, and is consistently ranked one of the top universities in the United States and as a above all-around university. The undergraduate basic of the university is organized into four colleges (Arts and Letters, Science, Engineering, Business) and the Architectonics School. The closing is accepted for teaching New Classical Architectonics and for application the globally acclaimed anniversary Driehaus Architectonics Prize.Notre Dame's alum affairs has added than 50 master's, doctoral and able amount programs offered by the 5 schools, with the accession of the Notre Dame Law Academy and a MD-PhD affairs offered in aggregate with IU medical School. It maintains a arrangement of libraries, cultural venues, aesthetic and accurate museums. Over 80% of the university's 8,000 undergraduates reside on campus in one of 29 single-sex abode halls, anniversary with its own traditions, legacies, contest and civil sports teams. The university counts about 120,000 alumni, advised a part of the arch alumni networks a part of U.S. colleges.
The university's able-bodied teams are associates of the NCAA Division I and are accepted collectively as the Fighting Irish. The football team, an Independent, has accumulated eleven accord civic championships, seven Heisman Trophy winners, and 62 associates in the Academy Football Hall of Fame and is advised one of the a lot of acclaimed and acknowledged Academy Football teams in history. Other ND teams, chiefly in the Atlantic Coast Conference, accept accumulated 16 civic championships. The Notre Dame Victory March is generally admired as the a lot of acclaimed and apparent bookish action song.
In 1842, the Bishop of Vincennes, Célestine Guynemer de la Hailandière, offered acreage to Father Edward Sorin of the Congregation of the Holy Cross, on the action that he body a academy in two years.Sorin accustomed on the website with eight Holy Cross brothers from France and Ireland on November 26, 1842, and began the academy application Father Stephen Badin's old log chapel. They anon acquired two acceptance and set about architecture additions to the campus.
Notre Dame began as a primary and accessory school, but anon accustomed its official academy allotment from the Indiana General Assembly on January 15, 1844. Beneath the allotment the academy is clearly called the University of Notre Dame du Lac (University of Our Lady of the Lake).Because the university was originally alone for macho students, the female-only Saint Mary's Academy was founded by the Sisters of the Holy Cross abreast Notre Dame in 1844

University of Georgia

The University of Georgia, founded in 1785, and frequently referred to as UGA or artlessly Georgia, is an American accessible land-grant and sea admission analysis university. Its primary area is a 759-acre (3.07 km2) campus in the academy boondocks of Athens, Georgia, about an hour's drive from Atlanta, Georgia. It is advised the Accompaniment of Georgia's flagship university. The university is ranked 20th all-embracing a allotment of all accessible civic universities in the accepted U.S. News & Apple Report rankings. and consistently ranks as top as 101st a allotment of all the top all-embracing universities in the world.While accepting top all-embracing ratings, Georgia ranks in the top 10 for evaluations in several fields of study. The university is a allotment of the University System of Georgia and is accepted by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. It is classified as a "Research University / Very Top Analysis Activity" with a "More Selective" apprentice physique by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of College Education.
Founded in 1785 as the United States' aboriginal state-chartered university, it is the oldest and better of Georgia's institutions of college acquirements and forth with the Academy of William and Mary and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill claims the appellation of the oldest accessible university in the United States.The university's celebrated North Campus is on the U.S. Civic Register of Celebrated Places as a appointed celebrated district, and it and the abutting campus areas cover rolling hills and all-encompassing arboreta.
The university offers over 140 amount programs in a advanced arrangement of disciplines.Consisting of thirteen libraries advance beyond assorted campuses, the UGA Libraries accommodate a absolute of 4.7 actor volumes and one of the nation's better map collections. The University of Georgia is one of 126 affiliate institutions that comprise the Association of Analysis Libraries.
The University of Georgia is organized into seventeen schools and colleges. The university has three primary campuses. The better one is the capital campus in Athens that includes 389 buildings, while the two others are amid in Tifton, Georgia and Griffin, Georgia. The University of Georgia aswell has two digital campuses amid in Atlanta and Lawrenceville, Georgia. The university operates several account and beat stations advance beyond the state. The absolute acreage activated by the university amid in 30 Georgia counties is 39,950 acreage (161.672 km²).
The University of Georgia aswell owns a residential and analysis centermost in Washington, DC, additional three all-embracing residential and analysis centers amid at Oxford University in Oxford, England, at Cortona, Italy, and at Monteverde, Costa Rica.
Student athletics, both varsity and intramural, are an basic allotment of apprentice and alumni life. The University of Georgia's intercollegiate sports teams, frequently accepted by their "Georgia Bulldogs" nickname, attempt in Civic Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I and the Southeastern Appointment (SEC). UGA served as a founding affiliate of the SEC in 1932. In their 121-year history, the university's varsity sports teams accept won 39 civic championships and 130 appointment championships. The Georgia Redcoat Boot Band, the official boot bandage of the university, plays at sports and added events.

Amherst College

Amherst Academy is a clandestine advanced arts academy amid in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an alone undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,792 acceptance in the abatement of 2014.Acceptance accept courses from 38 above programs[6] in an almighty accessible curriculum. Amherst is ranked as the additional best advanced arts academy in the country by U.S. News & World Report, and ranked ninth out of all U.S. colleges and universities by Forbes in its 2015 academy rankings.
Founded in 1821 as an attack to backpack Williams Academy by its president, Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest academy of academy apprenticeship in Massachusetts. Amherst was accustomed as, and remained, a men's academy until acceptable coeducational in 1975.
Amherst has historically had abutting relationships and rivalries with Williams Academy and Wesleyan University which anatomy the Little Three colleges. It is aswell a affiliate of the Five Academy Consortium.
In 1812, funds were aloft in Amherst for a accessory school, Amherst Academy; it opened December 1814.The academy was called afterwards the town, which in about-face had been called afterwards Jeffery, Lord Amherst, a adept from the Seven Years' War and after advantageous accustomed of the British armament in North America. On November 18, 1817, a activity was adopted at the Academy to accession funds for the chargeless apprenticeship of "indigent adolescent men of able talents and hopeful piety, who shall apparent a admiration to access a advanced apprenticeship with a sole appearance to the Christian ministry." This appropriate a abundant investment from benefactors.
During the fundraising for the project, it became bright that after beyond designs, it would be absurd to accession acceptable funds. This led the lath administering the activity to achieve that a new academy should be created. On August 18, 1818, the Amherst Academy lath of advisers accustomed this cessation and began architecture a new college.