Top four Universities of USA

USA is in top listed country in the world in honor of Education. It is very well developed country as well and it has many famous universities. Here are some top listed universities of USA.

1)      Stanford University

2)      Massachusetts Institute of Technology

3)      Harvard University

4)      Columbia University

Stanford University: Stanford University is the one of the biggest university in USA. Officially it is known as Stanford Junior University. Basically it is private institute and different research programs are included in this university. This university is located in Stanford, California. This university was founded by Leland Stanford, US senator and former Governor in California in 1885. This is very famous university now and it has many sub-campuses in different cities of America. The main campus of Stanford University is in northern Santa Clara Valley and between San Francisco and San Jose.

This university has each and every type of facility of the world. It has a huge library and digital resources as well. Different art programs are also held through Stanford University.2 years back Stanford University Libraries held different collections of books more than 9 million volumes and almost 350,000 special books and thousands of other digital resources.

All type of academic programs have been taught in this university. The main campus have a lot of facilities and its study is expensive too. All types of books in the World are present in the library of Stanford University.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology:  MIT University was founded in 1861 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. And it is also a private research University. According to the name of university in this university main focus of studies is by technical point of view and there are many laboratories in this university because different research programs present in this institute. MIT University have 5 schools and 1 college which contains more than 34 departments in different cities of America.  “MIT’s school of architecture” is one of the famous school and it was first school in America which made many progressive building structures and first building was complete in 1916 in Cambridge campus.

MIT University is a large, highly residential and a research University which has many students enrolled in graduate and many professional programs. It is a non-profit Institute and does not work under the government. Board of trustees runs this institute which is also known as MIT Corporation. There are also many under graduate programs for four years. And many students gets admission in undergraduate programs for their improvement in technical knowledge and studies.

Harvard University: Harvard University was established by Massachusetts legislature and after that it named for John Harvard in 1636. Harvard is the oldest Institute of higher education in America and its first chartered corporation was Harvard Corporation. This university developed according to time, in 19^th century it was not well developed and due to hardworking of administration and organization it is developed and now in 21st century Harvard University is in top 5 Universities of US. The biggest and oldest university according to land, structure, Education, Facilities and system of education in the United State. It has also many satellite facilities in this University for Students, the major campuses and Harvard owns and operates Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica plain area of Boston.

Board of overseers, the president and Fellows of Harvard College are governing the Harvard University, which appoint the president of Harvard University.  Different undergraduate and graduate programs being started in the sub-campuses of the Harvard University. Many libraries and one of the biggest library is “Harvard University Library” and this system is centered in Widener Library in Harvard Yard which have more than 80 million volumes in each individual library.

Columbia University: Columbia University is in the city of New York and it is also a Private research University like other above Universities. Columbia University was established in 1754 as “king’s college”. In the state of New York it is one of the oldest college “King’s College” and 5^th chartered Institution of higher Education in the America.  Columbia is one of the fourteen founding members of Association of American Universities, very highly rated University of the United State. It is private but many research projects and different type of technical, vocational, art Education and many graduate, undergraduate programs are also being studied in the Columbia University.

Firstly this institution was King’s College from 1754 to 1784 in the province of New York. Then in 1746 an act passed by the general assembly of New York for the purpose of raising funds for the foundation of a new college. Then after many development this kings college in changed into the “Columbia College” from 1784 to 1896. The after revolution this college changed into “State of New York”. And now from 1896 to present this college changed into Columbia University. It is all the result of hard working and highly ranking that a king’s college changed into Columbia University and it is located in same place new York.