Top 10 Universities

In the education sector, one must classify and consider educational programs, universities and careers into their corresponding ranking in order to ensure the highest quality of education. Thus, future graduates ensure a good university that allows them to be well prepared to face the challenges of the job market.

Our aim is to offer a good orientation that makes it easy to choose the most suitable path for each student. Therefore, in today’s article we offer this ranking as a means of reviewing the best universities in the world. This is based on the world’s most prestigious university rankings according to the Academic Ranking World of Universities (ARWU): a ranking system from Shanghai that brings together the 500 top universities in the world.

At first glance the American institutions take the top positions of the top. We must go down to position 220 onwards to find a Spanish university such as the Pompeu Fabra University, which leads the list of the best Spanish universities. However, today we will focus on those that due to their prestige are the institutions dreamed about by brilliant students around the world.

10. University of Chicago (United States): Located in one of the most important cities in the state of Illinois (USA), this institution has more than 14,000 national and foreign students and stands out from the rest for its MBA program (Master in Business Administration). Among the professors, researchers and students of the University there have been about 90 Nobel Laureates and 50 Macarthur scholars. It has 482 academic faculties and boasts that former President Barack Obama was a professor and professor at this University.

9. Caltech, California Institute of Technology: Has approximately 2,000 students, this recognizable institution specializing in technology studies is located in the city of Pasadena, in the state of California. Of the total number of students enrolled, approximately 9% are foreigners from 33 countries. It has 353 academic faculties that have housed no less than 34 Nobel Prizes. Its importance lies not only in its high quality of study but in this institute an episode of The Big Bang Theory was recorded since its protagonists are doctors in sciences and work at this institution in the series.

8. Columbia University: Located in New York City and established in 1754, is the state’s oldest institution. It has 98 winners of Nobel Prizes and administrators of the Pulitzer Prize awarded annually. Among its most recognized students are 29 heads of state and 26 winners of the Oscar Awards. Currently the university has around 20,000 students. The admission rate is around 8% of the applications received.

 

7. University of Oxford: Oxford is the oldest English-speaking university in the world, so old that the date of its foundation remains unknown. The long history of Oxford is ever present today. Their students use the same facilities as many illustrious people in history. However, this historical legacy does not prevent it from being one of the most prestigious institutions in the world. As a result of this reputation, the admission criteria are very tough. But those who manage to enter are guaranteed an exemplary education in this institution which boasts 47 Nobel Prizes, 26 British Prime Ministers, more than 30 foreign leaders and some 50 Olympic medalists. Even Tolkien was an Oxford student.

 

6. Princeton University: Located in New Jersey, Princeton is one of the wealthiest universities in the world with a capital exceeding 13,000 million dollars. This is explained by his gallery that brings together works of important painters such as Fra Angelico, Goya or Gaugin. Princeton professors include  the illustrious Albert Einstein who taught and researched at the Institute of Advanced Studies.

 

5. University of California, Berkeley. It is the headquarters of the University of California and is located in Berkeley. It was founded in 1868 and offers a wide range of options for studying: 350 programs including degrees, engineering, masters and doctorates. Between the faculty and the students they have obtained 91 Nobel Prizes, 45 MacArthur scholarships, 20 Oscar Prizes and 11 Pulitzer Prizes. Berkeley physicist Robert Oppenheimer was the project manager who built the first nuclear bomb during World War II.

4. MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is a spectacular faculty that has taught 85 Nobel Prize recipients, 9 of which are still active, 56 winners of the National Medal of Science of the United States and 28 winners of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in the United States In addition to higher education and research, the institution tries to encourage the development of extracurricular activities of students and is one of the few universities of this quality that do not follow an economic criteria to select their students.

 

3. University of Cambridge: This incredible university was founded by Oxford scholars and has trained a large number of the most outstanding scientists, writers and politicians of Great Britain. Among the alumni of Cambridge are Isaac Newton, author of the principle of universal gravity, Ernest Rutherford, inventor of atomic energy, Charles Darwin, author of the theory of evolution, Alan Turing, precursor of computer science and Francis Crick and James Watson discoverers of DNA. Not to mention more than 90 Nobel Laureates and 123 Olympic medalists.

 

2. Standford University: It is the second most selective university in the United States and admits just 7% of all candidates but has all the reason to do so. Students such as Larry Page and Sergei Brin, founders of Google or David Hewlett and David Packard, creators of HP, have passed through its classrooms. This institution of higher education has 22 Nobel Prizes, 5 Pulitzer and 20 winners of the National Medal of Science of the United States. In addition, more than 3,000 companies have emerged from the hands of their students, some of them, as well known as Yahoo, GAP, Ebay, Electronic Arts, Nike or Sun Microsystems.

 

1.  Harvard University: Is perhaps the most famous university in the world. Everyone has heard its name. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States and its prestige and academic excellence are recognized nationally and internationally alike thanks to its MBA program (Master in Business Administration). Through its classrooms many important figures have passed. Among them,  more than 40 Nobel Prizes and 32 presidents of different nations.

 

Finally, as a reference on the price range of many of these universities, we leave you this funny video about the most expensive universities in the world, many of which coincide with our ranking based on the quality of the education.

Now you have the keys to guide your future towards success. However, if you want to be prepared when the time comes to take the step to one of these prestigious universities you will have to be a constant fighter. But you will also need the help of qualified international education professionals such as Tutor Asap tutors who will prepare you so that it is not you who chooses a university, but the universities that chooses you