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No. 1: Harvard University
Second in the world rankings behind Oxford, Harvard is the oldest and most prestigious university in the US. The private Ivy League university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has educated eight US presidents, including Barack Obama, and more than sixty living billionaires. Unsurprisingly, Harvard receives the largest financial endowment of any academic institution in the world, standing at more than £17 billion in 2010. Students pay yearly tuition fees of approximately £25,000.
第一位：哈佛大學(xué)
哈佛世界排名第二，僅次于牛津，是美國(guó)歷史最悠久、名望最高的大學(xué)。這所位于馬薩諸塞州劍橋的私人常春藤聯(lián)盟大學(xué)，已經(jīng)培養(yǎng)了八位美國(guó)總統(tǒng)，包括巴拉克·奧巴馬，60多位現(xiàn)在仍健在億萬富翁。哈佛是世界上接收學(xué)術(shù)機(jī)構(gòu)經(jīng)濟(jì)捐贈(zèng)最多的大學(xué)，2010年達(dá)170英鎊。學(xué)生每年學(xué)費(fèi)約25000英鎊。
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No.2: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Situated in the same city as Harvard, MIT is ranked as the third best university in the world and has recently been responsible for leading a NASA planetary spacecraft mission to map the moon's gravitational field. Fees at the private research university are in line with Harvard, and like Harvard it boasts a thriving entrepreneurial culture. According to reports, if aggregated revenues of companies founded by MIT alumni were combined, it would become the eleventh largest economy in the world.
第二位：麻省理工學(xué)院
麻省理工學(xué)院坐落于哈佛同一城市、世界最佳大學(xué)排名第三。麻省理工學(xué)院最近負(fù)責(zé)美國(guó)國(guó)家航空和宇宙航行局的一項(xiàng)星際太空宇航任務(wù)，測(cè)定月球重力場(chǎng)。這所私立研究型大學(xué)的經(jīng)費(fèi)與哈佛相同，與哈佛一樣擁有欣欣向榮的企業(yè)文化。據(jù)報(bào)道, 如果將麻省理工學(xué)院校友創(chuàng)辦的公司收入相加，它將成為世界上第十一位最大經(jīng)濟(jì)體。
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No.3: Yale University
Yale is the third oldest university in the US and once penalised students for cardplaying and tavern-going. Much has changed, and Yale is now regarded as a liberal, forward-thinking university with a student body deriving from a variety of ethnic, national and socio-economic backgrounds, and promotes an open campus for the community. The university's motto is 'Light and Truth', while its mascot is called Handsome Dan, a bulldog bought by English student Andrew Graves from a New Haven blacksmith in 1989.
第三位：耶魯大學(xué)
耶魯大學(xué)是美國(guó)第三所大歷史最悠久的大學(xué),曾對(duì)學(xué)生玩牌和下酒館進(jìn)行懲罰?，F(xiàn)在許多方面已經(jīng)改變。耶魯現(xiàn)在被視為是一所自由、有遠(yuǎn)見的大學(xué)。學(xué)生會(huì)由多種民族、國(guó)籍和社會(huì)經(jīng)濟(jì)背景的學(xué)生組成,倡導(dǎo)向社會(huì)開放校園。大學(xué)的座右銘是：光明與真理,吉祥物是“帥哥丹”,是由英格蘭學(xué)生Andrew Graves于1989年從紐黑文市的一位鐵匠那里買來的牛頭犬。
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No.4: University of Chicago
The University of Chicago was ranked eighth in this year's world rankings, directly below UK universities，UCL, Imperial and Oxford. It was established in 1890 with a donation from oil magnate John D. Rockfeller and is considered one of the most intellectual US universities. A fairly small institution with approximately 5,000 undergraduates, it charges some of the highest fees at approximately £27,500 a year.
第四位：University of Chicago
芝加哥大學(xué)今年的世界排名的第八,次于英國(guó)大學(xué)。倫敦大學(xué)學(xué)院、帝國(guó)理工學(xué)院和牛津大學(xué)。它成立于1890年,由石油大亨約翰·洛克菲勒捐贈(zèng)創(chuàng)辦，現(xiàn)在被認(rèn)為是學(xué)術(shù)聲譽(yù)最高的美國(guó)大學(xué)。學(xué)校規(guī)模較小，大約有5000名大學(xué)生，學(xué)費(fèi)是幾所收費(fèi)最高的大學(xué)之一，每年學(xué)費(fèi)為27500英鎊。
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No.5: University of Pennsylvania
Commonly referred to as Penn or UPenn, the University of Pennsylvania is America's fourth oldest and ranked 9th in the world. Founded by Benjamin Franklin, its notable alumni include one US president, nine heads of state and approximately 20 billionaires. For nearly 150 years Penn's motto read Sine Moribus Vanae, which when pointed out that it could be interpreted as "loose women without morals" was changed to Leges Sine Moribus Vanae or "laws without morals are useless". The picture shows early Penn veterinary students watching their teacher perform a difficult operation. The hunting horse was suffering from a chronic cough caused by a dysfunction of the larynx.
第五位：賓夕法尼亞大學(xué)
賓夕法尼亞州大學(xué)，通常簡(jiǎn)稱為Penn 或 Upenn,是美國(guó)第四所歷史悠久的大學(xué)，世界排名第九，由本杰明·富蘭克林創(chuàng)建。著名校友有一位美國(guó)總統(tǒng)，九位州長(zhǎng)和大約20為億萬富翁。將近150年，賓夕法尼亞州大學(xué)的座右銘一直是 Sine Moribus Vanae，當(dāng)有人指出座右銘可能被解釋為“沒有道德的寬松婦女”， 座右銘改為 Leges Sine Moribus Vanae，即“沒有道德的法律是無用的”。 這張照片顯示賓夕法尼亞州大學(xué)早期獸醫(yī)學(xué)學(xué)生觀看老師在進(jìn)行一次困難手術(shù)。這匹獵馬患由喉嚨功能失調(diào)引起的慢性咳嗽。
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No.6: Columbia University
The fifth oldest university in the US, Columbia University closes out the world's top ten universities and is famed for educating three US presidents and 27 heads of state. It is linked to more Nobel Prize winners than any other academic institution, has a renowned journalism course and is responsible each year for handing out the Pulitzer Prize. It shares the same high costs as Chicago, charging students approximately £27,500 each year. In 2007, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was controversially invited to speak on campus, an opportunity he seized to defend Iran's nuclear programme, deny the presence of homosexuality in Iran, attack US foreign policy, question the historical accuracy of the Holocaust and fuel 9/11 conspiracy theories by raising questions as to the identity of the real perpetrators. The speech was televised worldwide, protestors descended on the campus en masse and an estimated 2,500 graduates turned out for the lecture.
第六位：哥倫比亞大學(xué)
哥倫比亞大學(xué)是美國(guó)第五所歷史悠久的大學(xué),沒有進(jìn)入世界十大著名大學(xué)排名。哥倫比亞大學(xué)培養(yǎng)了三位美國(guó)總統(tǒng)和27位州長(zhǎng)。與哥倫比亞大學(xué)有關(guān)的諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)獲得者人數(shù)多于其他任何一個(gè)著名的學(xué)術(shù)機(jī)構(gòu)的獎(jiǎng)獲者。哥倫比亞大學(xué)新聞學(xué)院負(fù)有盛名，負(fù)責(zé)頒發(fā)每年的普利策獎(jiǎng)。辦學(xué)成本比同芝加哥大學(xué)，學(xué)生收費(fèi)每年約27500英鎊。 2007年, 伊朗總統(tǒng)艾哈邁迪·內(nèi)賈德曾受邀到校園發(fā)表講話，引發(fā)爭(zhēng)議。艾哈邁迪·內(nèi)賈德抓住這次機(jī)會(huì)為伊朗核計(jì)劃辯護(hù)，否定伊朗存在同性戀，攻擊美國(guó)外交政策，質(zhì)疑大屠殺的歷史真實(shí)性，通過懷疑犯罪者真實(shí)身份提出9·11是陰謀的理論。這次講話是全世界轉(zhuǎn)播，抗議者擠滿意整個(gè)校園，估計(jì)有2500名畢業(yè)生聽了這次演講。
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No.7: Stanford University
Stanford is a major research university that focuses on computer science, maths and natural and social sciences. Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page (pictured) studied there, as did Hewlett-Packard bods William Hewlett and David Packard. It came 11th in world rankings. Unexpectedly for such a tech-minded institute, Stanford athletes won eight golds and 17 other medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing - more than any other US university.
第七位: 斯坦福大學(xué)
斯坦福大學(xué)是一所美國(guó)重要的研究性大學(xué)，科目集中在計(jì)算機(jī)科學(xué)、數(shù)學(xué)、自然科學(xué)和社會(huì)科學(xué)。谷歌創(chuàng)始人謝爾蓋· 布林和拉里·佩奇，與惠普公司的威廉·惠利特和戴維·帕卡德一樣，都曾在該大學(xué)就讀。斯坦福大學(xué)世界排名第十一位。出乎意料的是，這樣一所技術(shù)性大學(xué)，斯坦福的運(yùn)動(dòng)員在2008年北京夏季奧運(yùn)會(huì)上獲得了八金牌和17塊其他獎(jiǎng)牌，比任何一所別的美國(guó)大學(xué)都多。
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No.8: California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Located in Pasadena, California, CalTech is a small university by US standards with approximately 1,000 students who each pay in the region of £24,000 a year. The university specialises in science and engineering and trusts its students to the point where departments allow students to sit their exams at home. CalTech came 12th in global university rankings.
第八位: 加州理工學(xué)院
加州理工學(xué)位于加利福尼亞州的帕薩迪納，按美國(guó)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)是一所很小的大學(xué),約有1000名學(xué)生,每位學(xué)生人每年支付24000英鎊。大學(xué)專攻科學(xué)與工程學(xué)，對(duì)學(xué)生充分信任，院系允許學(xué)生坐在家里考試。加州理工學(xué)院全球大學(xué)排名第十二位。
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No.9: Princeton University
Students at Princeton University traditionally gather at midnight at the end of each term, one day before the deadline for all written work is due and let out a collective scream to relieve the stress of their hard work. Students at the New Jersey-based university pay £22,000 each year in fees.
第九位：普林斯頓大學(xué)
普林斯頓大學(xué)有一傳統(tǒng)，每學(xué)期結(jié)束，在規(guī)定完成所有書面功課前一天的午夜，學(xué)生都會(huì)聚集在一起，集體放聲大吼，釋放艱苦學(xué)習(xí)的壓力。在新澤西州校園就讀學(xué)生每年交學(xué)費(fèi)22000英鎊。
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No.10: University of Michigan
Michigan is a large, four-year research university with more than 25,000 undergraduates, 15,000 postgraduates and 20,965 acres in total campus space in the university town of Ann Arbor. Ranked 14th in the world, Michigan is cheap by American standards, with fees capped at £7,500 for US students and £11,000 for overseas.
第十位：密歇根大學(xué)
密西根大學(xué)是一所學(xué)制四年的研究型大學(xué)，有25000多名學(xué)生,15000名研究生，安阿伯市大學(xué)校園面積為20965英畝。密西根大學(xué)世界大學(xué)上排名十四位。按美國(guó)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，密歇根大學(xué)收費(fèi)便宜,學(xué)費(fèi)上限7500英鎊，海外學(xué)生11000英鎊。
