Location
For example, can you find the place? How far from home is it? I know (trust me I really do) that the idea to be as far away from your family sounds really appealing when you first leave for college, but sooner than later, you will change your mind!
Having a campus university is extremely convenient, because everything is basically right there: libraries and accommodations... Some urban universities have different sites for every course they teach, which is called multi campus.
Size
The range of students can vary enormously, from 2000 students (very small) to very large (well over 50 000).
Accommodation
Would you prefer to live on campus? Not all colleges offer this service, which can make a big difference in your quality of life, considering you wont have a lot of money for those studying years.
After considering the important points, you can take a look at the 2010 ranking of colleges in America.
1.Harvard University (Cambridge MA)
Harvard University (officially The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the first corporation chartered in the United States and oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.
Motto: Truth
Established: 1636
Type: Private
President: Grew Glipin Faust
Faculty:2107
Staff: 2,497 non-medical
10,674 medical
Students: 21,125
Location: Cambridge,Massachustte, US
Campus: Urban, 350 acres
Website: http://www.harvard.edu/
Faculties and schools:
Harvard today has nine faculties, listed below in order of foundation:
Harvard Yard in the winter, with freshman dorms in the background
• The Faculty of Arts and Sciences and its sub-faculty, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, which together serve:
o Harvard College, the university's undergraduate portion (1636)
o The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (organized 1872)
o The Harvard Division of Continuing Education, including Harvard Summer School (1871) and Harvard Extension School (1910).
• The Harvard Medical School (1782)
• The Harvard School of Dental Medicine (1867).
• Harvard Divinity School (1816)
• Harvard Law School (1817)
• Harvard Business School (1908)
• The Graduate School of Design (1914)
• The Harvard Graduate School of Education (1920)
• The School of Public Health (1922)
• Harvard Kennedy School of Government (1936)
In 1999, the former Radcliffe College was reorganized as the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Ina February 2007, the Harvard Corporation and Overseers formally approved the Harvard Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences to become the 14th School of Harvard (Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences).
Barack Obama, Current President of the United States of America, graduated from Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) in 1991.
2.Princeton University (Princeton NJ)
Princeton University is a vibrant community of scholarship and learning that stands in the nation's service and in the of all nations. Chartered in 1746, Princeton is the fourth-oldest college in the United States service. Princeton is an independent, coeducational, nondenominational institution that provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering.
Undergraduate
Undergraduate courses in the humanities are traditionally either seminars or lectures held 2 or 3 times a week with an additional discussion seminar that is called a "precept" (short for "preceptorial"). To graduate, all A.B. candidates must complete a senior thesis and, in most departments, one or two extensive pieces of independent research that are known as "junior papers." Juniors in some departments, including architecture and the creative arts, complete independent projects that differ from written research papers. A.B. candidates must also fulfill a three or four semester foreign language requirement and distribution requirements with a total of 31 classes. B.S.E. candidates follow a parallel track with an emphasis on a rigorous science and math curriculum, a computer science requirement, and at least two semesters of independent research including an optional senior thesis. All B.S.E. students must complete at least 36 classes. A.B. candidates typically have more freedom in course selection than B.S.E. candidates because of the fewer number of required classes. Nonetheless, in the spirit of a liberal arts education, both enjoy a comparatively high degree of latitude in creating a self-structured curriculum.
Undergraduates agree to adhere to an academic integrity policy called the Honor Code, established in 1893.[30] Violations of the Honor Code incur suspension or expulsion, the strongest of disciplinary actions. Out-of-class exercises are outside the Honor Committee's jurisdiction. In these cases, students are expected to sign a pledge on their papers to affirm that they have not plagiarized their work
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GRADUATES:
The Trustees of Princeton University, a 40-member board, is responsible for the overall direction of the University. It approves the operating and capital budgets, supervises the investment of the University's endowment and oversees campus real estate and long-range physical planning. The trustees also exercise prior review and approval concerning changes in major policies, such as those in instructional programs and admission, as well as tuition and fees and the hiring of faculty members. Princeton offers postgraduate research degrees in many fields in the social sciences, engineering, natural sciences, and humanities. Although Princeton offers professional graduate degrees in engineering, architecture, and finance, it has no medical school, law school, or business school like other research universities.[31] The university's most famous professional school is the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, founded in 1930 as the School of Public and International Affairs and renamed in 1948 after university president (and US President) Woodrow Wilson
