famous universities 世界著名大学

famous universities 世界著名大学 souvenir Key worlds :green lawn 。。。 Famous Universities in the world There are literally hundreds of universities in the United States. Many come with a rich history in addition to their array of academic programs for undergraduates and postgraduate students alike. The best known among them gained fame for a variety of reasons: size, prestige and the ambition of the university's expectations for their students Harvard University , At 350 years old, founded in 1636 Harvard University is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States. The college aims to accomplish three key missions: the creation of knowledge, the opening of students' minds to that knowledge and the enabling of students to take full advantage of opportunities in education. There are 12 different colleges, or "academic units," at Harvard: Medical School, School of Dental Medicine, School of Public Health, Law School, the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Business School, Design School, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Graduate School of Education, Harvard College, the Division of Continuing Education and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Yale University , Yale University is comprised of three schools: the undergraduate Yale College, the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and the professional schools. Among them are about 150 areas of academic concentration, including such diverse programs as gay & lesbian studies, near Eastern languages & civilizations, epidemiology & public health and a paired concentration in computer science & psychology. In addition to its academic buildings, the campus houses a public museum, the Peabody Museum of Natural History, and two art galleries, the University Art Gallery and the Center for British Art. , Both the yale and harvard are the ivy league (常青藤盟校) The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer [2]to those eight schools as a group. The eight institutions are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University. The term Ivy League also has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism Afther visited the famous universities in American let us turn to the unit kingdom now I will introduce the , University of Cambridge and Oxford The Oxford is a university in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking [6][7]world. Although the exact date of its foundation remains unclear, there is [8]evidence of teaching there as far back as the 11th century. The University grew rapidly from 1167 when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris .The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world just next to Oxford, and the seventh-oldest globally. The Cambridge grew out of an association of scholars in the city of Cambridge that was formed in 1209, early records suggest, by scholars leaving Oxford after a dispute with townsfolk .The two "ancient universities" have many common features and are often jointly referred to as Oxbridge. In addition to cultural and practical associations as a historic part of British society, they have a long history of rivalry with each other. They all the members of the Coimbra Group. coimbra group科英布拉集团The Coimbra Group (CG) is a network of 40 European universities, some among the oldest and most prestigious in Europe. It was founded in 1985 and formally constituted by charter in 1987.so it’s the European ivy league