31 August 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Cornell University is a
private Ivy League land-grant research university based in
Ithaca, New York . The university was founded in 1865 by
Ezra Cornell and
Andrew Dickson White . Since its founding, Cornell has been a
co-educational , non-
sectarian institution where admission has not been restricted by religion or race. The student body for the fall 2022 semester consisted of more than 15,000 undergraduate and 7,000 graduate students from all 50 American states and 130 countries.
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24 September 2021 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Yale University is a
private Ivy League research university in
New Haven, Connecticut . Founded in 1701 as the
Collegiate School , it is the
third-oldest institution of
higher education in the United States and one of the nine
Colonial Colleges chartered before the
American Revolution . The Collegiate School was renamed
Yale College in 1718 to honor the school’s largest private benefactor for the first century of its existence,
Elihu Yale .
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29 July 2021 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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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 chartered before the
American Revolution . Admission is among the most selective in the United States; in 2021, the university reported an acceptance rate of 5.4%.
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30 June 2021 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Columbia University (also known as
Columbia , and officially as
Columbia University in the City of New York ) is a
private Ivy League research university in
New York City . Established in 1754 as
King’s College on the grounds of
Trinity Church in
Manhattan , Columbia is the oldest institution of higher education in
New York and the fifth-oldest institution of
higher learning in the United States. It is one of nine
colonial colleges founded prior to the
Declaration of Independence , seven of which belong to the
Ivy League . Columbia is ranked among the top universities in the world by major education publications.
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31 March 2021 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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The University of Pennsylvania (
Penn or
UPenn ) is a
private Ivy League research university in
Philadelphia ,
Pennsylvania . The university claims a founding date of 1740 and is one of the nine
colonial colleges chartered prior to the
U.S. Declaration of Independence .
Benjamin Franklin , Penn’s founder and first president, advocated an educational program that trained leaders in commerce, government, and
public service , similar to a modern
liberal arts curriculum. The University of Pennsylvania considers itself the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, though this is contested by Princeton and Columbia Universities. The university also considers itself as the
first university in the United States with both undergraduate and graduate studies.
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29 July 2020 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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The
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (also known as
Wharton Business School ,
The Wharton School or simply
Wharton ) is the
business school of the
University of Pennsylvania , a private
Ivy League university in
Philadelphia ,
Pennsylvania . Established in 1881 through a donation from
Joseph Wharton , the Wharton School is the world’s oldest collegiate school of business. The Wharton School awards
Bachelor of Science in
Economics degrees at the undergraduate level and
Master of Business Administration degrees at the postgraduate level, both of which require the selection of a
major . Wharton also offers a doctoral program and houses, or co-sponsors, several diploma programs either alone or in conjunction with the other schools at the university.
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7 September 2018 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Architecture , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Harvard University is a private
Ivy League research university in
Cambridge , Massachusetts. Established in 1636 and named for clergyman
John Harvard (its first benefactor), its history, influence, and wealth have made it one of the world’s most prestigious universities. Harvard is the
United States’ oldest institution of higher learning , and the
Harvard Corporation is its first chartered
corporation . Although never formally affiliated with any
denomination , the early College primarily trained
Congregational and
Unitarian clergy. Its curriculum and student body were gradually secularized during the 18th century, and by the 19th century, Harvard had emerged as the central cultural establishment among
Boston elites . Following the
American Civil War , President
Charles W. Eliot ‘s long tenure (1869–1909) transformed the college and affiliated professional schools into a modern
research university ; Harvard was a founding member of the
Association of American Universities in 1900.
A. Lawrence Lowell , who followed Eliot, further reformed the undergraduate curriculum and undertook aggressive expansion of Harvard’s land holdings and physical plant.
James Bryant Conant led the university through the
Great Depression and
World War II and began to reform the curriculum and liberalize admissions after the war. The undergraduate college became coeducational after its 1977 merger with
Radcliffe College .
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