2. 1. The rating of the best universities in the USA 2. Harvard University. 3. Princeton University. 4. Yale University

3. RankSchool NameCountrySize Res earc h Foc us Score 1Harvard University United States LVHFC99.18 2Princeton University United States MVHCO96.03 3Yale University United States MVHFC98.68 4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States MVHCO98.19 5University of Chicago United States MVHFC97.52

4. Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation (officially The President and Fellows of Harvard College) chartered in the country. It’s one of the most prestigious universities in the world.privateIvy LeagueuniversityCambridgeMassachusetts legislatureoldestUnited Statescorporation

5. The university comprises eleven separate academic units — ten faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study — with campuses throughout the Boston metropolitan area. The business school and athletics facilities, including Harvard Stadium, are located across the Charles River in Allston and the medical, dental, and public health schools are located in the Longwood Medical Area.

7. The Harvard University Library is the largest academic library in the United States, and the second largest library in the country.

8. As of 2010, Harvard employs about 2,100 faculty to teach and advise, approximately 6,700 undergraduates (Harvard College) and 14,500 graduate and professional students. Eight U.S. Presidents have graduated from Harvard and 75 Nobel Laureates have been affiliated with the university as students, faculty, or staff. Harvard is also the alma mater of sixty-two living billionaires, the most in the country.

9. Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution. The university is also one of the only seven institutions of higher education in the world that is need blind and full- need to all of its applicants, including international students.

10. Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. Princeton does not offer professional schooling generally, but it does offer professional master's degrees (mostly through the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) and doctoral programs.

13. Princeton is the second institution of higher education in the U.S. Princeton’s crest states “Dei sub numine viget,” which is Latin for “Under God she flourishes.” While it once had close ties to the Presbyterian Church, it makes no spiritual demands of its students. The university has ties with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the Westminster Choir College of Rider University.

14. Yale University is a private Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. The university is also need blind and full-need to all of its applicants, including international students. Now 12 residential colleges exist and two more are planned.residential colleges

15. Yale employs over 1,100 faculty to teach and advise about 5,300 undergraduate and 6,100 graduate and professional students. Almost all tenured professors teach undergraduate courses, more than 2,000 of which are offered annually. The University's assets include a US$16.7 billion endowment, the second-largest of any academic institution, as well as the second-largest academic library in the world, with some 12.5 million volumes held in more than two dozen libraries.

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18. 49 Nobel Laureates have been affiliated with the University as students, faculty, and staff. Yale has produced many notable alumni, including five U.S. Presidents, U.S. Supreme Court Justices, and several foreign heads of state. The top earners of Yale University graduates have the highest median salary in the United States, at US$326,000. The official color of the university and its athletic teams is Yale Blue.

19. REPUT ATION RANK REPUT ATION RANK INSTITUTION COUNTRY / REGION REPUTATIONREPUTATION chan gechan ge 1Harvard UniversityUnited States100.0 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States85.0 3University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom80.7 4University of California BerkeleyUnited States74.7 5Stanford UniversityUnited States71.5 6University of OxfordUnited Kingdom68.6 7Princeton UniversityUnited States36.6 8University of TokyoJapan33.2 9Yale UniversityUnited States28.3 10California Institute of TechnologyUnited States 23.5