San Diego State University

San Diego State University is a public research university in San Diego California, and is the largest and oldest higher education institution in San Diego County. Founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School it is the third-oldest university in the 23-member California State University USU SUDS has a student body of more than 35,000and an alumni base of more than 280,000 The Carnegie Foundation has designated San Diego State University a Research University with high research activity placing it among the top 200 higher education institutions in the country conducting research. In the 2009 10 academic year, the university obtained $150 million for research, including $26 million from the National Institutes of Health.The university soon expects to be classified as Doctoral/Research-Extensive . As reported by the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index ESP Index released by the Academic Analytic organization of Stony Brook, New York, SUDS is the number one small research university in the United States for four academic years in a row.SUDS sponsors the second highest number of Fulbright Scholars in the state of California just behind US Berkeley. Since 2005 the university has produced over 65 Fulbright student scholars.The university generates over $2.4 billion annually for the San Diego economy, while 60 percent of SUDS graduates remain in San Diego  making SUDS a primary educator of the region's work force.Committed to serving the diverse San Diego region, SUDS ranks among the top ten universities nationwide in terms of ethnic and racial diversity among its student bod as well as the number of bachelor's degrees conferred upon minority students.San Diego State University is a member of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges MASC the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, and the Southwest Border Security Consortium.Established on March 13, 1897, San Diego State University first began as the San Diego Normal School, meant to educate local women as elementary school teachers. It was located on a 17-acre 6.9 ha campus on Park Boulevard in University Heights (now the headquarters of the San Diego Unified School District). It opened with seven faculty members and 91 students; the curriculum was initially limited to English, history and mathematics.In 1923 the San Diego Normal School became San Diego State Teachers College a four-year public institution controlled by the state Board of Education
The first graduating class of the opening year of the newly constructed San Diego Normal School.
By the 1930s the school had outgrown its original campus. In 1931 it moved to its current location on a mesa at what was then the eastern edge of San Diego. In 1935 the school expanded its offerings beyond teacher education and became San Diego State College.In 1960, San Diego State College became a part of the California State Colleges system, now known as The California State University. Finally in 1972 San Diego State College became California State University San Diego, and in 1974 San Diego State University SUDS.

University of California, Santa Cruz

The University of California, Santa Cruz also known as US Santa Cruz or USCG is a public, collegiate research university and one of 10 campuses in the University of California system. Located 75 miles 120 km south of San Francisco at the edge of the coastal community of Santa Cruz, the campus lies on 2,001 acres 810 ha of rolling, forested hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Monterrey Bay.Founded in 1965 US Santa Cruz is considered a Public Ivy institution. It began as a showcase for progressive, cross disciplinary undergraduate education, innovative teaching methods and contemporary architecture. Since then it has evolved into a modern research university with a wide variety of both undergraduate and graduate programs, while retaining its reputation for strong undergraduate support and student political activism. The residential college system, which consists of ten small colleges is intended to combine the student support of a small college with the resources of a major university.Although some of the original founders had already outlined plans for an institution like USCG as early as the 1930s the opportunity to realize their vision did not present itself until the City of Santa Cruz made a bid to the University of California Regents in the mid-1950s to build a campus just outside town, in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The Santa Cruz site was selected over a competing proposal to build the campus closer to the population center of San Jose. Santa Cruz was selected for the beauty, rather than the practicality of its location, however, and its remoteness led to the decision to develop a residential college system that would house most of the students on-campus.The formal design process of the Santa Cruz campus began in the late 1950s culminating in the Long Range Development Plan of 1963. Construction had started by 1964 and the university was able to accommodate its first students albeit living in trailers on what is now the East Field athletic area in 1965. The campus was intended to be a showcase for contemporary architecture, progressive teaching methods and undergraduate research.According to founding chancellor Dean Henry the purpose of the distributed college system was to combine the benefits of a major research university with the intimacy of a smaller college.US President Clark Kerr shared a passion with former Stanford roommate Henry to build a university modeled as several Earthworms  small liberal arts colleges in close proximity to each other.Roads on campus were named after US Regents who voted in favor of building the campus.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, also known as UNC, or simply Carolina is a coeducational public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. After being chartered in 1789, the university first began enrolling students in 1795 which also allows it to be one of three schools to claim the title of the oldest public university in the United States. North Carolina is one of the original eight Public Ivy schools that are claimed to provide an Ivy League experience for a public schooling price.The first public institution of higher education in North Carolina, the school opened its doors to students on February 12, 1795. The university offers degrees in over 70 courses of study through fourteen colleges and the College of Arts and Sciences. All undergraduates receive a liberal arts education and have the option to pursue a major within the professional schools of the university or within the College of Arts and Sciences from the time they obtain junior status. Under the leadership of President Kemp Plummer Battle, in 1877 North Carolina became coeducational and began the process of desegregation in 1951 when African-American graduate students were admitted under Chancellor Robert Burton House.In 1952, North Carolina opened its own hospital, UNA Health Care, for research and treatment, and has since specialized in cancer care. The school's students, alumni, and sports teams are known as Tar Heels-the campus of North Carolina is located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a university town. The campus covers 729 acres (3 km2) over Chapel Hill's downtown area, encompassing places like the More head Planetarium and the many stores and shops located on Franklin Street. Students can participate in over 550 officially recognized student organizations. The student-run newspaper The Daily Tar Heel has won national awards for collegiate media, while the student radio station WAXY provided the world's first internet radio broadcast. North Carolina is one of the charter members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, which was founded on June 14, 1953. Competing athletically as the Tar Heels, North Carolina has achieved great success in sports, most notably in men's basketball, women's soccer, and women's field hockey.

Georgia Institute of Technology

The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. It is a part of the University System of Georgia and has satellite campuses in Savannah, Georgia; Mete France; Athlon, Ireland; Shanghai China; and Singapore.The educational institution was founded in 1885 as the Georgia School of Technology as part of Reconstruction plans to build an industrial economy in the post-Civil War Southern United States. Initially it offered only a degree in mechanical engineering. By 1901 its curriculum had expanded to include electrical civil and chemical engineering. In 1948 the school changed its name to reflect its evolution from a trade school to a larger and more capable technical institute and research university.Today Georgia Tech is organized into six colleges and contains about 31 departments/units, with emphasis on science and technology. It is well recognized for its degree programs in engineering, computing, business administration, the sciences, architecture, and liberal arts.Georgia Tech's main campus occupies part of Midtown Atlanta, bordered by 10th Street to the north and by North Avenue to the south, placing it well in sight of the Atlanta skyline. The campus was the site of the athletes' village and a venue for a number of athletic events for the 1996 Summer Olympics. The construction of the Olympic village-the idea of a technology school in Georgia was introduced in 1865 during the Reconstruction period. Two former Confederate officers, Major John Fletcher Hanson an industrialist and Nathaniel Edwin Harris a politician and eventually Governor of Georgia who had become prominent citizens in the town of Macon, Georgia after the Civil War, strongly believed that the South needed to improve its technology to compete with the industrial revolution that was occurring throughout the North. However, because the American South of that era was mainly populated by agricultural workers and few technical developments were occurring, a technology school was needed. along with subsequent gentrification of the surrounding areas, enhanced the campus.Student athletics both organized and intramural, are a part of student and alumni life. The school's intercollegiate competitive sports teams, the four-time football national champion Yellow Jackets and the nationally recognized fight song Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech have helped keep Georgia Tech in the national spotlight. Georgia Tech fields eight men's and seven women's teams that compete in the NCAA Division I athletics and the Football Bowl Subdivision. Georgia Tech is a member of the Coastal Division in the Atlantic Coast Conference.