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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Kentucky State University is a public historically black land-grant university in Frankfort, Kentucky. Founded in 1886 as the State Normal School for Colored Persons, and becoming a land-grant college in 1890, KSU is the second-oldest state-supported institution of higher learning in Kentucky. In fall 2019, total undergraduate enrollment was 2,029 with a total graduate enrollment of 142.
Bowling Green State University is a public research university in Bowling Green, Ohio. The main academic and residential campus is south of Toledo, Ohio. The university has nationally recognized programs and research facilities in the natural and social sciences, education, arts, business, health and wellness, humanities and applied technologies. The institution was granted a charter in 1910 as a normal school, specializing in teacher training and education. The university has developed from a small rural normal school into a comprehensive public research university. It is a part of Univers...
Somali National University is a national university in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. Its campus grounds were located four kilometers from the Mogadishu International Airport . It was established in 1971, but was "officially" founded in 1954. It closed in 1990. After closing down for a number of years, the university reopened in August 2014.
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Trisakti University
Trisakti University is Indonesia's largest private university located in Jakarta, Indonesia. Trisakti University, is the only private university in Indonesia which was established by the Government of the Republic of Indonesia. Founded on 29 November 1965, the university has more than 20,000 active students and has produced more than 100,000 alumni. Trisakti University currently employs 742 tenured faculty members and 160 part-time lecturers .
Trinity Western University is a private Christian liberal arts university with campuses in both Langley and Richmond, British Columbia. The school is a member of Universities Canada. TWU was established in 1962 and enrols approximately 5,000 students with a suburban-rural campus in Langley. Trinity Western is Canada's largest privately funded Christian university with a broad-based liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies curriculum, offering 45 undergraduate majors and 17 graduate and post-graduate programs. In the classroom, TWU has 16:1 student-faculty ratio, average first-year cl...
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Sunway College
Sunway College is a private college based in Bandar Sunway, Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. It was established on 25 July 1987 by Jeffrey Cheah. It has a 10-hectare campus comprising academic and residential blocks adjacent to the Sunway Lagoon theme park.
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The One Academy
The One Academy of Communication Design is a private arts and design institute. Its headquarters is located in Bandar Sunway, Selangor, with a northern campus in George Town, Penang. History The One Academy was founded in 1991 by Tatsun Hoi and Veronica Ho.
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Sunway University
Sunway University, located in Bandar Sunway, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia, is a private university. The university is on a 10-hectare campus within Sunway City. The university offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes taught in English.
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.
Adams State University is a public university in Alamosa, Colorado. The university's Adams State Grizzlies athletic teams compete in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. History Adams State was founded in 1921 as a teacher's college. Billy Adams, a Colorado legislator who would later become a three-term governor of Colorado, worked for three decades before obtaining the authorization to found Adams State Normal School in 1921, to provide higher education opportunities for teachers from remote and rural areas of Colorado, such as the San Luis Valley, and see them work in those same areas. In 1926, Harriet Dalzell Hester became the university's first graduate.
Moscow Sun Yat-sen University, officially the Sun Yat-sen Communist University of the Toilers of China, was a Comintern school, which operated from 1925–1930 in the city of Moscow, Russia, then the Soviet Union. It was a training camp for Chinese revolutionaries from both the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party that was split off from the Communist University of the Toilers of the East. Its relationship to the Comintern's International Liaison Department remains unclear.
Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University is a university in Fez city, Morocco, which was founded in 1975. It is named for Mohammed ben Abdallah. See also List of universities in Morocco External links
Webster University is a private university with its main campus in Webster Groves, Missouri. It has multiple branch locations across the United States and countries across Europe, Asia, and Africa. In 2021, Webster enrolled 6,741 students. The university has an alumni network of around 170,000 graduates worldwide.
Our Lady of the Lake University , known locally as the Lake, is a private Catholic university in San Antonio, Texas. It was founded in 1895 by the Sisters of Divine Providence, a religious institute originating in Lorraine, France, during the 18th century. The Texas chapter of the institute still sponsors the university. Our Lady of the Lake University was the first San Antonio institution of higher education to receive regional accreditation and its Worden School of Social Service is the oldest Social Work school in Texas.
Don Bosco College, Tura was established in 1987 to provide education to the people of Meghalaya. The college employs over 100 teaching and support personnel. The college enrolls over 2000 students from the various states of North East India. In addition to its co-educational high school, Don Bosco College Tura offers Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Commerce, and Bachelor of Business Administration degrees.
The University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya is a private university in India located at Ri-Bhoi, in the state of Meghalaya. It is the first State Private University in the entire Northeast India. The University is established through the University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya Act, 2008 of the Government of Meghalaya. This University is a project of Education Research & Development Foundation , the largest educational network in the North Eastern region of India. It has been accredited with 'A' by NAAC.
Texas A&M University–Kingsville is a public research university in Kingsville, Texas. It is the southernmost campus of the Texas A&M University System. The university developed the nation's first doctoral degree in bilingual education. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity" and accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools .
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Juntendo University
is a private university in Japan. Its headquarters are on its campus in Bunkyo, Tokyo, for the School of Medicine and in Inzai, Chiba, for the School of Health and Sports Science. The university was established in 1838 for medical and in 1946 for other departments. It is nicknamed Jundai.
The University of Western Macedonia is a multi-campus university in Western Macedonia region of Greece. It was founded in Kozani in 2003 . In 2019, the University of Western Macedonia was merged with the Technological Education Institute of Western Macedonia .
Osaka Dental University is a private university in Hirakata, Osaka, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1911, and it was chartered as a university in 1947. There is a hospital associated with the university located near Temmabashi Station in Chūō-ku, Osaka.
Palacký University Olomouc is the oldest university in Moravia and the second-oldest in the Czech Republic. It was established in 1573 as a public university led by the Jesuit order in Olomouc, which was at that time the capital of Moravia and the seat of the episcopacy. At first it taught only theology, but soon the fields of philosophy, law and medicine were added.
Tohoku Fukushi University is a Japanese private university in Sendai. Notable alumni Politics Shintaro ItoItsunori Onodera Sports BaseballMamoru KishidaTakashi SaitoKazuhiro SasakiKazuhiro WadaKen KadokuraTomoaki KanemotoFigure skatingAkiko SuzukiGolfHidemasa HoshinoHiroshi IwataYūsaku MiyazatoHideto TaniharaHideki Matsuyama
The is a private university in Tobetsu, Hokkaido, Japan, established in 1974. The president is Norio Niikawa. Organization Undergraduate Pharmaceutical scienceDentistryNursing & social servicesPsychological scienceRehabilitation science
The Japanese Red Cross Akita College of Nursing is a private university located in the city of Akita, Akita Prefecture, Japan. Facilities Undergraduate School of NursingDepartment of Nursing Graduate Graduate School of Nursing
The Mongolian University of Science and Technology was founded in 1959 as a part of the National University of Mongolia and started training the Industrial Economists and Construction Engineers. As a result of the formation of engineering and technical teaching staff, in 1969 the National University of Mongolia was affiliated the Polytechnic Institute with five schools such as: Civil Engineering, Power Engineering, Geology and Mining, Mechanical Engineering, and Engineering Economics had established with 13 departments. In 1982, by the decision of the Council of Ministers of the People's Repu...
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Tokyo Dental College
Tokyo Dental College is a private university in the city of Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1890, and it was chartered as a university in 1946. It is the only institution specializing exclusively in the teaching of dentistry in all of Japan.
Tokushima Bunri University is a private university in Tokushima, Japan. History In 1895, Sai Murasaki founded a private vocational school. In 1966, "Tokushima Women's University" was founded. In 1972, "Tokushima Women`s University" was renamed "Tokushima Bunri University".
The Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu is a public university in Sibiu, Romania. It is named after the philosopher, poet, and playwright, Lucian Blaga. It was founded in 1990 with five schools: Letters, History and Law, Medicine, Food and Textile Processing Technology, Engineering and Sciences.
Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry , known by the abbreviation Dr. Y. S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, is a state university located in district Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India. It has exclusive mandate of education, research and extension in horticulture and forestry.
Cenderawasih University is a university in Jayapura, Papua province, Indonesia. The university is the leading educational institution in the province. The university has faculties in economics, law, teacher training and education, medical, engineering, and social and political science. Until 2002 the university had a faculty of agricultural sciences at Manokwari, which was then separated to form the Universitas Negeri Papua. The university is divided into two areas: mainly the "Kampus lama" which is in the Jayapura suburb of Abepura and the "Kampus baru" which is in the hillside of Waena va...
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Silliman University
Silliman University is a private university in Dumaguete, Philippines. Established in 1901 as Silliman Institute by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, it is the first American and Protestant founded institution of higher learning in the Philippines and in Asia.
Mugda Medical College & Hospital is a public medical college and a 500-bed healthcare facility in Dhaka. It is the 4th government medical college in Dhaka and 30th in Bangladesh. At first, the facility was built as a general hospital which was later turned into a full-fledged medical school. Its construction began in 2006. The hospital opened in July 2013, and started admitting patients in early 2014. The hospital includes a 13-story building on .
The University of Potsdam is a public university in Potsdam, capital of the state of Brandenburg, Germany. It is mainly situated across three campuses in the city. Some faculty buildings are part of the New Palace of Sanssouci which is known for its UNESCO World Heritage status.
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GSFC University
GSFC University is located in Vadodara, Gujarat, India. It was established in 2015 by Gujarat State Fertilizers and Chemicals Limited. They appointed Dr Nikhil Zaveri as its provost during August 2019.
ITM Vocational University is a private university located in Waghodia, Vadodara district, Gujarat, India. The university was established in 2014 by the ITM Group of Institutions through The Gujarat Private Universities Act, 2014.
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Parul University
Parul University is a private university in Vadodara, Gujarat, India. It was established in 2009 as the Parul Group of Institutes, and was given university status in 2015. Recognition Parul University is recognized by University Grants Commission, the National Assessment and Accreditation Council and the National Board of Accreditation, an autonomous body of All India Council for Technical Education .
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Sumandeep Vidyapeeth
Sumandeep Vidyapeeth is private, deemed university located in Piparia, Waghodia, Vadodara, Gujarat, India. It is accredited "A++" grade by NAAC. Institutes and departments K. M. Shah Dental College and HospitalShrimati B. K. Shah Medical Institute and Research CentreCollege of PhysiotherapySumandeep Nursing CollegeDepartment of PharmacyDepartment of ManagementSumandeep Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital
Minnesota State University, Mankato is a public university in Mankato, Minnesota, United States. It is Minnesota's second-largest university and has over 145,000 living alumni worldwide. Founded in 1868, it is the second-oldest member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system and is commonly referred to as the flagship institution. It was established as the Second State Normal School in 1858 and officially opened as Mankato Normal School a decade later. Minnesota State University, Mankato is a significant contributor to the local and state economies, adding $827 million annually...
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Northwest University
Northwest University is a public university located in Xi'an, China. Co-funded by the Ministry of Education of China and Shaaxi Provincial Government, it is one of the nation's leading comprehensive universities. It was founded in 1902 as one of the oldest educational institutions in Northwest China. It is a Chinese state Double First Class University Plan university identified by the Ministry of Education of China.
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Huachung University
Huachung University was a Christian university in Wuhan, in China's Yangtze valley, originally called Boone University, was founded by the union of several Christian universities in 1924 and renamed Huachung in 1929. The university expanded until it was forced to retreat during the Second Sino-Japanese War, but returned to Wuhan in 1945. It was incorporated into the national university system in 1951.
The University of California College of the Law, San Francisco , is a public law school in San Francisco, California. The law school was formerly known as the University of California, Hastings College of the Law from 1878 to 2023.
Claflin University is a private historically black university in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Founded in 1869 after the American Civil War by northern missionaries for the education of freedmen and their children, it offers bachelor's and master's degrees.
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Davenport College
Davenport College is one of the fourteen residential colleges of Yale University. Its buildings were completed in 1933 mainly in the Georgian style but with a gothic façade along York Street. The college was named for John Davenport, who founded Yale's home city of New Haven, Connecticut. An extensive renovation of the college's buildings occurred during the 2004–2005 academic year as part of Yale's comprehensive building renovation project. Davenport College has an unofficial rivalry with adjoining Pierson College.
Gulu University School of Medicine , also known as Gulu University Medical School is the school of medicine of Gulu University, one of Uganda's public universities. The medical school was founded in 2004, two years after Gulu University was established. The school provides medical education at diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
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New European College
New European College is a private international business school in Munich, Germany, that offers state-accredited university programs in business administration and international management in English.
Munich Business School is a private international business school located in Munich . Munich Business School confers degrees exclusively in business administration. It offers one undergraduate Bachelor program, 4 graduate Programs , a terminal DBA degree in cooperation with Sheffield Hallam University as well as double degree programs in cooperation with numerous other business schools from around the world. Munich Business School ranks among the top private Business Schools in Germany and in the top 25 performers group regarding internationality and student mobility.
The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich is one of the oldest and most significant art academies in Germany. It is located in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich, in Bavaria, Germany. In the second half of the 19th century, the academy became one of the most important institutions in Europe for training artists and attracted students from across Europe and the United States.
The University of Television and Film Munich is a publicly funded film school in Munich, Germany. The school was established in 1966 by decree of the Bavarian government. The University of Television and Film Munich is one of Germany's most reputable film schools with about 350 students enrolled.
