University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Public research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, part of the University of California system, with strength across the sciences, arts and professions.

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University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley)

Public research university across the bay from San Francisco, with about 33,500 undergraduates and admissions that use no standardized test scores.

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New York University (NYU)

Private university with its main campus woven into Greenwich Village around Washington Square, known for the arts, business and its global study-away network.

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Northeastern University

Private research university in Boston whose degree is built around co-op: six-month full-time work placements. About 22,600 undergraduates.

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Purdue University

Public land-grant university in the college town of West Lafayette, Indiana, with long-standing strength in engineering, aviation and agriculture.

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University of Southern California (USC)

Private research university in central Los Angeles with about 21,000 undergraduates, known for film, business, engineering and an unusually large transfer intake.

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Boston University

Large private research university strung along Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, with 17 schools and colleges and unusually strong communication and social science programmes.

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University of Florida

Public land-grant research university on one large campus in Gainesville, spanning agriculture and engineering through medicine and law.

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University of Pennsylvania

A private Ivy League university in Philadelphia, founded in 1740. Undergraduates apply to one of its four schools, including Wharton.

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