The California Institute of Technology(Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena,California. The university is known for its strength in science and engineering,and is among a small group of institutes of technology in the United States which is primarily devoted to the instruction of pure and applied sciences. Caltech is ranked among the best academic institutions in the world and is among the most selective in the U.S.
Harvey Mudd College (HMC) is a private 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 enrolls 902 undergraduate students as of 2021,and awards the Bachelor of Science degree.
Stanford University,officially Leland Stanford Junior University,is a private research university located in the census-designated place of Stanford,California,near the city of Palo Alto. The campus occupies 8,180 acres,among the largest in the United States,and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is ranked among the top universities in the world.
The University of California,Berkeley is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley,California. Established in 1868 as the University of California,it is the state's first land-grant university and the first campus of the University of California system. Its fourteen colleges and schools offer over 350 degree programs and enroll some 31,000 undergraduate and 12,000 graduate students. Berkeley is ranked among the world's top universities.
Bucknell University is a private liberal arts college in Lewisburg,Pennsylvania. Founded in 1846 as the University at Lewisburg,the university now consists of the College of Arts and Sciences,Freeman College of Management,and the College of Engineering. It offers 65 majors and over 70 minors in the humanities,arts,mathematics,natural science,social sciences,engineering,management,as well as programs and pre-professional advising that prepare students for study in law and medicine. 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;originally called the Scholastic Aptitude Test,it was later called the Scholastic Assessment Test,then the SAT I:Reasoning Test,then the SAT Reasoning Test,then simply the SAT.
Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy is an Indian-American computer scientist and a winner of the Turing Award. He is one of the early pioneers of artificial intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon for over 50 years. He was the founding director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He was instrumental in helping to create Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies in India,to cater to the educational needs of the low-income,gifted,rural youth. He is the chairman of International Institute of Information Technology,Hyderabad. He is the first person of Asian origin to receive the Turing Award,in 1994,known as the Nobel Prize of Computer Science,for his work in the field of artificial intelligence.
John Leroy Hennessy is an American computer scientist,academician and businessman who serves as Chairman of Alphabet Inc. Hennessy is one of the founders of MIPS Computer Systems Inc. as well as Atheros and served as 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 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.
David Andrew Patterson is an American computer pioneer and academic who has held the position of professor of computer science at the University of California,Berkeley since 1976. He announced retirement in 2016 after serving nearly forty years,becoming a distinguished software engineer at Google. He currently is vice chair of the board of directors of the RISC-V Foundation,and the Pardee Professor of Computer Science,Emeritus at UC Berkeley.
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 to award baccalaureate,master's,and doctoral degrees,and comprises nine colleges:arts,humanities &social sciences;business;education;engineering;honors;nursing;professional &continuing studies;science;and graduate. The university's enrollment is approximately 10,000. It is classified among "R1:Doctoral Universities:Very High Research Activity".
Richard Chatham Atkinson is an American professor of psychology and cognitive science and an academic administrator. He is president emeritus of the University of California system,former chancellor of the University of California,San Diego,and former director of the National Science Foundation.
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.
William Ralph Brody is an American radiologist and academic administrator. He was the President of The Johns Hopkins University,a position which he held from 1996 to 2009 before becoming the President of the Salk Institute from 2009 to 2015.
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 movements which developed among faculty and administrators in institutions of higher education in the United States as well as in Canada. The arguments of those who criticize the ranking are that it is not possible to come with a single number that characterizes university performance. Furthermore,ratings can be easily manipulated and include such subjective characteristics as the "reputation" determined by surveying university administrators such as chancellors or deans. Critics say rankings have incentivized institutions to encourage more unqualified students to apply and are a better measure of the abilities students had when they arrived than what they learned from higher education.
The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (HSSEAS),informally known as 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 6,100 students. The school is ranked 16th among all engineering schools in the United States. 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.
The Stanford Graduate School of Education is one of the seven schools of Stanford University,and is one of the top education schools in the United States. It was founded in 1891 and offers master's and doctoral programs in more than 25 areas of specialization,along with joint degrees with other programs at Stanford University including business,law,and public policy.
SAT Subject Tests were 20 multiple-choice standardized tests given by the College Board on individual subjects,typically taken to improve a student's credentials for college admissions in the United States. On January 19,2021,the College Board discontinued Subject Tests. This was effective immediately in the United States,and the tests were to be phased out by the following summer for international students.
