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  2. Vanderbilt University - Wikipedia

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    Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1 million endowment in the hopes that his gift and the greater work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the ...

  3. Vanderbilt houses - Wikipedia

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    "Château Vanderbilt", a Louis XIII style manor house built in 1907 along with three thoroughbred race tracks in Carrières-sous-Poissy, France. Designed by M. Henri Guillaume. Emily Thorn Vanderbilt (1852–1946), (Wife of William Douglas Sloane) Townhouse (1882), 642 Fifth Avenue, part of the Vanderbilt Triple Palace, provided to them by her ...

  4. Vanderbilt University School of Engineering - Wikipedia

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    Institute for Space and Defense Electronics, the largest such academic facility in the world. Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management Studies (VCEMS) Vanderbilt Engineering Center for Transportation Operations and Research (VECTOR) Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education; Vanderbilt Institute of Imaging Science

  5. Architecture school in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Each year, the journal DesignIntelligence ranks both undergraduate and graduate architecture programs that are accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board. . These rankings, collectively called "America's Best Architecture & Design Schools" are obtained by surveying hundreds of practicing architecture leaders with direct and recent experience hiring and supervising architec

  6. Academic Ranking of World Universities - Wikipedia

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    The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), also known as the Shanghai Ranking, is one of the annual publications of world university rankings. The league table was originally compiled and issued by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2003, making it the first global university ranking with multifarious indicators.

  7. List of architecture schools - Wikipedia

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    Institut Supérieure d'Architecture Et d'Urbanisme (I.S.A.U), Gombe, Kinshasa Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism Archived 2023-10-04 at the Wayback Machine of the Université Catholique de Bukavu (UCB), Bukavu, South Kivu

  8. College and university rankings - Wikipedia

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    The QS World University Rankings are a ranking of the world's top universities produced by Quacquarelli Symonds published annually since 2004. In 2024, they ranked 1500 universities, with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Imperial College London, University of Oxford, Harvard University and University of Cambridge taking the top 5 spots. [15]

  9. List of tallest buildings in North America - Wikipedia

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    54th-tallest building in the world; tallest building in the world from 1931 until 1972; tallest man-made structure in the world 1931–1967; first building in the world to contain over 100 floors; tallest building built in the U.S. and the world in the 1930s. [17] [18] 10 Bank of America Tower: New York City: United States 366 (1,200) 55 2009 11