Perhaps the most tech entrepreneurship-astute elite university other than Stanford lies further up Northeast.
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People who go to Princeton or another elite university have a revealed preference for education and intellectual development.
Carnegie Mellon is an elite university known for its science and technology programs.
Here the news is that it ultimately doesn't matter whether you go to an elite university or a lower-tier outfit.
But nobody was there to warn me about what kind of girls I might wind up dating unless I found a wife at my elite university.
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It's astounding that this president, who was once a professor of constitutional law at an elite university, would do so in such an ignorant fashion.
Reducing resit opportunities would disadvantage pupils and the government seemed determined "to reduce the A-level to an elite university entrance exam" rather than a qualification for all young people, she added.
Now, if your super brilliant, earth-shattering kid prefers having daily opportunities for access to, attention by and interactions with professors, elite liberal arts schools and a unique elite university like Princeton are hard to beat.
Another involved the collection of DNA samples from high-IQ individuals from the U.S. and other countries, including those with extremely high SAT scores, and those with a doctorate in physics or math from an elite university.
Clinton came of age in the late 1960s, surrounded by the Eastern elite: at Georgetown University, Oxford and Yale Law School.
Recent cheating scandals, at Harvard University and elite Manhattan public high school Stuyvesant, have brought new attention to the increasingly grey area of academic integrity.
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Unlike so many of his team-mates, Guscott did not hail from the public school, university-educated elite.
Professor K. Anders Ericsson and his colleagues at Florida State University have studied elite performers, including musicians, athletes, actors and chess players.
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"Their skin is very thick, " Zhang Ming, an expert on elite politics at Beijing's Renmin University in Beijing, said of the new left.
But during four years at Wake Forest University he never advanced beyond the Elite Eight.
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Now, the school is home to many American students who wished to enroll at a top-ranked British university, which carries the prestige of an elite, private American college at a tiny proportion of the cost.
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Han Kim and Adair Morse, of the University of Michigan, and Luigi Zingales, of the University of Chicago, shows that the internet's ability to spread knowledge beyond university classrooms has diminished the competitive edge that elite schools once held.
China's elite professionals are often bilingual because most of them went to university in America, Britain or Australia.
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Harvard has been linked to the country's political elite, with the children of several top leaders attending the university.
Not for the first time, when the Howard University Band strikes up on Tuesday, the ruling elite and the black street will rub shoulders together in the crowds around the White House.
Other regional winners from the Obama economy generally can be found in state capitals and University towns, particularly those with the Ivy or elite college pedigrees that resonate with this most academic Administration.
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The main commodity that elite schools in the two countries are selling is an edge in university admissions a commodity that matters as it does nowhere else.
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Although communications technology may have made a dent in the productivity edge of elite schools, productivity is hardly the only measure of success for a university.
They were "reflective of who was in charge of controlling these national narratives: white, elite, masculine, " said Alison Fields, an art history professor at the University of Oklahoma.
The growing demand for Chinese consumer goods is no longer confined to the political elite, according to Andrei Lankov, a leading expert on North Korea at Kookmin University in Seoul.
He sees Stanford University and its relationship with Silicon Valley as a model to aspire to, and unabashedly proclaims that, if a university is to thrive, it must be a research-based, elite institution.
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Despite lacrosse's reputation as an elite sport, there are many players on the national team who did not go to public school or university.
Participant schools include usual suspects such as the multi-campus INSEAD and National University of Singapore's NUS Business School, both of which already have partnerships with other elite business schools.
The Norwegian elite's rejection of Israel's right to exist, and ban on pro-Israel Jewish speakers from university campuses goes a long way in explaining Norway's support for Hamas.
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