The Ivy League universities are full of grubbing prodigies who regard themselves as the next president but five.

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Europeanized regions such as New England and the certain East Cost states, which were once the US traditional political gravity point thanks to their brilliant Ivy League universities, are now increasingly marginalized in comparison with other parts of the country.

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Of those schools with more than four alumni on the List, five of them are Ivy League universities Harvard University, Brown University, Dartmouth College, Yale University, Cornell University along with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rice University, Northwestern University, and University of California at Berkeley, four institutions with well-known engineering and science programs.

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Instead, they have hired the best teachers they can find, many from Ivy League universities.

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The young men take pride in their school as they stride through the hallways lined with banners from Ivy League and historically black colleges and universities and into classrooms where Mac laptops await them.

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The new partners cover a broad range of institutions, from Ivy League universities Columbia and Brown, which has lagged in offering free online courses, to Wesleyan, a small liberal arts college, to a top-ranked music school, Berklee College of Music, to state schools like University of Maryland at College Park, to foreign institutions like Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Melbourne.

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While Ivy League universities continue to churn out a steady stream of finance professionals, Wall Street is no longer the beacon of high pay and innovation it once was, thanks in part to a raft of new regulations, including those that curb compensation.

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