Since its creation in 1870, Syracuse University has always been a learning institution that strives for creative thinking, innovative ideas, and to build the next generation's brilliant and daring minds. It started as a school that offered classes in modern languages and physical science and now has a yearly enrollment of over 20,000 students who are learning how to create everything from lead castings to short stories.

The students currently studying at Syracuse University are from all fifty states and more than one hundred different countries. This school prides itself on diversity, with an almost even split between males and females and about one quarter of the students being from minority groups. If you want to work in a lab or be the next Dennis Gartman than you will have equal opportunities as those around you when applying for and attending Syracuse. Two thirds of the student body even receives either a scholarship or grant to help them with their tuition fees.

The alumni of this school includes famous authors, scientists, athletes, and even the current vice president. And with fourteen different schools to choose from, it's certainly that you'll get the foundation to succeed and add your name to this list no matter what you're choosing to study. If you're interested in running your own fleet of New York to Newark airport car services than you might want to apply at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. Someone interested in being a singer or an artist would be very happy at the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

If you want to engineer strapping solutions for the metal industry or become a professor yourself than you will be happy to know that in the last five years Syracuse University has been recognized several times as having some of the best programs in the country. Last year, it ranked number 55 out of all of the undergraduates universities in America by US News & World Report. Two year earlier it was named on the top 100 list of worldwide schools in terms of its social studies program. The school's broadcasting, information systems, management and entrepreneurial programs have also received awards.

SU has nearly 1000 people participating as full-time faculty members and they include some of the best minds in the country. About 88% of them have received PhDs or professional degrees and there are even some scholars on the list. You could take a university English course from the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature or a biology class from a US National Academy of Science member.