California State University, Long Beach

California State University, Long Beach (also known as Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach State, or The Beach) is the third of the 23 school California State University of the largest universities in the state of California by enrollment, its student body numbering 35, the Fall 2012 semester. With 5,148 grad students, the university enrolls one of the largest graduate student populations across the and in the state o is located in the Los Altos neighborhood of Long 

Beach at the southeastern coastal tip of Los Angeles County, less than one mile from the border with  offers 137 different Bachelor's degrees, 92 types of Master's degrees, 5 Doctoral degrees including two Doctor of Education,  in Engineering, a Doctor of Physical Therapy and Doctor of Nursing Practice, as well as 29 different teaching credentials

Long Beach State is one of the West Coast's top universities in student body racial diversity, being named the 5th most diverse university in the West by U.S. New the largest publicly funded art school west of the Mississippi. The university currently operates with one of the lowest student fees in the country at US$6,738 per

 year for full-time students having California  a result,  has been recognized repeatedly as one of "America's Best Value Colleges" by the Princeton Review.

as president, the school grew tremendously. Enrollment surged from about 10,000 to more than 30,000and he rapidly expanded and revamped the curriculum. McIntosh tripled the number of faculty and constructed 30 new buildings Although the were a period College relatively quiet throughout the period In ts name to California State College at Long Beach


. In 1967, the California state legislature revamped the state college system. It changed its name in 1968 to California State College, Long Beach, as part of these changes and began to be much more closely integrated into the California Sta

In 1965, CSCLB hosted the first International Sculpture Symposium to be held in the United States and the first such symposium to be held at a college or university. Six sculptors from abroad and two from the United States created many of the monumental sculptures present on the campus. The event received national media attention from newspapers around the country, including the New York Times, Los An

McIntosh departed for Montana State University in 1969, and was succeeded by President Steve Horn. The school acquired university status in 1972, along with 12 other state college campuses. The number of doctorates held by faculty at Long Beach.

Also in 1972, the campus became the home of the largest library facility in the then 19-campus CSU system: a modern six-story building with a seating capacity of nearl

Brown University

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island.

Founded in 1764 as "The College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations," Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the

 United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges established before the American Revolution. At its foundation, Brown was the first college in the United States to accept students regardless of their religious affiliation

Its engineering program, established in 1847, was the first in what is now known as the Ivy League. Brown's New  referred to in education theory as the Brown  adopted by faculty 1969 after a period of student lobbying; the New Curriculum eliminated mandatory "general

 education" distribution requirements, made students "the architects of their own syllabus," and allowed them to take any course for a grade of satisfactory or unrecorded n 1971, Brown's coordinate women's institution, Pembroke College, was fully merged into the university.

Undergraduate admissions is among the most selective in the country, with an acceptance rate of 8.5 percent  the Graduate School, Alpert Medical School, the School of Engineering, the School of Public Health, and the School of 

Professional Studies (which includes the IE Brown Executive MBA program). Brown's international programs are organized through the Watson Institute for International

 Studies, and is academically affiliated with the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Rhode with the Rhode Island School of Design, is a five-year course that awards degrees from both institutions.

Brown's main campus is located in the College Hill Historic District in the city of Providence, the third largest city in New England. The University's neighborhood is a federally listed architectural district with a dense concentration of ancient buildings.

 On the western edge of the campus, Benefit Street contains "one of the finest cohesive collections of restored seventeenth- and eighteenth-century architecture in the United State

Prominent alumni include current chair of the Federal Reserve Janet and president of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim '82. Brown has produced 7 Nobel Prize winners, 57 Humanities Medalists, eight billionaire graduates and 10 National Medal of Science laureates, and has also produced Fulbright, Marshall, and Mitchell scholars

University of New Hampshire

Then the University System of New Hampshire in the United States. The university's Durham campus, comprising six colleges, is located in the Seacoast region of the state. A seventh college, the University of New Hampshire at Manchester, occupies the university's campus in Manchester, the state's largest urban center

. The University of New Hampshire School of Law, known as the Franklin Pierce Law Center until 2010, is located in Concord. The law school is renowned for its intellectual property law programs, consistently ranking in the top ten of U.S. News & World Report rankings.

With over 15,000 students between its Durham and Manchester campuses, the largest university in the state. The university is one of only nine land, sea and space grant institutions in the nation. Since July 1, 2007, Mark W. has served as the university's 19th president.

institution in New England to rank in the top 10 of number of Fulbright fellowships awarded, with five graduates receiving grants. In the same year, was ranked the 10th best entrepreneurial college in the nation by The Princeton Review According to U.S. 

News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges" listings, the University of New Hampshire is a "more selective" national university, placing it in the first out of five tiers of competitiveness when it comes to admissions standards. Due to its extensive efforts in the area of sustainability,

 was one of 15 highest scoring schools on the College Sustainability Report Card 2009, with the Sustainable Endowments Institute awarding it a grade of "An 2012,was named the 6th "coolest school" in the country by Sierra magazine for its efforts in

In 1892, the Board of Trustees hired Charles Eliot to draw a site plan for the first five campus hops (now called Halls) and the Dairy Barn. Eliot visited Durham and worked for three months to create a plan prior to the move to Durham. The Class of 1892, excited about the pending 

move to Durham, held commencement exercises in an unfinished barn on the Durham campus. On April 18, 1892, the Board of Trustees voted to "authorize the faculty to make all the arrangements for the packing and removal of college property at Hanover to Durham.

" The Class of 1893, followed the previous class and held commencement exercises in unfinished Thompson Hall, the Romanesque Revival campus centerpiece designed by the prominent Concord architectural firm of Dow & .

In fall 1893, classes officially began in Durham with 51 freshmen and 13 upperclassmen, which was three times the projected enrollment. Graduate study was also established in fall 1893 for the first time. The number of students and the lack of state funds for dormitories caused a housing crunch and forced students to find housing in town. The lack of housing caused difficulty for attracting women to 

the university. In 1908, construction on Smith Hall, the first women's dorm, was completed using private and state funds. Prior to the construction all in 1915 for male students, 50 freshmen lived in the basement. With the continuing housing shortage for men, the administration encouraged the growFrom fraternity system expanded and provided room and board for male students.

University of South Alabama

The University of South Alabama (USA) is a public, national research university in Mobile, Alabama, United States. It was created by the Alabama Legislature in May, 1963, and replaced existing extension programs operated in Mobile by the University of Alabama.

USA is the only major public institution of higher learning on the upper Gulf Coast. With Alabama's two older universities more than 200 miles distant, the University is strategically located in the greater Mobile area, which has a population of more than a million within a 100-mile radius.

Currently, USA is divided into ten colleges and schools and includes one of Alabama's two state-supported medical schools. As of the Fall semester of 2014, South Alabama has an enrollment of the University has awarded over 80,000 degrees

USA has an annual payroll of $404 million (US), with over 5,500 employees, and is the second largest employer in Mobile, Alabama. It has remained one of Alabama's fastest growing universities for an annual economic impact owned hospitals treat over 250,000 patients annually.

 The university has come under great criticism; as of 2014 the university maintains a 14% graduation rate, and was named the 8th most dangerous college in the country by Business Insider

The university offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate degrees in ten colleges and schools. Several programs offer masters level degrees in addition to undergraduate degrees. Doctoral level degrees are offered in several areas, including Business Administration, 

Nursing, Medicine, Basic Medical Sciences, Instructional Design, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Audiology, Marine Science, Psychology, Physical Therapy, and a Doctor of Pharmacy degree offered in collaboration with Auburn University.

This fall, USA’s School of Computing will offer its first doctoral program in well as a master’s degree in marine conservation a

The psychology doctoral program was initiated in 2009 and is one of a handful of such programs nationwide that offers a Combined degree, emphasizing both Clinical Psychology and Counseling Psychology. Significant research is done by faculty members in the above fields.

USA offers classes in nearby Gulf Coast Campus while there are more than 40 master’s degree programs. As of 2011, USA ranks as the 22nd best public university in the southern United States, and 52nd overaIt has an acceptance rate of 86.5

University of Notre Dame

The   Catholic research university located near South Bend, Indiana, in the United  "Our Lady of the Lake" and refers to the university's patron saint, the Virgin Mary.

The school was founded by Father Edward  who was also its first president. Today, many Holy Cross priests continue to work for the university, including as its president. It was established as an all-male institution on November 26, 1842, on land donated by the Bishop o

. The university first enrolled women undergraduates in 1972. As of 2013 about 48 percent of the student body Dame's Catholic character is reflected in its explicit commitment to the Catholic faith, numerous ministries funded by the school, and the architecture around campus. The university is consistently ranked one of the top universities in the United States and as a major global university.

The undergraduate component of the university is organized into four colleges and one professional school, and its graduate program 26 doctoral deg of the university's 8,000 undergraduates live on campus in one of 29 single-sex residence halls, each of which fields teams for more than a dozen intramural sports, and the university counts approximately 120,000 alumni.

The university is globally recognized for i School of Architecture, a faculty that traditional and classical architecture anciples of wards the renowned annual  Architecture Prize.

The university's athletic teams are members of the NCAA Division I and are known collectively as the Fighting Irish. The football team, an Independent, has accumulated eleven consensus national championships, seven Heisman Trophy winners, and 62 members in the College Football Hall of Fame. Other ND teams, chiefly in the Atlantic Coast Conference, have accumulated 16 national championships.

The first degrees from the college were awarded in 184 The university was expanded with new buildings to accommodate more students new president, new academic programs were offered and new buildings built to accommodate them. The original Main Building e arrived was replaced by a larger "Main Building" in 1865, which housed the university's administration, classrooms, and dormitories. Beginning in 1873, a library collection was so ten thousand volumes that were housed in the Main Building.

The current Main Building, built in 1879.

This Main Building, and the library collection, was destroyed by a fire in April 1879, and rebuilt before the next school year.The library collection was also 

rebuilt and stayed housed in the new Main Building for years afterwards.Around the time of the fire, a Music Hall was opened. Eventually becoming known as Washington Hall, it hosted plays and musical acts put on by the school.

 By 1880, a science program was established at the university, and a Science Hall was built in 1883. The hall housed multiple classrooms and science labs needed for early research at the 1890, individual residence halls were built to house the increasing number of students.William (1846–1919) was dean of the law school 1883-1919, and when its new b

as opened shortly after his death it was renamed in his honor

e Holy Cross Provincial for the United States (1896–1906), with overall supervision of the university. Hegreat university, erecting buildings and added to the campus art gallery and library, and amassing what became a famous Dante collection. His term was not renewed because of fears and had run the Holy Cross order into serious debt

Purdue University

Purdue University, located 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 when the Indiana General Assembly,

 taking advantage of the Act, accepted a donation of land and money from Lafayette businessman John Purdue to establish a college of science, technology, and agriculture in his name The first classes were held on September 16, 1874, with six instructors and 39 students

The university was founded with the gift of $150,000 from John Purdue, a Lafayette business leader and philanthropist, along with $50,000 from  support of the project. In 1869, it was decided that the new school would be built near the city of Lafayette and established as Purdue University, in the name of the institution’s principal benefactor.

The West Lafayette campus offers more than 200 majors for undergraduates, over 70 master’s and doctoral programs, and professional degrees in pharmacy and veterinary medicine. In addition, Purdue has 18 intercollegiate sports teams and more than 900 student organizations. Today, 

Purdue is a member of the Big Ten Conference. Purdue enrolls the second largest student body of any university in Indiana as well as the fourth largest international student population of any university in the United States

In 1865, the Indiana Genera and began plans to establish an institution with a focus on agriculture and engineering. Communities throughout the state offered their facilities and money to bid for the location of the new college. Popular proposals included the addition of an agriculture department at Indiana University 

or at what is now Butler University. By 1869, Tippecanoe County’s offer included $150,000 from Lafayette business leader and philanthropist John Purdue, $50,000 from the county, and 100 and from local residents. On May 6, 1869, the General Assembly established the institution in Tippecanoe County as Purdue University, in the name of the principal benefactor. Classes began at Purdue on

 September 16, 1874, with six  Purdue’s first faculty member and served as acting president between the administrations of presidents White[A campus of five buildings was completed bat fall.

Emerson E. White, the university’s president from 1876 to 1883, followed a strict interpretation of thct. Rather than emulate the classical universities, White believed that Purdue should be an "industrial college" and devote its resources toward providing a liberal  education with an emphasis on science, technology, and agriculture. He intended not

 only to prepare students for This ban was ultimately overturned by the Indiana Supreme Court and led to White’s resignation The next president, James H. Smart, is remembered for his call in 1894 to rebuild the original Hall "one brick higher" after it had been destroyed by a fire.

Purdue University, 1904

By the end of the nineteenth century, the university was organized into schools of agriculture, engineering (mechanical, civil, and electrical), and pharmacy, and former U.S. President Benjamin Harrison was serving on the board of trustee Purdue’s engineering laboratories included testing facilities foe of the most efficient engines of the time. The School 

of Agriculture was sharing its research with farmers throughout the state with its cooperative extension services and would undergo a period of growth over the following two decades. Programs in education and home economics were soon established, as well as a short-lived school of medicine. By 1925 Purdue had the largest undergraduate engineering enrollment in the country, a status it would keep for half a century.

University of Florida

The University of Florida commonly referred to as Florida o is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on n North Central Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System  traces its historical origins to has operated continuously on its present campus since September 1906.

The University of Florida is one of sixty-two elected member institutions of the Association of American Universities he association of preeminent North American research universities, and the only  member university located in Florida.The University is classified as a Research University with Very High Research by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.Following the creation of performance standards by the Florida state legislature in 2013, the Florida Board of

 Governors designated the University of Florida as one of the two "preeminent universities" among the twelve universities of the State University System U.S. News & World Report  as the fourteenth best public university in the United States.The university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. It is the third largest Florida university by student is the eighth largest  university in the United States with 49,913 students enrolled for the fall 2012 semester.

 The University of Florida is home to sixteen academic colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes. It offers multiple graduate professional administration, engineering, law, dentistry, medicine, and veterinary e contiguous campus, and administers 123 master's degree programs and seventy-six doctoral degree programs in eighty-seven schools and departments.The University of Florida's intercollegiate sports teams, commonly known by their "Florida Gators" nickname, compete in National Collegiate  I and the Southeastern Conference their 108-year history, the university's varsity sports teams have won thirty-five national team championships, thirty of which are NCAA titles, and Gator athletes have won 275 individual national championshipsinstitutions, was founded in  Florida.

On January 6, 1853, Governor Thomas Brown signed a bill that provided public support for higher education in the state of Florida Gilbert was the first person to take advantage of the legislation, and established the East Florida Seminary,  operated until the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. The East Florida Seminary was the first state-supported institution of higher learning in Florida.

James Henry Roper, an educator from North Carolina and a state senator from County, had opened a  1858 land and school to the State of Florida in exchange for the relocation of the East Florida Seminary to The second major precursor to t Agricultural Colleg

hed at Lake City by Jordan Prob in 1884. Agricultural College became the state's first land-grant college under the 1903, the Florida Legislature, desiring to expand the school's outlook and curriculum beyond its agricultural and engineering origins, changed the name of Florida Agricultural College to the "University of Florida," a name that the school would hold for only two years

Pennsylvania State University

The Pennsylvania State University (commonly referred to as Penn State or  is a public, state-related research-intensive university with and facilities throughout Pennsylvania. Founded in 1855, the university has a stated threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service. Its , graduate, professional and continuing education offered through resident instruction and online

 delivery. Its University Park campus, the flagship campus, lies within the Borough of State College and College Township. It has two law schools, Penn State Law, on the school's University Park campus, and Dickinson Law, located in Carlisle,he College of Medicine is located in Hershey. Penn State has another 9 commonwealth campuses and 5 special-mission campuses located across the state.

Annual enrollment at the University Park campus totals more than 45,000 graduate and undergraduate students, making it one of the largest universities in the United States. It has the world's largest dues-paying alumni association. The university's total enrollment in 20010 was approximately 94,300 across its 24 campuses and online through its World Campus.

The university offers more than 160 majors among all its campuses and administers $2.03 billion (as of June 30, 2013) in endowment and similar  university's research expenditures exceeded $753 million for the 2009 fiscal year and was ranked 9th among U.S. universities in research Science Foundation.

Annually, the university hosts the Penn State  Dance Marathon which is the world's largest student-run  event is held in the Bryce Jordan Center on the University Park campus. In 2014, program record of $13.3 million. The university's athletics teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are collectively known as then the Big Ten Conference for most sports.

The school was founded as a degree-granting institution on February 22, 1855, by act P.L. 46, No. 50 of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania, became the home of the new school when James Irvin of  1862, the school's name was changed to the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania, and with the passage of the

 Land-Grant Acts, Pennsylvania selected the school in 1863 to be the state's sole land-grant college. The school's name changed to the Pennsylvania State College in 1874; enrollment fell to 64 undergraduates the following year as the school tried to balance purely agricultural studies with a more classic education

University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin, informally UT Austin, UT, University of Texas, or Texas in sports a public research university and the flagship institution of The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883 as "The University of Texas," its campus is located in  mile (1,600 m) from the Texas State
Capitol. The institution has thehe university has been labeled one of the "Public Ivies," a publicly funded university considered as providing a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League

UT Austin was inducted into the American Association of Universities in 1929, becoming only the third university in the American South to be elected. It is a major center for academic research, with research expenditures exceeding $550 million for the 2014 school year. The university houses seven museums and seventeen libraries, including the Lyndon B

Johnson Library and Museum and the Museum of Art, and operates various auxiliary research facilities, such as the J. J. Pickle Research Campus and the McDonald Observatory. Among university faculty are recipients of the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, the Wolf Prize, and the National Medal of Science, as well as many other awards.
UT Austin student athletes compete as the Texas Longhorns and are members of the Big 12 Conference. Its Longhorn Network is unique in that it is the only sports network featuring the college sports of a single university. The Longhorns have won four NCAA Division I National Football 

Championships, six NCAA Division I National Baseball Championships and has claimed more titles in men's and women's sports than any other school in the Big 12 since the league was founded in 1996. Current and former UT Austin athletes have won 130 Olympic medals, including 14 in Beijing in 2008 and 13 in London in 2012. The university was recognized by Sports Illustrated as "America's Best Sports College" in 2002

The first mention of a public university in Texas can be traced to the 1827 constitution for the Mexican state o, Article 217 of that Constitution promised to establish public education in the arts and sciences, no action was taken by the Mexican government. After Texas obtained its independence from Mexico in 1836, the Texas Congress adopted the Constitution of the Republic, 

which, under Section 5 of its General Provisions, stated "It shall be the duty of Congress, as soon as circumstances will permit, to provide, by law, a general system of education."On April 18, 1838, "An Act to Establish the University of Texas" was referred to a special committee of the Texas Congress, but was not reported back for further action.On January 26, 1839, the Texas Congress agreed to set

aside fifty leagues of land (approx. 288,000 acres) towards the establishment of a publicly funded addition, 40 acres (160,he new capital of Austin were reserved and designated "College Hill."(The term "Forty Acres" is colloquially used to refer to the University as a whole. The original forty acres is the area from Guadalupe to Speedway and 21st Street to

In 1845, Texas was annexed into the United States. Interestingly, the state's Constitution of 1845 failed to mention the subject of the Seventh Texas Legislature approved O.B. 102, an act to establish the University of Texas, which set aside $100,000 in United States bonds toward construction of the state's first publicly  $100,000 was an allocation from the $10 million the state received pursuant to

 the Compromise of 1850 and Texas' relinquishing claims to lands outside its present boundaries). In addition, the legislature designated land previously reserved for the encouragement of railroad construction toward the university's endowment. 

On January 31, 1860, the state legislature, wanting to avoid raising taxes, passed an act authorizing the money set aside for the University of Texas to instead be used for frontier defense in west Texas to protect settlers from Indian attacks Texas' secession from the Union and the American Civil War delayed repayment of the borrowed monies.

 At the end of the Civil War in 1865, The University of Texas' endowment consisted of a little over $16,000 in warrant and nothing substantive had yet been done to organize the university's operations. This effort to establish a University was again mandated by Article 7, Section 10 of the Texas Constitution of 1876 which directed the legislature to "establish, organize and provide for the

maintenance, support and direction of a university of the first class, to be located by a vote of the people of this State, and styled "The wealth fund managed by the Board of Regents of the University of Texas and dedicated for the maintenance of the university. Because some state legislators perceived an extravagance in the construction of academic buildings

of other universities, Article 7, Section 14 of the Constitution expressly prohibited the legislature from using the state's general revenue to fund construction of any university buildings. Funds for constructing university buildings had to come from the university's endowment or from private gifts to the university, but operational expenses for the university could come from the state's general revenues.

Yale University

Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in  the Collegiate School, the University is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. In 1718, the school was renamed Yale College in recognition of a gift from

Yale, a governor of the British East India Company and in 1731 received a further gift of land and slaves from Bishop Berkeley. Established to train Congregationalist ministers in theology and sacred languages, by 1777 the school's curriculum began to incorporate

humanities and sciences and in the 19th century gradually incorporated graduate and professional instruction, awarding the fir the United States in 1861 and organizing as a university in 1887.
Yale is organized into twelve constituent schools: the original undergraduate college, the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 

e university is governed by the Yale Corporation, each school's faculty oversees its degree programs. In addition to a centraUniverowns athletic facilities in western New Haven, including the Yale Bowl, a

 campus in West Haven, Connecticut, and forest and nature preserves throughout New England. The university's assets include an endowment valued at $23.9 billion as of September 27, 2014, the second largest of any educational institution in the world

Yale College undergraduates follow a liberal arts curriculum with departmental majors and are organized into a system of residential colleges. Almost all faculty teach undergraduate courses, more than 2,000 of which are offered annually

e Yale University Library, serving all twelve schools, holds more than 15 million volumes and is the third-largest academic library in the United of academic studies, students  Bulldogs in the NCAA Division I Ivy League.

Yale has graduated many notable alumni, including five U.S. Presidents, 19 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, 13 living billionaires, and many foreign heads of state. In addition, Yale has graduated hundreds of members of Congress and many high-level U.S.

 diplomats, including former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and current Secretary of State John Kerry. Fifty-two Nobel laureates have been affiliated with the University as students, faculty, or staff, and 230 Rhodes Scholars graduated from the University.

Meanwhile, there was a rift forming at Harvard between its sixth president Increase Mather and the rest of the Harvard clergy, whom Mather viewed as increasingly liberal, ecclesiastically lax, and
overly broad in Church polity. The feud the success of the Collegiate School in the hope that it would maintain the Puritan religious orthodoxy in a way that Harvard had not.
In 1718, at the behest of either Rector Samuel Andrew or the colony's Governor  Cotton Mather contacted a successful in Wales but had been born in Boston and whose father, David, had been one of the original settlers in New Haven,

 to ask him for financial help in constructing a new building for the college. Through the persuasion d made a fortune through trade while living in Madras as a representative of the East India Company, donated nine bales of goods, which were 

sold for more than £560, a substantial sum at the time. Cotton Mather suggested that the school change its name to Yale College. Meanwhile,
a Harvard graduate working in England convinced some 180 prominent intellectuals that they should donate books to Yale. The 1714 shipment of 500 books represented the best of modern English literature, science, philosophy and theology It effect on intellectuals a

University of Maryland

public research universit located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) from the northeast border of Washington, D.C. Founded in

1856, the University of Maryland is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland. With a fall 2010 enrollment of more than 37,000 students, over 100 undergraduate majors, and 120 

graduate programs, Maryland is the largest university in the state and the largest in the Washington Metropolitan Area.It is a member of the Association of American Universities and competes athletically as a member of the Big Ten Conference.

The University of Maryland's proximity to the nation's capital has resulted in strong research partnerships with the Federal government. Many members of t faculty receive research funding and   institutional support from agencies 

such as the National Institutes of Health, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration,  the In f and Technology, and the Department of Security

.

The operating budget of the University of Maryland during the 2009 fiscal year was projected to be approximately US$he same fiscal year, the University of Maryland 

received a total of $518 million in research funding, surpassing its 2008 mark by $118  of May 12012, the university's "Great Expectations" campaign had exceeded $950 million in private donations.

During the Civil War, financial problems forced the administrators to sell off 200 acres and the continuing decline in enrollment sent the Maryland Agricultural College into bankruptcy. For the next two years the campus was used as a boys preparatory school.the Civil War, in February 1866 the

Maryland legislature assumed half ownership of the school. The college thus became in part a state institution. By October 1867, the school reopened with 11 students. In the next six years, enrollment grew and the school's debt was paid off.

Twenty years later, the school's reputation as a research institution began, as the federally funded Agricultural Experiment Station was established there.

 During the same period, a number of state laws granted the college regulatory powers in several  farm disease, inspecting feed,

 establishing a state weather bureau and geological survey, and housing the board of forestryHall (the oldest instructional building still in use on cam was built the following yea

University of California

of the 10 campuses of the University of California system. Located in Davis, California, just west of Sacramento, it encompasses 5,300 acres of land, making it the second largest  campus in terms of land ownership,Davis also has the third-largest enrollment in 

The 2015 U.S. News & World Report college rankings named as the 9th best public university, 38th nationally, and 4th of following Berkeley, , an Die one of 62 members in the 

The Carnegie Foundation as a comprehensive doctoral research university with a medical program, and very high includes 23 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 25 members 

of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 17 members of the American Law Institute, 14 members of the Institute of Medicine, and 14 members of the National Academy of  faculty, alumni, and researchers have won the Nobel Peace Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Pulitzer Prize, MacArthur Fellowship, National Medal of Science, and Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering

The university has expanded over the past century to include graduate and professional programs in medicine (which includes the Davis Medical Center), law, veterinary medicine,

 education, nursing, and business management, in addition to 90 research programs offered Graduate Studies. Davis' School of Veterinary Medicine is the largest in the United States and is ranked first in the nation

The athletic teams compete in the NCAA Division I level, primarily in the Big West Conference as well as the Big Sky Conference (Football only) and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. In its first year of full Division I status, meas qualified for NCAA post-season competition.

the time, Berkeley was the sole campus of the university).commission took a year to select a site for the campus, a tiny town then known as Davis opened its doors as the "University Farm" to 40 degree students (all male) from  Berkeley in January 1909. (The farm had begun accepting students in non-degree farmers' short cor

in October 1908; around 115 men attended.)

The Farm was established largely the result of the vision and perseverance of Peter J. Shields, secretary of the State Agricultural Society. The Peter J.

Shields Library  Davis was named in his honor. Shields began to champion the cause of a University Farm to teach agriculture after learning that California students were going to out-of-state universities to pursue such education.

Shields later said:

University of South Alabama

The University of South Alabama (USA) is a public, national research university in Mobile, Alabama, United States. It was created by the Alabama Legislature in May, 1963, and replaced

 existing extension programs operated in Mobile by the University of Alabama.

USA is the only major public institution of higher learning on the upper Gulf Coast. With Alabama's

 two older universities more than 200 miles distant, the University is strategically located in the greater Mobile area, which has a population of more than a million within a 

Basketball, Baseball, Tennis, Cross Country, Golf, Indoor Track and Field, and Outdoor Track and Field. Women's sports include Basketball, Softball, Soccer, Tennis, Cross Country, Volleyball, 

Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field, and Golf. All sports participate to as simply "South", "USA", or the "Jags", but the more formal South Alabama is often used as well.

The university announced the creation of a NCAA sanctioned football team on December 6, 2007, with the goal of fast tracking 

he school's first ever game was played on September 5, 2009 in front of 26,00+ fans. The Jaguars football team is led by head coach Joey Jones, former Alabama player under Paul "Bear" Bryant. The Jaguars lost at NC Stat 

 League Baseball talent. The most notable current as both the 2011 National League Championship Series MVP and 2011 World Series  for the St. Louis Cardinals, and Juan Pierre, a World Series winner with the Florida Marlins in 2003. Coach Steve 

the end of the 2011 season and handed over the position to the coach in waiting, Mark Cd been on staff \The basketball program has reached the NCAA tournament eight times, with its only win coming against the University 

e Jaguars have been beaten by the eventual national champion 3 of those 8 times (Michigan, Arizona, & the Michigan loss occurring in the second round.

Columbia University

Columbia Universit

officially Columbia University in the City of New York) is a  Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City. Originally established in 1754 as

King's College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in New York State, as well as one of the country's nine colonial colleges

After the revolutionary war, King's College briefly became a state entity, and was renamed Columbia College in 1 1787784. A charter placed the institution

 under a private board of trustees before it was further renamed Columbia University in 1896 when the campus was moved from Madison Avenue to its  land of 32 acres 

 Columbia is one of the fourteen founding members of the Association of American Universities, and was the first school in the United States to grant the M.D. degree

 has affiliation with several other institutions nearby, including Teachers College,

e University is organized into twenty schools alongside global research outposts in Amman, 

 Barnard College, and Union Theological Seminary, with joint undergraduate programs available through the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Sciences Po Paris and 

Columbia annually administers the Pulitzer Prize.It is

 regularly placed among the best universities worldwide by a nu of the United States; nine Justices of the United States Supreme , including three United States Presidents.Additionally, 101 Nobel Prize laureates have been affiliated with it as students, faculty, or staff

Discussions regarding the founding of a college in the Province of New York began as early as 1704, when Colonel Lewis Morris wrote to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 

the missionary arm of the Church of England, persuading the society that New York City was an ideal community in which to establish a college however, not until the founding of Princeton University across the Hudson River in New Jersey did the City of New York seriously consider founding a college.

In 1746 an act was passed by the general assembly of New York to raise funds for the foundation of a new college. In 1751, the assembly appointed  of ten New 

York residents, seven of whom were members of the Church of England, to direct the funds accrued by the state lottery the foundation of a

Classes were initially held in July 1754 and were presided over by the college's first president, Dr. Samuel Johnson. Dr. Johnson was the only instructor of the c

st class, which consisted of a mere eight students. Instruction was held in a new schoolhous adjoining Trinity Church, located on what is now lower Broadway in

he college was officially founded on October 31, 1754, as King's College by royal charter of King George II, making it the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States.

In 1763, Dr. Johnson was succeeded in the presidency by Myles Cooper, a graduate of The Queen's College, Oxford, and an ardent Tory. In the charged political climate of the American Revolution, his chief opponent in discussions at the College was an undergraduate of the class of 1777, Alexander Hamilto

 The American Revolutionary War broke out in 1776, and was catastrophic for the operation of King's College, which suspended instruction for eight years beginning in 1776 with the arrival of the Continental Army. The suspension continued through

 the military occupation of New York City by British troops until their departure in 1783. The college's library was looted and its sole building requisitioned for use as a military hospital first by American and then British forces

 Loyalists were forced to abandon their King's College in New York, which was seized by the rebels and renamed Columbia University. The Loyalists, led by Bishop Charles Inglis fled to Windsor, Nova Scotia, where th

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, established in 1636. Its history,   wealth have made it one of the most prestigious universities in the world

Established originally by the Massachusetts legislature and soon thereafter named for John Harvard (its first benefactor), Harvard is the United States' oldest institution of higher learning,and the 

Harvard Corporation (formally, the President and Fellows of is its first chartered corporation. Although never formally affiliated with any denomination, the early College primarily 

trained  and Unitarian clergy. Its curriculum and student body were gradually secularized during the 18th century, and by the 19th century Harvard had emerged as the central cultural establishment among Boston elites.

 Following the American Civil War, President Charles W. Eliot's long tenure transformed the college and affiliated professional schools into a modern research university; Harvard was a founding member of the Association of American Universities in 1900.

The University is organized into eleven separate  and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced campuses throughout the Boston metropolitan area:

its 209-acre (85 ha) main campus is centered on Harvard Yard in Cambridge, approximately 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Boston; the business school and athletics facilities, including Harvard Stadium, 

and public health s

Harvard has the largest financial endowment of any academic institution in the world, standing at $32.3 billion as of June 2013

Harvard is a large, highly residential research university.The nominal cost of attendance is high, but the University's large endowment allows it to offer generous financial aid packages.

operates several arts, cultural, and scientific museums, alongside the Harvard Library, which is the world's largest academic and private library system, comprising 79 individual libraries with over 18 

date, some 150 Nobel laureates have been affiliated as students, faculty, or staff.

Harvard was formed in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was initially called "New College" or "the college at New. In 1638, the college became home for North America's first known printing press, carried by the ship John of London.

n 1639, the college was renamed Harvard College after deceased clergyman John Harvard, who was an alumnus of the University of Cambridge. He had left the school £779 and his library of some 400 books.charter creating the Harvard Corporation was granted in 1650.

In the early years the College trained many Puritan ministers.The college offered a classic academic 

 was never affiliated with any particular denomination, but many of its earliest graduates went on to become clergymen in Congregational and Unitarian churches throughout New England.

An early brochure, published in 1643, described the founding of the college as a response to the desire "to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the c

The leading Boston divine Increase Mather served as president from 1685 to 1701. In 1708, John Leverett became the first president who was not also a clergyman, which marked a turning of the college toward intellectual independence from Puritanism.