Two world-class universities, Stanford and Berkeley, seeped in a balance of engineering and the humanities set the original stage out of which successful innovation emerged.
Silicon Valley has Stanford and UCal Berkeley, but in addition to NYU and Columbia, New York will soon welcome the Cornell-Techneon academic research hookup slated to be built on Roosevelt Island.
With the meltdown among Internet firms, the top California schools-Stanford, UCLA and Berkeley-fell in our rankings.
The fellowship will allow her to spend some time in California, USA to learn pioneering techniques and collaborate with two leading research groups at University of California, Berkeley and Stanford Medical School.
There were approximately 96 listings for high-paying jobs per 1, 000 residents in the area, which contains the headquarters of major corporations such as Adobe Systems, Cisco Systems, and eBay, as well as esteemed universities like Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley, which are notorious for pumping thousands of computer science and engineering graduates into the local job market each year.
The area around the city that has dubbed itself "the capital of Silicon Valley" is home to the headquarters of major corporations such as Adobe Systems, Cisco Systems and eBay, as well as esteemed universities like Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley, which are notorious for pumping thousands of computer science and engineering graduates into the local job market each year.
Clearly something about Eisner's formula is working: This fall, 67 YES kids will be enrolled at the nation's most prestigious universities among them, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, USC and UC Berkeley.
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On top of his wish list are companies like ibm and Genentech and American universities like Stanford (his alma mater), Carnegie Mellon and UC, Berkeley.
On top of his wish list are companies like ibm and Genentech (nyse: DNA - news - people ) and American universities like Stanford (his alma mater), Carnegie Mellon and UC, Berkeley.
Over the past dozen years or so, he has also taught entrepreneurship at Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University.
Now his billionaire status is another reason to pay attention to Koo, a graduate of Stanford Business School and the University of California at Berkeley.
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At the top end, Stanford, which is a private university, and Berkeley, which is not, continue to produce fine students, but enrolment in public universities and colleges has been declining in the past few years.
For instance, whereas 85% or so of undergraduates at (expensive, private) Stanford and CalTech graduate within four and a half years, only 48% at (cheap, state-run) Berkeley manage it in six.
So the famous colleges whose graduates dominate the highest levels of the media industry (and many other industries, too) Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, Penn State, the University of Michigan, the University of Missouri are all extraordinarily rare in the context of American universities, even strictly measured by their admission rates.
American innovation has always been sparked by individual scientists and entrepreneurs, often at universities like Carnegie Mellon or Georgia Tech or Berkeley or Stanford.
Institutional affiliation is also a factor -- a study from his lab found that Berkeley students tended to like their school colors, blue and gold, more than their rival school Stanford's colors, red and white.
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