1-Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In 150 years, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has produced more than 70 Nobel laureates, eight of whom are members of its current faculty. From its 169-acre Charles River campus, more than 10,000 students are instructed in architecture and planning; engineering; humanities, arts and social sciences; management; science; and health sciences and technology.
2-Stanford University
Founded in 1891 by railway tycoon Leland Stanford in remembrance of his son, who died aged 16, Stanford is said to be, after Harvard, the US’ most selective university, accepting around 7 per cent of applicants. Its alumni founded corporate giants including Hewlett-Packard and Google. The world’s third-richest university, it teaches about 7,085 undergraduate and around 4,112 graduate students.
3-University of California
Vitamin E was identified here, a lost Scarlatti opera found, the flu virus identified and America’s first no-fault divorce law drafted. A gold-rush by-product, the university by San Francisco Bay was chartered in 1868. To date, more than 20 faculty members have become Nobel laureates. Today’s student body consists of about 36,008 members, more than 10,74 of them postgraduates.
4-California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is a highly focused science and engineering research and education institution located in Pasadena, CA. It is home to approximately 2,386 students and 374 faculty, and boasts 31 Nobel laureates among its past and current faculty and alumni. Caltech manages the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for NASA, and owns and operates a global network of astronomical observatories and research facilities.
5-Princeton University
At the heart of American academic life since its charter in 1746, Princeton is one of the smallest of the private Ivy Leaguers, but can boast more than 30 Nobel laureates among its past faculty and alumni. Its 512-acre campus accommodates around 5,745 undergraduates and 2,574 postgraduates overseen by more than 1,185 academics.
6-University of Cambridge
Cambridge alumni loom large in the making of the modern world: Newton on laws and motion; Rutherford splitting the atom; Darwin on evolution; Turing’s prototypical computer; Crick and Watson with DNA. Founded in 1209 by Oxford scholars who quit after a dispute with the local citizenry, Cambridge now employs more than 8,500 staff and has over 18,300 students.
7-University of Oxford
Twenty-six British prime ministers, at least 30 other world leaders, 12 saints and 20 archbishops of Canterbury have been Oxonians. Oxford virtually invented college life in the 13th century. The world’s third-oldest surviving university offers approximately 12,893 undergraduates a choice of 39 colleges and six permanent private-residence halls.
8-ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
You don’t have to be Albert Einstein to study here – every Swiss citizen who has sat the Matura (matriculation) is eligible – but it doesn’t hurt. ETH Zürich (heir to the Federal Polytechnic Institute, set up in 1855) now teaches around 15,745 students in 16 faculties. Einstein received his diploma here in 1901.
9-Imperial College London
With an emphasis on research, Imperial has four faculties – medicine, natural science, engineering and business. Founded in 1907 as a constituent college of the University of London, it became independent in 2007. Its main campus in London’s museum quarter and seven others house more than 14.694 students and 7,558 staff .
10-Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)
The Georgia Institute of Technology’s roots lie in the South’s Reconstruction after the US Civil War, changing its name from school to institute in 1948. Its 452 acre city-centre campus caters for around 21,585 students served by a faculty of about 911 scholars in six colleges: architecture; computing; engineering; liberal arts; business; and sciences.
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