Northwestern University (or NU) is a prestigious private research university located in and around Chicago, Illinois, with a branch campus in Qatar. Established in 1851, when it opened its doors […]
The short answer is YES! American colleges focus on undergraduate education . Although American students tend to use the terms college and university interchangeably, and are just as likely to […]
Established in 1853, the University of Florida is a leading land-grant research university, rated R1 for research output and ranked in sixth place among the USA’s public universities, and 154th […]
Located in the hamlet of Annandale-on-Hudson in New York State, Bard College sprawls along the river and its campus covers 1000 acres of rural land, which blends historical Hudson Estate […]
Cornell University is located in Ithaca, a rural environment with forests, waterfalls, hiking trails, and exceptionally cold winters, to the south of Cayuga Lake, amidst the hills and gorges of […]
The MBA, or Master’s in Business Administration, is a highly prestigious, sought after postgraduate qualification, which originated in America in 1908 at Harvard – but is now being taught in […]
UC Davis started life as the state of California’s agricultural college and became amalgamated into the University of California in 1959. Its historical roots can be seen to this very […]
Established in 1841, Fordham University is a private research university located in New York, run in line with Jesuit educational principles: service; respect for the individual; the pursuit of excellence. […]
Yale vs Harvard: Both are private, not for profit US Ivy League universities, with very high research output. Both are synonymous with academic excellence, and always feature in the Top […]
The University of Pennsylvania, normally referred to as” UPenn”, is a private, Ivy League research university, set up in 1740 by Benjamin Franklin, as an educational institution where knowledge combines […]
The Ivy League is made up of eight elite northwestern universities in the USA. It was originally conceived as an athletic league, to encourage the schools to play each other, […]
The University of Boston is a large, private research institution, and was established in 1839 when it had strong links to the Methodist church. Over time, the university became non-denominational. […]
The University of Chicago – an overview Founded in 1890, the University of Chicago is a private research university, with around 17,000 students, approximately a third of whom are undergraduates. […]
Situated in Greenville, a small college town with a population of around 93,000, East Carolina University (ECU) started life as a teacher training college at the beginning of the twentieth […]
Princeton University is a private, Ivy League research university, established in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, and renamed in 1896 – which makes it the fourth oldest academic […]
Established in 1876 by the Quaker abolitionist, Johns Hopkins University is a highly prestigious private research institute, located in Baltimore. The university has recently received a great deal of global […]