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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Universiti Tenaga Nasional is a private university, located in Selangor, Malaysia, with GLC university status. It is wholly owned by the public-listed Tenaga Nasional Berhad , established in 1997. History Universiti Tenaga Nasional commenced operation in 1976 as Institut Latihan Sultan Ahmad Shah , which served for many years as the corporate training center for Tenaga Nasional Berhad and its predecessor, the National Electricity Board. In 1994, ILSAS was transformed into an institute of higher learning and renamed Institut Kejuruteraan Teknologi Tenaga Nasional . It offered academic program...
Shoreline Community College is a public community college in Shoreline, Washington. It is located in a residential area east of Shoreview Park. The college contains over 80 acres and continuously serves 12,000 full- and part-time students. It opened in 1964 and offers degree and certificate programs.
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Woosuk University
Woosuk University is a private university located in Wanju County, North Jeolla Province and Jincheon County, North Chungcheong Province, Republic of Korea. History The origins of Woosuk University began with the establishment of Woosuk Academy. Founder Wooseok Dr. Seo Sang-sang took over Hanjin Academy, which operated Dongsan Middle School at the time, and renamed it Wooseok Academy named after his pseudonym 'Wooseok', and established and operated Dongsan Comprehensive High School together with Dongsan Middle School did On January 10, 1979, Woosuk University was established under the name of Jeonju Woosuk Women's University with approval from the Ministry of Education at the time.
Black Hills State University is a public university in Spearfish, South Dakota. Close to 4,000 students attend classes at its campus in Spearfish, with a satellite campus in Rapid City that is shared with South Dakota State University, and through distance offerings. Enrollment comes from 64 out of 66 counties in South Dakota, 43 states, and 29 countries. BHSU is governed by the South Dakota Board of Regents.
The Nazarene Theological College , located in Didsbury, south Manchester, is an affiliated college of the University of Manchester. It offers theological degrees in various specialised disciplines across BA, MA, MPhil, and PhD. NTC has its roots in the Church of the Nazarene and belongs to the World Methodist Council.
The International University of Andalucía or UNIA is a university in Andalusia, set up in 1994 to complete the region's educational system. It offers postgraduate and specialty courses. It has campuses in four Andalusian provinces: Huelva, Jaén, Málaga, and Seville.
The Columbia College of Nursing is a nursing school, now located in Glendale, Wisconsin, a northern suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. History The Knowlton Hospital Training School was founded at the same time as Knowlton Hospital itself, in 1901. When Knowlton became Columbia Hospital in 1909, the name was changed to the Columbia Hospital School of Nursing. In June 2010, the College moved to a new structure in Glendale, as the existing Columbia Hospital was shutting down and the buildings were to be sold to the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Columbia College of Nursing was acquired by...
The College of Fisheries, Mangalore, Karnataka is a fisheries education and research institute in India. It was established in 1969 by the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore. The college has become part of the newly established Karnataka Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries Sciences University, Bidar.
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University of Žilina
The University of Žilina was established on 1 October 1953 as the College of Railways in Prague. In 1959, the institution changed its name to the University of Transport and moved to Žilina. As a result of the increasing role of communications within the curriculum and research orientation of the university, the name was amended to the University of Transport and Communications in 1980.
St. Francis De Sales College, also known as SFS College, Nagpur, established in 1956, is a general degree college in Nagpur, Maharashtra. This college offers different courses in science and arts. It is affiliated to Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University.
Northwestern California University School of Law is an online-based law school in Sacramento, California, founded in 1982. It is accredited by the State Bar of California, and is approved to award the Juris Doctor degree upon completion and graduation from the program. Although it is accredited by Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California, it is not accredited by the American Bar Association , as the ABA generally does not accredit online-only law schools.
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Cesar Ritz Colleges
César Ritz Colleges Switzerland is a hospitality school with campuses in Le Bouveret and Brig, Switzerland. The school offers bachelor's and master's degree programs in partnership with Washington State University and the University of Derby , and shares its campuses with sister school Culinary Arts Academy Switzerland.
The Kalinga State University is a state university in the Philippines. It is mandated to provide advance institutions in arts, agricultural and natural sciences as well as in technological and professional fields. Its main campus is located in Tabuk, Kalinga.
Cape Cod Community College, known locally as "Four Cs", is a public community college in West Barnstable, Massachusetts. It was established in 1961, the second institution to open as part of what is now a 15 community college system in Massachusetts. Cape Cod Community College is the only community college and one of three colleges on Cape Cod. It awards Associate in Arts and Associate in Science degrees and various academic certificates in a wide variety of programs. The college offers access to on-campus bachelor's and master's degree programs in partnership with: Bridgewater State Universi...
The Hubert Kairuki Memorial University is a private medical university located in Mikocheni ward of Kinondoni District of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It is an accredited university recognized by the government Tanzania through the Tanzania Commission for Universities . HKMU is a World Health Organization recognized medical university and appears in the International Medical Education Directory .
Shri Krishan Chander Government Degree College, Poonch, established in 1955, is a co-educational general degree college in Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir, India. This college serves the people of the Poonch and its adjoining areas. This college is one of the oldest degree colleges in Jammu and Kashmir and offers courses in arts, science and commerce. It is affiliated to University of Jammu.
Carnegie Mellon University in Australia is the Australian campus of Carnegie Mellon University's H. John Heinz III College established in 2006 in the city centre of Adelaide, South Australia. The move by Heinz to establish a campus in Australia was announced in Pittsburgh in 2005 by South Australian Premier Mike Rann, following negotiations with Carnegie Mellon President Jared Cohon.
The La Consolacion College Daet is a private Catholic school run by the Augustinian Sisters of Our Lady of Consolation in Daet, Camarines Norte, Philippines. It was founded in 1948 and named Daet Parochial School by Monsignor Antonino O. Reganit, the then parish priest of St. John the Baptist Parish.
The Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans was the name of two teaching hospitals in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Both hospitals were part of the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans commonly referred to as the LSU Medical School in New Orleans.
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Eston College
Eston College is a private Christian post-secondary educational institution located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Since 1944 it has served as the primary training center for the Apostolic Church of Pentecost .
Federal University Oye Ekiti is a government owned and operated Nigerian university. The university is in the ancient city of Oye-Ekiti and Ikole-Ekiti making it two campuses. The university was founded in 2011 as one of the federal universities established by the federal government of Nigeria, led by President Goodluck Jonathan.
Azerbaijan Technical University is a public university, specialized in engineering, located in Baku, Azerbaijan. The University has 9 schools and 54 departments, 884 faculty members and approximately 6500 students.
Dedan Kimathi University of Technology is a public, coeducational technological university in Nyeri, Kenya. It is one of 22 public universities in Kenya, having been a constituent college of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology since the year 2007 until it was chartered to become a fully fledged public university on 14 December 2012.
Institute of Infrastructure Technology Research and Management is an autonomous state university located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Established in 2013, the IITRAM campus is located in Maninagar in the eastern part of Ahmedabad which was an important center of trade and commerce due to its strategic location on the banks of the Sabarmati River.
The Universidad del Tepeyac is a university located north of Mexico City and was founded in 1975.
St. Mary's College, Sulthan Bathery is a Post Graduate Aided College managed by the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church of the East is located in Sulthan Bathery, Wayanad district, Kerala. It was established in the year 1965. St. Mary's College is the first higher education College in Wayanad. The college is affiliated to the University of Calicut. The college was NAAC accredited with B plus in 2006. In the year 2012, it is re-accredited with A grade by the NAAC. The college offers 11 under graduate and 8 post graduate courses. It has a campus strength of 1622+ students and teaching staff of 88+....
The University of North Dakota College of Arts and Science is the liberal arts and sciences unit of the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The College of Arts and Sciences was established in 1883, and is the largest and oldest of nine colleges at the University, with over 200 regular faculty members in eighteen departments. The departments are organized into four divisions: fine arts, social sciences, humanities, and math-natural sciences. The college currently enrolls approximately 3,600 undergraduate students, about 34% of the University's total undergraduate enrollment.
National Active Non-Commissioned Officers School is a general military school created by the French Army in 1963 to train career NCOss on active service. It is a reorganization of the previous Saint-Maixent NCO School.
Shree Guru Gobind Singh Tricentenary University, commonly called as SGT University, is located in Budhera, Gurugram district, Haryana, India, in the vicinity of Sultanpur National Park. History The university came into existence in 2013 through a Government of Haryana Legislative Act. The University is operated by the Dashmesh Educational Charitable Trust.
Owens Community College is a public community college with campuses in Toledo and Findlay, Ohio. Owens was founded in 1965 in Toledo and chartered in 1967. The Findlay campus opened in 1983. Owens Community College is named after Michael J. Owens, the Toledo-based inventor of automated glass bottle-making technology.
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.
Al-Jāmiʿah al-Islāmiyyah al-Ibrāhīmiyyah , also known simply as Jamia Islamia Ibrahimia and popularly as the Ujani Madrassah , is a Qawmi jamia in Kachua upazila of Chandpur. It was established in 1901 by Qari Ibrahim Ujani, a student of Rashid Ahmad Gangohi.
Al-Jamiatul Arabia Lil Baneena Wal Banaat Haildhar , popularly known as the Haildhar Madrasa is the first Qawmi madrasa having Female Branch in Bangladesh. The madrasah is founded by Allama Abdul Malek Halim.
San Antonio College is a public community college in San Antonio, Texas. It is part of the Alamo Colleges District and the oldest public two-year college in Texas. The college has an average semester enrollment of 22,028 credit students and an average annual enrollment of 16,000 other-than-credit students. San Antonio College is the largest single-campus community college in Texas and one of the largest in the United States.
Southern Christian College is a college in Midsayap, Cotabato, Philippines. History Southern Christian College has its story of origin, the people or circumstances that launched it, and who's who managed its course thereafter. Through evolutionary development — the original concept of SCC as a Protestant school was shaped and reshaped into an organic collection of traditions and distinctive ways. Rev. Proculo Rodriguez of Silliman University visited Midsayap in 1937. He met Mr. Bibiano Quiñones and Mr. and Mrs. Fernando dela Serna and they struck the spark of putting up a Protestant school in Mindanao.
The Liceo de Cagayan University is a private non-sectarian basic and higher education institution in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines. It was founded in 1955 by Rodolfo N. Pelaez of Cagayan de Oro and his wife Elsa P. Pelaez of Cebu City.
Chief Dull Knife College is a public tribal land-grant community college on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Lame Deer, Montana. It is an open-admission college with about 141 students. On average, more than half of its graduates move on to four-year colleges.
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American University
The American University is a private university located in Managua, Nicaragua. It was founded in 1992 and offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in a variety of professional fields including law, medicine, business, and engineering. While most degree programs include English language requirements, Spanish is the language of instruction for all courses except those offered by UAM College. The university website cites that more than 5,000 students have graduated from UAM since its founding.
The George Enescu National University of Arts is a public university in Iași, Romania, founded in 1860. It was named in honor of the composer George Enescu. History The institution was established on 1 October 1860, as the Music and Declamation School, by decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza, followed 26 days later, by the foundation of the School for Sculpture and Painting. In October 1864, Cuza approved the Charter for the Music and Declamation Conservatory and the Charter for the National Schools of Fine Arts .
The Amazonas State University is a Brazilian public university operated by the state of Amazonas, located in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. It was established in 2001 by a state law that turned the University of Technology of Amazonas into the UEA. In 2011, UEA was ranked the best university of the state in an evaluation made by the Ministry of Education.
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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 .
Ecclesia College is a private evangelical Christian work college in Springdale, Arkansas. It is accredited by the Association for Biblical Higher Education. The college was founded in 1975 by Oren Paris II, the college's first chancellor and the father of recording artist Twila Paris. The college's name is derived from the Latin word ecclesia, derived in turn from the Ancient Greek term ἐκκλησία which means "called-out ones". It was used in ancient Greece to describe those who had been called out from general society to come aside and discuss the affairs of state; it is commonly translated as...
The Russian Islamic University is Russia's first official Islamic university. It was founded in 1998 in Kazan, Tatarstan. The university consists of three departments and four sub-departments . In 2008 the university had around 70 faculty and more than 400 students. The university changed its status to Islamic institute in 2009.
Pioneer Pacific College was a private for-profit college with its main campus in Beaverton, Oregon. Founded in 1981, it primarily offered Associate degrees and certificate programs. History Pioneer Pacific College began in 1981 as an electronics school in Corvallis, Oregon, named Skilltronics. Founded by Irene and James Childers, the training school was moved to Wilsonville in 1983. Pacific Education Corporation purchased Skilltronics in 1989 and changed the name to Pioneer Pacific College with accreditation coming in 1995. Former Oregon legislator Kelly Clark co-owned the college in the early...
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University of Tabuk
University of Tabuk is located in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, founded in 2006. UT is home to a number of research centers and institutes, including the Prince Fahd Bin Sultan Research Chair for Renewable Energy, the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Chair for Research and Studies in Entrepreneurship, and the Center for Environmental Studies.
National Research University of Electronic Technology is a Russian technical university in the field of microelectronics, information and computer technologies and one of 29 National Research Universities. University was founded in 1965 and is based in Zelenograd, Moscow .
McDaniel College Budapest is the European campus of McDaniel College, an accredited, private college of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, located in Westminster, Maryland, United States. It offers a standard American four-year undergraduate program in Hungary, leading to an American Bachelor of Arts degree. Students have the option to complete the final two years of study at the main campus of the college in the United States. In addition, students enrolled in Budapest earn credits that are fully transferable to any other American college or university.
