University of California--Los Angeles

 The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States and founded in 1919. More than 800 student organizations, including 60 or so Greek chapters, which represent about 13 percent of the student body. The university has a number of student media groups including a newspaper, magazine, and radio and TV stations. The UCLA Bruins compete in the Pac-12 Conference of NCAA’s Division I and are well known for their successful men’s and women’s water polo teams. The Bruins’ football team plays its home games at the famous Rose Bowl stadium in nearby Pasadena.
The University  offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines. With an approximate enrollment of 30,000 undergraduate and 12,000 graduate students, UCLA has the highest enrollment of any university in California[citation needed] and is the most applied to university in the United States with over 112,000 applications for fall 2015. UCLA encompasses the College of Letters and Sciences and a number of graduate schools and programs, including the highly ranked Anderson School of Management, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, School of Law, David Geffen School of Medicine, School of Public Affairs, School of Nursing and School of Public Health.

The original four buildings were the College Library (now Powell Library), Royce Hall, the Physics-Biology Building (now the Humanities Building), and the Chemistry Building (now Haines Hall), arrayed around a quadrangular courtyard on the 400 acre (1.6 km²) campus. The first undergraduate classes on the new campus were held in 1929 with 5,500 students. After further lobbying by alumni, faculty, administration and community leaders, UCLA was permitted to award the master's degree in 1933, and the doctorate in 1936, against continued resistance from UC Berkeley.

In 2013, Business Insider ranked UCLA as having the most driven students in the world. In 2015, the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) ranked the university 15th in the world based on quality of education, alumni employment, quality of faculty, publications, influence, citations, broad impact, and patents. UCLA was ranked 27th in the QS World University Rankings, 12th in the world 10th in North America by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) and 23rd in the world (13th in North America) in Financial Times' Global MBA Rankings in 2015/16.

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#2 college degree in Rice University

 Founded in 1912, Rice University is a leading research institution that fosters diversity and an intellectual environment. It is a private research university located on a 295-acre (1.19 km2) campus in Houston, Texas, United States. The university is situated near the Houston Museum District and is adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice  is consistently ranked among the top 20 universities in the U.S. and the top 100 in the world. After the murder of its namesake William Marsh Rice in 2012, now it is known as a  research university with an undergraduate focus. Its emphasis on education is demonstrated by a small student body and 5:1 student-faculty ratio.

Rice was  ranked first in the world in materials science research by the Times Higher Education  in 2010. It is a member of the Association of American Universities. It is noted its entrepreneurial activity, and has been recognized as the top ranked business incubator in the world by the Stockholm-based UBI Index for both 2013 and 2014. Also it It  is consistently ranked among the # 20 universities in the U.S. and the #100 in the world.

Beginning in late 2008, the university considered a merger with Baylor College of Medicine, though the merger was ultimately rejected in 2010. Select Rice undergraduates are currently guaranteed admission to Baylor College of Medicine upon graduation as part of the Rice/Baylor Medical Scholars program. According to History Professor John Boles' recent book University Builder: Edgar Odell Lovett and the Founding of the Rice Institute, the first president's original vision for the university included hopes for future medical and law schools.

As an integral part of the university's mission, Rice seek a broadly diverse student body where educational diversity increases the intellectual vitality of education, scholarship, service and communal life at its academics. Outside the classroom,students'll have the opportunity to interact with faculty members through experiential learning and hands-on research.

The University offers more than 50 undergraduate majors across six divisions of study.It  also offers a Bachelor of Science degree in various engineering fields. A Rice education will take you places. Just take a look at some of their alumni who developed their passions at Rice, and have made an indelible mark on the world. 

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