Boston University

Boston University  commonly referred to as BU or otherwise known as is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. 

The university is is historically affiliated with the United Methodist Church.

 BU is categorized as an Research University  in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.

 The university counts seven Nobel Laureates,Pulitzer Prize winners, nine Academy Award winners, and several Emmy and Tony Award winners among its faculty and alumni. 

BU is a member of the Boston Consortium for Higher Education and the Association of American Universities.

 The university has more than 3,800 faculty members and 33,000 students, and is one of Boston's largest employers.

 BU also has MacArthur, Sloan, and Guggenheim Fellowship holders as well as American Academy of Arts and Sciences and National Academy of Sciences members among its past and present graduates and faculty.

 It offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctorates, and medical, dental, business, and law degrees through eighteen schools and colleges on two urban campuses. 

The main campus is situated along the Charles River in  while the Boston University Medical Campus is in Boston's South End neighborhood.  

The Boston University Terriers compete in the NCAA's Division I. BU athletic teams compete in the Patriot League, and Hockey East conferences, and their mascot is Rhett the Boston Terrier. 

Boston University is well known for men's hockey, in which it has won five national championships,     

  He is known for his contributions to , a philosophical branch of liberal theology.The movement he led is often referred to as Boston .
Helen  White, the first woman to receive a.D. from an American university

 After receiving a year's salary advance to allow him to pursue his research in 1875, Alexander Graham Bell, then a professor at the university, invented the telephone in a Boston University laboratory. In 1876, Borden Parker was 

 appointed professor of philosophy. , an important figure in the history of American religious thought, was an American Christian philosopher and theologian in the Methodist tradition.

a degree in theology in the United States, but the Methodist Church would not ordain Robinson who graduated from the university's law school in 1881, became the first woman admitted to the bar in Massachusetts.Solomon Carter Fuller, who graduated from the university's School of Medicine in 1897, became the first black psychiatrist in the United States and would make significant contributions to the study of Alzheimer's disease

 

The university continued its tradition of openness in this period. In 1877, Boston University became the first American university to award  woman when classics scholar Helen White earned hers with a thesis on "The Greek Drama." Then in 1878 Anna Oliver became the first woman to receive

 

California Polytechnic State University

California Polytechnic State University or California Polytechnic State University, San Luis known as Cal Poly San Cal Poly,is a public university located in San Luis, California, United States. Founded in 1901 as a vocational high school, it is currently one of in State University system Comprising six distinct colleges, the university offers and  credentials The university does not confer doctoral degrees.
 
 solve res by combining classroom theory with experiential laboratory exercise. The most popular major at Cal Poly is Business Administration.  next most popular majors are Biological Sciences and Mechanical Poly is one of four California State Universities that participate in the Big West Conference in athletics.

Cal Poly is a member of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. Cal Poly is known for its "learn by doing" educational philosophy that encourages students to

Cal Poly was established Governor Henry T. Gage signed the California Polytechnic School Bill. The university started out as the California Polytechnic School founded by Myron Angel.


 The first incoming class was 20 students. The school continued to grow steadily, except during a period from the mid 1910s to the  when World War I led to drops in enrollment and drastic budget cuts forced fewer class offerings.

 The polytechnic school held its first classes on October 1, 1903, offering secondary level courses of study, which took three years to complete.


In 1924, Cal Poly was placed under the control of the California State Board of Education. In 1933, the Board of Education changed Cal Poly into a two-year technical and vocational school. The institution began to offer Bachelor of Arts degrees in , with the first baccalaureate exercises held in .


The college was authorized to offer Master of Science degrees in 1967. From 1967 to 1970, the school’s curriculum was reorganized into  of Science and Math, the School of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and the School of Architecture, w. FM radio station, 


The school was renamed the California State Polytechnic College reflect its higher education offerings, and in 1949, a Master of Arts degree in education was added. In control of Cal Poly and all other state colleges was transferred from the State Board of Education to an independent Board of Trustees, which later became the California State University system.
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 Centennial Campaign raised over $264 million from over 81,000 donors, more than tripling the university’s endowment from $43 million to over $140 million. million endowment in 2014 was ranked 296th out of 851 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada 


, also began as a senior project in . The state legislature changed the school’s official name again in 1971 to California Polytechnic State University. Since the 1970s, the university has seen steady enrollment growth and the construction of many significant buildings on campus


. Cal Poly celebrated its centennial in 2001, and kicked off a $225 million fundraising campaign, the largest fund raising effort ever undertaken in Th

Georgetown University

Georgetown University is a private research university in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic and higher education in the United States. 

 Georgetown's main campus, located in Washington's historic Georgetown neighborhood, is noted for Hall, a National Landmark in the  revival style. Georgetown's law school is located on Capitol Hill and Georgetown has auxiliary campuses in Italy, Turkey, and Qatar.

Georgetown's founding by John Carroll, America's first Catholic bishop, realized earlier efforts to establish a Roman Catholic college in the province of Maryland that had been thwarted by religious persecution. The university expanded after the American 

 The university's most notable alumni are prominent in public life in the United States and abroad. Among .S. President Bill Clinton, U.S. Chief Justice Edward Douglass White, Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin  dozens of U.S. governors and members of Congress, heads of state or government of more than a dozen countries, royalty and diplomats.
 

of Patrick Francis who came to be known as Georgetown's "second founder" despite having been born a slave by law. Jesuits have participated in the university's administration since 1805, a heritage Georgetown celebrates, but the university has always been governed independently of the Society of Jesus and of church authorities.

Comprising 9 undergraduate and graduate schools, the university has about 7,000 undergraduate and over 10,000 post-graduate ethnic, and geographic backgrounds, including 130 foreign countries


Campus organizations include the country's largest student-run business and largest student-run financial institution. Georgetown's athletic teams, nicknamed a men's basketball team that has won a  Big East championships, appeared in five Final Fours, and won a national championship in 

the Georgetown College Boat Club, the school's rowing team, adopted blue, used for Union uniforms, and gray, used for Confederate uniforms, as its colors to signify the peaceful unity school adopted these as its official colors.

The U.S. Civil War greatly affected Georgetown as  and alumni enlisted in one army or the other, and the Union Army commandeered university the time of President Abraham Lincoln's May 1861 visit to campus,living in temporary quarters there. Due to the number of lives lost, enrollment levels remained low

 until well after the war was over. Only seven students graduated in 1869, down from over 300 in the previous decade. At its founding in 1876, 


Enrollment did not recover from the war until the 1881. Born a slave by law, was the first acknowledged head of a predominantly white American university with with reforming the undergraduate curriculum, lengthening the medical 


and law programs, and creating the Alumni Association. One of his largest undertakings was the construction of a major new building, subsequently name Hall in his honor. For his work,  is known as the school's "second founder.

California Institute of Technology

The California Institute of Technology or is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States.  

 disbanded and spun off in college assumed its present name in was elected to the Association of American Universities, and the antecedents of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to manage and operate, were established between Theodore The university is one among a small group of Institutes of Technology in the United States which tends to be primarily devoted to the instruction of technical arts and applied sciences.

  Although founded as a preparatory and vocational school by Amos attracted influential scientists such as George Ellery Hale, Arthur Amos Noyes, and Robert Andrews Millikan in the early  The vocational and preparatory schools were

house system.  strong tradition of practical jokes and e is governed by an honor code which allows faculty to assign take-home examinations. 13 intercollegiate sports in the California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

has six academic divisions with strong emphasis on science and engineering, managing $332 million in 2011 in sponsored campus is located Los Angeles.students are required to live on campus, and 95% of undergraduates remain in the 


 is frequently cited as one of the world's best universities. Despite its small size, 33alumni and faculty have won a total of 34 Nobel Pauling being the only individual in history to1 have won the United States National Medal of Science or Technology.There are

 members who have been elected to the National Academies. In addition, numerous faculty members are associated with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as well as NASA.

 scientific research-oriented education institute in southern California, public or private, until the onset of the World War II necessitated the broader development of research-based science  promise  attracted physical chemist Arthur Amos Noyes from MIT to develop the institution and assist in establishing it as a center for science and technology.
 

In the same year, a bill was introduced in the California Legislature calling for the establishment of a publicly funded "California Institute of Technology", with an initial budget of a million dollars, ten times the budget of t the time. The board of trustees offered to turn over to the state, but the presidents of Stanford University and the University of California successfully lobbied to defeat the bill, which allowed to develop as the only



With the onset of World War I, Hale organized the National Research Council to coordinate and support scientific work on military problems. While he supported the idea of federal appropriations for science, he took exception to a federal bill that would have funded engineering

 research at land-grant colleges, and instead sought to raise a $1 million national research fund entirely from private sources. To that end, as Hale wrote in