Balliol College, Oxford Balliol College /ˈbeɪliəl/, founded in 1263,[3] is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Among the college's alumni are three former prime ministers (H. H. Asquith, who once described Balliol men as possessing "the tranquil consciousness of an effortless superiority", Harold Macmillan, and Edward Heath), five Nobel laureates, and a number of literary figures and philosophers. As of 2009, Balliol had an endowment of £64 m.[4] History[edit] Balliol College was founded in about 1263 by John I de Balliol under the guidance of the Bishop of Durham. Under a statute of 1881, New Inn Hall was merged into Balliol College in 1887.[5] Balliol acquired New Inn Hall's admissions and other records for 1831–1887[6] as well as the library of New Inn Hall, which largely contained 18th-century law books.[5] Traditions and customs[edit] Balliol College Garden The patron saint of the College is Saint Catherine of Alexandria. The Masque of Balliol[edit] The traditional words run:
Brown University The Ezra Stiles copy of the Brown University Charter of 1764 Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Brown is the third oldest institution of higher education in New England and seventh oldest in the United States.[5] The university consists of The College, Graduate School, Alpert Medical School, the School of Engineering, and the Brown University School of Public Health. Brown's international programs are organized through the Watson Institute for International Studies. History[edit] Founding[edit] Brown owes its founding to the support of learning among a Baptist Church association but in 1762, the Baptist Minister Morgan Edwards was at first ridiculed for suggesting the founding of a college. James Manning was sworn in as the College's first president in 1765. American Revolution[edit]
Yale University Yale University is a private Ivy League research university located in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Originally chartered as the "Collegiate School", the institution traces its roots to 17th-century clergymen who sought to establish a college to train clergy and political leaders for the colony. In 1718, the College was renamed "Yale College" to honor a gift from Elihu Yale, a governor of the British East India Company. In 1861, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences became the first U.S. institution to award the Ph.D.[5] Yale became a founding member of the Association of American Universities in 1900. Yale College was transformed, beginning in the 1930s, through the establishment of residential colleges: 12 now exist and two more are planned. History[edit] A Front View of Yale-College and the College Chapel, Daniel Bowen, 1786. Early history[edit]
New York University This article is about the private Manhattan-based university. For a list of universities in New York, see Universities in New York. Coordinates: New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian American research university based in New York City. NYU was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1950.[12] NYU counts 35 Nobel Prize winners, three Abel Prize winners,[13][14] 10 National Medal of Science recipients,[15][16] 16 Pulitzer Prize winners,[17] over 30 Academy Award winners,[17][18][19] four Putnam Competition winners, Russ Prize, Gordon Prize, and Draper Prize winners, Turing Award winners, and Emmy,[20] Grammy,[21] and Tony Award[22] winners among its faculty and alumni. History[edit] Whereas NYU had its Washington Square campus since its founding, the university purchased a campus at University Heights in the Bronx because of overcrowding on the old campus. University logo[edit] Cultural setting[edit] Budget and fundraising[edit] Campus[edit]
Harvard College Harvard College is one of two schools within Harvard University granting undergraduate degrees (the other being Harvard Extension School). Founded in 1636 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States[1] and one of the most prestigious in the world.[2] History[edit] Harvard's first instructor, schoolmaster Nathaniel Eaton (1610–1674), was also its first instructor to be dismissed—in 1639 for overstrict discipline.[5] The school's first students were graduated in 1642. At the time of Harvard's founding (as today) the "colleges" of England's Oxford and Cambridge Universities were communities within the larger university, each an association of scholars (both established and aspiring) sharing room and board; Harvard's founders may have envisioned it as the first in a series of sibling colleges which, on the English model, would eventually constitute a university. Academics[edit] House system[edit] Lowell House in autumn. Athletics[edit]
All Souls College, Oxford All Souls College, Oxford (official name: The Warden and the College of the Souls of All Faithful People Deceased in the University of Oxford[1]) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become Fellows (i.e., full members of the College's governing body). It has no undergraduate members, but each year recent graduates of Oxford and other universities are eligible to apply for Examination Fellowships through a competitive examination and interview process (once described as "the hardest exam in the world")[3][4][5] All Souls is one of the wealthiest colleges in Oxford, with a financial endowment of £245m (2012).[6] However, since the College's only source of revenue is its endowment, it only ranks nineteenth among Oxford colleges with respect to total income.[7] The college is located on the north side of the High Street adjoining Radcliffe Square to the west. History[edit] Buildings and architecture[edit]
University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge[note 1] (informally known as "Cambridge University" or simply "Cambridge"; abbreviated as "Cantab" in post-nominals[note 2]) is a collegiate public research university in Cambridge, England. Originally founded in 1209, it is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, and the world's third-oldest surviving university.[5] Early records suggest that the university grew out of an association formed by scholars leaving the University of Oxford after a dispute with townsfolk;[6] the two "ancient universities" have many common features and are often jointly referred to as "Oxbridge". The university's endowment (£4.9 billion as of 2013) is the largest of any European university.[17] In the year ended 31 July 2013 the university had a total income of £1.44 billion, of which £332 million was from research grants and contracts.[18] History[edit] Foundation of the colleges[edit] As Cambridge moved away from Canon Law, it also moved away from Catholicism.
Williams College Coordinates: Williams College is a private liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. It was established in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams. Originally a men's college, Williams became co-educational in 1970. Fraternities were also phased out during this period, beginning in 1962.[3] Williams forms part of the historic Little Three colleges, along with Wesleyan University and rival Amherst College. There are three academic curricular divisions (humanities, sciences and social sciences), 24 departments, 33 majors, and two master's degree programs in art history and development economics. The academic year follows a 4–1–4 schedule of two four-course semesters plus a one-course "winter study" term in January. Williams College currently occupies 1st place in U.S. History[edit] Haystack monument After Shays' Rebellion, the Williamstown Free School opened with 15 students on October 26, 1791. Construction and expansion[edit] Academics[edit]
Rhodes Scholarship Rhodes Scholars may study any full-time postgraduate course offered by the university,[7] whether a taught master's programme, a research degree, or a second undergraduate degree (senior status). In the first instance, the scholarship is awarded for two years. However, it may also be held for one year or three years. Applications for a third year are considered during the course of the second year. University and college fees are paid by the Rhodes Trust. "For more than a century, Rhodes scholars have left Oxford with virtually any job available to them. History[edit] There have been more than 7,000 Rhodes Scholars since the inception of the trust. In 1925, the Commonwealth Fund Fellowships (later renamed the Harkness Fellowships) were established to reciprocate the Rhodes Scholarships by enabling British graduates to study in the United States.[14] The Kennedy Scholarship programme, created in 1966 as a memorial to John F. Selection[edit] Subsequent changes to selection[edit]
Wesleyan University Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut, United States, founded in 1831. Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and sciences, provides graduate research in many academic disciplines, and grants PhD degrees primarily in the sciences and mathematics.[4][5][6][7] Wesleyan is the second most productive liberal arts college in the United States with respect to the number of undergraduates who go on to earn PhDs in all fields of study.[8][9][10][11] Founded under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church and with the support of prominent residents of Middletown, the now secular university was the first institution of higher education to be named after John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. About 20 unrelated colleges and universities were subsequently named after Wesley. History[edit] The rear of 'College Row'. Campus[edit] Undergraduate[edit] The Butterfield Colleges Music[edit]
University of Oxford Coordinates: The University of Oxford (informally Oxford University or simply Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England. While Oxford has no known date of foundation, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096,[1] making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world, and the world's second-oldest surviving university.[1][6] It grew rapidly from 1167 when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris.[1] After disputes between students and Oxford townsfolk in 1209, some academics fled northeast to Cambridge, where they established what became the University of Cambridge.[7] The two "ancient universities" are frequently jointly referred to as "Oxbridge". Oxford is the home of several notable scholarships, including the Clarendon Scholarship which was launched in 2001[10] and the Rhodes Scholarship which has brought graduate students to read at the university for more than a century.[11] History[edit] Founding[edit]
Amherst College Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution[2] and enrolled 1,817 students in the fall of 2012.[3] Students choose courses from 38 major programs[4] in an unusually open curriculum. Amherst is ranked as the second best liberal arts college in the country by U.S. News & World Report,[5] and ranked thirteenth out of all U.S. colleges and universities by Forbes.[6] Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its President, Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher education in Massachusetts.[7] Amherst remained a men's college until becoming coeducational in 1975. Amherst has historically had close relationships and rivalries with Williams College and Wesleyan University which form the Little Three colleges. History[edit] Amherst College Main Quad Amherst Academy[edit] Williams College relocation debate[edit] Coeducation[edit]