The document provides information about several universities including MIT, Harvard, Stanford, and Cambridge. It discusses their missions, faculty, admissions statistics, schools/academics, famous graduates, and locations. MIT's mission is to advance knowledge through education and research to benefit society. Harvard seeks to provide students with a combination of academic rigor and support within a diverse community. Stanford is located in Silicon Valley between San Francisco and San Jose. The University of Cambridge is the second oldest English-speaking university after Oxford, founded in 1209, and is renowned for its sciences and many famous graduates like the Queen and Prince Charles of England.

1. Universities

2. MIT(Massachusetts Institute of
Techonology

4. Mission
 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 twenty-first century.
 The Institute is committed to
generating, disseminating, and preserving
knowledge, and to working with others to bring this
knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges. MIT is
dedicated to providing its students with an education that
combines rigorous academic study and the excitement of
discovery with the support and intellectual stimulation of a
diverse campus community. We seek to develop in each
member of the MIT community the ability and passion to
work wisely, creatively, and effectively for the betterment
of humankind.

5. Faculty and Staff
 The MIT faculty instructs undergraduate and graduate students and engages in research. As of
October 2011, the Institute's total teaching staff includes:
 MIT's Total Teaching Staff Professors 647 Associate professors 210 Assistant professors 161 Senior
lecturers, lecturers, and professors emeriti 540 Instructors (including technical instructors) 148
Professors of the practice and adjunct faculty 32 MIT employs approximately 10,775 individuals.
 There are 1,018 faculty members (professors of all ranks), including 217 women.
 Minority group representation among faculty includes American Indian or Alaskan
Native, Black, Hispanic, and Asian.
 The student-faculty ratio is 8:1.
 Students are given the ability to work closely with MIT's faculty at every turn. With rare
exceptions, every class at MIT is taught by a professor.
 All upperclassmen choose a faculty advisor.
 Each dormitory has a live-in housemaster, who is usually a senior faculty member.
 Seventy-seven present and former members of the MIT community have won the Nobel
Prize, including eight current faculty members.
 Thirty-six current and former members of the MIT faculty have received the National Medal of
Science.
 One current and one emeritus faculty member have been awarded the National Medal of Technology
and Innovation.
 There are 71 Guggenheim Fellows, six Fulbright Scholars, and 21 MacArthur Fellows among current
MIT faculty and staff.
 The title of Institute Professor is the highest honor awarded by the faculty and administration at MIT.

6. Careers

7. Graduates statistics

8. Admission
 Selected undergraduate admissions statistics from 2011:
 Final applications for the freshman class were received from 17,909
candidates.
 Admission was offered to 1,742 candidates (9.7 percent), of whom
1,128 enrolled.
 Approximately 45 percent of the freshman class was female.
 Ten percent were international citizens.
 A majority had attended public schools.
 Fourteen percent were among the first generation in their family to
attend college.
 Forty-six US states were represented, with California being the most
represented state.
 International students hailed from 59 countries.
 Selected graduate admissions statistics from 2011:
 Applications for graduate study were received from 22,220 candidates.
 Admission was offered to 3,306 candidates, of whom 2,118 (64
percent) registered in advanced degree programs.

9. Enrollments 2011–2012

11. Schools
 School of Architecture and Planning
 School of Engineering
 School of Humanities, Arts, and Social
Sciences
 Sloan School of Management
 School of Science
 Whitaker College of Health Sciences and
Technology
 MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography
and Applied Ocean Science and
Engineering

12. Campus map:
http://whereis.mit.edu/

13. Harvard

14. Instalations

15. Admissions & Aid
 There has never been a more exciting time to
be at Harvard. Founded in 1636, America's
first college has been transformed in recent
years by new initiatives that have greatly
enhanced the undergraduate experience.
Today's students come from all over the nation
and the world to attend an extraordinary
institution that combines many aspects of a
small residential college with the resources of
an unparalleled research university. We hope
that as you plan your academic future, you will
take time to look closely at the special
opportunities Harvard has to offer.

16. Graduate & Professional
Schools
 Harvard Business School
 Harvard Divinity School
 Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
 Harvard Graduate School of Design
 Harvard Graduate School of Education
 Harvard Kennedy School
 Harvard Law School
 Harvard Medical School
 Harvard School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences
 Harvard School of Public Health

17. Graduates
 Ex-presidentes o presidentes::
 John Hancock, John Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Arnulfo Arias
Madrid (Panamá), Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Pierre
Trudeau (Canadá), George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Alejandro
Toledo (Perú), Carlos Salinas de Gortari (México), Miguel de la
Madrid (México), Sebastián Piñera (Chile), Andrés Pastrana
Arango (Colombia), Felipe Calderón Hinojosa (México), Juan
Manuel Santos (Colombia), y José María Figueres Olsen
(Costa Rica).
 Príncipes:
 Aga Khan IV
 Escritores:
 T. S. Eliot, John Reed, Royall Tyler, E. E. Cummings, Stephen
Greenblatt, Louis Menand y Helen Vendler, Leonard
Bernstein, Rivers Cuomo, Mateo Blanco, Robert Levin, Edward
Taylor y Bernard Rands.

18.  Actores:
 Jack Lemmon, Natalie Portman, Mira Sorvino, Tommy Lee
Jones y Martin Bront.
 Arquitectos:
 Philip Johnson.
 Científicos:
 James D. Watson, Bruce Alberts, Steven Pinker, Lisa
Randall, Humberto Maturana, Roy Glauber y Michio Kaku.
 Deportistas:
 Jeremy Lin
 Economistas:
 Leopoldo López, Humberto Flores, Gregory Mankiw, Robert
Barro, Domingo Felipe Cavallo, Martin Redrado, Martin
Feldstein, Gabriela Olmos.
 Filósofos:
 Ted Kaczynski, W.E.B. DuBois, Henry David Thoreau y Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Harvey Mansfield, Michael Sandel, Robert
Putnam, Joseph Nye, Samuel P. Huntington, Stanley
Hoffman, Humberto Maturana y Torben Iversen,

19.  Empresarios
 Bill Gates, Aaron Greenspan
 Psicólogos:
 Howard Gardner
 Músicos
 Yo Yo Ma, Tom Morello, Rubén Blades
 Informáticos
 Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Stallman
 Luchadores profesionales
 David Otunga

20. Barack Obama

21. Mark Zuckerberg

22. Tommy Lee jones

23. Ruben Blades

24. Felipe Calderón

25. Stanford

26. Instalations

27. Location
 Located between San Francisco and
San Jose in the heart of Silicon
Valley, Stanford University is recognized
as one of the world's leading research
and teaching institutions.

28. Academys
 Business
 Earth Sciences
 Education
 Engineering
 Humanities and Sciences
 Law
 Medicine

29. Video
 http://admission.stanford.edu/

30. Rank Universities
 1. Harvard University
 2. Universidad de Cambridge
 3. Universidad de Oxford
 4. Universidad de Yale
 5. Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts
 6. Universidad de Princeton
 7. Universidad de Stanford
 8. Universidad de Tokio
 9. Universidad Cornell
 10. Universidad de Columbia

31. Mexico Universities
 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México (2) 36 place.
 http://www.webometrics.info/top12000_e
s.asp?offset=250

51. -
UNIVERSITIES IN UK
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE-
-UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD-
-UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON-

52. UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
 LOCATION: The Old Schools, Trinity Lane
Cambridge, Inglaterra, Reino Unido.
students 16 500
undergraduate 11 693
graduate 6 111

53. -The University of Cambridge is the second oldest English-speaking,
after Oxford. According to history, the University of Cambridge,
England, was founded in 1209 by Oxford academic who fled after a
scuffle with officers of the city.
The thirty-one colleges that make up the university are separate and
independent institutions of the university, enjoying a large degree of
autonomy.

54. FAMOUS GRADUATES
 Reina Margarita II de
Dinamarca
 El príncipe Carlos de Inglaterra
 Isaac Newton
 Henry Cavendish
 Charles Darwin

55. Why is famous cambridge?
 Cambridge Universities have always been well known
and reputable throughout the world. is the second
oldest university in the English speaking world. It is
considered one of the world renowned academic
institutions. Cambridge was a center of the new
teaching of the Renaissance and Reformation
theology, in modern times has been so remarkable and
active in science. It has faculties of
classics, divinity, English, architecture and art
history, modern languages ​and medieval, oriental
studies, music, economics and
politics, history, law, philosophy, education, engineering
, earth sciences and
geography, mathematics, biology, archeology and
anthropology, physics and chemistry and medicine.

56.  In addition, the university has generated significant
proportion of Britain's leading scientists, writers and
politicians.
 REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION
 The application system to Cambridge and Oxford involves additional
requirements, with candidates typically called to face-to-face interviews.
 Strong applicants who are not successful at their chosen college may be
placed in the Winter Pool, where they can be offered places by other colleges.
This is in order to maintain consistency throughout the colleges, some of
which receive more applicants than others.
 COSTS
 The university estimates that the average cost of living for a full academic
year will be around £ 6,000 - £ 7,500, not including the amount of tuition fees
of the studies that they take place.

57.  LOCATION: is located in the city of Oxford in England in
Wellington Square.
students 20.467
undergraduate 11.766
graduate 8.701
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

58.  The University of Oxford is a
federation of autonomous
colleges. The schools are
completely independent
entities, own their property,
their own staff and its own
budget. Known as there thirty-
eight Colleges of the
University of Oxford
Permanent Private Halls and
six, each with its own internal
structure and activities.

59. FAMOUS GRADUATE
 Economists- Adam Smith, Alfred Marshall, E. F. Schumacher
 Philosophers-John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Jeremy Bentham and
Isaiah Berlin
 Scientists- Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger.
 Some pioneers of the Scientific Revolution, as Robert Hooke and
Robert Boyle
 Writers- J. R. R. Tolkien
 The founder of Methodism, John Wesley
 The actors Hugh Grant, Kate Beckinsale, Dudley Moore, Michael
Palin and Terry Jones were once students of Oxford

60. Why is famous Oxford?
 His national and international prestige (always in the top of world rankings
of higher education) and quality of the training have become a university
with high employability.
 A high percentage of teachers and researchers coming from foreign
countries, and the student community is a mosaic of more than one
hundred nationalities, among which are the U.S., Germany, China and
Canada.
 His numbers in research, with a high percentage of dedicated staff, and
their interest in technology transfer and knowledge make it a center
admired around the world.
 Today, besides the prestige that was harvested throughout the
centuries, the University of Oxford boasts of receiving the best minds, the
most outstanding average of secondary schools in England and also from
other parts of the world . If once considered an institution of higher
education for upper class people and well-off, Oxford today speaks of
quality, progress, excellence, and get all kinds of young people from public
and private schools, regardless of family name.

61. REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSON
 Admission to college is highly rigorous and is based on academic merit and
potential of the candidate. The individual colleges are conducting
undergraduate admissions, working together to ensure that the best
students have a place at university. Selection is based on school references,
personal essays, achieved results, predicted results, written work, written
tests and interviews.
 The selection of graduate students is carried out first in which the
department will consider each, and then secondarily by the school which is
associated with the department.
 COSTS
 Start a search to quickly find and compare the annual cost of studying and
living at Oxford, as well as any support that may be available to you through
funding and scholarship opportunities. Before starting a search please note
that: The fee rates are annual rates for full-time study unless specified. You
should expect and budget for fees increasing on an annual basis.
 The search includes 'University-wide' scholarships, College and
Departmental awards over £2,000

62. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
 LOCATION: in London, United Kingdom, and the oldest and largest
constituent college of the federal University of London.
Students 21.620
Graduate 9.650

63.  The union, founded in 1893,
claims to be the first union of
students in England. Today the
union offers a wide range of
services for all students of
UCL. The union is run by
elected students who manage
and supervise the activities of
various clubs and student
societies.
 The school was the first
institution of higher education
in the UK to accept students of
any race, political or religious
creed. It was possibly the first
to accept women on equal
terms with men

64. FAMOUS GRADUATE
 Alexander Graham Bell
 Mahatma Gandhi
 Members of the band
Coldplay (Chris
Martin, William
Champion, Jonny
Buckland and Guy
Berryman)
 Ken Follett
 David Crystal

65. REQUIREMENTS FOR
ADMISSON
 Admission to UCL is highly selective; many of UCL's courses
require three A grades at A Level, or a grade equivalent of 6,6,6
on higher level subjects on the International Baccalaureate
Program.
 Due to a very high proportion of applicants receiving the highest
school grades, UCL, along with institutions such as Imperial
College London and the University of Cambridge was one of the
first universities in the UK to make use of the A* grade at A-Level
(introduced in 2010) for admissions, particularly for very
oversubscribed courses such as
Economics, Mathematics, Medicine, History, Psychology, and
European Social and Political Studies.

66. COSTS
 No up-front fees; tuition
costs will be paid by a
government loan;
 Loan repayments are made
only once you have left
university and are earning
over £21,000pa;
 UCL's fees set at £9,000 for
undergraduate
programmes (in common
with most universities)