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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Lebanon College
Lebanon College was a two-year private not-for-profit college located in Lebanon, New Hampshire. It was founded in 1956, and closed in 2014, due to financial difficulties. In 2015 Lebanon College facilities and certain programs were purchased by the public community college system of New Hampshire. After renovations to the main academic building, the Lebanon campus of River Valley Community College opened in January 2016.
The Royal Agricultural University , formerly the Royal Agricultural College, is a public university in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England. Established in 1845, it was the first agricultural college in the English-speaking world. The university provides more than 30 land-based undergraduate and postgraduate programmes to students from over 45 countries through the School of Agriculture, the School of Business and Entrepreneurship, the School of Equine and the School of Real Estate and Land Management.
The Beijing Normal University – Hong Kong Baptist University United International College is a public college in Zhuhai, Guangdong, China. It is a partnership higher education institution co-funded by Beijing Normal University and Hong Kong Baptist University. The college is accredited by the Ministry of Education of China.
Albertus Magnus College is a private Roman Catholic university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was founded in 1925 by the Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs . Its campus is in the Prospect Hill neighborhood of New Haven, near the border with Hamden.
The National Textile University is a public university located in Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan. It is a premier institute of textile education in Pakistan. Overview The campus is spread over . The university is in the outskirts of city of Faisalabad, about from the city center on Sheikhupura road.
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University of Guyana
The University of Guyana, in Georgetown, Guyana, is Guyana's national higher education institution. It was established in April 1963 with the following Mission: "To discover, generate, disseminate, and apply knowledge of the highest standard for the service of the community, the nation, and of all mankind within an atmosphere of academic freedom that allows for free and critical enquiry."
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Argosy University
Argosy University was a system of for-profit colleges owned by Dream Center Education Holdings , LLC and Education Management Corporation. On February 27, 2019, the US Department of Education stated that they were cutting off federal funding to Argosy University. According to Inside Higher Education, "The Education Department said that the roughly 8,800 students enrolled at Argosy campuses could seek to transfer their credits elsewhere or apply for loan cancellation in the event their campus shuts down."
Beijing Language and Culture University is a national public university located in Beijing, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of China. The university has the main aim of teaching the Chinese language and culture to foreign students. However, it also takes Chinese students specializing in foreign languages and other relevant subjects of humanities and social sciences, and trains teachers of Chinese as a foreign language. It used to be the only institute of this kind in China. After the push for massification of higher education starting in the 90s, nowadays many other universities in almost every major city in China have a similar offer.
Cleveland State Community College is a public community college in Cleveland, Tennessee. It is operated by the Tennessee Board of Regents. Like most community colleges, emphasis is on associate's degree-level classes, but it also offers some third- and fourth-year college-level courses as well, through arrangements with other institutions.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan is a regulatory college established in 1962 by a special act of the Parliament of Pakistan to oversee the postgraduate medical education and professional development. It offers certifications following postgraduate training in specialties of medicine, surgery and dentistry.
Pearl River Community College is a public community college in Poplarville, Mississippi. It was founded as Pearl River County Agricultural High School in 1909 and became the first junior college in Mississippi in 1921.
Vellore Institute of Technology is a private research deemed university located in Katpadi in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. The institution offers 66 Undergraduate, 58 Postgraduate, 15 Integrated, 2 Research and 2 M.Tech Industrial Programmes. It has campuses in Vellore and Chennai and sister universities in Amaravati, Bhopal and Bengaluru.
Slippery Rock University, formally Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania , is a public university in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania. SRU is a member of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education . The university has been coeducational since its founding in 1889. Its campus is on .
Raja Bahadur Venkatarama Reddy Telangana State Police Academy , formerly Andhra Pradesh Police Academy, is a government institution in the state of Telangana, India that prepares candidates for service in the police and other law enforcement agencies, forensic scientists, and criminal justice.
CIIM - The Cyprus International Institute of Management is a European business school with two campuses, one in Nicosia and one in Limassol, Cyprus. The non-profit business school is accredited by the Cyprus Ministry of Education & Culture. The school is a member of the European Foundation for Management Development.
The North Orange County Community College District is a community college district in Orange County, California that offers associate degrees and adult education certificates. It includes two colleges: Cypress College and Fullerton College.
Polytechnic College of Pennsylvania was an engineering school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in 1853. It was the eighth school of engineering in the United States and the first to offer degree programs in mechanical engineering, mining engineering, and architecture.
Bexley Hall was an Episcopal seminary from 1824 until April 27, 2013, when it federated with Seabury-Western Theological Seminary as Bexley Hall Seabury-Western Theological Seminary Federation, also known as Bexley Seabury. For three years, Bexley Seabury seminary operated from two locations—in Bexley, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus, and in Chicago, Illinois —until July 2016 when it consolidated at a single campus location at Chicago Theological Seminary in Chicago's Hyde Park/Woodlawn district. Bexley Seabury is one of 10 official seminaries of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
Metropolitan Community College is a public community college system in the U.S. state of Missouri. The system consists of five separate campuses in Kansas City, Independence, and Lee's Summit. The campuses had a total enrollment of 15,770 in 2019. Their athletic teams are known as the Wolves.
Georgian Court University is a private Roman Catholic university in Lakewood Township, New Jersey. Founded in 1908 by the Sisters of Mercy, the university has more than 1,600 undergraduates and nearly 600 graduate students.
Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases is a government medical postgraduate institute and Hospital situated at Faujdarhat in Chittagong. It was established in 2013. There is an adjacent 20 bed Infectious Disease Hospital.
Atlanta's John Marshall Law School is a private for-profit law school in Atlanta, Georgia. It was founded in 1933 and named for John Marshall, the fourth chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. AJMLS is accredited by the American Bar Association.
Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, is a Nigerian university previously known as Rivers State College of Education from June 1971- October 2009. History of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, was previously known as Rivers State College of Education from June 1971- October 2009.
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Ngee Ann Polytechnic
Ngee Ann Polytechnic is a post-secondary education institution and statutory board under the purview of the Ministry of Education in Singapore. Established in 1963 by the Ngee Ann Kongsi, NP is renowned for its business programmes and central focus on entrepreneurship education. It is also the only polytechnic in Singapore to be affiliated with a foundation.
Kyiv National Linguistic University is a public university located in Kyiv, Ukraine. It was founded in 1948 as Kyiv State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages. Kyiv National Linguistic University was ranked the fourth best Ukrainian university specializing in Social Science and Arts and Humanities in 2012.
State University "Kyiv Aviation Institute" is a university located in Kyiv, Ukraine. It started in 1933 when the Kyiv Aviation Institute was founded on the basis of the mechanical department of Kyiv Machine-Building Institute. The university consists of five institutes, ten separate faculties, two lyceums, six colleges and Military Training Department. The university has its own Culture and Arts Center, Aviation Medical Center, Flight Training Center, Training and Sports Wellness Center, Scientific and Technical Library, “Aviator” newspaper and a yacht club. The university also supports the S...
Nizhyn Gogol State University is an academic institution in Ukraine, located in Nizhyn, Chernihiv Oblast. It is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in Ukraine. It was originally established as the Nizhyn Lyceum of Prince Bezborodko; since then it has changed its name several times. Currently, it consists of seven faculties and about 8,000 students study there.
The CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology is a national-level research center located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research . IICT conducts research in basic and applied chemistry, biochemistry, bioinformatics, chemical engineering and provides science and technology inputs to the industrial and economic development of the country. IICT has filed one of the maximum CSIR patents.
Founded in 1969, Blue Ridge Community College is a public two-year post-secondary community college with three campuses located in North Carolina's Henderson County and Transylvania County. These locations include the Henderson County Campus in Flat Rock, the healthcare-focused Health Sciences Center in Hendersonville, and the Transylvania County Campus in Brevard. Blue Ridge is one of 58 community colleges of the North Carolina Community College System .
The New University of Brussels was a private university active in Brussels, Belgium between 1894 and 1919. Its origins were in the Free University of Brussels, a liberal institution, which became the subject of controversy in December 1892 when the anarchist geographer Élisée Reclus was prevented from teaching for political reasons. In the aftermath, a number of liberal and socialist members of faculty began to plan for an independent "new" university, eventually created in October 1894. It was libertarian in political outlook, and attracted a significant proportion of international students and faculty members.
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Bradford School
Bradford School was a small, private, for-profit career college in Columbus, Ohio. It originally was founded in 1911 and moved to its current suburban campus location in 2003. It had on-campus housing for students but more than half of students lived in the Columbus area and commute.
Northwestern Health Sciences University is a private university focused on alternative health care and located in Bloomington, Minnesota. The university has educational programs in chiropractic, Traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, therapeutic massage, Allied health professions, and human biology. The university was founded in 1941 by John B. Wolfe, DC.
Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University is a public university in Bangladesh. It is the only specialised veterinary university in Bangladesh. It is located at Khulshi, Chattogram. The chancellor of the university is president Mohammed Shahabuddin. Generally, the public universities in Bangladesh offer degree on department. Like every other agricultural university in Bangladesh, CVASU offers degree on faculty.
East Delta University is a private university in Chittagong, Bangladesh. It received the government's license in 2006 and started its academic operation in February 2008. East Delta University is approved by the Government of Bangladesh as well as the Bangladesh University Grants Commission under the nation's private university rules.
Asian University for Women is an independent, international university in Chittagong, Bangladesh seeking to educate a new generation of leaders in Asia. AUW admits students solely on the basis of merit, regardless of their family's income level. Currently, 85% of AUW students are on scholarship support with many being the first in their family to attend a university. AUW offers two pre-collegiate bridge programs called Access Academy and Pathways for Promise, as well as a three-year undergraduate program based on the liberal arts and sciences. As of 2023, AUW has around 1300 students enrolled...
The University of Information Technology & Sciences commonly known as UITS is a private university in Baridhara, Dhaka, Bangladesh. History The University of Information Technology and Sciences , the first IT-based private university in Bangladesh, was founded on August 7, 2003, as a non-profit organization.
Southern University Bangladesh is a private university in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Almost since it became a university in 2002, it has been at odds with the University Grants Commission . The main issues have been the university's opening of unauthorized branch campuses, their failure to establish a permanent campus on time, and a dysfunctional board of trustees split by internal conflicts.
Port City International University or PCIU is a private university located the port city Chittagong, Bangladesh. The university was established under the Private University Act in 2013. History The founding president of PCIU is Mr. AKM Enamul Hoque Shameem, MP, and chairman is Thamina Khatun and the founding vice-president and vice-chairman is Mr. Zahir Ahammed.
The National University of Lanús is an Argentine national university, located in Remedios de Escalada, Lanús Partido, Buenos Aires Province. It was created on June 7, 1995 by national law . History The university was created on June 7, 1995 by national law . It first operated in La Habana 568, Valentín Alsina, in a building loaned by the Federation of Meat.
The Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies , previously Latvia University of Agriculture , is a university in Jelgava, Latvia, specializing in agricultural science, forestry, food technology and related areas.
The University of Daugavpils is a public university in Daugavpils, Latvia, and the largest regional university in the country. History The university was founded in 1921 as a teachers’ college. Its director between 1923 and 1940 was Valērija Seile.
The English and Foreign Languages University known as EFLU is a central university for English and foreign languages located in Hyderabad, India. It is the only such university dedicated to languages in South Asia.
William Mitchell College of Law was a private, independent law school located in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States, from 1956 to 2015. Accredited by the American Bar Association , it offered full- and part-time legal education in pursuit of the Juris Doctor degree. On December 9, 2015, Hamline University School of Law merged into William Mitchell College of Law, and became the Mitchell Hamline School of Law.
Universidad de Manila, also referred to by its acronym UdM, is a public coeducational city government funded higher education institution in Manila, Philippines. It was founded in April 26, 1995 with the approval by Mayor Alfredo Lim of Manila City Ordinance No. 7885 “An Ordinance Authorizing the City Government of Manila to Establish and Operate the Dalubhasaan ng Maynila ". It offers both academic and technical-vocational courses and programs.
The Military College of Signals, also known as MCS, is a military school located in Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan. It is a constituent college of the NUST, Islamabad. MCS consists of two engineering departments, EE & CSE. The college puts a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.
The Florida Institute for Sustainable Energy is a research institute at the University of Florida designed to develop energy efficient and environmentally sustainable technologies and practices, educate the public regarding energy and environmental technologies and trade-offs, and inform the larger policy debate on urgent, global issues of sustainable energy and environment. The objective is to improve the region and United States energy security by developing indigenous and environmentally sustainable energy resources while promoting energy policies that have a positive impact on Florida's un...
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Mohawk College
Mohawk College of Applied Arts and Technology is a public college of applied arts and technology located in Hamilton, Ontario. Established in 1966, the college currently has five main campuses: the Fennell Campus on the Hamilton Mountain, the Marshall School of Skilled Trades and Apprenticeship Campus in Stoney Creek, the Mohawk-McMaster Institute for Applied Health Sciences at McMaster University., the Centre for Aviation Technology Campus and a Mississauga campus at Square One in partnership with triOS a private career college.
Salish Kootenai College is a private tribal land-grant community college in Pablo, Montana. It serves the Bitterroot Salish, Kootenai, and Pend d'Oreilles tribes. SKC's main campus is on the Flathead Reservation. There are three satellite locations in eastern Washington state, in Colville, Spokane, and Wellpinit. Approximately 1,207 students attend SKC. Although enrollment is not limited to Native American students, SKC's primary function is to serve the needs of Native American people.
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Bidhannagar College
Bidhannagar Government College in Salt Lake, Kolkata, established on 25 June 1984, is a West Bengal State University affiliated college run by the Government of West Bengal. It was formerly affiliated to the University of Calcutta. Apart from undergraduate courses, the college offers postgraduate courses in Anthropology, Botany, Chemistry, Education, Microbiology and Zoology.
