Science has been a forever trend in the field of education. Some of the most important human resources like doctors, engineers, architects, astronauts, etc. are a result of higher education in science stream. After schooling, every student dreams of getting into best universities. But it’s not easy, your aptitude in the field you want to pursue your major and many other co-curriculum performances should be decorated in the resume to get your dream college. Everyday millions of universities are browsed by students just in the hope of having a brighter future ahead. The article makes it easier for some students to find the best science universities. These institutions from the U.S. and more than 80 other countries have been ranked based on 13 indicators that measure their academic research performance and their global and regional reputations.
1.Stanford University
Officially known as Leland Stanford Junior University is a private research university located in Stanford, California. It has the largest campus 8,180 acres in United States. The university is a cluster of seven schools with three consisting of 40 departments at the undergraduate level as well as four professional schools that focus on graduate programs. All of these are in the same campus. University also 36 varsity sports. The university is one of two private institutions in the Division I FBS Pac-12 Conference. It has gained 128 NCAA team championships, and Stanford has won the NACDA Directors’ Cup for 25 consecutive years, beginning in 1994–1995. In addition, as of 2021, Stanford students and alumni have won at least 296 Olympic medals including 150 gold medals. As of 2020, 15 Stanford alumni have won the Nobel Prize. As of 2019, 122 Stanford students or alumni have been named Rhodes Scholars.
2.Harvard University
Founded in 1636 as Harvard College by John Harvard, is private Ivy League research University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is the oldest university in United Sates. Harvard University has ten academic faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The university mainly has three campuses: the 209-acre (85 ha) Cambridge campus centered on Harvard Yard; an adjoining campus immediately across the Charles River in the Allston neighborhood of Boston; and the medical campus in Boston’s Longwood Medical Area. The Harvard Library is the world’s largest academic library system, comprising 79 individual libraries holding about 20.4 million items. Institution has the highest number of Nobel Prize winner alumina. Some of them include 8 U.S Presidents and 188 living billionaires.
3.Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) located in Cambridge, Massachusetts is private land-giant research university, established in 1861. MIT has played a significant role in the development in modern technology and science. The university is a result of industrialization in United States with an urban campus that extends more than a mile alongside of Charles River, and encompasses a number of major off-campus facilities such as the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the Bates Center, and the Haystack Observatory, as well as well affiliated laboratories such as the Broad and Whitehead Institutes. MIT has never awarded an honorary degree, nor does it award athletic scholarships, ad eundem degrees, or Latin honors upon graduation. However, MIT has twice awarded honorary professorships: to Winston Churchill in 1949 and Salman Rushdie in 1993.
4.University of Cambridge
This collegiate research university was founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry II in 1231. The university grew out of an association of scholars who left the University of Oxford after a dispute with the townspeople. The two English ancient universities share many common features and are often jointly referred to as Oxbridge. It includes 31 semi-autonomous constituent colleges and 150 academic departments. All the colleges are self-governing which each controlling its own membership, internal structure and activities. The university has 8 cultural and scientific museums and botanical garden. Libraries hold a total of 16 million books, 9 million out of which are present in the Cambridge University Library, a legal deposit library. it has the oldest debating society, Cambridge Union.
5.University of Oxford
World’s second oldest university is a collegiate research university in Oxford. All the colleges are self-governing institutions within the university, each controlling its own membership and with its own internal structure and activities. All students are members of a college. It does not have a main campus, and its buildings and facilities are scattered throughout the city centre. Undergraduate teaching at Oxford consists of lectures, small-group tutorials at the colleges and halls, seminars, laboratory work and occasionally further tutorials provided by the central university faculties and departments. Postgraduate teaching is provided predominantly centrally. Oxford is the oldest university museum and has the largest university press.
6.University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. It has 14 colleges, schools offer 350 degree programs, enroll some 31,000 undergraduate and 12,000 graduate students. A founding member of the Association of American Universities, Berkeley hosts many leading research institutes, including the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and the Space Sciences Laboratory. A founding member of the Association of American Universities, Berkeley hosts many leading research institutes, including the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and the Space Sciences Laboratory. 7 heads of State, six chief justices, 11 governors and 25 living billionaires are included in the university’s alumina.
7.California Institute of Technology
Private research university is well known for its strength in science and engineering. Also called Caltech was founded by as a preparatory and vocational school by Amos G. Throop in 1891. The university has six academic branches with great focus science and engineering, 332 million dollars in 2011 from sponsored research. There are 76 Nobel laureates who have been affiliated with Caltech, in addition, 4 Fields Medalists and 6 Turing Award winners have been affiliated with Caltech. There are 8 Crafoord Laureates and 56 non-emeritus faculty members who have been elected to one of the United States National Academies, 4 Chief Scientists of the U.S. Air Force and 71 have won the United States National Medal of Science or Technology.
8.University of Toronto
Located in Canada, University of Toronto is a public research university founded by royal charter in 1827 as King’s College. It includes 11 colleges each with substantial autonomy on financial on institutional and institutional affairs and significant differences in character and history. 700 undergraduate and 200 graduate courses are offered here. Electron microscope, development of deep learning, neural network, multi-technology, are some of the many discoveries made by the university. It receives the most annual scientific research funding and endowment of any Canadian university and is one of two members of the Association of American Universities outside the United States, the other being McGill University.
9.Imperial College London
Royal charter established Imperial College London in 1907. The college focuses exclusively on science, technology, medicine and business. The college was a member of the University of London from 1908, becoming independent on its centenary in 2007. In 1988, the Imperial College School of Medicine was formed by combining with St Mary’s Hospital Medical School. In 2004, Queen Elizabeth II opened the Imperial College Business School. The Great Exhibition was organized as an exhibition of culture and industry by Henry Cole and by Prince Albert, husband of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, Queen Victoria. An enormously popular and financial success, proceeds from the Great Exhibition were designated to develop an area for cultural and scientific advancement in South Kensington.
10.Princeton University
Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton New Jersey. It was established in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey. It the fourth oldest institution for higher education in the United States. It is governed by the Trustees of Princeton University and has a funding of $26.6 billion which is the largest per student in United States. Courses in humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering are offered in an area of 600 acres for 8,500 students. 69 Nobel laureates, 16 Fields Medalists and 16 Turing Award laureates have been affiliated with Princeton University as alumni, faculty members, or researchers. In addition, Princeton has been associated with 21 National Medal of Science winners, 5 Abel Prize winners, 11 National Humanities Medal recipients, 215 Rhodes Scholars and 137 Marshall Scholars.
