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Need-blind educational institutions
- Yale UniversityYale University was founded in 1701, making it the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. It began not as a grand campus but as a…
- Cornell UniversityCornell University opened its doors on the 7th of October, 1868, with 412 male students walking onto a hillside farm in Ithaca, New York.
- Harvard UniversityHarvard University began in 1636 with a vote, cast not by scholars but by the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- Columbia UniversityColumbia University received its first royal charter on the 31st of October 1754, when George II of Great Britain signed King's College into existence on the…
- Princeton UniversityPrinceton University sits on 600 acres in New Jersey, and it holds something no other university in the United States can claim: the largest endowment per…
- University of Notre DameThe University of Notre Dame began on the 26th of November 1842, when a priest named Edward Sorin arrived at a patch of northern Indiana land with eight…
- University of Southern CaliforniaThe University of Southern California opened its doors in 1880 with 53 students, 10 faculty members, and a graduating class four years later of exactly three…
- Stanford UniversityStanford University sits on 8,180 acres of the San Francisco Peninsula, and it was born from grief. Leland Stanford, a railroad magnate who served as…
- Dartmouth CollegeDartmouth College sits on a terrace above the Connecticut River in Hanover, New Hampshire, surrounded by some 200 American elms that survived the Dutch elm…
- University of ChicagoThe University of Chicago was born twice. The first institution, chartered in 1857 with land from Senator Stephen A. Douglas, collapsed under the weight of…
- Brown UniversityBrown University sits on a hill above Providence, Rhode Island, behind a set of wrought-iron gates built in 1901 that carry a peculiar superstition: walk…
- Johns Hopkins UniversityJohns Hopkins University opened its doors in Baltimore in 1876 with a radical proposition: that research and teaching were not opposites but a single…
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology was chartered on the 10th of April 1861, and two days later the first battle of the Civil War broke out.
- Vassar CollegeVassar College sits on more than 1,000 acres in the Hudson Valley, about 70 miles north of New York City, and when its first building opened in 1865, it was…
- Rice UniversityRice University began with a murder. On the morning of the 23rd of September 1900, an 84-year-old Massachusetts businessman named William Marsh Rice was…
- California Institute of TechnologyThe California Institute of Technology, known as Caltech, sits on 124 acres in Pasadena, California, about 11 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles.
- Babson CollegeBabson College began on the 3rd of September 1919, when twenty-seven students filed into a former family home on Abbott Road in Wellesley Hills…