Founded in 1636, Harvard University is one of the oldest universities in the country. It's made up of 10 colleges and schools, including Harvard College, the Medical School, Law School, Business School, School of Education and Kennedy School of Government. Many of our presidents are Harvard alumni, including Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama. This Ivy League university located just outside Boston in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a tuition rate of $38,416 and enrollment of 6,655 as of the 2010 school year.
Founded in 1885, Stanford University, in Palo Alto, California, is world renowned for its research and science facilities as well as its education curriculum. The university houses seven different colleges and schools, three of which are for undergraduates. The graduate programs include the School of Engineering, School of Medicine, Law School, Graduate School of Business and School of Education. Stanford's admissions policies are very selective; it has an acceptance rate of only eight percent. As of 2010, tuition is $39,201 and 6.602 students are enrolled at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Princeton University was founded in 1746 in Princeton, New Jersey. It's one of the more prestigious and selective Ivy League universities, and has an annual tuition of $35,340. The school receives approximately 15,000 applications each year and at least 90 percent won't be accepted. Princeton has undergraduate and graduate level degrees in the humanities, engineering, natural sciences, and social sciences. It also has an art museum and history museum right on campus.
Founded in 1754, New York City's Columbia University is ranked by the U.S. News & World Report as one of the top Ivy League universities for research. Its graduate programs of education, law, business and medicine are considered to be some of the best in the country. The university also has three schools for undergraduate work: Columbia College, School of General Studies and The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. As of 2010, annual tuition is $43,304 and 7,743 students are enrolled. Columbia accepts only 9.8 percent of applications each year.