Top Universities

The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Caltech is a world-renowned science and engineering research and education institution, where extraordinary faculty and students translate big ideas into big discoveries.

Duke University in Durham, N.C., traces its origins to 1838, when Methodist and Quaker families in rural Randolph County employed Brantley York as a permanent teacher for their subscription school.

CMU is a global research university known for its world-class, interdisciplinary programs: arts, business, computing, engineering, humanities, policy, science.

Whatever you’ve got your sights set on, that’s merely the beginning.

UC Santa Barbara is a leading center for teaching and research located on the California coast - truly a learning and living environment like no other!

From its beginnings a half-century ago, Stony Brook University has been characterized by innovation, energy, and progress, transforming the lives of people who earn degrees, work, and make groundbreaking discoveries here. A dramatic trajectory of growth has turned what was once a small teacher preparation college into an internationally recognized research institution that is changing the world.

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The University of Arizona is the state’s land-grant university and a member of the prestigious, invitation-only Association of American Universities-made up of just 62 universities in the country. Rising from the sands of the Sonoran desert in 1885, the institution is transforming science fiction into scientific fact, collaborating across disciplines and engaging in novel partnerships to make the unknown known. As one of the world’s premier public research universities, the University conducts more than $625 million of research annually. Home to two allopathic medical schools in Tucson and Phoenix, the UA Tech Park, The University of Arizona Health Network, and a member of the Arizona Space Grant Consortium, the University creates an $8.3 billion economic impact for Arizona. U.S. News and World Report placed 14 University of Arizona graduate programs among the top 20 in the nation and it is one of the nation’s top producers of Fulbright Scholars.

Northeastern is a global, experiential, research university built on a tradition of engagement with the world, creating a distinctive approach to education

Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA is an academically comprehensive and globally engaged urban research university, dedicated to advancing knowledge and society and to providing every student with a valuable, rigorous, experiential, technology-infused education, enriched by the nation's premier co-operative education program.

Illinois Institute of Technology is a private, technology-focused research university offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering, science, architecture, business, design, human sciences, applied technology, and law.

Discover your passion, then turn it into a career that's personally and professionally rewarding.

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The University of Houston is a state research university and the flagship institution of the University of Houston System. Founded in 1927, UH is the third-largest university in Texas with nearly 43,000 students.

Students interested in furthering their knowledge of the sciences can explore programs ranging from chemistry to physics

Some of the world’s most famous discoveries have been made through university research. From the invention of the telegraph, the discovery of AIDS, the origination of the internet, and current advances in stem cell research, our nation’s universities are the hub of knowledge and discovery, 56% of our nation’s basic research is being conducted at universities.

Discover the world’s top universities for biological sciences, with the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2015.

The 2015-2016 Times Higher Education World University Rankings' life sciences table judges world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. View methodology here. The full list of life sciences subjects used to create this ranking is:

Find the best universities in the United States through Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings data

If you’re serious about pursuing an extended education in science, you may want to set your sights on one of the U.S. campuses that have been identified as having the best science graduate programs. In April, US News&World Report released the results of their 3-year study that ranked the best science schools in the nation.

The list of STEM schools, whose most popular areas of study included at least 40% in STEM, is topped by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

More than 400 readers took our survey to determine the best US schools for computer science and engineering.

The father of the scientific method, Francis Bacon, famously observed that, "knowledge is power."

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