University of Virginia

The University of a research university founded by U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and located in, Virginia. known for its historic foundations, student-run honor code,

 

 and  of the original "Public Ivies," a publicly funded university considered as providing a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League

Its initial Board of Visitors included U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe. Monroe d in 1819, with its Academical Village and original courses of study conceived and designed entirely by Jefferson. UNESCO an honor shared with nearby Monticello

Since 1904,membership in the Association of American Universities for research-focused institutions and was the first university of the American South to attain membership. The university is classified as Very High Research 

Activity in the Carnegie Classification and is considered its state's flagship research university bye  is affiliated with 7 Nobel Laureates, and has produced seven NASA astronauts, seven Marshall Scholars, four Churchill Scholars, 29 Truman Scholars, and 50 Rhodes Scholars, the most of any state-affiliated institution in the U

While is a public in part by the Commonwealth of Virginia, the university receives far more funding from private sources than public. Students come to attend the university in  from all 50 states and 147 countries.

 additionally operates the College at Wise in the far southwestern corner of the state, and previously operated George Mason University and the University of Mary Washington as branch campuses until 1972.

Virginia's athletic teams are known as the Cavaliers, and since 1953 have competed in the Atlantic Coast Conference of Division I of the NCAA.

 After winning NCAA titles (the College Cup in soccer, the College World Series in baseball, and the NCAA a single academic year, was the Capital One Cup for the top overall men's sports program in the nation for Cavaliers have won 31 national titles overall, including 23 in men's sports. Counting 

only NCAA sanctioned championships has won a total of 23 NCAA titles, with 16 in men's sports, ranking

 In contrast to other universities of the day, at which one could study in either medicine, law, or divinity, the first students at the University of Virginia could study in one or several of eight independent schoolmicine, law, mathematics, 

 chemistry, ancient languages, modern languages, natural philosophy, and moral philosophy.Another innovation of the new university was that higher education would be separated from religious doctrine.

Graduate, to a student who had completed the courses of one school; and Doctor to a graduate in more than one school who had shown research

  ad no divinity school, was established independently of any religious sect, and the Grounds were planned and centered upon a library, the Rotunda, rather than a church, distinguishing it from peer universities still primarily functioning as seminaries for one particular strain 

 of Protestantism to philosopher Thomas Cooper that "a professorship of theology should have no place in our institution", and never has there been one. There were initially two degrees awarded by the university:

 

 

 

University of Colorado Boulder

The University of Colorado  referred to as , CU, Boulder,University of Colorado system and was founded five months before Colorado was admitted to the union in 1876.

In 2010, the university consisted of nine colleges and schools and offered over 150 academic programs and enrolled 29,952 students.Twelve Nobel Laureates, nine MacArthur Fellows, and 18 astronauts have been affiliated with CU-Boulder as students, researchers, or faculty members in its history.

  The university received nearly $454 million in sponsored research in 2010 to fund programs like the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, and 

The Colorado members of the NCAA Division

  The Buffaloes have won 28 national championships: 20 in skiing, seven total in men's and women's cross country, and one in football. Approximately 1,500 students participate e club sports annually as well. 

CU-Boulder's distinctive architecture style, known as Tuscan Vernacular Revival, was designed by architect oldest buildings, such as Old Main, were in the Collegiate Gothic style of many East Coast schools

plans for the university's new buildings were in the same style. A month or so after approval, however,updated his design by sketching in a new wrap of rough, textured sandstone walls with sloping, \ed-tiled roofs and Indiana limestone trim.

he Engineering Center is located on the North-East side of campus, on the corner of Colorado and Regent. The Engineering Center consists of departments which are: Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and 

 This formed the basis of a unified style which was used in the design of fifteen other buildings between 1921

The sandstone used in the construction of nearly all the buildings on campus was selected from a a variety of front range mountain quarries. In 2med the Boulder campus as one of the most beautiful college campuses in the United States.

Mechanical Engineering. Rankings published by the US World and News report ranked the Undergraduate Engineering Programs at 34th overall and 19th among public engineering programs nationwide. Graduate Engineering Programs at CU are ranked 34thll and 20th among public engineering programs nationwide.

 This architecturally distinctive and modern center is home to the nation's largest  centrifuge, ion-implantation and microwave-propagation facilities, spectrometers, electron and other microscopes, and a structural analysis facility.

The es students hands on experience by connecting them with faculty and industrial advisers on sponsored projects. CU Engineering is also part outreach, programs for students and teachers at the elementary, middle and high math and engineering lessons and activities 

CU Engineering houses many signature programs. The Integrated Teaching and Learning Program gives students hands on design experience in the award 34sign Center within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. 

Auditorium is a large building on the north edge of the University of Colorado campus, near 17th Street and University Avenue, which plays host to various talks, plays, and musical performances. Andrew J. 

y was a prominent businessman involved with the town of Boulder in the supporter Lewis Cheney. is credited with a number of landmarks throughout Boulder, where he was a carpenter and involved in politics.

The Auditorium opened its doors thirteen years after construction started.adopted daughter, May, sued for a third state, a case that took thirteen years to settle. May was angered that her father left her no money in his will, while leaving $300,000 ton the case, and the majority of critical construction on the building resumed.

University of California, Santa Cruz

 

The University of California, Santa Cruz  known as  Cruz or  is a public, collegiate university and one of 10 campuses in the University of California system. San Francisco at the edge of the coastal community of Santa Cruz, the campus lies on 2,001 acres of rolling, forested hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean

Founded in 1965, Cruz is considered as a Public Ivy s a showcase for progressive, cross-disciplinary undergraduate education, innovative teaching methods and contemporary architecture. 

 Since then, it has evolved into a modern research university with a wide variety of both undergraduate and graduate programs, 

A number of shrines, dens and other student-built curiosities are scattered around the northern campus. These structures, mostly assembled from branches and other forest detritus, were formerly concentrated in the area known as  glen the University razed in 1992 to build colleges Nine and Ten. Students were able to relocate and save some of the structures, however

while retaining its reputation for strong undergraduate support and student political activism. The residential college system, which consists of ten small colleges, is intended to combine the student support of a small college with the resources of a major university. 

 There are a number of natural points of interest throughout ts. The "Porter Caves" are a popular site among students on the west side of campus.

Creeks several ravines. Footbridges span those ravines on pedestrian paths linking various areas of campus. The footbridges make it possible to walk to any part of campus utes in spite of the campus being built on a mountainside with varying elevations.At night, orange lights illuminate the occasionally fogged-in paths.

. A large Douglas Fir spanning approximately 1ee Nine is located in the upper campus of behind College Nine. T off the limbs to make it nearly impossible to climb.For specific directions, reference: directions to Tree Nine For the less also frequent Sunset Tree located on the east side of the meadow behind the Music Center

 The entrance is located in the forest between the Porter College meadow and Empire Grade Road. The caves wind through a set of caverns, some of which are challenging, narrow passages. Tree Nine is another popular destination for students

 A Santa Cruz Superior Court judge invalidated the measures, ruling they were improperly put on the ballot. In 2008, the university,  scrutiny of its north campus expansion plans, to provide housing font of the additional students on campus, and to pay municipal development and water fee
 

  Plans for increasing enrollment to 19,500 be anticipated environmental impacts of such action, encountered opposition from the city, the local community, and the studen voters in 2006 passed two measures calling on  to pay for the impacts of campus growth. 

 A Santa Cruz Superior Court judge invalidated the measures, ruling they were improperly put on the ballot. In 2008, the university, city, county  local government scrutiny of its north campus expansion plans, to provide housing font of the additional students on campus, and to pay municipal development and water fee

George0th Chancellor, intends to mitigate growth constraints in Santa Cruz by developing off-campus sites in Silicon Valley. campus is planned to ultimately hold 2,0ntire university's future student body as

University of California, Riverside

The University of California, a public research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system. The main campus sits in a suburban district of Riverside, California, United States, with a branch campus of 20 acres in Palm Desert.

College of Letters and Science opened in 1954. The Regents of the University of California general campus of the system in 1959, and graduate students were admitted in 1961.  

News ranks U, the 15th most economically diverse student body in the of all  students graduate within six years without regard to economic  outreach and retention programs have contributed to its reputation as a "campus of choice" for minority students, including students

 extending the citrus growing season in California from four to nine months. Some of the world's most important research collections on citrus diversity and entomology, as well as science fiction and photography, are located at Riverside. 

 Founded in 1907 as the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside pioneered research in biological pest control and the use of growth regulators responsible for

To accommodate an enrollment of 21,000 students by 2015, more than $730 million has been invested in new construction projects since 1999eliminary accreditation off Medicine was granted in October 2012 and the first class of 50 students was enrolled in August 2013. It is the first new research-based public medical school in 40 years

team won back to back Big West championships in 2006 and 2007. In 2007, the men's baseball team won its first conference championship and advanced to the second time since the university moved to Division I in 

is consistently ranked as one of the most ethnically and economically diverse universities in the United  2016 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings places 

i58th among top public universities, and school programs including the Graduate School of Education and the  College of Engineering based on peer assessment, student selectivity, financial resources, and other

  factors. Washington Monthly ranked  2nd in the United States in terms of social mobility, research and community s U.S. 

 Their nickname was inspired by the high altitude of the campus, which lies on the foothills of Box Springs Mountain.

sports teams are known as the Highlanders and play in the Big West Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I.

 enrollment exceeded 1,000 students by the time Clark Kerr became president of the system in 1958.Anticipating a "tidal growth required by the baby boom generation, Kerr developed the California Master Plan for Higher Education and the Regents designated Riverside a general university campus in 195

first chancellor, Herman Theodore oversaw the beginnings of the school's transition to a full university and its expansion to a capacity of 5,000 students. second chancellor,the campus through the era of the free speech movement and kept student protests peaceful in Riverside

According to a 1998 interview with  the city of Riverside received negative press coverage for smog after the mayor asked Governor Ronald Reagan to declare the South Coast Air Basin a disaster area in subsequent student enrollment decline

In the 1990s, by 2010African American, American Indian, and Latino student enrollments accounted for 30% of the R student body, the highest proportion of at the time

grams in business administration and biomedical sciences created incentive for enough students to enroll at Riverside to
Entrance along University Avenue. The Arts Building is visible in the background

 June 200eived its largest gift, 15.5 million from two local couples, in trust towards building its medical Regents formally a school proposal in 2006. Projected to be completed by 2013, it will be the first new medical school in 40 years built

 students voted for a fee NCAA Division I standing in 1998 In the 1990s, proposals were made to establish a law school, a medical school, and a school of public policy at , with  School of Medicine and the School of Public Policy becoming reality in 2012 In

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.