Virginia University

The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. UVA was established in 1819. Students who attending the university come from all 50 states and 147 countries.

The logo of  UVA

The University of Virginia Library System holds 5 million volumes. Established in 1992,Its Electronic Text Center has 70,000 books online completed with 350,000 images. These e-texts are open to anyone. It was receiving 37,000 daily visits. Alderman Library holds the most extensive Tibetan collection in the world, and holds ten floors of book "stacks" of varying ages and historical value. Clark Hall is the library for SEAS (the engineering school), and one of its notable features is the Mural Room, decorated by two three-panel murals. Since 1992, the University of Virginia also hosts the Rare Book School, a non-profit organization in study of historical books. 

Alderman Library

The primary housing areas for first-year students are McCormick Road Dormitories, often called "Old Dorms," and Alderman Road Dormitories, often called "New Dorms."
There are three residential colleges at the university: Brown College, Hereford College, and the International Residential College.

UVA offers 48 bachelor's degrees, 94 master's degrees, 55 doctoral degrees, 6 educational specialist degrees, and 2 first-professional degrees to its students.

Student life at the University of Virginia has a number of unique traditions. The campus of the university is referred to as "the Grounds". Freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors are instead called first-, second-, third-, and fourth-years in order to reflect Jefferson's belief that learning is a never-ending process, rather than one to be completed within four years.

The student life building on the University of Virginia is called Newcomb Hall. It is home to the Student Activities Center (SAC) and the Media Activities Center (MAC), where student groups can get leadership consulting and use computing and copying resources and some meeting rooms for student groups.

In December 2014 the University of Virginia has produced 221,000 living graduates. Many Noticeable political leaders have also attended the University of Virginia, including the 28th President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, the 18th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, U.S. Senator and 1968 Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy and his brother, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy,and former Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano.

It has produced so many famous people in the world. So it is not surprising that this university become the most popular university,

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Florida University

Florida University is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university. Florida University located in Gainesville, Florida, United states and it was established in 1853.The University of Florida Campus Historic District comprises 19 buildings. In Fall 2008, Florida University students come from more than 130 countries, and all 50 states. This university is one of the largest research universities in the nation.

It offers 16 colleges they are ;

College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

1.College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
2. College of Education
3..Levin College of Law
4.College of Engineering
5.College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
6.College of Journalism and Communications
7.College of Pharmacy
8.College of Design Construction and Planning
9.Warrington College of Business
10.College of Health and Human Performance
11.College of Medicine
12.College of Nursing
13.College of Public Health and Health Professions
14.College of Dentistry
15.College of Fine Arts
16.College of Veterinary Medicine


The University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries is one of the largest university library systems in the United States. It has total ten libraries, and over 5.3 million volumes of books and journals and 7 million microfilms. Collections cover virtually all disciplines and include a wide array of formats, from books and journals to manuscripts, maps, and recorded music. Increasingly collections are digital and are accessible on the Internet via the library web page or the library catalog.

George A Smathers Libraries

The University of Florida provides residence halls and divided into the eastern and western sides of campus. Facilities vary in the cost of rent and privacy. Housing plans also offer students access to dining facilities. The university also provides housing to a number of graduate students and their families.The University is currently building a new residence hall on campus that will be more accessible to students with disabilities.

Broward Hall

Many recreational activities available for students include indoor and outdoor sports. The campus also contains open spaces, small ponds, picnic areas, shady nooks. Florida University has more than eight hundred organizations and clubs for students to join.
Florida University is served by nine bus routes of the Gainesville Regional Transit System (RTS), which had over ten million riders in 2011. Students, faculty, and staff with university-issued ID cards are able to use the system at no extra cost.

Florida University also has student media like :

The Independent Florida Alligator

1. The Independent Florida Alligator is the largest student-run newspaper in the United States, and operates without oversight from the university administration.
2. WRUF (850 AM) features a mixture of local and syndicated talk programs, award-winning student-produced newscasts and sports talk shows, plus religious programming on Sunday mornings.
3. WRUF-FM (103.7 FM) broadcasts Country music and attracts an audience from the Gainesville and Ocala areas.
4. WRUF-LD is a low-power television station that carries weather, news, and sports programming.
5. WUFT is a PBS member station with a variety of programming that includes a daily student-produced newscast.
6. WUFT-FM (89.1 FM) is an NPR member radio station which airs news and public affairs programming, including student-produced long-form news reporting. WUFT-FM's programming also airs on WJUF-FM (90.1).

This University has two famous museums :
1. The Florida Museum of Natural History, established in 1891, is one of the oldest natural history museums in the country. This facility is dedicated to understanding, preserving and interpreting biological diversity and cultural heritage.

2. The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, established in 1990, is also located at the University of Florida on the southwest part of campus. This facility is one of the largest university art museums in the South, the Harn has more than 7,000 works in its permanent collection and an array of temporary exhibitions. The museum's permanent collections are focused on Asian, African, modern and contemporary art, as well as photography.



The University of Florida's intercollegiate sports teams, called as the "Florida Gators," compete in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I and the Southeastern Conference (SEC).[176] The Gators compete in nine men's sports and twelve women's sports, including:
Florida Gators baseball, men's basketball, women's basketball, cross country (men's and women's), football, men's golf, women's golf, women's gymnastics,women's lacrosse, women's soccer, softball, swimming and diving (men's and women's), men's tennis, women's tennis, track and field (men's and women's; indoor and outdoor),volleyball.

Florida Gators logo

I think,from those facts, It can prove why this university become one of the most popular university in the world.

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Minnesota University

This time,I would like to tell you about Minnesota University. Check this out!!

The University of Minnesota (Minnesota University)-Twin Cities usually called the U of M is a public institution that was founded in 1851. This university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul,Minnesota, United States which is known as twin cities. The University's Minneapolis campus is divided by the Mississippi into an East and West Bank while the Saint.Paul campus which is about 5 miles away from Minneapolis Campus is located in the city of Falcon Heights.

In this university,the students can choose one of the 19 colleges which available,they are :
1.Center for Allied Health Programs
2.College of Biological Sciences
3.College of Continuing Education
4.School of Dentistry
5.College of Design
6.College of Education and Human Development
7. Extension
8. College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences
9.Graduate School
10.Law School
11.College of Liberal Arts
12. Carlson School of Management
13. Medical School
14. School of Nursing
15. College of Pharmacy
16Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs
17.School of Public Health
18.College of Science and Engineering
19.College of Veterinary Medicine 

Minnesota University is the second-largest institution of higher education in the Midwest by enrollment.
The campus safety was one of the top priorities of Minnesota University. That is why the University always provide many resources that help the student to create the safer environment such as the step up campaign. The Step Up campaign is a program that helps students do the right thing and prevent crimes, sexual assault, and excessive drinking by teaching students how to intervene and prevent in a positive way.

Like the other universities,the Minnesota University also provides the student housing.Graduate students at Minessota University have a variety of housing options,including on-campus and off campus accomodations. When the students live on campus,it offers the students much more than just a place to sleep and study. The housing is close to classroom building,libraries,shopping areas,recretional areas,and there are 7 residential restaurant on campus. The housing also gives the students so many grat values because it covers all the facilities like heating electricity,internet,etc.  Research shows students who live on campus in their first year have a higher score and graduate in less time than they are who live off campus. 

The housing of Minnesota University

This university also provides some of the student services such as nonremedial tutoring, women's center, placement service, day care, health service, and health insurance.
About sport organizations,Minnesota University has so many sport organizations such as baseball,basketball,golf, football, and many more.

TCF Bank Stadium

Minnesota University has so many media for its students like The Wake Student Magazine, a weekly magazine that covers University-related stories and provides a forum for student expression.

The Minnesota Daily is published in print Monday through Thursday during the normal school season, and only online on Fridays. Radio K is the campus radio station but shuts down at dusk because of Federal Communications Commission regulations. Some television programs made on campus have been broadcast on local PBS station KTCI channel 17. Since 2002,it has been made several episodes of Great Conversations, featuring one-on-one discussions between University faculty and experts brought in from around the world and Tech Talk is a show meant to help people who feel intimidated by modern technology, including cellular phones and computers.
This university has produced Notable alumni include eight Nobel Prize laureates, two Pulitzer Prize winners, and two Vice Presidents of the United States, Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale. Faculty have included twelve Nobel Prize laureates.

From the facts above guys,that is why this university become one of the most of popular university in the world.

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Kyoto University

Kyoto University is a national university located in Kyoto, Japan. It is the second oldest Japanese university, one of the highest ranked universities in Asia and one of Japan's National Seven Universities. One of Asia’s leading research-oriented institutions, Kyoto University is famed for producing world-class researchers, including ten Nobel Prize laureates, two Fields medalists and one Gauss Prize.

Kyoto Imperial University as a part of the Imperial University system was established on June 18, 1897, using the Third Higher School's buildings. The higher school moved to a patch of land just across the street, where the Yoshida South Campus stands today. In the same year of the university's establishment, the College of Science and Technology was founded. The College of Law and the College of Medicine were founded in 1899, the College of Letters in 1906, expanding the university's activities to areas outside natural science.

Kyoto University promotes itself as an academic institution fostering a "spirit of freedom." The university claims eight Nobel Laureates and two Fields Medalists among its faculty and alumni. The university is also known as the starting point for the Kyoto School philosophical movement.

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Tsinghua University

Tsinghua University (sometimes abbreviated as THU) is a research university located in Beijing, China, and one of the nine members in the C9 League. The institution was originally established in 1911 under the name "Tsinghua College" and had been renamed several times since then: from "Tsinghua School" which was used one year after its establishment, to "National Tsinghua University" which was adopted three years after the foundation of its university section in 1925. With its motto of Self-Discipline and Social Commitment, Tsinghua University describes itself as being dedicated to academic excellence, the well-being of Chinese society and to global development. In both domestic and international university rankings, Tsinghua University has consistently been ranked as one of the top institutions of higher learning in mainland China along with Peking University.

In the aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion, American Secretary of State John Hay suggested that the US $30 million plus Boxer indemnity paid to the United States was excessive. After several negotiations, President Theodore Roosevelt obtained congressional approval in 1909 to reduce the Qing Dynasty indemnity payment by US$10.8 million, on the condition that the said fund was to be used as scholarship for Chinese students to study in the United States. Using this fund, the Tsinghua College was established in Beijing, on 29 April 1911 on the site of a former royal garden belonging to a prince.It was first a preparatory school for students later sent by the government to study in the United States. The faculty members for sciences were recruited by the YMCA from the United States and its graduates transferred directly to American schools as juniors upon graduation. In 1925, the school established its College Department and started its research institute on Chinese studies.

Tsinghua University has been constantly placed as one of the top two universities in mainland China by most domestic and international rankings, along with Peking University. Nationally, it had been continuously ranked to be the best in mainland by the Chinese university ranking from 2003 to 2010 and has become the second since then. The Net big had also regarded it to be the best in 2008, 2009 and 2010, and it was placed at 2nd by the China's Education Center in the same consecutive years.

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Lomonosov Mosco State University

Lomonosov Moscow State University is a coeducational and public research university located in Moscow, Russia. It was founded on January 25, 1755 by Mikhail Lomonosov. MSU was renamed after Lomonosov in 1940 and was then known as Lomonosov University. It also claims to house the tallest educational building in the world. Its current rector is Viktor Sadovnichiy.

The establishment of the university was at the initiative [clarification needed] of Ivan Shuvalov and Mikhail Lomonosov. Russian Empress Elizabeth decreed its creation on January 25 [O.S. January 12] 1755. The first lectures were held on April 26. January 25 is still celebrated as Students' Day in Russia. St. Petersburg State University and Moscow State University have a friendly argument about which is actually Russia's oldest. While Moscow State University was established in 1755, its St. Petersburg competitor has been in continuous operation as a "university" since 1819, and claims to be the successor of the university established on January 24, 1724, by a decree of Peter the Great.

As of September 2009, the university has 39 faculties and 15 research centres. A number of small faculties have been opened recently, such as Faculty of Physics and Chemistry and Higher School of Television. Evening classes are conducted by the Faculties of Economics, History, Journalism, Philology, Psychology and Sociology while the Faculty of Journalism offers a correspondence degree program. Here is the full list of faculties, according to the official web-site.

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National University of Singapore

The National University of Singaporeis a university located in Singapore. Founded in 1905, it is the oldest higher learning institute in Singapore, as well as the largest university in the country in terms of student enrolment and curriculum offered. It is ranked as one of the best universities in Asia, placing 22nd in the world and 1st in Asia in the 2014 QS rankings. Conversely, the Academic Ranking of World Universities ARWU ranking system that measures universities academic achievements and research performance consistently placed NUS in the range of 100–150 world wide.

In September 1904, Tan Jiak Kim led a group of representatives of the Chinese and other non-European communities, and petitioned the Governor of the Straits Settlements, Sir John Anderson, to establish a medical school in Singapore. Tan, who was the first president of the Straits Chinese British Association, managed to raise 87,077 Straits dollars, of which the largest amount of $12,000 came from himself.[citation needed] On 3 July 1905, the medical school was founded, and was known as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School.

NUS has a semester-based modular system for conducting courses. It adopts features of the British system, such as small group teaching (tutorials) and the American system (course credits). Students may transfer between courses within their first two semesters, enrol in cross-faculty modules or take up electives from different faculties (compulsory for most degrees). Other cross-disciplinary initiatives study programmes include double-degree undergraduate degrees in Arts & Social Sciences and Engineering; Arts & Social Sciences and Law; Business and Engineering; and Business and Law.

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Pennsylvania State University

We have been known that United States has so many famous University. And now I want to let you  know about one of the largest universities in US, it is Pennsylvania State University. 

The Symbol of Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University commonly called as PSU was established in 1855. It located in the University Park, Pennsylvania, United states. This University had several names before it became Pennsylvania State University. In 1855-1862,it was known as  Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, Agricultural College of Pennsylvania in 1862–1874, and Pennsylvania State College 1874–1953. This university offers more than 160 majors in all the campuses. Therefore , it is not surprising that this university has totals more than 45,000 graduate and undergraduates students and it makes this university  become one of the largest universities in the United States.

This university provides seven student housing complexes located in University park campus. They are East Halls, North Halls, Pollock Halls, South Halls, West Halls, Eastview Terrace, and Nittany Apartments. Each complex consists of some separate buildings like dormitories and a commons building, which has lounges, the help desk for the complex, mailboxes for each dormitory room, a small food shop, and a cafeteria-style room. 

One of the Residence Hall in Pennsylvania University

Beside that, PSU also provide The Pennsylvania State University Libraries. They were ranked 14th among research libraries in North America in the 2003–2004. The university's library system began with a 1,500-book library in Old Main. Its holdings had grown to 5.2 million volumes, in addition to 500,000 maps, five million microforms, and 180,000 films and videos in 2009. The library also offers electronic catalogs and online databases, in additional to physical volumes stored on site.

PSU manages 864 student organizations in university park campus in 2004. It has the additional organizations such as Thespians, Blue Band, Chabad, Glee Club, Aish HaTorah, Late Night, and 3D Printer Club. 

PSU also has a few of student media which provides te student a place to deliver their inspiration. They are :

1.The Daily Collegian, a student run newspaper which is published every weekday while classes are in session. It also has an online edition, known as The Digital Collegian. 

2.Onward State, a student-run independent news website covering the Penn State community. It was founded in November 2008 by Davis Shaver, Evan Kalikow, and Eli Glazier.

3.La Vie (the Life), the university's annual student yearbook, since 1890, it has been in production documenting student life continuously. In 1987,La Vie which edited by David Beagin, won a College Gold Crown for Yearbooks award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. 

4.The student-run radio station is The LION 90.7 F.M (WKPS-FM). It was founded in 1995 The LION broadcasts from the ground floor of the HUB–Robeson Center, serving the Penn State and State College communities with alternative music and talk programming, including live coverage of home Penn State football games.

5.ComRadio that operates by Penn State University of Communications. It was founded in the spring of 2003 as an internet-based audio laboratory and co-curricular training environment for aspiring student broadcasters. In recent years, ComRadio broadcasters have won numerous state awards for their on-air work
6.Phroth is the student-run humor magazine, which publishes two to four issues each year.
7.Kalliope is an undergraduate literary magazine produced by students and sponsored by the university's English Department. Kalliopeincludes works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art.
8.The student-run life and style magazine is Valley.

If about its athletics, the athletic department fields twenty-nine varsity teams in NCAA Division I,such as baseball, basketball, cross-country, diving, fencing, football, golf, gymnastics, lacrosse, soccer, swimming, tennis, track & field, volleyball, and wrestling.

The volleyball team of PSU

The Basketball team of PSU

Every University has some traditions including this university. One of the traditions of this university is the Nittany Lion Inn offers visitors a spirited and historic location with all the comforts of the northeast.

Sports facilities include Beaver Stadium, which has capacity of 107,282 seats, a multipurpose building, golf courses, baseball and softball fields, a tennis center, and a center for basketball. (The Jordan Center also hosts entertainment and other activities.) The University also has a sports museum with 10,000 square feet.

The university which has motto "making life better" has so many achievements. And you can see the awesome facts above. That is why it is considered as one of the most popular university in the world.

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