Top ten best universities in the world

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These comprehensive universities offer graduate degrees in fields such as liberal arts, engineering, medicine, business and law. To get in the perfect university that is only what you dream of is a great big deal these days and to find the perfect university for yourself, with proper accreditation and affiliation with known people and universities is always difficult to find. View the world’s leading overall universities.

Harvard University (US)
#1 - Harvard University (US)

Harvard College was established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony, and was named for its first benefactor, John Harvard of Charlestown. Harvard is America's oldest institution of higher learning, founded 140 years before the Declaration of Independence was signed. The University has grown from nine students with a single master to an enrollment of more than 18,000 degree candidates.
Motto: Veritas (Truth)

University of Cambridge (UK)
#2 - University of Cambridge (UK)

The University of Cambridge is one of the oldest universities in the world and one of the largest in the United Kingdom. Its reputation for outstanding academic achievement is known world-wide and reflects the intellectual achievement of its students, as well as the world-class original research carried out by the staff of the University and the Colleges.
Motto: Hinc lucem et pocula sacra (From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge)

University of Oxford (UK)
#3 - University of Oxford (UK)

Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world and lays claim to nine centuries of continuous existence. As an internationally renowned centre for teaching and research, Oxford attracts students and scholars from across the globe, with almost a quarter of our students from overseas. More than 130 nationalities are represented among a student population of over 18,000. <br>
Motto: Dominus Illuminatio Mea (The Lord is my Light)

Yale University (US)
#4 - Yale University (US)

Yale University was founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School in the home of Abraham Pierson, its first rector, in Killingworth, Connecticut. In 1716 the school moved to New Haven and, with the generous gift by Elihu Yale of nine bales of goods, 417 books, and a portrait and arms of King George I, was renamed Yale College in 1718.
Motto: Lux et veritas (Light and truth)

Imperial College London (UK)
#5 - Imperial College London (UK)

Imperial College London is a university of world class scholarship, education and research in science, engineering and medicine, with particular regard to their application in industry, commerce and healthcare. Established in 1907, it is located in the heart of London. It is consistently rated among the United Kingdom's top three universities, and was ranked 5th in the world by the Times Higher Education Supplement in 2009.
Motto: Scientia imperii decus et tutamen (Knowledge is the adornment and protection of the Empire)

Princeton University (US)
#6 - Princeton University (US)

Princeton is the fourth-oldest college in the United States. The ambience of its earliest days is palpable in historic landmarks on campus, most notably Nassau Hall, which in 1783 was the temporary capitol of the United States. From such a distinctive beginning grew something great -- a community of learning that continues to evolve, providing abundant opportunities to talented students from around the world.
Motto: Dei sub numine viget (Under God's Power She Flourishes)

California Institute of Technology (US)
#7 - California Institute of Technology (US)

The mission of the California Institute of Technology is to expand human knowledge and benefit society through research integrated with education. We investigate the most challenging, fundamental problems in science and technology in a singularly collegial, interdisciplinary atmosphere, while educating outstanding students to become creative members of society.
Motto: The truth shall make you free

University of Chicago (US)
#8 - University of Chicago (US)

A private university chartered in 1890 by John D. Rockefeller, the University of Chicago has been shaping higher education and the intellectual lives of undergraduates for more than a century. William Rainey Harper, the first president, imagined a university that would combine an American-style undergraduate liberal arts college with a German-style graduate research university.
Motto: Crescat scientia; vita excolatur (Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched)

University College London (UK)
#9 - University College London (UK)

UCL is a multidisciplinary university with an international reputation for the quality of its research and teaching across the academic spectrum, with subjects spanning the sciences, arts, social sciences and biomedicine.
Motto: Cuncti adsint meritaeque expectent praemia palmae (Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward).

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
#10 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)

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 21st 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.
Motto: Mens et Manus (Mind and Hand)

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