Stanford University is known for its advanced education, wealth, close to Silicon Valley, and ranks as one of the top universities in the US and the world. Stanford has top programs in computer science, engineering, and some specialty industries like air and energy, and biomedical computing.

If you have ever seen the movie Pitch Perfect, you will be extremely interested because Stanford has a number of well-known theatrical and musical groups, including the Ram’s Head Theatrical Society and the Mendicants, an all-male a cappella group.

Lecturers: 2,219

No. Student: 16,223

No. of student per staff: 7.4

International Student: 23%

Female/ Male: 44 : 56

Website: https://www.stanford.edu/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stanford/

Harvard University is a private research institute, member of the Ivy League in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. With its history, influence and fortune, Harvard is one of the best universities in America and the world.

As one of the best universities, Harvard's achievements are also proportional to its reputation:

• Among the US system, there are 8 people who are alumni of Harvard University
• Approximately 150 Nobel laureates are students, faculty or staff of Harvard
• 62 or more billionaires are Harvard alumni
• 335 Rhodes Scholar

Harvard also has the largest library system in the United States with more than 80 libraries, containing up to 18 million documents. And Harvard operates several art, cultural, and science museums. The Harvard Museums System includes three museums: the Arthur M. Sackler Museum; Busch-Reisinger Museum; Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard Mineral Museum, Harvard Botanical Museum, and Comparative Animal Museum, Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Peabody Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, and Semitic Museum.

Harvard University has a total undergraduate enrollment of 5,222 (fall 2020), with a gender distribution of 49% male students and 51% female students.

No. Student: 21,261

Undergraduates: 6,755

Postgraduates: 14,215

No. of student per staff: 9.3

Female/ Male: 49 : 51

Website: https://www.harvard.edu/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Harvard/

California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has been in operation since 1891, under Pasadena, California. This is the smallest university among the top universities in the US, only 2,200 students enrolled. Despite this, there are 72 Caltech alumni and faculty who have been awarded 73 Nobel Prizes

The strength of the university lies in the engineering sciences, earth sciences, astronomy,... The university is also known for its world-class research in science, engineering or natural sciences.

No. Student: 2,238

Student-faculty Ratio: 3:1

International Student: 33%

No. of student per staff: 8.4

Female/ Male: 36:64

Nobel Prizes: 46

Website: https://www.caltech.edu/

Located outside Boston in Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT focuses on scientific and technological research and is divided into five schools. MIT is one of the basic education of the training program with the standard of selecting the best students: limited, the class graduated in 2016 has 1,620 candidates selected out of 18,109 candidates. The admission rate is only 8.95%.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private institution that was founded in 1861. MIT is renowned for its research and education in management science and engineering, as well as in biology, economics, linguistics, management and is one of the top universities in the US ( according to the QS Rankings ), it has a total undergraduate enrollment of 4,361 (fall 2020).

No. Student: 11,276

Admissions:

• Applicants: 20,075
• Admits: 1,457
  

No. of student per staff: 8.4

International Student: 34%

Female/ Male: 39 : 61

Nobel Laureates: 96

Website: web.mit.edu

The University of Chicago, also known as the University of Chicago, is a private research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

The University of Chicago was founded in 1890 and consists of six schools and one continuing education center. Current Chicago Nobel Prize-winning faculty include economists Robert E. Lucas (1995), James J. Heckman (2000), Roger Myerson (2007), Lars Peter Hansen (2013), Eugene Fama ( 2013), and physicist James Cronin (1980). Ngo Bao Chau, the first Vietnamese to win the Fields Medal (2010), is the Francis and Rose Yuen Distinguished Professor in the mathematics department of the University of Chicago. The university's bachelor's programs focus on the social, biological and physical sciences.

Lecturers: 2,168
No. Student: 14,292

No. of student per staff: 5.9

International Student: 31%

Female/ Male: 46 : 54

Website: https://www.uchicago.edu/

The University of Pennsylvania is in the group of eight Ivy League schools and is one of the highly competitive universities in the US, accepting only 10.2% of applicants as international students.

The 2020 U.S. News & World Report rankings place the University of Pennsylvania at number six among the best "national universities" in the United States. US News also rated Penn in the list of the most famous national universities in the United States. Penn has produced many distinguished alumni in a variety of fields from science, engineering, politics, the military to the arts and media, 14 heads of state have joined or graduated from Penn, including the entire US President Donald Trump,... ( reference source: wikipedia )

The most popular majors at University of Pennsylvania include: Business, Management, Marketing and Related Support Services, Social Sciences. Biological and Biomedical Sciences. Engineering, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Physical Sciences,...

No. Student: 26,552

No. of student per staff: 6.4

Student-faculty ratio: 6 : 1

International Student: 21%

Female/ Male: 52 : 48
Website: https://www.upenn.edu/

Yale University Institute, also known as Yale University, is a private university located in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in the Connecticut Settlement, Yale is one of the oldest universities in the United States, behind only Harvard College and the College of William & Mary.

Yale University offers four majors: arts, sciences, international studies, and literature with more than 70 majors. Yale is also one of the hardest schools to get into with an acceptance rate of just 6% of students from all over the world.

Lecturers: 3,619

No. Student: 12,910

No. of student per staff: 6.0

International Student: 20%

Female/ Male: 50 : 50

Website: https://www.yale.edu/

For more than 250 years, Columbia University has been a leader in higher education in the nation and around the world.

Columbia University is the oldest university in the state of New York and one of the oldest in the United States.

Columbia University received 60,551 applications for the 2021 semester, of which only 2,218 were admitted, with an admissions rate of only 3.7%, Columbia is the second most difficult university in the Ivy League group, after Harvard. Columbia is a multi format about the race, with approximately 52% of its students being people of color or international students.

Some majors are strengths of the university such as: statistical science, natural science, advanced architectural design, business administration, etc.

No. Student: 27,384

Academic staff: 4,370

International Student: 39%

Female/ Male: 53 : 47

Campus Urban, Total: 299 acres (1.21 km2)

Website: https://www.columbia.edu/

Princeton University Institute, also known as Princeton University, is a private university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Princeton is the fourth oldest university in the United States and one of the eight Ivy League schools and colleges.

Princeton offers a variety of graduate study programs, with strengths in the natural sciences, especially astronomy and physics. The university awarded 318 Ph.D. degrees and 174 final master's degrees for the 2019–2020 academic year.

No. Student: 8,091

No. of student per staff: 8.0

International Student: 23%

Female/ Male: 46 : 54

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PrincetonU

Website: https://www.princeton.edu/

Founded in 1865, Cornell University operates with the important goal of "discovering, storing, and disseminating knowledge".

The two largest faculties offering bachelor's degrees are the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Cornell University has an international student rate of about 25%.
Half of the admitted applicants had SAT scores between 1400 and 1560 or ACT scores between 32 and 35 ( reference source: Studyinternational )

Cornell is divided into seven colleges and seven graduate schools at the Ithaca campus, with each university and analyst setting its own admission standards and curriculum.

Lecturers: 1.114

No. Student: 23,016

No. of student per staff: 10.2