8. Northwestern University
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Located in Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern is one of the best-known universities in the world, ranking 26th.
Founded back in 1851, Northwestern is known to have over 21,000 students and a staff of over 3,000 people. Students can learn a lot of subjects here, from accounting information and management, to analytics, art history, applied physics, anthropology, biotechnology, civil and environmental engineering, clinical psychology, computer engineering, computer science, Earth and planetary sciences, finance, history, journalism, literature, linguistics, music, and so on.
The University has the tenth largest endowment in the United States, currently valued at $9.6 billion. The value has, however, gone down a bit from over $10.2 billion the year before.
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