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Harvard, Yale, Duke, Stanford and Oxford are all universities with recognizable names. But can you guess which is which from a one-sentence description?Harvard University was once known as Harvard College. Notable alumni include Barack and Michelle Obama, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.
New York University was established in 1831. Notable alumni include author Frank McCourt and Ma Ying-jeou, the president of Taiwan.
Oxford University is considered the oldest English-speaking university. Notable alumni include Oscar Wilde and J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, was founded in 1961. Notable alumni include astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Ronald McNair.
Caltech was established in 1891. The university's motto is "The truth shall make you free."
The University of Cambridge was founded in 1209. Notable alumni include Stephen Hawking and Charles Darwin.
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Stanford University was founded by former California Gov. Leland Stanford. Notable alumni include Elon Musk and John F. Kennedy.
Columbia University, formerly known as King's College, was established in 1754. Notable alumni include Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Alexander Hamilton.
Yale University, formerly Collegiate School, was established in 1701. Notable alumni include Meryl Streep, Vincent Price and Oliver Stone.
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Princeton University, formerly College of New Jersey, was originally established to train Presbyterian ministers. Notable alumni include John Nash and Queen Noor of Jordan.
The University of Tokyo was formerly called Imperial University. Notable alumni include 11 Nobel laureates.
The University of California, Berkeley was formerly named University of California. Notable alumni include Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
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The Cornell University motto is, "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." Notable alumni include Bill Nye the science guy and Christopher Reeve.
Imperial College London was established in 1907. Notable alumni include H.G. Wells.
University College London was established in 1826. Notable alumni include Mahatma Gandhi and Chris Martin.
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The University of Chicago was established in 1890. Notable alumni include Carl Sagan and Milton Friedman.
The University of Pennsylvania was established in 1740. Notable alumni include Elon Musk and Warren Buffett.
The University of Michigan was founded in 1817. Notable alumni include Gerald Ford, Gilda Radner and Mike Wallace.
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University of California, Los Angeles was established in 1919. Notable alumni include Ben Stiller, Tim Robbins and George Takei.
Johns Hopkins University was established in 1876. Notable alumni and faculty include 36 Nobel Laureates.
The University of Exeter is a public university with over 22,000 students. Notable alumni include J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series of books.
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Duke University was established in 1838. Notable alumni include Richard Nixon and Apple CEO Tim Cook.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was established in 1789. Notable alumni include Michael Jordan and Andy Griffith.
The University of Edinburgh was established in 1582. Notable alumni include Alexander Graham Bell, Robert Louis Stevenson and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Brown University was established in 1764. Notable alumni include John D. Rockefeller Jr. and John F. Kennedy Jr.
The London School of Economics was established in 1895. Notable alumni and staff include Nobel Prize winners.
The University of Dundee was established in 1967. The school was originally established in 1881 as University College
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The Queen Mary University of London has more than 21,000 students. The university includes schools in Humanities and Social Sciences, Medicine and Dentistry, and Science and Engineering.
Dartmouth College's motto is "A voice crying out in the wilderness." That's "Vox clamantis in deserto" in Latin.
The University of Texas at Austin was established in 1883. Notable alumni include Janis Joplin, Eli Wallach and Matthew McConaughey.
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The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign was established in 1867. Notable alumni include 22 Pulitzer Prize winners.
The University of Southern California was established in 1880. The school motto is "Let whoever earns the palm bear it."
The University of Bristol is home to almost 22,000 students. The university does not have an actual campus, but is housed in the center of the city in an area called the University Precinct.
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Texas A&M University was founded in 1876. Notable alumni include astronauts William A. Pailes, Michael E. Fossum and Steven Swanson.