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TOP25RankChangecomparedto2008dataUniversityCountry•1▬00HarvardUniversityUnitedStates•2▲01CambridgeUniversityUnitedKingdom•3▼01YaleUniversityUnitedStates•4▲03LondonUniversity–UniversityCollegeUnitedKingdom•5▲01LondonImperialCollegeUnitedKingdom•5▼01OxfordUniversityUnitedKingdom•7▲01UniversityofChicagoUnitedStates•8▲04PrincetonUniversityUnitedStates•9▬00MassachusettsInstituteofTechnologyUnitedStates•10▼05CaliforniaInstituteofTechnologyUnitedStates•11▼01ColumbiaUniversityUnitedStates•12▼01UniversityofPennsylvaniaUnitedStates•13▬00JohnsHopkinsUniversityUnitedStates•14▼01DukeUniversityUnitedStates•15▬00CornellUniversityUnitedStates•16▲01StanfordUniversityUnitedStates•17▼01AustralianNationalUniversityAustralia•18▲02McGillUniversityCanada•19▼01MichiganUniversityUnitedStates•20▲04SwissFederalInstituteofTechnology,ZurichSwitzerland•20▲03EdinburghUniversityUnitedKingdom•21▼02TokyoUniversityJapan•23▼01LondonUniversity–King'sCollegeUnitedKingdom•24▲02TheUniversityofHongKongHongKong•25▬00KyotoUniversity2010Top10FamousUniversityByLiloMagazinePublished:04/07/2010Postedin:WorldTop10HarvardUniversity(officiallyThePresidentandFellowsofHarvardCollege)isaprivateuniversitylocatedinCambridge,Massachusetts,andamemberoftheIvyLeague.Establishedin1636bythecolonialMassachusettslegislature,HarvardisthefirstcorporationcharteredintheUnitedStatesandoldestinstitutionofhigherlearningintheUnitedStates.Theuniversitycurrentlycomprisestenseparateacademicunits.Harvardhasthelargestfinancialendowmentofanyschoolintheworld,standingat$26billionasofSeptember2009.Harvardisconsistentlyrankedasaleadingacademicinstitutionintheworldbynumerousmediaandacademicrankings.Harvard’snotableAlumnus•BarackObama,CurrentPresidentoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica,graduatedfromHarvardLawSchoolwithaJurisDoctor(J.D.)in1991.YaleUniversity–USAYaleUniversityisaprivateresearchuniversityinNewHaven,Connecticut,andamemberoftheIvyLeague.Foundedin1701intheColonyofConnecticut,theuniversityisthethird-oldestinstitutionofhighereducationintheUnitedStates.Yalehasproducedmanynotablealumni,includingfiveU.S.presidents,seventeenU.S.SupremeCourtJustices,andseveralforeignheadsofstate.UniversityofCambridge–UKTheUniversityofCambridge(informallyCambridgeUniversity,orsimplyCambridge)isthesecondoldestuniversityinEnglandandthefourtholdestintheworld.Academically,Cambridgehasbeenrankedoneoftheworld’stopfiveuniversities,theleadinguniversityinEurope,andcontendswithOxfordforfirstplaceinUKleaguetablesCambridge’snotableAlumnus•NewtonwasastudentoftheUniversityofCambridgeUniversityofOxford–UKTheUniversityofOxford(informallyOxfordUniversity,orsimplyOxford),auniversitylocatedintheEnglishcityofOxford,isthethirdoldestsurvivinguniversityintheworldandtheoldestsurvivingintheEnglish-speakingworldandisregardedasoneoftheworld’sleadingacademicinstitutionsCaliforniaInstituteofTechnology–USATheCaliforniaInstituteofTechnology(commonlyreferredtoasCaltech)isaprivateresearchuniversitylocatedinPasadena,California,UnitedStates.Caltechhassixacademicdivisionswithastrongemphasisonsciencesandengineering.Itsprimary124-acre(50ha)campusislocatedapproximately11miles(18km)northeastofdowntownLosAngeles.Undergraduatesliveinahousesystemandalthoughstudentlifeisgovernedbyahonorcode,Caltechhasastrongtraditionofpracticaljokesandpranks.ImperialCollegeLondon–UKImperialCollegeLondon(officiallyTheImperialCollegeofScience,TechnologyandMedicineastitledinitsRoyalCharter)isaBritishuniversityinLondonspecializinginscience,engineering,medicineandbusiness.Imperialwasplaced5thoverallintheworldinthe2009TimesHigherEducation-QSWorldUniversityRankingsofuniversitiesworldwide,andwasplaced26thintheShanghaiJiaoTongAcademicRankingofWorldUniversities.ImperialCollegeLondonisamemberoftheRussellGroupofUniversities,apartoftheGoldenTriangle,theIDEALeague,theEuropeanUniversityAssociation,AMBA,andtheAssociationofCommonwealthUniversities.FormerlyaconstituentcollegeoftheUniversityofLondon,Imperialbecameindependentoftheuniversityon8July2007,the100thanniversaryofitsfounding.UniversityCollegeLondon–UKUniversityCollegeLondon(UCL)isaconstituentcollegeoftheUniversityofLondon,basedprimarilyinBloomsburyintheLondonBoroughofCamden.Foundedin1826,UCLwasthefirstuniversityinstitutiontobefoundedinLondon,thefirstuniversityinstitutionintheUnitedKingdomtobeestablishedonanentirelysecularbasisandadmitstudentsregardlessoftheirreligion,andthefirsttoadmitwomenonequaltermswithmen.UniversityofChicago–USATheUniversityofChicagoisaprivate,coeducationalresearchuniversityinChicago,Illinois,USA.ItwasfoundedbyoilmagnateandphilanthropistJohnD.Rockefellerandincorporatedin1890;WilliamRaineyHarperbecameitsfirstpresidentin1891andthefirstclasseswereheldin1892.TheUniversityconsistsoftheCollegeoftheUniversityofChicago,variousgraduateprogramsandinterdisciplinarycommitteesorganizedintofourdivisions,sixprofessionalschools,andaschoolofcontinuingeducation.MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology(MIT)–USAMITisaprivateresearchuniversitylocatedinCambridge,Massachusetts.MIThasfiveschoolsandonecollege,containingatotalof32academicdepa