The Yale University is a private university based in the U.S. New Haven (Connecticut) , United States . Stands out as one of the most recognized private educational institutions in the United States and the world like University of Sydney. Founded in 1701 , is the third institution of higher education in the oldest United States , also has the second largest university library system and is part of the Ivy League . The name of the university honors Elihu Yale, one of his earliest supporters. Yale is very selective in their admissions. Are admitted for less than 8 percent of the nearly 30,000 applicants annually to programs undergraduate.

Its School of Law(Yale Law School ) is the most selective of the country, accepts only 6 percent of applicants. Yale just like University of California has produced outstanding students in various fields. Despite being a relatively small university, the university has graduated more U.S. presidents in the modern era than any other university. Since 1972, a Yale graduate has been in the race for the presidency. Six college graduates have won the Nobel Prize since 1994. According to the magazine Fortune , Yale has graduated more than CEOs of companies Fortune 500 than any other university. Actors like Paul Newman , Meryl Streep , Jodie Foster and Edward Norton are also graduates of Yale.

Former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton graduated from Yale. Clinton studied at the Faculty of Law at the University along with his wife, Hillary Clinton .The Vice President Dick Cheney also was enrolled, but did not graduate. Several presidential candidates in the presidential elections of 2004 were students at Yale: Bush , John Kerry , Howard Dean and Joe Lieberman . At the international level, stands the former president of Mexico, Ernesto Zedillo ,who took the degree of Doctor in Economics .

Other highlights include Sven Hardtsz students and Ernest Miller, who thanks to his teacher guide (the first scientist who after being diagnosed with schizophrenia, continued in office, arguing that “madness only helps science”) were able to develop the first prototype the area of robotics that could receive and execute basic commands. “UVII” could move forward in a straight line “scratch their pansit” and revolve around himself. Similarly, the robot laid the groundwork for future innovations in the recycling of CO2 , thanks to a mechanism very advanced for its time. The brilliant scientists, calling themselves “Epsylon II”, were also the creators of the software that future would be used in the execution of famous video games like ” Frogger “and” Alien Attack “. Unfortunately, his brilliant career ended abruptly in 1962 because Miller, who had fallen into an addiction now known crystal method ,Hardtsz killed his partner in the so called ironically ” viral slaughter “of 1962 , an episode a bit strange and forgotten in the history of science.

This project will develop materials and teaching resources (including exams, practical exercises, case studies, etc.), And form study groups at various educational levels. The materials have created a Creative Commons license of type “Attribution-Share Alike” to be freely redistributable. In early 2011, the Spanish Wikiversity has 983 articles.

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Housed initially in Wiktionary, started several versions in different languages without official approval. In the English version, some users proposed deletion. This accelerated the process of discussion to try to create an autonomous project of Wikibooks.

A vote on Meta showed that the proposal was supported by a majority of users. However, a significant group of skeptics said his doubts, criticisms, and fears. For example, Wikimedia projects, especially Wikibooks, are not yet developed enough to accommodate something of this magnitude.

Some also criticized the content of Wikiversity overlap with those of Wikibooks and Wikiversity that would require software that currently lacks MediaWiki and there seemed no developer willing to implement these changes to the software.

The Board decided not to approve the project until they were modified some aspects of the proposed vision. After lengthy discussions and with the help of a subcommittee established by the Foundation to define more clearly the aims of this proposal, we developed a modified proposal.

With this second proposal, Jimmy Wales announced at the opening of Wikimania 2006 in May that the Board of Directors of the Foundation had approved the creation of this project.

University of Sydney Logo – The University of Sydney is a university located in Sydney, Australia. It is the oldest university in the nation, having been founded in 1850. From 2009 the institution had 47.775 students, making it the second largest university in Australia. It is one of the largest and most renowned universities in the country, as well as throughout Oceania.

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The core campus, whose architecture is inspired by that of Oxbridge, lies in the rough land that extend through the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington southwest of Sydney’s central business district. Furthermore, the university encompasses a number of other small campus obtained from other organizations in the past 20 years, such as the “Sydney Conservatorium of Music” or “College of the Arts in Sydney.” The University of Sydney is a member of the “Group of Eight” (Australian universities), the Consortium Acedémico 21 of the Association of Universities of the Pacific Rim and the Worldwide Universities Network.

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University of Melbourne Logo – The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, is the second oldest university in Australia, and most of Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, a suburb located north of the central business district of Melbourne. The institution also has several other campuses located throughout the state. He is a member of the “Group of Eight” (Australian universities), Universitas 21 and the Association of Universities of the Pacific Rim. Currently has the highest funding among universities in the country, with $ 1.1 billion Australian dollars in the year 2009.

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According to the world university ranking in 2010 of Britain’s Times Higher Education, University of Melbourne is considered the best university in Australia and Oceania, and places it in the place 36 worldwide. On the other hand, nationally, is recognized as the second leading research university after the “Organization of Scientific and Industrial Research of the Commonwealth” (CISRO). In 2008 we invested more than $ 653 million and has consistently been ranked among the first two leading research institutions in Australia, data are used by the Government of Australia to describe public funds for infrastructure and research.

The institution has over 35,000 students in total, who are backed by over 7,200 academic and professional staff. In 2008, he introduced the controversial “Melbourne Model”, a combination of various practices of American and European universities, in order to be consistent with the Bologna process and achieve international significance and stability in the securities offered. Currently the vice chancellor of the University is Professor Glyn Davis AC.

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University of Cambridge Logo – The University of Cambridge is the second university in English-speaking oldest after Oxford . According to history , the University of Cambridge in England , was founded in 1209 by scholars who fled from Oxford , after a scuffle with officers of the city. King Henry III of England granted the monopoly of education in that place in 1231 . Together with the University of Oxford , the University of Cambridge as a large number of the leading scientists , writers and politicians of Great Britain . Both institutions are collectively known by the name of Oxbridge and are members of the Russell Group .

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The thirty-one colleges that make up the university are separate and independent institutions of the university, enjoying a large degree of autonomy. The college oldest is Peterhouse , founded in 1284 by Hugh Balsham, Bishop of Ely . The second college was older King’s Hall, founded in 1317 , but no longer exists as an independent institution. Many colleges were founded in the centuries XIV and XV . Below is a list of all colleges that currently make up the university. However, some of them as Michaelhouse (which joined King’s Hall to make Trinity , by order of King Henry VII ) and Gonville Hall no longer exist.

In those early years, the colleges were founded for students to pray for the souls of the founders and that is why these institutions were often associated with chapels or abbeys. Along with the dissolution of the monasteries , ordered in 1536 ,the King Henry VIII ordered the dissolution of the Faculty of Canon Law and the cessation of classes of “scholastic philosophy.” So instead of sticking to canon law, the curriculum of the colleges were directed to the classic Latin and Greek , the Bible and mathematics.

The first colleges for women were Girton College , founded in 1869 and Newnham College , founded in 1872 . The first students took their exams in 1882 , but women did not achieve full membership of the college until 1947 , 20 years after Oxford . Of the 31 colleges that make up the University of Cambridge today, three are for women only ( Lucy Cavendish , New Hall and Newnham ) and four are for graduate students ( Clare Hall ,Darwin , Wolfson and St Edmunds ). The last all-male college was Magdalen, who became a mixed college in the late 1980’s.

There are some recreational activities associated with Cambridge. The paddle is a popular sport and there are competitions between colleges and against Oxford . There are also competitions in other sports such as cricket and rugby . Among the clubs theater , the famous Footlights .

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University of California Logo – The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal , University of California , UC Berkeley , or simply Berkeley ) is a coeducational public university located in Berkeley ,California . Is the matrix and the oldest of the campus of the University of California . Is recognized as the number one public university in the United States and worldwide. It is commonly confused by phonetic similarity with Berklee College of Music in Boston. Each year, more than 8,500 students receive a certificate, whether 5,500 degrees, 2,000 masters, 900 doctoral degrees and 200 doctorates in law.

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In 1866 the property which is located the university was bought by Henry Durant in his goal of building a private school. Given the financial problems of Durant, he accepted the intrusion of the state of California. The result of such action was the union’s initial project with a public school that the government had promoted. In this mix came the university as it is known. The university received worldwide attention for the first time during the early and mid twentieth century, when it experienced a golden age in the physical sciences, chemical and biological weapons. Some of the most astonishing discoveries associated with the campus at that time were the discovery of fourteen chemical elements heavier than uranium and isolation of polonium . The head of the Manhattan Project , J. Robert Oppenheimer , was a professor of physics at Berkeley. Recent discoveries include the development of key technologies associated with the internet and the movement of free online software (open source).

Also, the eminent jurist and scientific law , Hans Kelsen , father of the Pure Theory of Law , was head of the department of political science at the University. In 1952 the university obtained a level of autonomy of the Central Committee of the University of California. This partial independence was also given to other universities in the system. Because thoughts cambiarion moral and political landscape of the 60 as were the Free Speech Movement and the opposition to the Vietnam War , the University gained a reputation that became the center of the left most famous American university. He is recognized in the U.S. culturally for his activism, leftist and avant-garde.

Prominent people have visited to give lectures or courses, as Martin Luther King, Jr. , Daniel Ellsberg , documentarian Michael Moore or Robert Reich , (Minister of Labour in the government of Bill Clinton ) and former President of Chile , Ricardo Lagos . Has had several Nobel prizes in their faculty, as Czesław Miłosz or Glenn Seaborg . On May 2, 2007 Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter attended the University signing autographs and then lectured for two hours.

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Stanford University Logo – The Leland Stanford Junior University ( Leland Stanford Junior University in English ), known as Stanford University , located in Palo Alto ( California ), is a private university, considered one of the most prestigious in the United States and the world. It is located about 56 km southeast of San Francisco , on the grounds of Santa Clara County adjacent to the city of Palo Alto . The university is therefore in the geographical and historical heart of Silicon Valley .

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Stanford was founded by tycoon rail and California Governor Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane Stanford . It was named after her only child, Leland Stanford Jr. , who died of typhoid fever in his teens. Locally known as La Granja ( The Farm ), because the university is located in what was the horse-breeding farm of Leland Stanford. The university opened its doors officially on October 1 of 1891 , a total of 559 students and 15 teachers, seven of which came from Cornell University . Originally it was not charged for instruction, and although the teaching was mixed, the number of women enrolled was limited for several years.

The official motto of the university, selected by the Stanford during the formation of the institution, ” Die Luft der Freiheit Weht “, whose translation of the German is “the wind of freedom”. The phrase comes from the reformer Ulrich von Hutten , and was elected in a time when the German had recently replaced Latin as the language dominant in the humanities and philosophy, a position he would retain until the Second World War .

Stanford was not until the 1930’s a relatively small university and unimportant. Between 1929 and 1933, Herbert Hoover , a graduate of the University, chaired the U.S. in a period marked by economic crisis. In 1939, William Hansen and brothers Russell and Sigurd Varian invented the tube Klystron , a generator of microwave high frequency was based radars World War II. Since then, Stanford has been increasing its international reputation, first through military research projects and then to the entrepreneurial spirit of its faculty and students. Stanford has been the cradle of scientific and technical enterprises as important as Hewlett-Packard , Cisco Systems , VMware , Yahoo! , Google , and Sun Microsystems . In fact, “Sun” was originally short for “Stanford University Network.”

Throughout its history Stanford has twenty-seven winners of the Nobel Prize among its teachers, in areas such as Economics ( Kenneth J. Arrow , Gary Becker , Milton Friedman , Douglass North , Myron Scholes , William Sharpe , Michael Spence , Joseph E. Stiglitz ), Physics ( Felix Bloch , Steven Chu , Robert Hofstadter , Robert B. Laughlin , Douglas Osheroff , Martin Perl , Burton Richter , Arthur L. Schawlow , Richard E. Taylor ), Chemistry ( Paul Berg , Roger Kornberg ) or Medicine ( Andrew Fire , Arthur Kornberg ). Although the work that led them to win the Nobel did not develop in many cases at this university, Stanford has attracted the talent of these Prizes. Stanford is among the top 10 universities in the U.S.. States. in the fields of electrical engineering , computer engineering , economics and business studies and law .

Stanford maintains a healthy and friendly rivalry with the neighboring University of California, Berkeley . This rivalry reached its peak every year with the “Big Game” or party of football between teams from the two universities. Currently the university is the largest private owner of land in the Bay of San Francisco , thanks to the legacy of Stanford. Its grounds are so large they are housing a linear accelerator , a business park with the world headquarters of Hewlett-Packard , and a major medical center.

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Princeton University Logo – Princeton University is a private university in the United States . The university was founded in 1746 in Elizabeth (New Jersey) as “College of New Jersey.” In 1756 they moved the college to Princeton (New Jersey) , but the original name was retained as yet. Only in 1896 was the College of New Jersey renamed Princeton University. Princeton was the fourth university in the history of the United States who began giving lessons. The university belongs to the Ivy League , a group of private universities in the United States known for their high academic level. Princeton also belongs to the nine Colonial Colleges , the nine U.S. universities that were established before the American Revolution .

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Princeton is one of the most selective universities in the United States in 2010 was only 8% of registrations for the bachelor accepted. By comparison, Harvard accepted 6.9% and Yale 7.5%. U.S. News & World Report ‘s “America’s Best Colleges 2009″ put Princeton on the second position in terms of selectivity (shared with Yale , Harvard and MIT ).

Although Harvard the wealthiest university in the world, Princeton is the richest university per student. This is because the number of students at Princeton lower. Many of Prince Tons wealth is used to provide financial support to students. In 2001, Princeton was the first university loans scraped from its financial aid program. Since 2001 only financial support of grants that are given as gifts and therefore are not reimbursable. About 60% of students receive financial aid. U.S. News & World Report and Princeton Review Princeton University as both the least students with debt after graduation. Estimates that Princeton graduates with financial assistance have a debt of $ 2.360, compared with a national average of about $ 20,000.

Housing on campus is guaranteed for all university students during their four-year Bachelor program. As a result, more than 98 percent of students on campus live in dormitories. First and second year students must attend one of the Residential Colleges, while the third and fourth year usually identified in the appropriate “upperclassman” dormitory housing. The actual dormitories are similar, except that only the Residential Colleges dining rooms. Recently, third-and fourth-year option also received the full four years in a Residential College to spend. Third and fourth year also have the option to live outside campus, but the high rent in the Princeton area encourages almost all students live in university housing. Social life revolves around the Residential Colleges and the ten “Eating Clubs” where students can join in the second semester of their second year. Eating clubs, which are not officially affiliated with the university, have a role as dining rooms and common areas for their members. They also organize parties and other social events throughout the academic year.

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Prince Tons six Residential Colleges organize a variety of social events, outings and activities, including visiting professors and other prominent people such as Edward Norton , a special sneak preview of Fight Club organized. The Residential Colleges are perhaps best known for their performing arts trips to New York City. Students can apply for travel to ballets, operas, Broadway shows, sporting events and other activities. The “Eating Clubs”, located on Prospect Avenue (which is nicknamed ‘the Street’ is) are houses where most of the third and fourth year of their meals eat well, the club evenings and weekends as social meeting places for members and guests. Once a semester the Eating Clubs jointly organize a musical event where artists like Lupe Fiasco , BOB , Wiz Khalifa and the Roots occur.

Oxford University Logo – The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, United Kingdom, is the university’s oldest English-speaking world. Unknown date of foundation of the university, and perhaps did not exist as a particular event, but there is evidence of teaching activities since 1096. When Henry II of England forbade students English assistance to schools of higher learning in Paris, in the year 1167, Oxford began to grow rapidly.

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The foundation of the first residence halls, which then transmuted into the colleges, dates from this time forward. After the murder of two students accused of rape in 1209, the University was dissolved. On June 20th of 1214, the University returned to Oxford with a letter of acceptance negotiated by Nicholas of Romans, Officer Pope, and in 1231 received the letter from university.

The main rival of Oxford University is the University of Cambridge, founded soon after. Both institutions are known by the nickname of Oxbridge. Popularly, it is considered to Cambridge top in science subjects, while Oxford is considered superior in humanities, although this is not demonstrable in reality. Both universities belong to the Russell Group of British universities dedicated to research.

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MIT University Logo – The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is an institution of higher education located in private Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States). MIT is divided into 6 schools and colleges that include a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research, which makes it one of the leading universities of the United States devoted to teaching and research in science, engineering and economics.

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The engineering school is recognized as the best in the U.S. and the world by U.S. News & World Report. MIT was ranked worldwide as the best in technology by Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings. The Institute has 76 Nobel laureates among its alumni and faculty (counting only those whose relationship with MIT has exceeded the year-long. If all were included, would be 80). Admission to MIT is extremely competitive, and has been classified by The Atlantic Monthly and other publications as the most selective college in the United States.

MIT was founded in 1861 by the geologist William Barton Rogers, who wanted to create a new kind of independent educational institution devoted to the growing industrialization of the United States. The opening of school was delayed by the Civil War in the United States, and admitted its first students in 1865. In the following years, he established a premier reputation in science and engineering, but fell into financial difficulties. These two factors made a favorable idea of merging with Harvard University, who had much money, but had deficiencies in science compared with those letters and liberal arts. In 1904 President Henry S. Pritchett met with Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard for fusion. But eventually the protests of the students was canceled.

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