With rare exceptions in Japan and France, one must graduate from the top university to gain entrance to this elevated group.
The school's band, known as the Marching 100, is one of the top university marching bands in the United States, famed for its elaborate dance formations and innovative style incorporating popular music.
Rounding out the top five are the University of Oxford and the University of California, Berkeley.
The only public college to appear on our list of the top 20 schools was the University of California at Berkeley.
Without this change, Mr Powers says, the proportion of minorities at his university will decline: the top-10% plan yields only about 25% black and Hispanic students, but the university could admit far more if it retained control over the other half of its class.
With the top-notch University of Wisconsin as its anchor, Madison is ideally positioned to incubate cutting-edge businesses.
He has held the top job at West Virginia University, the University of Colorado, Brown University and Vanderbilt University.
It places the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School at the top, followed by Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, New York University's Stern School of Business, the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and Harvard Business School.
At Oxford University, the students' union president, Kirsty McNeill, told BBC News Online the introduction of top-up fees would drag the university back to its Brideshead image of social exclusivity.
Matthew Hindman, a political scientist at Arizona State University, found that the top bloggers are more likely than top newspaper columnists to have gone to a top university, and far more likely to have an advanced degree, such as a doctorate.
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Behind Wharton and Kellogg, companies surveyed ranked the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business as the top program in overall quality, followed by Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and the University of Michigan's Ross School.
The fifth- ranked and first non-Ivy school among the top earners was Colgate University located in Hamilton, N.
In 2004, support from Scottish and Welsh MPs allowed the government to push through the introduction of university top-up fees in England.
Both are 47, former lawyers and graduates of the country's top university.
The top five included the University of Virginia (95%), Columbia University (94%), Stanford University (91%), New York University (90%) and Harvard University (90%).
The study showed that during the 1970s, an economics professor from a random university, outside the top 25 programmes, would double his research productivity by moving to Harvard.
Fortune magazine once named her among the top 50 women in business, and the University of South Carolina's business school is named in her honor.
The students' union at Oxford University has expressed its "outrage" at the proposals and has called on the university to speak out against top-up fees.
Tenure was the carrot that universities dangled to keep errant professors in line, and to encourage top research that kept the university funded and its prestige growing.
Moreover, in an attempt to attract the brightest students, the university offers free tuition to the top 3% of students.
In an article in the European Heart Journal calling for a wide-ranging overhaul of the current system, Alan Fraser from Cardiff University and other top specialists from the European Society of Cardiology highlighted a series of past failures that threatened lives.
Julie Hermann, a top administrator at the University of Louisville, appears poised to take over the troubled Rutgers athletic department.
The Times of London on Sept. 8, 2010, even rated the University of Colorado among the top 25 Universities in the World and the State of Washington is Consistently rated as among the most efficiently run states in the nation.
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The maths department at the University of Warwick, one of the top-ranked in the country, is thinking of requiring further maths again, for the first time in more than a decade.
The University of Glamorgan, rated in May 2011 as the Guardian's top Welsh "new" university.
Six schools--Harvard, Dartmouth, Carleton College, Middlebury College, the University of Vermont and the University of Washington--earned an A-, the top grade in 2008.
For example, a professor at the top-ranked Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in the U.S., has found out an important fact for those deciding on the price of a consumer good.
This week USP won another plaudit, becoming the only Latin American university to make it into the world's top 200 universities in another much-watched list, published by Times Higher Education, a British specialist weekly.
Bristol University remained in the top 100, despite slipping down the rankings since 2011.
In 1997, after a federal court had outlawed race-based selection for its public universities, Texas introduced a scheme guaranteeing university places to the top 10% of every high-school class.
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