The California Institute of Technology(branded as Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena,California. The university is responsible for many modern scientific advances and is among a small group of institutes of technology in the United States that are devoted to the instruction of pure and applied sciences.
Harvey Mudd College (HMC) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont,California,focused on science and engineering. It is part of the Claremont Colleges,which share adjoining campus grounds and resources. The college enrolled 902 undergraduate students as of 2021 and awards the Bachelor of Science degree. Admission to Harvey Mudd is highly competitive,and the college maintains an intense academic culture.
Stanford University is a private research university in Stanford,California. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford,the eighth governor of and then-incumbent senator from California,and his wife,Jane,in memory of their only child,Leland Jr. The university admitted its first students in 1891,opening as a coeducational and non-denominational institution. It struggled financially after Leland died in 1893 and again after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II,university provost Frederick Terman inspired an entrepreneurial culture to build a self-sufficient local industry.
Bucknell University is a private liberal-arts college in Lewisburg,Pennsylvania,United States. Founded in 1846 as the University at Lewisburg,it now consists of the College of Arts and Sciences,the Freeman College of Management,and the College of Engineering. It offers 65 majors and 70 minors in the sciences and humanities. Located just south of Lewisburg,the 445-acre (1.80 km2) campus rises above the West Branch of the Susquehanna River.
The SAT is a standardized test widely used for college admissions in the United States. Since its debut in 1926,its name and scoring have changed several times. For much of its history,it was called the Scholastic Aptitude Test and had two components,Verbal and Mathematical,each of which was scored on a range from 200 to 800. Later it was called the Scholastic Assessment Test,then the SAT I:Reasoning Test,then the SAT Reasoning Test,then simply the SAT.
John Leroy Hennessy is an American computer scientist who is chairman of Alphabet Inc. (Google). Hennessy is one of the founders of MIPS Technologies and Atheros,and also the tenth President of Stanford University. Hennessy announced that he would step down in the summer of 2016. He was succeeded as president by Marc Tessier-Lavigne. Marc Andreessen called him "the godfather of Silicon Valley."
The College Board,styled as CollegeBoard,is an American not-for-profit organization that was formed in December 1899 as the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) to expand access to higher education. While the College Board is not an association of colleges,it runs a membership association of institutions,including over 6,000 schools,colleges,universities,and other educational organizations.
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is a public research university in Huntsville,Alabama. The university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and comprises eight colleges:arts,humanities &social sciences;business;education;engineering;honors;nursing;science;and graduate. The university's enrollment is approximately 10,000. It is part of the University of Alabama System and is classified among "R1:Doctoral Universities:Very High Research Activity".
The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science is the engineering and applied science school of Columbia University,a private research university in New York City. It was founded as the School of Mines in 1863 and then the School of Mines,Engineering and Chemistry before becoming the School of Engineering and Applied Science. On October 1,1997,the school was renamed in honor of Chinese businessman Z.Y. Fu,who had donated $26 million to the school.
The School of Engineering is one of the ten schools that comprise Tufts University. The school offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in several engineering disciplines and computer science fields. Along with the School of Arts and Sciences (A&S) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,the School of Engineering is located on the university's main campus in Medford and Somerville,Massachusetts. Currently,the engineering school enrolls more than 800 full-time undergraduates and 600 graduate students. The school employs over 100 full-time and part-time faculty members.
Chrysostomos Loizos "Max" Nikias is a Cypriot-American academic,and served as the 11th University of Southern California president,a position he held from August 3,2010,to August 7,2018. He holds the Malcolm R. Currie Chair in Technology and the Humanities and is president emeritus of the university. He had been at USC since 1991,as a professor,director of national research centers,dean,provost,and president. He also served as chair of the College Football Playoff (CFP) Board of Managers (2015-2018) as chair of the board of the Keck Medical Center at USC (2009-2018),as member of the board of directors of the Alfred Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering (2001-2018),and as a member of the board of trustees of the Chadwick School,an independent school in Palos Verdes Peninsula,Calif. (2001-2010). He is currently a tenured professor in electrical engineering with a secondary appointment in classics,and the director of the USC Institute for Technology Enabled Higher Education.
Russ Biagio Altman is an American professor of bioengineering,genetics,medicine,and biomedical data science and past chairman of the bioengineering department at Stanford University.
Criticism of college and university rankings refers to critiques of various rankings publications among faculty and administrators in institutions of higher education in both the United States and Canada,as well as in media reports.
The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science,informally known as UCLA Samueli School of Engineering or UCLA Engineering,is the school of engineering at the University of California,Los Angeles (UCLA). It opened as the College of Engineering in 1945 and was renamed the School of Engineering in 1969. Since its initial enrollment of 379 students,the school has grown to approximately 6,500 students. The school offers 28 degree programs and is home to eight externally funded interdisciplinary research centers,including those in space exploration,wireless sensor systems,and nanotechnology.
John Clifford Mitchell is professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University. He has published in the area of programming language theory and computer security.
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. Some rankings consider measures of wealth,excellence in research,selective admissions,and alumni success. There is also much debate about rankings' interpretation,accuracy,and usefulness.
Michael Evan Webber is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and the CTO of a clean-technology venture fund. Webber serves on the advisory board for Scientific American and is the author of Power Trip:The Story of Energy c
SAT Subject Tests were a set of multiple-choice standardized tests given by The College Board on individual topics,typically taken to improve a student's credentials for college admissions in the United States. For most of their existence,from their introduction in 1937 until 1994,the SAT Subject Tests were known as Achievement Tests,and until January 2005,they were known as SAT II:Subject Tests. They are still commonly known by these names. Unlike the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) that the College Board offers,which are intended to measure general aptitude for academic studies,the Achievement Tests are intended to measure the level of knowledge and understanding in a variety of specific subjects. Like the SAT,the scores for an Achievement Test range from 200 (lowest) to 800 (highest).
U.S. News &World Report Best Colleges Ranking is an annual set of rankings of colleges and universities in the United States,which was first published by U.S. News &World Report in 1983. It has been described as the most influential institutional ranking in the country.
The SAT is a standardized test commonly used for the purpose of admission to colleges and universities in the United States. The test,owned by the College Board and originally developed by Carl Brigham,was first administered on June 23,1926,to about 8,000 students. The test was introduced as a supplement to the College Board essay exams already in use for college admissions,but ease of administration of the SAT and other factors led to the discontinuation of the essay exams during World War II. The SAT has since gone through numerous changes in content,duration,scoring,and name;the test was taken by more than 1.9 million students in the graduating high school class of 2023.
