Best 5 High University in world

Best 5 High University in USA - Universities provide fertile ground for world-changing research, ideas and future leaders. It stands to reason that the best schools attract the greatest thinkers and trailblazers, and ranking lists are published annually to help prospective students select the top colleges for their needs.

Certain universities are known for their contributions to technical fields within science and engineering, some specialize in business or law, and others take a more diverse approach, offering a range of programs and degrees. Running the gamut, we look at the 5 most influential universities of the past 100 years.

5. University of California, Berkeley – Berkeley, California, USA

Founded in 1868, the University of California, Berkeley has a long history of student activism, which can be traced back to the 1964 Free Speech Movement and the anti-Vietnam War protests of the same decade era. Yet UC Berkeley’s influence has been far more wide reaching. For one, it has made a huge contribution to science. Remarkably, the school’s Berkeley Lab has been linked to the discovery of 16 chemical elements – the most by any single university. And the college is also associated with an incredible 72 Nobel Prize winners. Notable graduates include Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson, computer mouse inventor Douglas Engelbart – who also taught at the school after finishing his Ph.D. – and Nobel Prize winners Willis Lamb (physics), Thomas Schelling (economics) and Hamilton Smith (medicine). In 1900 UC Berkeley was one of the founders of the Association of American Universities.

4. University of Cambridge – Cambridge, England, U.K.

Established in 1209, Cambridge University is the third oldest university in the world still operating. Over the years, the school has been associated with an incredible 90 Nobel Prize winners, while high-profile graduates embrace everyone from television naturalist David Attenborough to acclaimed primatologist Jane Goodall. Cambridge has long since held a reputation for groundbreaking scientific achievement thanks to hugely influential historic alumni like Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, Henry Cavendish and Charles Darwin. Yet the university also has a strong literary tradition, with former students including John Milton and Lord Byron as well as more recent names such as Salman Rushdie. Philosopher Bertrand Russell and economist John Maynard Keynes are two highly significant 20th century figures to have both graduated from and taught at the institution. In 2013 Cambridge placed third on the QS World University Rankings list.

3. University of Oxford – Oxford, England, U.K.

Evidence suggests that teaching at Oxford University can be dated back to around 1096. Some of the school’s more high-profile former students have been current British prime minister David Cameron, former British prime ministers Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher, former U.S. president Bill Clinton, acclaimed physicist Stephen Hawking, inventor of the internet Tim Berners-Lee, astronomer Edwin Hubble, and writers Aldous Huxley, Theodor “Dr. Seuss” Geisel and J. R. R. Tolkien – the latter of whom also taught at the school for over three decades – among many others. Oxford is made up of 38 constituent colleges and has excelled in various fields. Politics and religion are both prominent at the university; so far, 26 British prime ministers, 20 Archbishops of Canterbury and 12 saints have studied there. Other noteworthy areas of learning associated with the university include science, mathematics, literature, philosophy and economics. Oxford also offers the Clarendon Scholarship and the Rhodes Scholarship, two of the world’s preeminent graduate scholarships.

2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Since it opened in 1865, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, has become synonymous with advancements in the fields of engineering and physical science. Yet more recently the university has also become a center for economics, management, biology and linguistics. MIT’s prolific list of graduates includes astronaut “Buzz” Aldrin, former United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Kofi Annan, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and award-winning and highly influential architect I. M. Pei. On top of that, world-renowned linguist, philosopher and cultural icon Noam Chomsky has lectured at MIT since 1955. And MIT’s computer science department has had a pivotal involvement in the areas of robotics, cybernetics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer languages and cryptography. In 2013 MIT topped the annual QS World University Rankings list as the world’s number one school.

1. Harvard University – Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Harvard University was established in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1636. And, its rich history aside, according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities, Harvard has been the number one college in the world since 2003. High-profile alumni include former U.S. presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, current United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, current U.S. president Barack Obama, and Goldman Sachs CEO and chairman Lloyd Blankfein. Two of the most prominent people to have attended but then left the school are Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Facebook chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg famously launched the now ubiquitous social networking site from his Harvard dorm room. Harvard’s law and business schools are world renowned, and more generally the institution is associated with the saltwater school of mainstream economic thought.