The Most Influential Schools in the World
Find the most influential colleges and universities in the world in nearly 25 academic disciplines
Find brilliant thinkers for your research papers and bibliographies. Using our proprietary AI program, we have ranked everyone in Wikipedia, Wikidata, Schematic Scholar, and CrossRef based on the number of citations, publications, and academically relevant web presence. This is how we find the most influential people in the world.
We then gather all the faculty and alumni associated with a college or university and attribute the people’s influence to their schools. Hence, the most influential schools are those that employ and graduate the most influential faculty and alumni.
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Biswa Bangla Biswabidyalay, established in 2020, is a liberal arts university in Bolpur, Birbhum district, West Bengal. The university will impart education in different branches of liberal arts. This university is also known as Bolpur University or Biswa Bangla University.
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Sanko University
Sanko University is a private university located in Şehitkâmil, Gaziantep, Turkey. Established on June 18, 2013, Sanko University was the first thematic university in Turkey to offer education in the fields of medicine and health sciences.
Thomas More University is a private Roman Catholic university in Crestview Hills, Kentucky. It serves about 2,000 full and part-time students. The university was founded in 1921 by the local Benedictine Sisters as Villa Madonna College.
The University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire is a public university in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. It is part of the University of Wisconsin System and offers bachelor's and master's degrees. The campus consists of 28 major buildings spanning . An additional of forested land is used for environmental research. UWEC is situated on the Chippewa River.
Walden University is a private online for-profit university headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It offers bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and specialist degrees. The university is owned by Adtalem Global Education, which purchased the university in August 2021.
Electric Power University in Vietnamese Trường Đại học Điện Lực is a public university in Hanoi, Vietnam. History The forerunner of the Electricity University was the Hanoi School of Practical Technology, founded by the French in 1898. After 1954, the Vietnamese State split the Practical Technology School into Technical School I and Technical School II. In August 1962, Technical School I was renamed Electrical and Mechanical High School, on February 8, 1966, Electro Mechanical High School was split into Electric High School and School. Middle School of Mechanical Engineering .l April 2000, ...
The Manchester College is the largest further education college in the United Kingdom and the largest single provider of 16-19, adult and higher education in Greater Manchester, with more than 25% of Greater Manchester’s learning provision undertaken by the college.
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Holland College
Holland College is the provincial community college for the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island . It is named after the British Army engineer and surveyor Captain Samuel Holland. History It was formed by the Government of Prince Edward Island, then led by Premier Alex Campbell, in 1969 as a result of an education reform policy undertaken as part of the Prince Edward Island Comprehensive Development Plan, which saw the closure of the province's two post-secondary institutions structured along religious lines: St. Dunstan's University and Prince of Wales College. It also led to the creati...
Sir Abdool Raman Osman State College, abbreviated as SARO SC, is a public secondary school for boys in Phoenix, Mauritius. It was found in 1996 as the Royal College of Phoenix and was renamed in late 1996 after Sir Abdool Raman Osman, the first Governor-General of Mauritius. The school became a National College in 2007.
The Technical University of Crete is a state university under the supervision of the Greek Ministry of Education which was founded in 1977 in Chania, Crete. The first students were admitted in 1984. The purpose of the institution is to conduct research, to provide under-graduate and graduate educational programs in modern engineering fields as well as to develop links with the Greek industry. It is highly ranked among the Greek technical universities in terms of research productivity, research funding, scientific publications and citation per faculty member. It uses Daedalus as part of the em...
ISL Engineering College is affiliated to Osmania University, and is approved by the All India Council for Technical Education Estd: 2008, it is a private engineering college located in Hyderabad, Telangana. The college is run and maintained by the Ahmed Memorial Educational society. The college offers bachelor of engineering in six courses and two masters Courses, namely Artificial Intelligence & Data Science, Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics and communication Engineering, Information technology & Mechanical engineering
St. Joseph's College for Women, Alappuzha, is a Catholic women's college in Alappuzha, Kerala, India, affiliated to the University of Kerala. Situated at Convent Square on National Highway 47, it is the first such college in Alappuzha district.
Imperial University is a higher education institute in Lahore, Pakistan that offers programs in disciplines including Engineering, Management Sciences, Computing, Information Technology, Applied Technology, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Commerce, Medicine, Architecture and Fashion Designing.
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Adesh University
Adesh University is private university in Bathinda, Punjab, India. The university was established in 2012 under Adesh University Act, 2012 . The campus is spread out on 100-acre land. Associated colleges Adesh Institute of Medical Sciences & ResearchAdesh College Of Paramedical SciencesAdesh Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical SciencesAdesh College of NursingAdesh College of PharmacyAdesh Institute Of Dental Sciences & Research
The Walter Reed Tropical Medicine Course at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research is one of the many Tropical Medicine Training Courses available in the US and worldwide . It is an intensive 5-day course and a 3-day short course, created to familiarize students with tropical diseases they may encounter overseas. The course is open to Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, ESO, 18D, or other medical personnel. The course is run by the military and designed for personnel of the US Military and several other US government agencies.
The Crozer Theological Seminary was a Baptist seminary located in Upland, Pennsylvania. Martin Luther King Jr. was a student at Crozer Theological Seminary from 1948 to 1951, and graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity degree.
Kirti M. Doongursee College Autonomous is located in Dadar , Mumbai-400028 Maharashtra, India. History The college was founded by the Deccan Education Society as Bombay College. The foundation stone was laid by Maharshi Dhondo Keshav Karve and the college started operating in 1954. In 1960, Bombay College was renamed Kirti M. Doongursee College in a ceremony in the presence of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the first Vice President of India.
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Shelton College
Shelton College was a private, Christian, liberal arts college that was located in Cape May, New Jersey. It was involved in a landmark case requiring religious schools to acquire a state license to grant academic degrees.
Berry College is a private liberal arts college in the Mount Berry community adjacent to Rome, Georgia. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools . Berry College was founded on values based on Christian principles in 1902 by Martha Berry.
The Pontifical North American College is a Roman Catholic educational institution in Rome, Italy, that prepares seminarians to become priests in the United States and elsewhere. The NAC also provides a residence for priests who are pursuing graduate work at other pontifical universities in Rome. The NAC also has a continuing education program for veteran priests.
SRM University, Andhra Pradesh , also known as SRM University, Amaravati, is a private university located near Neerukonda village in Mangalagiri mandal of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh, India, in the area of the planned capital city Amaravati. The university was established in 2017 by the SRM Trust through the Andhra Pradesh Private Universities Act, 2016. It offers undergraduate, postgraduate courses and Ph.D programmes in engineering, liberal arts and basic sciences.
Al-Jāmiʿah Dār al-Maʿārif al-Islāmiyyah , popularly known as Darul Marif, is a Qawmi jamiah situated at Bahaddarhat, Chittagong, Bangladesh. Sultan Zauq Nadvi is the founder director of the Jamiah.
Bangladesh Islami University is a private university located at Gopibag, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. History Bangladesh Islami University was opened in 2006 by prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia at the request of Syed Kamaluddin Zafree, a prominent Islamic scholar. Syed Kamaluddin Zafree later became a member of the governing body of the university.
Jamiatul Uloom Al-Islamia Lalkhan Bazar , popularly known as Lalkhan Bazar Madrasah , is a well-known Qawmi madrasah situated in the Lalkhan Bazar area of port city Chittagong. The jamia is founded by Mufti Izharul Islam.
Islamic Research Center Bangladesh, popularly known as Bashundhara Islamic Research Center, is a higher Islamic research institution situated at Bashundhara, Dhaka. Faqihul Millat Mufti Abdur Rahman was the principal founder of the institution.
St Peter's College, Wexford is an Irish secondary school and former seminary located in Summerhill, overlooking Wexford town. It is a single-sex school for male pupils. Currently, the school's population is over 770.
The Marquette University Opus College of Engineering is one of the primary colleges at Marquette University, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The college oversees curricula related to the research and application of engineering and its various subfields.
Northern Caribbean University is a private, liberal-arts institution owned and operated by the Jamaica Union Conference and the Atlantic Caribbean Union Mission of Seventh-day Adventists, and is located in Jamaica. With its main campus only 2 miles south of Mandeville town, in Manchester, and three other campuses situated in Kingston, Montego Bay and Salem Runaway Bay, St. Ann, the university offers a number of professional, pre-professional and vocational programmes in a spiritually wholesome and aesthetically pleasing atmosphere. Established in 1907, NCU currently enjoys an average yearly...
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Moneague College
Moneague College is a multidisciplinary institution located in Moneague, Saint Ann, Jamaica on the main road between Kingston and Ocho Rios. The college is partly situated in the former colonial-era Moneague Hotel.
Langston University is a public land-grant historically black university in Langston, Oklahoma. It is the only historically black college in the state and the westernmost HBCU in the United States. The main campus in Langston is a rural setting east of Guthrie. The University also serves an urban mission, with University Centers in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. The university is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.
Istanbul Ticaret University is a foundation university which was founded in 2001 by the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce Education and Social Services Foundation. Istanbul Ticaret University, which provides education and training in two different campuses in Istanbul has the intense support of ITO. It is a city university which is located in the most central points of Istanbul with six faculties, 24 departments, four institutes and 65 postgraduate programs.
The National School of Sciences formerly known as the National Institute of Science and Technology , was established in 1993. It is located in Lainchour, Kathmandu, Nepal. The patron of the institute is Madhav Prasad Baral, who is also the academic in charge and similarly vice principal is Pranita Sharma Baral.The school offers science and management courses, primarily focusing on science. The institute is a part of a larger NIST Foundation which has multiple other branches which offer education from the secondary level up to the graduate levels.
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Riara University
Riara University is a Private University located along Mbagathi Way in Nairobi, Kenya. Location The university's main campus is just next to Nyayo Highrise Estate in Kibera, Nairobi County, a fifteen minutes drive from Nairobi Central Business District.
The Benguet State University is a state university in the province of Benguet, Philippines. Its main campus is in La Trinidad. History It started as the La Trinidad Farm School, which was elevated to Trinidad Agricultural School in 1920. The school reopened after World War II and became the La Trinidad Agricultural High School. Four months later, it was nationalized and renamed as the Mountain National Agricultural School . It was soon converted into the Mountain National College , Mountain Agricultural College , and Mountain State Agricultural College in 1969 through Republic Act 5923.
Catholicate College, Pathanamthitta, established in 1952, is an institution of higher education at Pathanamthitta of Kerala, India. Catholicate College belongs to the first group of colleges in Kerala to receive academic accreditation from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council . In the fourth cycle of re-accreditation, the college has been re-accredited by NAAC in A++ grade with CGPA of 3.53. The college is owned by Malankara Orthodox Church, founded by Catholicos Moran Mar Baselios Geevarghese II. The college was originally planned by Geevarghese Mar Philoxenos, Metropolitan; ...
Ocean County College is a public community college in Ocean County, New Jersey. Its main campus is in Toms River. Other locations include the Southern Education Center in the Manahawkin section of Stafford Township and multiple off-campus sites throughout Ocean County.
Christ Church College, Kanpur is a college established in 1866, affiliated with Kanpur University, in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. Earlier in 1840, SPG Mission School was established to educated Christian students. Later its name turned to present one. It is managed by Church of North India . Agra Diocese, managed by the Christ Church College Society, Kanpur.
Antioch University is a private university with multiple campuses in the United States and online programs. It is the offshoot of Antioch College, which was founded in 1852. Antioch College's first president was politician, abolitionist, and education reformer Horace Mann. In 1977, the College network was re-incorporated as Antioch University to reflect its growth across the country into numerous graduate education programs. It operates four campuses located in three states, as well as an online division and the Graduate School of Leadership and Change. All campuses of the university are regi...
Ilahia College of Arts and Science , located in Moovattupuzha, Ernakulam, Kerala state, India, is an arts and science college. The campus is situated 5 km from the city, set atop a hillock. ICAS was established in 1995. It is approved by the AICTE and affiliated to the Mahatma Gandhi University.
Université Sainte-Anne is a French-language university in Pointe-de-l'Église, Nova Scotia, Canada. It and the Université de Moncton in New Brunswick are the only French-language universities in the Maritime Provinces.
Polessky State University is a public university located in Pinsk, Brest Voblast, Belarus. The university was established in 2006. The university offers both undergraduate and post-graduate degree courses.
Jilin Normal University is a university in Siping, Jilin, northeast China. It was formerly known as the Siping Normal Institute . The university was founded in 1958. It is a training center for Jilin provincial teachers, and has trained more than 22,000 teachers in recent years via various types of seminars and classes.
The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University in White Plains, New York is the law school of Pace University, a private university with multiple locations in New York. Founded in 1976 as Pace Law School, the American Bar Association accredited it in 1978.
Santa Ana College is a public community college in Santa Ana, California. History In 1915, Santa Ana Junior College opened its doors to 25 students as a department of Santa Ana High School. It was the second community college founded in Orange County, behind Fullerton College, and the fourth oldest in all of California. In 1932, a charter of Gamma Sigma Fraternity International was granted. Beta Alpha Chapter was at the school from 1932 to 1938 but anti-fraternity agitation and lack of communication with the organization in the east made the chapter dormant by 1938. The 1933 Long Beach earthq...
The Kabale University School of Medicine , also known as the Kabale University Medical School, is the school of medicine of Kabale University, one of Uganda's public universities. Location The School of Medicine of Kabale University is housed on the main university campus at Kikungiri Hill, in Kabale Municipality, in the block that formerly housed the Biology, Chemistry and Physics laboratories, until a more suitable location is found. The clinical departments of the medical school are located at Kabale Regional Referral Hospital, the teaching hospital of the medical school. The geographical ...
Inver Hills Community College is a public community college in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota. Founded in 1970, the college is part of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System. The campus consists of nine buildings. Inver Hills has more than 4,000 students per semester and the college offers 27 degree associate programs in liberal education as well as career-related degrees.
The Curtis Institute of Music is a private conservatory in Philadelphia. It offers a performance diploma, Bachelor of Music, Master of Music in opera, and a Professional Studies Certificate in opera. All students attend on full scholarship.
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Al-Baath University
Al-Baath University , founded in 1979, is a public university located in the city of Homs, Syria, 180 km north of Damascus. It is Syria's fourth largest university. History The university was established in 1979; it was established by Presidential Decree No. 44 issued by Hafez al-Assad.
Wadi International University , commonly referred to as the German Syrian University, is a private, internationally oriented university, located in Wadi al-Nasara in Syria. The university was founded by German Syrian immigrants living in Germany with strong connections to German higher education institutions. The university was initially named as WGSU, Wadi German Syrian University, but was later changed to WIU, Wadi International University. WIU made strong agreements with multiple German universities such as Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, University of Oldenburg and Brandenburg Uni...
