Top-10 of Perspective USA Universities

American Business Weekly “BusinessWeek” published a list of universities in the U.S., whose graduates earn the most. The rankings take into account the average starting salary of graduates of these institutions, the average salary and the maximum income of “former students”.

Yale University, whose history goes back to the beginning of three centuries, is considered as one of the most prestigious not only in the U.S. but around the world. Yale University is the forge of American elite, which has learned many prominent figures in science, art and politics. Yale was graduated with Samuel Morse (inventor of Morse code), a child psychologist Benjamin Spock (the books which are still studied by modern child psychologists), writer Sinclair Lewis, economist George Akerlof, President of “Pepsi” Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi, Chairman and CEO of “Boeing” James McNerney, Richard Cheney, John Kerry (rival of George W. Bush in the 2004 election), Hillary Clinton. The list is long. It is enough to say that all U.S. presidents since 1989, graduated from Yale.

Dartmouth College is one of the oldest universities in the United States. Dartmouth College has the status of a university, and “college” in the name, it’s just a tradition. Dartmouth meets all the requirements of the university, in fact it can justifiably be considered the cradle of business education. It is in its Amos Tuck School of Business, founded in 1900, were the first to assign an MBA.

Harvard University is the oldest private institution of higher education in the United States – located in Cambridge (Massachusetts). Currently 18 000 people study at Harvard University with 10,000 course participants of various schools in the Harvard system. This oldest American university was graduated by seven U.S. presidents: John Adams, John Kinsey Adams, Theodore and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Rutherford Hayes, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and current U.S. President George W. Bush.

Pennsylvania State University is a private university in the U.S., one of the twenty most prestigious educational institutions in the country. It carries out research work in a wide range of humanitarian and technical sciences, founded in 1740 as a charity school and in 1755 converted to a college, the first president of which was Benjamin Franklin. The University is associated with the names of many prominent political figures of the time, including 24 delegates of the Continental Congress, 10 persons whose signatures are under the text of the Declaration of Independence and the nine people who signed the text of the U.S. Constitution. It was the first college in the country that received the status of University (1779). In 1765 there was founded North America’s first medical school and in 1881 – the first school of business, in 1896 – the world’s first clinical counseling.

Colgate University is located in Hamilton, New York, USA. The school was founded in 1819 in a Baptist seminary and later became secular. The University is named after the family of Colgate, who made a great contribution to the fund of the university in the 19th century. Purpose of the university is to develop wise, thoughtful, critical thinkers and perceptive leaders by encouraging young men and women to fulfill their potential through residence in a community that values all forms of intellectual rigor and respects the complexity of human understanding.

Princeton University is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the United States. Many prominent representatives of the world of science, and even Albert Einstein, taught there. Among university graduates there are many American politicians, researchers, writers, actors and other public figures. Professors at Princeton University are the authors of the famous language test TOEFL.