THE WORLD'S TOP 10 UNIVERSITIES

University of Cambridge Britain's University of Cambridge

has topped the list, making it the best university in the world for science.

In 2009, the university celebrated its 800th anniversary, making it one of the world's oldest universities.

Cambridge is the largest university in the United Kingdom (over 100 departments, faculties and schools).

Its contribution to the world has ranged from the discovery of the mechanism of blood circulation to the structure of DNA, from the great philosophers of the early 15th century to the groundbreaking work of its many Nobel Prize winners (more than 60 distinguished names feature on the list).

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is one of

the oldest English-speaking universities.

It can lay claim to nine centuries of documented existence.

According to the university's Web site, there is no clear date of foundation, but teaching existed at Oxford in some form in 1096 and developed rapidly from 1167, when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris.

Except for St Hilda's -- which continues to remain an all-women college -- all of Oxford's 39 colleges now admit both men and women.

Harvard University Refusing to be left behind, the

Americans follow with a vengeance. Harvard University is ranked No 3. Harvard College was established in

1636 and was named for its first benefactor, John Harvard of Charlestown.

Harvard was a young minister who, on his death in 1638, left his library and half his estate to the newly established institution.

It is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.

Seven presidents of the United States (John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Theodore and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Rutherford B Hayes, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and George W Bush) were graduates of Harvard.

Its faculty has produced 40 Nobel laureates.

University of California, Berkeley

The roots of the University of California go back to the gold rush days of 1849, when the drafters of the state's constitution required the legislature to 'encourage by all suitable means the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral and agricultural improvement' of the people of California.

The university that was born nearly 20 years later -- on March 23, 1868 -- was the product of a merger between the College of California (a private institution) and the Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

It's probably one of the most famous universities in the world.

But did you know its founder, William Barton Rogers, apparently never received a degree?

In 1853, he moved to Boston, where he enlisted the support of the scientific community to create an institution for technical and scientific education. It was largely through his efforts that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was born in 1861.

Today, the Institute has more than 900 faculty and 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students.

Stanford University Stanford University was dedicated by

Leland Stanford and Jane Eliza to their son, Leland Junior.

Leland Junior was in Italy with his family when he was struck by typhoid. He later succumbed to the illness. He was 15.

When they returned to the US, the Stanfords decided to set up a university. After six years of planning and building, the Stanford University opened on October 1, 1891.

Stanford, like Johns Hopkins and Cornell Universities, followed the German model of providing graduate as well as undergraduate instruction and stressing on research along with teaching.

Stanford's current community of scholars includes 17 Nobel laureates and four Pulitzer Prize winners

University of Tokyo

It is the only Asian university to figure in the top 10 list.

Established in 1877, the University of Tokyo is Japan's oldest university.

With 10 faculties, 15 graduate schools and 11 research institutes (including the Research Centre for Advanced Science and Technology), it has been a guiding force in research and education.

It offers courses in essentially all academic disciplines at both undergraduate and graduate levels, and provides research facilities.

Princeton University British North America's fourth

college was known as the College of New Jersey until 1896.

Located in Elizabeth for one year and in Newark for nine, the College of New Jersey moved to Princeton in 1756.

It was housed in Nassau Hall, which was built on land donated by Nathaniel Fitzrandolph.

In 1896, expanded programmes won the college university status, and the College of New Jersey was officially renamed Princeton University in honour of its host community, Princeton.

. California Institute of Technology

You may have run into the work of past Caltech scientists without even knowing it.

If your mom ever told you to take Vitamin C to fend off a cold, you can thank Linus Pauling, the Caltech chemist who discovered the nature of the chemical bond in 1930 (his ideas about vitamins came later). Pauling won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1954 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962.

After an earthquake, news anchors can tell us how relatively shaken up we were, courtesy of the formula geophysicist Charles Richter devised in the 1920s for measuring the size of Southern California earthquakes.

Imperial College of London

The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine was established in 1907.

Set in London's scientific and cultural heartland, South Kensington, it was created though a merger between the Royal College of Science, the City and Guilds College and the Royal School of Mines.

Various colleges have merged with the College since. These include St Mary's Hospital Medical School in 1988 and the National Heart and Lung Institute in 1995.

1 место — Московский государственный университет им. М. В. Ломоносова

2 место — Московский государственный технический университет им. Н.Э. Баумана

3 место — Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет

4 место — Московский физико-технический институт 5 место — Высшая школа экономики 6 место — Московский энергетический институт 7 место — Национальный исследовательский

университет "МИФИ" 8 место — Томский политехнический университет 9 место — Санкт-Петербургский государственный

политехнический университет 10 место — Новосибирский государственный

университет.

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