Why did the wealthiest and most prestigious universities fall so hard in such a short time?
Naturally, many of America's most prestigious universities line the list of team-owner alma maters.
Andrews University in Scotland, largely considered one of the most prestigious universities in the United Kingdom.
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Modern high-tech clusters often gather round prestigious universities on whose research they can piggyback.
They both graduated from prestigious universities -- Castro from Stanford, Cruz from Princeton.
Above all, America and Britain are home to the world's most prestigious universities.
A-levels than those in state schools, went on to the most prestigious universities and ended up in the best jobs.
For less prestigious universities, "the inclusion of mathematical requirements can reduce the number of applicants to unsustainably low levels", it says.
Arafat, from a senior Arab diplomat, from clerics associated with prestigious universities reflects excitement at the thought that bombings are producing success.
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Think that her doctorate and the professorship at one of the most prestigious universities in the world is just a trifling for her?
So overwhelmingly the most prestigious universities in the United States, the 100 most prestigious, are catering to students from families in the top half.
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Those would help them get into prestigious elementary schools, prestigious junior highs, prestigious high schools and eventually prestigious universities to guarantee a successful career.
High rents around Palo Alto have begun driving graduate students and faculty away from Stanford University, the cradle of Valley entrepreneurialism, to other prestigious universities.
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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Again the most prestigious universities drew the smallest number of children from poorer families - with less than 10% of students at Oxford and Cambridge being drawn from deprived areas.
The Nottingham students had found that while Harvard and Yale could offer a range of scholarships and grants, there were many less prestigious universities which offered little to students without funds.
An experiment designed to test perceptions of affirmative action found that independent observers rated companies significantly lower when they were told the top executives were African-American graduates of prestigious universities, instead of white.
"There is a real danger that this review will pave the way for higher fees and a market in prices that would see poorer students priced out of more prestigious universities and other students and universities consigned to the 'bargain basement', " said NUS president, Wes Streeting.
Many of you, over here, when you think about American universities you have a tendency to think about Harvard or Yale or Stanford or MIT - all wonderful universities - and I've had occasion to attend them and also teach at, at least, one of those prestigious universities.
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It also raises serious questions about conflicts of interest, as judges have approved cy pres donations to charities they may have connections to, and plaintiff lawyers may have an incentive to steer money to groups that can deliver them favors, such as prestigious universities they just might want their children to attend.
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In some subjects, UK universities are world-beaters, ahead even of the most prestigious US universities.
He speaks four languages and holds engineering degrees from two prestigious French universities.
The latest expansion in prestigious online universities in the US includes plans to charge for courses which will count towards degrees.
And expenditures to their prestigious state-run universities have taken a hit.
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But their skills are in demand in Latin America, where a degree from a European university is seen as prestigious (although Spanish universities fare poorly in international rankings).
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For example, Deborah Landon, an independent college consultant in Minneapolis, reports that an increasing number of her clients are applying to and choosing to attend public universities over prestigious, private options.
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At some prestigious institutions like the Universities of Virginia or Michigan, state government funds make up roughly 10 percent or so of the budget not chump change, but far less of a factor in financing the enterprise than a generation or more ago when the proportion was 20 or even 30 percent.
He said all universities would suffer financially if a few prestigious institutions introduced top-up fees, bringing a "reduction of funding for the whole sector through the actions of a few".
He has received the Montblanc de la Culture award for his devotion to cultural endeavour, Honorary Doctorates of Music by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds and Liverpool - and he was chosen Artist of the Year at the prestigious 1993 Gramophone Awards.
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