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Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912, it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology and began granting four-year degrees.
Forbes rated Princeton University the country's best college in its inaugural (2008) list. [1] The United States Military Academy at West Point took the top honor the following year. [2] Williams College was ranked first both in 2010 and 2011, and Princeton returned to the top spot in 2012. [3] [4] [5]
Harvard's total number of ultra-high net worth alumni is more than twice that of the next highest ranking institution, Stanford University. These figures have not been adjusted for the relative size of these institutions. The list is dominated by US universities, which account for all of the global Top 10 universities by number of billionaire ...
This is a list of universities in the United States classified as research universities in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Research institutions are a subset of doctoral degree-granting institutions and conduct research. These institutions "conferred at least 20 research/scholarship doctorates in 2019-20 and ...
Here are the 11 Massachusetts colleges that made it in the top 100 of the Forbes 2024-2025 top colleges list, in order of lowest to highest ranking. Babson College
The University of Texas System has the largest system-wide endowment of any American public higher education institution. For public universities, larger endowments are often associated with flagship state universities, especially those associated with a medical school. Sixteen states do not have institutions included in this list: Alaska ...
Andrew W. Mellon, United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1921 to 1932; co-founded the Mellon Institute of Research in 1913; Paul Mellon, philanthropist, horse breeder, facilitator of the merger between the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Mellon Institute to form Carnegie Mellon University
College and university rankings in the United States order the best U.S. colleges and universities based on factors that vary depending on the ranking. Rankings are typically conducted by magazines, newspapers, websites, governments, or academics. In addition to ranking entire institutions, specific programs, departments, and schools can be ranked.