Best Universities in America

The University of Florida is a public university and land-grant institution located in Gainesville, Florida. UF is divided into sixteen colleges, which offer over 100 undergraduate majors and 200 graduate degrees, including the only public pharmacy, dentistry, and veterinary medicine programs in the state. The centerpiece of the journalism programs at UF is WUFT, which consists of both a PBS television station and an NPR radio station.

The university contains 16 colleges and academic units. More than 100 undergraduate and 170 graduate degree plans are offered by the University.The university has also reached out to establish partnerships with other facilities, including the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, the University of Texas Health Science Center, the Johnson Space Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and the International Center for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials.

The George Washington University enrolls an even balance of undergraduate and graduate students; roughly 11,000 of the former and 12,500 of the latter. The George Washington University has a distinguished medical school and its own hospital. It boasts a highly ranked law school The George Washington University Law School and one of the leading schools of international affairs in the United States, the Elliott School of International Affairs. It also has a distinguished record in the fields of engineering, medicine, political science, public affairs, business, psychology, and computer science.

WPI offers a variety of majors in engineering, science, management, liberal arts, and social science at the undergraduate and graduate level. WPI's schedule is also unique among most universities. Instead of a normal semester, WPI uses 7-week terms, labeled A-D, with an optional E term in the summer.

The University comprises of the following Schools and Colleges Seaver College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Graziadio School of Business and Management, School of Law, Graduate School of Education and Psychology and School of Public Policy.
E-mail: admission-seaver@pepperdine.edu

The University of Maryland, College Park (also known as UM, UMD, or UMCP) is a public university located in the city of College Park, in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C. The University of Maryland's unique location near Washington, D.C., has created strong research partnerships, especially with government agencies. Many of the faculty members have funding from federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Defense, and the National Security Agency.

The University of Miami's primary campus in Coral Gables houses eight schools and two colleges. UM also has three graduate-level schools that includes University of Miami School of Law, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, which operates a built-in atmospheric and oceanographic laboratory on-board the Explorer of the Seas.
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The University of Georgia is located approximately 70 miles north-east of Atlanta in Athens, Georgia, and is the largest institution of higher learning and research in the State of Georgia. It was the first state-chartered university in the United States.
E-mail: gradinfo@uga.edu

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, along with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, is a leading academic medical center and particularly well known as an organ transplant center. The University Center for International Studies (UCIS) coordinates international education curricula, centers for area studies and centers on topical specializations in international studies. It does not give degrees but awards certificates of attainment to degree candidates in the university's schools.

Boston University is a private university located in Boston, Massachusetts. The University offers associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees through 18 schools and colleges and operates two urban campuses. The University offers a large number of degree programs for associate's, bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees. There are also numerous opportunities for students to travel and study abroad, with internships overseas and in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

The university also maintains regional campuses located in Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark. Additionally Ohio State operates a small campus and research facility at Gibraltar Island (Stone Lab), and an agricultural research institute in Wooster. Ohio State's faculty currently includes a Nobel Prize winning physicist, as well as twenty members of the National Academy of Sciences or National Academy of Engineering, three members of the Institute of Medicine, and 120 elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
E-mail: international.grad@osu.edu

The main campus is particularly noted for its engineering, agriculture, business administration, pharmacy and hospitality management programs, which are consistently counted among the best.

Rutgers offers more than 100 distinct bachelor, 100 master, and 80 doctoral and professional degree programs across 29 degree-granting schools and colleges, 16 of which offer graduate programs of study.

Texas A&M offers degrees in over 150 courses of study through ten colleges and is home to 18 research institutes. Texas A&M's ten colleges are Mays Business School, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Architecture, College of Education and Human Development, Dwight Look College of Engineering, College of Geosciences, George Bush School of Government and Public Service, College of Liberal Arts, College of Science and College of Veterinary Medicine.

The university offers Bachelors, master's, and doctoral programs are offered through the Henry B. Tippie College of Business, the College of Dentistry, the College of Engineering, the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, the College of Public Health, the College of Education, the College of Law, the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, the Graduate College, the College of Nursing, and the College of Pharmacy.

Miami offers the bachelor's degree in over 100 areas of study and the master's degree in more than 50 areas; Miami also offers a number of doctoral degrees. Several associate's degrees are available through study on the regional campuses.

Fordham University is comprised of five undergraduate colleges and six graduate schools. Fordham's enrollment included more than 8,000 undergraduate students and 7,000 graduate students spread over three residential campuses in and around New York City: Rose Hill in the Bronx, Lincoln Center in Manhattan, and Tarrytown in Westchester County, New York. Fordham awards bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees.

The university offers 61 undergraduate majors and 31 minors, with graduate programs in 32 fields; popular majors include art, business administration and psychology. The McHenry Library houses UCSC's arts and letters collection, with most of the scientific reading at the newer Science and Engineering Library.

In addition to the main campus in Storrs, there are five regional campuses: Avery Point (in Groton), the Greater Hartford campus (West Hartford), Stamford, Torrington, and Waterbury. The School of Law is located in Hartford, and the School of Medicine and the School of Dental Medicine are both located in Farmington.

BYU has 194 bachelor's degree programs, 68 master's degree programs, and a juris doctorate program. [10] BYU does not have a medical school. All undergraduate students, regardless of their religion, must take a handful of religious courses to graduate. Students have a degree of flexibility with these religious courses, although they must take at least two courses covering the Book of Mormon, one covering the New Testament, and one covering the Doctrine and Covenants.

SMU's seven degree-granting schools are: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, Cox School of Business, Meadows School of the Arts, School of Engineering, School of Education and Human Development, Dedman School of Law, and Perkins School of Theology.
E-mail: hwilliam@smu.edu

Stevens is known for its rigorous engineering, science, and technological management curricula. Among the prominent research centers of Stevens is the Davidson Laboratory, Wireless Network Security Center, Keck Geotechnical Laboratory, Plasma Physics Laboratory, Nicoll Environmental Laboratory, Electron Microscopy Laboratory, and Center for Mass Spectrometry.
E-mail: gradadmissions@stevens.edu

Indiana University Bloomington is an international campus. The students and visiting scholars come from more than 120 countries. The University offer more than 70 study abroad programs. Faculty in our renowned international academic centers and programs have worldwide expertise and experience.

The University is well known for its academic programs in education and agriculture, MSU pioneered the studies of packaging and music therapy. About 89% of students come from all 83 counties in the State of Michigan, also represented are all 50 states in the U.S. and about 125 other countries.
E-mail: admis@msu.edu

Binghamton University is comprised of the following colleges and schools Harpur College of Arts & Sciences, College of Community and Public Affairs, Decker School of Nursing, School of Education, School of Management, Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering & Applied Science, Graduate School.

By far the largest institution of higher education in the Midwest, the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities offers degree programs in almost all fields, from agriculture to modern dance. As of 2006, the university has sixteen schools and colleges. The University has all three branches of the Reserve Officer Training Corps.

Chartered in 1845 by the Republic of Texas, Waco-based Baylor University is the oldest university in Texas and the largest Baptist university in the world. Baylor University has about 11,825 undergraduate and 2,150 graduate and professional students in more than 240 academic programs, including 21 doctoral programs.

Academically, the university is divided into five colleges: Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences; Architecture, Arts and Humanities; Business and Behavioral Science; Engineering and Science; and Health, Education and Human Development. The University's most noted academic programs include those in agriculture, architecture, business, education, engineering, nursing, and textile studies.
E-mail: blouis@clemson.edu

The university offers over 100 Bachelor degree areas of study including mathematics, meteorology, economics, political science, forestry, physics, and education. NC State offers bachelor's degrees in 100 areas of study, master's degrees in 109 areas and doctorate degrees in 55 areas. Only the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences offers associate's degrees.

Saint Louis University is a Jesuit, Catholic university ranked among the top research institutions in the US. The University fosters the intellectual and character development of more than 11,800 students on campuses in St. Louis and Madrid, Spain. Through teaching, research, health care and community service, Saint Louis University is the place where knowledge touches lives.
E-mail: icadmit@slu.edu

CU has produced a number of astronauts, Nobel laureates, and other notable individuals in their fields. The University of Colorado is divided into several unique colleges. While the College of Arts and Sciences is by far the largest, the university consists of the colleges of: Architecture and Planning, Arts and Sciences, Business, Education, Engineering and Applied Sciences, Journalism, Law, and Music.

E-mail: gradappl@vt.edu

Clark has been noted especially for its geography and psychology departments, with the latter having a distinctive, if increasingly unfashionable "humanistic" orientation (humanistic psychology).

American University was founded in 1893 as a graduate institution. Today, 11,000 graduate and undergraduate students pursue education in the arts, sciences, humanities, business, communication, international service, public affairs, and law at the university. Students come from all 50 U.S. states and more than 150 countries.

Auburn University Montgomery, the metropolitan campus of Auburn University, was established by an act of the Alabama Legislature in 1967. Located on a 500-acre campus seven miles east of downtown Montgomery, AUM offers highly respected, accredited academic programs in a challenging but caring college environment.

ISU is best known for its degree programs in science, engineering and agriculture. ISU is also home of the world's first electronic digital computing device, the Atanasoff-Berry Computer. It consists of the following colleges Agriculture, Business, Design, Engineering, Human Sciences, Liberal Arts and Sciences and Veterinary Medicine.
E-mail: online@iastate.edu

The University includes 11 schools and colleges Helen Way Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business Administration, J. William and Mary Diederich College of Communication, College of Engineering, College of Health Sciences, College of Nursing, College of Professional Studies, Graduate School, chool of Dentistry, School of Education and School of Law.

UC Riverside is a research-based university that offers 78 majors, 45 minors, 50 Master's degree programs, and 38 Ph.D programs. Academic programs are organized into five colleges and schools.

DU typically enrolls about 9,800 students, about equally divided between graduate and undergraduate programs. The Daniels College of Business is the primary undergraduate and graduate drawing card, but there are also considerable graduate level strengths in law, professional psychology, international studies, and social work.

MU is internationally known for its programs in journalism, agriculture, and veterinary medicine. Substantial resources are being invested in the life sciences programs to establish MU as a premier institution in the burgeoning fields of biotechnology.
E-mail: mu4u@missouri.edu

The University of Tennessee's flagship campus in Knoxville hosts ten colleges, the Institute of Agriculture, the Institute for Public Service, and several schools. The UT Health Science Center at Memphis and the UT Space Institute at Tullahoma are specialized campuses but are not separate institutions. These five facilities comprise the University of Tennessee system.

The Howard University campus hosts 12 colleges namely College of Arts and Sciences, School of Business, John H. Johnson School of Communications, College of Dentistry, School of Divinity, School of Education, College of Engineering, Architecture & Computer Sciences, Howard University Graduate School, School of Law, College of Medicine, College of Pharmacy, Nursing & Allied Health Sciences and School of Social Work.
E-mail: admission@howard.edu

The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) is a specialized doctoral-granting institution of the State University of New York. ESF has academic departments in the fields of chemistry; construction management and wood products engineering; environmental and forest biology; environmental resources and forest engineering; environmental studies; forest and natural resources management; landscape architecture; and paper science and engineering.

The University of Tulsa is noted for having one of the world's premier programs in petroleum engineering, and has distinguished programs in English, computer science, natural sciences, Clinical and I/O Psychology, and several engineering disciplines.

Bachelors, master's, and doctoral programs are offered through the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Education and Social Services, the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, the College of Medicine, the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, the Graduate College, the School of Business Administration, and The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources.

Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) is a private Ph.D.- granting university with programs in engineering, science, psychology, architecture, business, communications, journalism, design and law. IIT is divided into four colleges, three institutes, a school, and a number of research centers, some of which provide academic programs independent of the other academic units. Many of these contain departments representing the academic programs offered in each.

The University is divided into numerous schools namely College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, School of Dental Medicine, College of Business, School of Health Technology and Management, School of Professional Development, Graduate Program in Public Health, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, School of Social Welfare, Harriman School for Management and Policy and Marine Sciences Research Center.
E-mail: graduate.school@sunysb.edu

The university is divided into 9 schools and colleges such as AddRan College of Humanities & Social Sciences, Brite Divinity School, M.J. Neeley School of Business, College of Communication, School of Education, College of Fine Arts, Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Schieffer School of Journalism and College of Science & Engineering.

Among the strongest programs at UA are optical sciences, astronomy, astrophysics, and planetary science (UA is awarded more NASA grants for space exploration than any other university nationally), hydrology and hydrogeology, philosophy, and anthropology. Arizona is classified as a Carnegie Foundation "Doctoral/Research Universities - Extensive" university.
E-mail: or@email.arizona.edu

Best Universities in America