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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Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, Basara sometimes referred as IIIT, Basara is a state university in Basara, Nirmal district, Telangana, India. The university offers Undergraduate & Post Graduate degrees in various technology programmes.
Islam Medical College , established in 2010, is a private college of medicine located on Pasroor Road, Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan. It is registered with Pakistan Medical commission. PMC, affiliated with UHS and approved by Ministry of Health. Islam Teaching Hospital and Islam Central Hospital are attached to the college as training and teaching hospitals. The college enrolls 150 students for 5 year MBBS each year. Islam Medical College offers admissions in MBBS,BDS and DPT each year.
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Machon Yaakov
Machon Yaakov is a baal teshuva yeshiva for men located in Har Nof, Jerusalem, Israel. Its faculty and student body are all English speaking. It is named for Yaakov Rosenberg, founder of Machon Shlomo, a similar baal teshuva yeshiva. Beryl Gershenfeld is the rosh yeshiva of both yeshivas
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Hoshi University
Hoshi University is a private university in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan, specializing in pharmaceutical sciences. The predecessor of the school was founded 1922. After becoming coeducational in 1946, it was chartered as a university in 1950.
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Huafan University
Huafan University is an institute of higher education founded by members of the Buddhist community in Shiding District, New Taipei, Taiwan. The university consists of 4 colleges, 12 departments, 12 graduate institutes, and 5 research centers.
Sir Arthur Lewis Community College is the only community college in the island country of Saint Lucia. The college was established in 1985 and is named after Saint Lucian economist and Nobel laureate Sir Arthur Lewis.
Aklan State University Formerly known as the Aklan State College of Agriculture and the Aklan Agricultural College, the institution gained university status on April 4, 2001, with the signing of Republic Act 9055 by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Northwestern College is a private Christian liberal arts college in Orange City, Iowa. It is affiliated with the Reformed Church in America and enrolls more than 1,500 students. In addition to approximately 1,000 students in bachelor's degree programs, the college has a growing graduate school, which includes a master's degree program in physician assistant studies since June 2020. Northwestern began as an academy in 1882. It became a junior college in 1928 and a four-year college in 1961.
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Bugema University
Bugema University is a private, co-educational Ugandan university affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist education system, the world's second largest Christian school system.
The Shibaura Institute of Technology, abbreviated as Shibaura kōdai, is a private university of Technology in Japan, with campuses located in Tokyo and Saitama. Established in 1927 as the Tokyo Higher School of Industry and Commerce, it was chartered as a university in 1949.
Quezon City University , formerly known as Quezon City Polytechnic University , is a city government-funded university in Quezon City, Philippines. It was established on March 1, 1994, as the Quezon City Polytechnic, offering technical and vocational courses. It was renamed as Quezon City Polytechnic University when it was elevated into university status in 2001. Twenty years later in 2021, QCPU was renamed Quezon City University.
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Carolina University
Carolina University , formerly Piedmont International University , is a private Christian university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Carolina University offers both residential and online programs including dual enrollment, undergraduate, and graduate degrees. It is accredited by the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools and is a member of the American Association of Christian Schools .
Birsa College, Khunti is a college located in Khunti, Jharkhand, India. It is a constituent college of Ranchi University. History The college was established in 1961 by a group of philanthropists and was named after Birsa Munda. It became constituent college of Ranchi University in 1977.
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Deep Springs College
Deep Springs College is a private two-year college in Deep Springs, California. With the number of undergraduates restricted to 26, the college is one of the smallest institutions of higher education in the United States. Though it offers an associate degree, most students transfer into a four-year college after completing their studies. Those enrolled pay no tuition and are given room and board.
West Kentucky Community and Technical College is a public community college in Paducah, Kentucky. It is part of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System and was formed by the 2003 consolidation of Paducah Community College and West Kentucky Technical College. WKCTC is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges .
Gordon College of Education is a teachers college in Haifa, Israel. History Gordon College was established in Haifa in , merging the Teacher’s Seminary of the Labor Movement with the Teacher’s Seminary of the Hebrew Reali School of Haifa. The school was named for A.D. Gordon. From its foundation, it has focused on the development of teaching skills and furthered Zionist, Jewish and humanistic values. From 1953 until 1995, Gordon College was accredited to certify teachers. In 1995, it received academic accreditation to grant the Bachelor of Education Degree .
The China University of Mining and Technology is a public university located in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education, and co-sponsored with the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Emergency Management. The university is part of Project 211 and the Double First Class University Plan.
University of the Potomac is a private for-profit university with campuses in Washington, DC; Falls Church, Virginia; and Chicago, Illinois. It offers Associate of Science, Bachelor of Science, Graduate, and advanced certification programs and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
The Institute of American Indian Arts is a public tribal land-grant college in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. The college focuses on Native American art. It operates the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts , which is housed in the historic Santa Fe Federal Building , a landmark Pueblo Revival building listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Federal Building. The museum houses the National Collection of Contemporary Indian Art, with more than 7,000 items.
University of Hawaiʻi Kapiʻolani Community College, formerly Kapiʻolani Technical School, is a public community college in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. It is part of the University of Hawaiʻi System and accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges.
Teikyo University of Japan in Durham is an overseas campus of Teikyo University located on the campus of Durham University in the Lafcadio Hearn Culture Centre. The campus was established in 1990 and operates as a language and cultural exchange facility for students from Teikyo University in Tokyo.
Kherson National Technical University is a technical institution in Kherson, Ukraine. History The university was established in 1959 by a group of visiting students who were employed at Kherson Cotton, an organized training and consulting point affiliated with the Kyiv Technological Institute of Light Industry. In 1960, the Faculty of General Studies was founded, utilizing the resources and structure of the NCP as its foundation.
Rangpur Public School and College is a renowned school and college in Rangpur, Bangladesh. It was founded in 2010. It started functioning in 2010 from nursery to class V. Year passed it extended up to class XI-XII. All courses of this school and college have been affiliated with the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dinajpur.
The College of the Resurrection, popularly known as Mirfield, is an Anglo-Catholic theological college of the Church of England in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, England. The college was founded in 1902 and describes itself as "A Theological College like no other". The college has close links to the Community of the Resurrection. It trains men and women in the Anglo-Catholic tradition for the priesthood.
Dr. Abdul Haq Urdu University is a state public university established by the Government of Andhra Pradesh under A.P. State Legislature Act - 2016 located in Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India. The university is named after Dr. Abdul Haq, a renowned educationist and philanthropist of Rayalaseema who is the founder of Osmania College, Kurnool.
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Kunduz University
Kunduz University is located in Kunduz province Afghanistan. It was established as a teacher training center in 1967, and became an institution of higher learning in 1994. Kunduz University which is one of top 11 universities of Afghanistan is a co-education institute. Since 2003 Kunduz university has offered more than 8.000 graduates, including 1500 women.
Veer Kunwar Singh University was established on 22 October 1992 with its headquarters at Arrah, under the Bihar University Act 1976 [as amendment Act 9 of 1992]. It is named after Kunwar Singh, the well-known national hero and a distinguished freedom fighter of 1857.
Seminole State College is a public community college in Seminole, Oklahoma. History The college was founded as Seminole Junior College in 1931 and was renamed Seminole State College in 1996. Campus The campus is in Seminole, Oklahoma at the junction of Highway 9 W and U.S. Route 270.
The University College of the Cayman Islands is a tertiary educational institution in the Cayman Islands. History The original Community College was established as a part-time institution in 1975, and was the first government-sponsored tertiary education in the Cayman Islands.
Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University, formerly Bihar University, popularly known as Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Bihar University , is a public university located in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India. Established in 1960, the university has 38 constituent colleges and 40 affiliated colleges. It offers education from undergraduate to postgraduate and research level, as well as Distance education. It is named after B. R. Ambedkar, social reformer and the architect of Indian Constitution.
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Tampa College
Tampa College was a private business college founded as a coeducational, nonsectarian, and proprietary institution, in 1890. The school was originally located in Tampa, Florida. The final owner, Corinthian Colleges, folded the school into its Everest brand.
Contra Costa College is a public community college in San Pablo, California. It is the west campus of the Contra Costa Community College District. It is part of the California community colleges system, one of the three college systems in California.
The University of the Faroe Islands is a state-run university located in Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands. It consists of five faculties: Faculty of Faroese Language and Literature, Faculty of Social Sciences and History, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Science and Technology and Faculty of Health Sciences. The University offers bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. programs. The student body is relatively small . The University organises an annual dissertation competition open to all students. The educational language of the university is Faroese, making it the only university in the world to conduct classes officially in the Faroese language.
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Kalayaan College
Kalayaan College is a private, non-sectarian higher education institution formerly located in Marikina that has since moved to Quezon City. It was established in 2000. Kalayaan College is on Manga Road cor Aurora Blvd, near the Line 2 Betty Go-Belmonte. It was established by big names in academic institutions. The college's president, Dr. José Abueva, is a former president of the University of the Philippines.
Polytechnic University of the Philippines Quezon City is one of the satellite campuses of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines located in Commonwealth, Quezon City, Philippines. It was established in 1997. It confers undergraduate and diploma degrees.
Mohamed First University, Oujda, Morocco, was founded in 1978. The university has more than 21,200 students on the sites of Oujda and Nador . It has 590 professors and 440 personal and technical staff.
Garden City Community College is a public community college in Garden City, Kansas. It was established in 1919 to provide a means for post-secondary education for area residents. The school initially shared facilities in Sabine Hall and Calkins Hall in the 100 block of Buffalo Jones Avenue with Garden City High School and opened with a first class of less than three dozen students. The college moved to the then-new Garden City High School building in 1954. The Kansas Legislature passed the Community College Act in 1965, authorizing establishment of 22 independent colleges including GCCC. Toda...
Technological University is a university under the Ministry of Science and Technology. It is located in Hpa-an Township, Kayin State, Myanmar. History The University was founded in 1993 as Government Technical High School beside the road in field No.. It had been transformed as Government Technological Institute from 12 August 1998 and then it had been upgraded as Government Technological College on 28 December 2000. From the board of Education Committee of Government of Union of Myanmar promoted the college to be university level as Technological University from the date of 20 January 20...
Computer University, Hpa-An is located on the west bank of Salween river near the city of Hpa-an Township, Kayin State in Myanmar. The university is administered by the Ministry of Science and Technology .
Massasoit Community College is a public community college in Brockton, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1966 and named for Massasoit, the Great Sachem of the Wampanoag. Massasoit Community College is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education. It also has campuses in Middleboro and Canton.
The General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania is a state-sponsored institution of higher learning based in Vilnius, Lithuania. It was founded in 1994 by the Lithuanian Seimas, and is overseen by the Ministry of National Defense. It is named in honor of General Jonas Žemaitis, commander of the armed anti-Soviet resistance in Lithuania.
Indiana Bible College is a Bible college endorsed by the United Pentecostal Church International . Overview Founded in 1981 by Rev. Dennis Croucher of Seymour, Indiana, United States, it relocated to Indianapolis in 1988 under Rev. Joshua Carson and Calvary Tabernacle of Indianapolis, Indiana.
Villa Maria College is a private Roman Catholic college in Buffalo, New York. It was founded in 1960 by the Felician Sisters. History The college was initially a teacher-training center for sisters in the education apostolate and was established as an affiliate of the Catholic University of America. In 1961, a provisional charter was secured from the Board of Regents of the State of New York to grant Associate in Arts and Associate in Applied Science degrees to women religious.
Buxi Jagabandhu Bidyadhar Autonomous College, better known as BJB Autonomous College, is a college in Bhubaneswar in Odisha, India that offers courses at primarily the higher secondary and undergraduate levels. This institute has been named after Bakshi Jagabandhu, an eminent freedom fighter & the pioneer of the Paika Rebellion.The courses at the higher secondary level are affiliated to the Council of Higher Secondary Education, Odisha and the courses at the undergraduate and the postgraduate level are offered in affiliation with Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. It is an autonomous inst...
Zhengzhou University of Light Industry is a public university located in Zhengzhou, Henan, People's Republic of China. Founded in 1977, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry was administered successively by the Ministry of Light Industry, the National Council of Light Industry, and the State Economic and Trade Commission until it was transferred to Henan Province as an institution co-administered by the central and local authorities in 1998. Presently it has evolved into a multi-disciplinary engineering focused university promoting coordinated development of other disciplines such as Scienc...
Kawasaki City College of Nursing is a coeducational public junior college in Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The predecessor of the college was founded in 1964, and the college was chartered as a junior college in 1995.
The Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research is an Indian institute of national importance, headquartered at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Human Resource Development Centre Campus, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. The institute was established for the purpose of granting doctoral and post-doctoral degrees. The establishment of the academy allowed for a centralised institution to manage this research and was enabled by legislation of the Lok Sabha in 2010. This same legislation labelled the Academy as an "Institute of National Importance".
