Cornell University

INTRODUCTION ON CORNELL UNIVERSITY

Cornell University has been an American private Ivy League and public federal land-grant doctoral university based in Ithaca, New York. Established in the year 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, the university was predetermined to teach and make contributions in every sector of knowledge — from the classics to the sciences, and also from the conjectural to the applied. These ideals, which are unconventional for the moment, are acquired in Cornell's motto, a popular 1865 Ezra Cornell quote "I would find an institution where any individual can find instruction in any study."

Cornell university is typically organized into mainly 7 undergraduate colleges and 7 graduate divisions at its main Ithaca campus, where each college and division defines its own admission standards and academic programs in close autonomy. It also executes 2 satellite medical campuses, one of it in New York City and one in Education City, Qatar.

ACADEMICS AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY

Sage Hall, which is the home to the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. Cornell is a big, primarily residential research institution with a vast majority of admission in undergraduate programs. This university has been accredited by the Middle States Commission on the field Higher Education since the year 1921. Cornell operates on a 4–1–4 academic calendar where the fall term starts in late August and ends in early December, a three-week winter session in January, whereas the spring term starts in late January and ends in early May.

Cornell and Oregon State University are the only two institutions that are the members of the  Sea Grant, Space Grant, Land Grant, and Sun Grant programs.

LIBRARY AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY

The Cornell University Library is the eleventh biggest university library in the United States, rated by sum of volumes held. Organized into twenty divisions, in the year 2005 it held about 7.5 million printed volumes in open stacks, microfiches and 8.2 million microfilms , and a overall of 440,000 maps,sound recordings, DVDs, motion pictures,  and also computer files in its collections, in addition to pervasive digital resources and the University Archives. It was the 1st among st all the U.S. colleges and universities to let undergraduates to acquire books from its libraries. In the year of 2006, The Princeton Review ranked it as the 11th best college library, whcich climbed to 6th best in the year 2009. Also the library represent an active role in furthering online archiving of  historical and scientific documents. arXiv, an e-print archive which is  created at Los Alamos National Laboratory by Paul Ginsparg, is administered and generally sponsored by Cornell university as act of the library's services. The archive has changed the way a lot of physicists and mathematicians communicate, making the e-print a applicable and popular means of announcing new research.

ATHLETICS AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY

Cornell University has thirty-six varsity intercollegiate teams that have the byname of the Big Red. NCAA Division I institution, Cornell is also a member of leagues like the Ivy League and ECAC Hockey and challenges in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC), the biggest athletic conference in the North America. Cornell's varsity athletic teams routinely challenge for NCAA Division I positions in a vast number of sports, including men's wrestling,  men's ice hockey, men's lacrosse, and rowing (the women's team program is topic to the NCAA, while the men's rowing program is administered by its own administrative group, the Intercollegiate Rowing Association). Under the Ivy League athletic agreement, this institution does not propose athletic scholarships for athletic recruiting.

Cornell University's football team also had minimum of one share of the national championship 4 times before the year 1940 and has also won the Ivy League championship three times, last in 1990.

University of Chicago

INTRODUCTION ON UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

The University of Chicago ( Chicago, UChicago, or U of C) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. The university, created in the year 1890, is composed of the College, various graduate programs, and interdisciplinary committees categorized into 5 academic research divisions, 6 professional schools, and the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies. Apart from the arts and sciences, Chicago is also well recognised for its professional schools, that includes the Pritzker School of Medicine, the Law School,  the Booth School of Business, the School of Social Service Administration, the Divinity School and  the Harris School of Public Policy Studies. The university normally enrolls approximately 5,700 students in the College and approximately 15,000 students overall.

CAMPUS AT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

The main campus of the University of Chicago consists of 217 acres in the  neighborhoods of Chicago at Hyde Park and Woodlawn, seven miles (11 km) south of downtown Chicago. The northern and southern portions of campus are parted by the Midway Plaisance, a large, linear park created for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. In the year 2011, Travel+Leisure had ranked the university as one of the most beautiful college campuses in the United States.


Cobb Lecture Hall, which is a member of the Main Quadrangles, was the first and most expensive of the campus' original sixteen buildings. Visioned by Henry Ives Cobb (no relation to benefactor Silas B. Cobb) and constructed in 1892, it was designed after Gothic buildings at University of Oxford.
The first buildings of the University of Chicago campus, which make up what is now recognized as the Main Quadrangles, were part of a "master plan" conceived by two University of Chicago trustees and executed by Chicago architect Henry Ives Cobb. The Main Quadrangles consist of six quadrangles, each enclosed by buildings, bordering one larger quadrangle. The buildings of the Main Quadrangles were modeled by Cobb, Rutan, Shepley and Coolidge, Holabird & Roche, and other architectural firms in a mixture of the Victorian and Collegiate Gothic styles, patterned on the colleges of the University of Oxford. (Mitchell Tower, as for example, is designed after Oxford's Magdalen Tower, and the university Commons, Hutchinson Hall, replicates Christ Church Hall.)

ACADEMICS AT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

The academic bodies of the University of Chicago composed of the College, 5 divisions of graduate research, six professional schools, and the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies. This university also contains a library system, the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, the University of Chicago Press,  and the University of Chicago Medical Center, and holds ties with a vast number of non-dependent academic universities, including Argonne National Laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab),  and the Marine Biological Laboratory.Also the university has been is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission.

The university conducts on a quarter system where the academic year is divided into four terms: Summer (June–August),  Winter (January–March), Autumn (September–December), and Spring (April–June). Full-time undergraduate students take 3 to 4 courses every quarter for approximately around 11 weeks before their quarterly academic breaks. The school year normally starts in late September and ends in mid-June.

Johns Hopkins University

INTRODUCTION ON JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

The Johns Hopkins University (commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU,  Hopkins) has been an American private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, the university was named after its 1st supporter, the American entrepreneur, abolitionist, and philanthropist Johns Hopkins. His $7 million sponsor of which half was financed for the establishment of The Johns Hopkins Hospital—was the largest philanthropic gift in the whole history of the United States at that  time. Daniel Coit Gilman, who was inaugurated as the institution's first president on February the 22nd, year 1876, led the university to revolutionize higher education in the U.S. by integrating research and teaching. By adopting the concept of a graduate school from Germany's ancient Heidelberg University, Johns Hopkins University is known to be the first research university in the United States.

ACADEMICS AT JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

The full-time, 4 year undergraduate program has a more selective rate with low transfer-in and a high graduate co-existence. The cost of attendance each year is about  $60,820; however, the average need met is 99%. The university is one of fourteen founding members from the Association of American Universities (AAU); it is also a member of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE) with the Universities Research Association (URA).

RESEARCH AT JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

The opportunity to participate in valuable research is one of the main characteristics of Hopkins' undergraduate education. About 80 percent of undergraduates do independent research, but often alongside top researchers. In FY 2013, Johns Hopkins received $2.2 billion in federal research grant which is more than any other U.S. university for the 35th consecutive year. Johns Hopkins has had about seventy-seven  members of the Institute of Medicine,  seventeen members of the National Academy of Engineering, forty-three  Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators, and sixty-two  members of the National Academy of Sciences. About 37  Nobel Prize winners have been affiliated with the university as alumni or faculty members.

Between 1999 and 2009, Johns Hopkins was among the most cited university in the whole world. It attracted nearly 1,222,166 citations and produced 54,022 papers under its name, ranking number 3 on a global scale (after Harvard University and the Max Planck Society) in the number of total citations published in Thomson Reuters-indexed journals over twenty-two fields in the United States.

STUDENT'S LIFE AT JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

Students socializing on The Beach, with a type of Home-wood House in the background

of Charles Village, which is the region of North Baltimore surrounding the university, has undergone various restoration projects, and the university has slowly bought the property around the school for additional student housing and dorm rooms. The Charles Village Project, completed in 2008, brought new commercial spaces to the neighborhood. The project comprised of Charles Commons, a new and new generation residence hall that includes popular retail franchises.

Hopkins also invested in bettering campus life with an arts complex in 2001, the Mattin Center, and a three-story sports facility named as the O'Connor Recreation Center. The large on-campus dining facilities at Homewood were renovated in the summer of 2006.

Quality of life inside the university is enriched by the proximity of neighboring academic institutions, including Loyola College, UMBC, Goucher College, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and Towson University, as well as the nearby neighborhoods of Hampden,  Fells Point, the Inner Harbor, and Mount Vernon.

Minnesota State University

INTRODUCTION ON MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY

Minnesota State University, Mankato (MSU or MNSU), also known as Minnesota State, has been a public comprehensive university situated in Mankato, Minnesota. The university sits atop the bluff of the Blue Earth River valley, around seventy-five miles (121 km) southwest of Minneapolis-St. Paul. Founded as Mankato Normal School in the year 1868, that is why it is the second oldest member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System. It is also the second biggest university for public in the state and has over 115,000 alumni worldwide. It is the most comprehensive of the 7 universities and is known as the flagship of the Minnesota State Universities and Colleges system. It is and will be an important component of the economy of South-Central Minnesota as it adds more than $452 million to the Minnesota's annually economy.

ACADEMICS AT MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY

Minnesota State University currently offers approximately 140 undergraduate programs of study, fourteen pre-professional programs, and also eighty-two graduate programs. Also the university provides a comprehensive education, each undergraduate program of the course comprises of general requirements for students to learn mathematics,speech, writing, cultural diversity,  information technology and the environment as well. As part of its quality education, it is also one of the top producing universities in the country of its variety that takes part in the Fulbright Scholar program. It has created eight Student awards within the past ten years and over 37 Fulbright Scholars in the past 30 years.

It also has an online learning campus which provides both undergraduate and graduate programs of study that can be completed fully online. Also the university’s online education system ranked 13th in the United States among online university programs on Guide to Online Schools’ 2013 Online College Rankings.

STUDENTS LIFE AT MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY

There are more than 200 academic student groups , leadership,  honorary and professional fraternities and sororities, intramural sports and religious organizations, and special interest groups that students can take part in. It also has an active Panhellenic Council and Intrafraternity Council. Many active fraternities are situated  just nearby campus including Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma Nu, Lambda Chi Alpha, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Sigma Chi, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Kappa Theta, Delta Sigma Pi and Delta Chi. Active sororities include - Alpha Chi Omega,  Alpha Sigma Alpha, Gamma Phi Beta and Sigma Sigma Sigma.

ATHLETICS AT MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY

The athletic teams are known as the Minnesota State Mavericks prevailing the school colors of purple and gold. More than five hundred undergraduates and graduates participate each year in athletics each year for the University. It offers teams in men's and women's hockey and basketball,  baseball, football, golf,  cross country, women's swimming, track, women's tennis,  soccer, golf, volleyball, wrestling, and softball. Similarly the men's and women's ice hockey teams both compete in the NCAA Division I Western                                                                               Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA), also with 4 other Minnesota-based college teams. Other university athletic teams started competing in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference of NCAA Division II in 2008-09 following the disbandment of the North Central Conference.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

INTRODUCTION ON UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

The University of Pennsylvania (most commonly known as Penn and/or UPenn) has been a private, Ivy League university situated in Philadelphia, united States Incorporated as The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, this university is among st the 14 founding members of the Association of American Universities and one of the nine initial colonial colleges.

Benjamin Franklin, Penn's founder, advocated an educational program that focused as much on sectional education for commerce as well as public service on the classics and theology although Franklin's curriculum was never put into practice. The university coat of arms features a dolphin on the red chief, adopted directly from the Franklin family's own coat of arms.

CAMPUS AT UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Much of Penn's architecture was designed by the Cope & Stewardson firm, whose principal architects merged the Gothic architecture of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge for the local landscape to build the Collegiate Gothic style. The present core campus covers over 279 acres (1.13 km2) in a neighboring area of West Philadelphia's University City section; the older heart of the campus consists of the University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District. Every one of Penn's schools and most of its research institutes are located inside this campus. Also, the surrounding neighborhood includes several restaurants and pubs, a large upscale grocery store, and on the western edge of campus is a movie theater.

The campus has several notable art installations 'inside the university. The "Covenant", better known by the students at this university as "The Tampons", is a big red structure located on Locust Walk between the high rise residences which was initiated in the year 1975 and is made of rolled sheets of milled steel. A larger-than-life white button, known as "The Button", which is a popular sculpture. It sits at the south entrance of Van Pelt Library and has button holes which are large enough to stand on it.  It also has a replica of the "Love" sculpture, part of a series created by Robert Indiana. Those sculptures are carved out of  painted aluminum sculpture and was installed in the year 1998.

NOTABLE ALUMNI FROM UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Penn has produced many alumni that have proved themselves in the field of sciences, the military, arts,     academia, politics, and media. All the merits such as the size, quality, and diversity of Penn's alumni body have been able to form the institution as one of the most powerful networks of alumni in the United States, and internationally as well.

More than twelve heads of the state or the government have attended or graduated from Penn, which includes former U.S. president William Henry Harrison who did attended the medical school for less than  about a semester, the first president of Nigeria, former Prime Minister of the Philippines Cesar Virata; the first president of Ghana, Nnamdi Azikiwe;Kwane Nkrumah; and also the current president of Ivory Coast know as Alassane Ouattara. Other many more notable politicians who graduated and holds a degree from Pennsylvania university includes India's Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha, former ambassador of China, former presidential candidate of the year 2012 and governor from Utah Jon Huntsman, Ernesto J. Cordero, Mexico's current minister of finance, long-serving Pennsylvania senator Arlen Specter, and at last former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell.

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

INTRODUCTION ON UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 

The University of Michigan (U-M, UM, UMich, or also known as U of M), normally referred to as Michigan, has been and is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. It was 1817 the year it was founded in Detroit as the Catholepistemiad, also known as University of Michigania, twenty years before the Michigan Territory trun into a state, the University of Michigan is the state's most oldest institution. The university transferred to Ann Arbor in the year 1837 onto 40 acres  of what is currently known as Central Campus. From the day of its establishment in Ann Arbor, the university campus has grown in capacity to include more than 584 major buildings with a gross area of more than 34 million combined square feet ( 3.16 km²) which is spread out over a Central Campus and North Campus, it also has two satellite campuses in Flint and Dearborn, and a Center in Detroit aswell. The University was also a founding member of the Association of American Universities.

CAMPUS AT UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 

The Ann Arbor campus is separated into main four areas i.e.: the North, Central, Medical and South campuses.Moreover, the physical infrastructures include over more than 500 major buildings, with a total combined area of over more than 34 million square feet  (3.16 km2). Both the Central and South Campus areas are contiguous, but the North Campus area has been separated from them,  by the Huron River. There are also many leased space throughout buildings scattered all over the city, which  are many occupied by organizations affiliated with the University of Michigan Health System. An East Medical Campus has quite recently been constructed on Plymouth Road, with several university-owned buildings for outpatient care, diagnostics and outpatient surgery.

STUDENTS LIFE INSIDE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

The University of Michigan's campus housing system can accommodate and provide residence to more than 10,900 people, or you can say close to 30 percent of the total students population at the university. The residence halls are situated in 3 distinct geographic areas on campus: Central Campus, Hill Area (between Central Campus and the Medical Campus) and finally the North Campus.Housing foe family is based on North Campus and mainly serves students appearing for graduate program. The largest residence hall has a capacity to hold upto  1,240 students, while the smallest one can  accommodate 25 residents. A big number of upper-division and graduate students live in off-campus apartments, houses, and cooperatives, with the largest concentrations in the Central and South Campus areas.

ATHLETICS AT UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

The University of Michigan's sports teams are known as the Wolverines. They take part in the NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) and also in the Big Ten Conference in all sports except for women's water polo, which has been a member of the Collegiate Water Polo Association since the beginning. U-M boasts about 27 varsity sports, which includes 13 men's teams and 14 women's teams. In ten of the past fourteen years concluding in the year 2009, U-M has also finished in the top 5 of the NACDA Director's Cup, a ranking which is compiled by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics to tabulate the achievement of universities in competitive sports.Also U-M has finished in the top ten of the Directors' Cup standings in fourteen of the award's sixteen seasons and has been able to place in the top 6 in 9 of the last ten seasons.

Duke University

INTRODUCTION ON DUKE UNIVERSITY

Duke University has been a private research university situated  in Durham, North Carolina, USA. This university was founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in the year 1892. In the year 1924,  electric power and tobacco  industrialist James Buchanan Duke established the Duke Endowment, at the same time the institution switched its name to honor his deceased father, Washington Duke.

The university's campus spans over more than 8,600 acres (3,500 hectares) on three neighboring campuses in Durham as well as a lab for marine  in Beaufort. Duke's main campus,  executed largely by architect Julian Abele—incorporates Gothic architecture also with the 210-foot Duke Chapel at the institution' middle and highest point of elevation. The 1st year-populated East Campus has a  Georgian-style architecture, while the primary Gothic-style West Campus 1.5 miles (2.4 km) away is adjacent to the Medical Center. Duke is the seventh richest private research university in United States with over $11.4 billion in cash and investments in fiscal year 2014.

CAMPUSES OF DUKE UNIVERSITY

Duke Chapel, an icon of  the university, can seat nearly 1,600 people and contains a 5,200-pipe organ.
Duke University owns approximately 254 buildings on 8,547 acres (34.59 km2) of land, which includes the 7,044 acres (28.51 km2) Duke Forest. The university has been divided into four main areas: West, East, and Central campuses and the Medical Center, which are all connected with each other via a free bus service. On the Atlantic coast in Beaufort, Duke owns 15 acres (61,000 m2) as part of its marine lab. One main public attractions on the main campus is the 54-acre (220,000 m2) Sarah P. Duke Gardens, ingrained in the 1930s.

Duke students often refer to the campus as "the Gothic Wonderland," 
a nickname which refers to the Collegiate Gothic architecture of West Campus. Much of the campus was designed by Julian Abele, who is one of the 1st prominent African-American architects and the chief designer in the offices of architect Horace Trumbauer. The residentiary quadrangles are of an early and somewhat unadorned design, while the buildings in the 
academic quadrilateral buildings show influences of the more elaborate late French and Italian styles. The freshmen campus (also known as "East Campus") is comprised of many buildings in the Georgian architecture style. In 2011, Travel+Leisure listed Duke among the most beautiful and attractive college campuses in the whole United States.

ATHLETICS AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

Duke University teams are known as the Blue Devils. Blue Devils has always been competing as a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for the Division I level (Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) sub-level for football), mainly participating in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) for all sports since the 1953–54 season. Men's sports include  basketball, baseball,  fencing, football, golf, cross country,  soccer, lacrosse, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field and wrestling aswell; whereas  women's sports include  cross country, basketball, fencing,  golf, lacrosse,field hockey, rowing,  swimming & diving, soccer, tennis, track & field and finally volleyball. Duke plans to add softball as its 27th varsity sport in spring the year 2018.

Duke university's teams have already won 16 NCAA team national championships—the women's golf team has won six  in the year 1999, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2014, also the men's basketball team has won five in the year 1991, 1992, 2001, 2010, and 2015, the men's lacrosse team has won three (2010, 2013, and 2014), and the men's soccer (1986) and women's tennis (2009) teams have won one each.

California Institute of Technology

INTRODUCTION ON CALTECH

The California Institute of Technology (also known as Caltech) is a private research and doctorate-granting university situated in Pasadena, California, USA. Although it was founded as a preparatory and vocational school by Amos G. Throop in the year 1891, the university attracted deserving scientists such as  Arthur Amos Noyes, George Ellery Hale and Robert Andrews Millikan in the beginning of  the 20th century. The vocational and preparatory schools were immobilized and spun off in the year 1910, and the college assumed its present name in 1921. In the year 1934, Caltech was nominated to the Association of American Universities(AAU), and the ancestor of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which Caltech peruses to supervise and operate, were established between 1936 and 1943 under Theodore von Kármán. The university is also one of the member of a  small group of Institutes of Technology in the United States which tends to be primarily dedicated to the instruction of technical arts and applied sciences.

CAMPUS AT CALTECH

Caltech's 124-acre (50 ha) primary campus is situated in city of Pasadena, California, around 11 miles (18 km) northeast of downtown Los Angeles. It is within walking distance from Old Town Pasadena to the Pasadena Playhouse District and that is why the two locations are frequent getaways for Caltech students.
                    

In the year 1917 Hale signed up a known architect Bertram Goodhue to produce a great approach for the 22 acres (8.9 ha) campus. Goodhue created the overall layout of the campus and designed the  building for physics, Dabney Hall, and many other structures, in which he needed to be steady with the character of the school, the local climate,  and Hale's educational philosophy. Goodhue's designs for Caltech  were also motivated by the traditional  architecture of Spanish mission from Southern California.

ACADEMICS AT CALTECH

Caltech is a small 4 year, highly suitable residential research university with a bit of majority in graduate programs. The Institute has been approved by the renowned Western Association of Schools and Colleges since the year 1949. Caltech is on the quarter system which means the fall term begins in late September and comes to an end before 
Christmas, the second term starts after New Year and comes to an end in mid pf March, and the third term begins in late March or early April and ends in early June.

Caltech has been rated first internationally since the year 2011 by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. Caltech was rated as the top best university in the world in mainly two categories: Engineering & Technology and Physical Sciences. It is also known to have been found  the highest faculty citation rate in the world.

University of California, Berkeley

INTRODUCTION ON UNIVERSITY OF BERKELEY

The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Berkeley; UC Berkeley; or Cal) is a public research university situated in Berkeley, California. It was founded in 1868,being the oldest of the ten piblic research universities affiliated with the University of California system.

Established in the year 1868 as the result of the merging of the private College of California and the public Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College in Oakland, California. This university offers approximately 350 graduate and undergraduate degree programs in a vast range of disciplines. The Dwinelle Bill of the month March 5, 1868 (California Assembly Bill No. 583) states that the "University must have for its design, to provide instruction  and complete education in each and departments from science,  industry and profession pursuits, and general education, literature and art, and also special courses of guidance in preparation for the selected professions... ."

ACADEMICS AT BERKELEY 

Berkeley is a large, mostly residential research university with a high majority of enrollments in undergraduate programs but also grants a comprehensive doctoral graduate program. This university has been certified by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges Senior College and University Commission since the year 1949. This university is one of only two UC campuses regulating on a semester calendar, (the other operates with UC Merced). It offers about 106 Bachelor's degrees, 88 Master's degrees, around 97 research-focused doctoral programs, and 31 professionally dedicated graduate degrees. The university awarded approximately 7,565 Bachelor's, about 2,610 Master's or Professional, and 930 Doctoral degrees in the year 2013-14.

Berkeley's hundred and thirty plus academic departments and programs are categorized into 14 colleges and schools in inclusion to UC Berkeley Extension."Colleges" are both undergraduate and graduate, while "Schools" is a place where students are generally graduate only, nevertheless some offer undergraduate majors, minors, or other courses.

CAMPUSES OF BERKELEY

The Berkeley campus covers approximately 1,232 acres (499 ha), nevertheless the "central campus" occupies only the low-lying western 178 acres (72 ha) of the total area. Of the remaining acres, exactly two hundred acres (81 ha) is occupied by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; other facilities above the major campus acquires the Lawrence Hall of Science and other several research units, notably  the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, the Space Sciences Laboratory, the University of California Botanical Garden, an undeveloped 800-acre (320 ha) ecological preserve and a recreation center in Strawberry Canyon. Part of the mostly undeveloped, eastern area of the university are actually inside the City of Oakland, California; these portions extend from the Claremont Resort north through the Panoramic Hill neighborhood to Tilden Park.

To the west side of the main campus is the downtown business district of Berkeley; similarly to the northwest side is the neighborhood of North  of Berkeley,  also including the so-called Gourmet Ghetto, a commercial district recognised for its high quality dining as there is the existence of  world-renowned restaurants like Chez Panisse. Right to the north is a peaceful residential neighborhood recognised as Northside with a large number of graduate student population; located north of that, are the rich residential neighborhoods of the Berkeley Hills. Also immediately southeast side of the  campus lies fraternity row, and over that the Clark Kerr Campus and an prosperous residential is  named Claremont. The area at the south side of the university includes student housing and also Telegraph Avenue,  Berkeley's one of the main shopping area with stores, street vendors and also restaurants catering to college students as well as  tourists. In inclusion, the University also retains land to the northwest of the main campus, a 90-acre (36 ha) area of married student housing complex at the nearby town of Albany ("Albany Village" and the "Gill Tract"), and a field research station about a few miles to the north in Richmond, California.

Northwestern University

INTRODUCTION ON NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Northwestern University (NU) has been a private research university located in Evanston, Illinois and has campuses in Chicago, Illinois, San Francisco, California and Doha, Qatar. Comprised of 12 schools and colleges, Northwestern university  offers hundred and twenty four undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees.

Northwestern university was founded in the year 1851 by John Evans, for whom the City of Evanston is named after, and also 8 other lawyers, businessmen and Methodist leaders. Its initial founding purpose was to serve the Northwest Territory which is an area that today includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota.In the moment, the main campus is a 240-acre parcel in Evanston, just along the shores of Lake Michigan by twelve miles north of downtown Chicago. The Northwestern university's law, medical, and professional schools are based on a 25-acre campus in Chicago's neighborhood Streeterville. In the year 2008, the university had opened a campus in Education City, Doha, Qatar with programs relating journalism and communication.

ACADEMICS AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

This university is a large residential research university which is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and the respective national professional organizations in the field of chemistry, psychology, business, education, journalism, music, engineering, law, and medicine. The university offers approximately 124 undergraduate programs and around 145 graduate and professional programs. Northwestern university has already conferred 2,190 bachelor's degrees, 3,272 master's degrees, 565 doctoral degrees, and 444 professional degrees between the year 2012–2013.

The 4-year, full-time undergraduate program includes the majority of enrollments at the university and also emphasizes instruction in the arts and sciences, plus the professions of engineering, journalism, communication, music, and education. Although a basic foundation in the liberal arts and sciences is must in all majors, there is no required common core curriculum; individual degree requirements are set by the faculty of each school itself. Northwestern university's full-time undergraduate and graduate programs operate on an average of 10-week academic quarter system with the academic year beginning by the late September and ending in early June. Undergraduates typically take 4 courses each quarter and 12 courses in an academic year and are also required to complete minimum of twelve quarters on campus to get graduated. Northwestern university has always been offering honors, accelerated, and joint degree programs in medicine, science, mathematics, engineering, and journalism. The comprehensive doctoral graduate program has a high co-existence with undergraduate programs.


LIBRARIES AND MUSEUM AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

University Library made in 1970 has a Brutalist style. The Northwestern university's library system is formed out of four libraries on the Evanston campus including the present main library (University Library) and the original library building (Deering Library) 3 libraries on the Chicago campus; and the library affiliated with Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. The University Library contains over more than 4.9 million volumes, 4.6 million microforms, and almost 99,000 periodicals making it  the thirteeth largest university library in the whole North America and the tenth largest library among private universities. Notable collections in the library system include the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, an extensive collection of early edition printed music, the largest Africana collection in the world and manuscripts as well as late-modern works, and an art collection noted for its 19th and 20th-century Western art and architecture periodicals.Also the library system participates with fifteen other universities in digitizing its collections as a part of the Google Book Search project. The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art is a major art museum in Chicago which contains more than 4,000 works in its permanent collection as well as dedicating a 3rd of its space to temporary and traveling exhibitions.

Columbia University

INTRODUCTION ON COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Columbia University is a private Ivy League research institute in Upper Manhattan, New York. It was founded in the year 1754 as King's College by the royal charter of George II of Great Britain. Columbia has been the oldest college in New York and the 5th  chartered university of higher learning in the nation, making it one of 9 colonial universities founded before the Declaration of Independence. After the American Revolutionary War, King's College thoroughly became a state entity and later was renamed Columbia College in the year 1784. A 1787 charter had placed the institution under the watch of a private board of trustees before it was named Columbia University in the year 1896 when the university was moved from Madison Avenue to its current location in Morningside Heights which occupies thirty two acres of area. Columbia fall under one of the fourteen founding members of the Association of American Universities, and also was the first school in the United States to prevail the M.D. degree.

STUDENTS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

In fall 2014, student's of  Columbia University had a population of 29,870 (8,559 students in undergraduate programs and 21,311 in postgraduate programs), with about thirty nine percentage of the student population identifying themselves as a minority and twenty eight percentage born outside of the United States. Twenty-six percentage of students from Columbia have family incomes below $60,000 annually, which makes it one of the most socio-economically diverse top-tier colleges. Sixteen percentage of students at Columbia receive Federal Pell Grants, which mostly go to students whose family incomes are below $40,000 annually. Fifteen percentage of students are the 1st member of their family to attend a 4-year college.

TECHNOLOGY AND ENTREPRENEUR AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

The Columbia University Organization of Rising Entrepreneurs (CORE) was founded and established in the year 1999. The student-run group aims to foster entrepreneurship on campus. Every year CORE manages and hosts dozens of events which  include talks, #StartupColumbia, a conference and venture competition for $250,000, and Ignite@CU, a weekend for undergrads interested in design, engineering, and entrepreneurship. Notable speakers in the program include Peter Thiel, Jack Dorsey,[ Alexis Ohanian, Drew Houston, and Mark Cuban. By 2006,also CORE had awarded graduate and undergraduate students over $100,000 in seed capital.

COLUMBIA UNIVESITY ATHLETICS

A member institution from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in Division I FCS, Columbia fields varsity teams in twenty nine sports and is also a member of the Ivy League. The football Lions play home games at the 17,000-seated Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium. Almost one hundred blocks north of the main campus at Morningside Heights, the Baker Athletics Complex also comprises facilities for baseball, soccer, lacrosse, softball, field hockey, tennis, track and rowing, as well as the new Campbell Sports Center which opened in January of 2013. The basketball, fencing, swimming & diving, volleyball and wrestling programs are carried out at the Dodge Physical Fitness Center on the main campus.