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Columbia Business School

Founded in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of King George II of England, Columbia University is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States. Thus far, the university has produced 60 Nobel Prize winners and 12 National Medal of Science winners. Fifteen Columbia scholars have received the MacArthur Foundation award. Columbia Business School was founded in 1916 and today ranks among the best business schools in the world. For further information, visit the Columbia University web site at: http://www.columbia.edu

Stanford University

Founded by Leland and Jane Stanford on October 1, 1891, the university has produced 12 Nobel Prize winners and 20 MacArthur Foundation award recipients. Stanford's School of Engineering consists of nine departments and offers the graduate degrees of Master of Science, Engineer, and Ph.D. For additional information, visit the Stanford University web site at: http://www.stanford.edu

University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

More than 70 Nobel laureates have studied or taught at the University of Chicago—where they and their colleagues first split the atom; revolutionized modern economic thinking; founded the fields of urban sociology and "law and economics;" discovered Carbon—14 dating, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, and the jet stream; changed our understanding of evolution; and developed important innovations in literary criticism, music, and the arts. Founded by John D. Rockefeller in 1892, the University of Chicago is also honored for the quality of its teaching and broad, interdisciplinary curricula. The Graduate School of Business was founded in 1898 and claims five Nobel laureates among its faculty and alumni—more than any other business school. For more information, visit the University of Chicago web site at: http://www.uchicago.edu/

Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University is an internationally recognized research university that was founded in 1900 by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Also recognized as a pioneer in the uses of computing in education, Carnegie has one of the world's most sophisticated computing environments. With a distinctive blend of academic programs, the university currently consists of seven colleges and schools: the Carnegie Institute of Technology, the College of Fine Arts, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Mellon College of Science, the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, the School of Computer Science, and the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management. For more information, visit the Carnegie Mellon University web site at: http://www.cmu.edu/

London School of Economics and Political Science

The London School of Economics and Political Science is one of the largest colleges within the University of London, with studies covering the social, economic, and political problems of countries on every continent. Originally founded in 1895 by Beatrice and Sidney Webb, the school offers a wide range of master's and Ph.D. programs. For more information, visit the school's web site at: http://www.lse.ac.uk