BEXLEY, Ohio, April 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Best College Reviews, a ranking service for American colleges and universities, has released a list of 45 of the Most Exotic Universities in the World. Data gathered from university websites, the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), city websites, and Wikipedia were used to create this ranking.
The full ranking can be viewed here: http://www.bestcollegereviews.org/features/most-exotic-universities/
The word exotic means, "Originating in or characteristic of a distant foreign country, attractive or striking because colorful or out of the ordinary, of a kind not used for ordinary purposes or not ordinarily encountered." For college students with wanderlust, studying at a foreign university could be the best decision they ever make. Never before have young people had the opportunities now available to study in some of the world's most incredible locations. We have compiled a list of some of the most exotic universities in the world, from the shores of Africa, the ancient city of Jerusalem, the outback of Australia, to the cultured heart of Medieval Europe – college students, the world is waiting.
Nick Plato, the article's author, said this about the list: "I'm ever grateful for my undergraduate and graduate experience, but it was my backpacking in Europe that I feel truly opened my eyes to myself and the world. Researching great universities in amazing cities and locations I continually found myself imagining countless young men and woman getting that combined experience of my fulfilling college days together with life-changing and eye-opening experiences in foreign places."
The list of 45 schools includes (in alphabetical order):
Alexandria University – Alexandria, Egypt
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – Thessaloniki, Greece
Bosphorus University – Istanbul, Turkey
Central University of Venezuela – Caracas, Venezuela
Chulalongkorn University – Bangkok, Thailand
Gadjah Mada University – Yogyakarta, Indonesia
King Saud University – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Kyoto University – Kyoto, Japan
Mumbai University – Mumbai, India
Moscow State University – Moscow, Russia
National Taiwan University – Taipei, Taiwan
National University of San Marcos – Lima, Peru
National University of Singapore – Singapore
Oxford University – Oxford, England
Shanghai Jiao Tong University – Shanghai, China
Stellenbosch University – Stellenbosch, South Africa
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Jerusalem, Israel
The University of New South Wales – Sydney, Australia
Tomsk State University – Tomsk, Russia
Tsinghua University – Beijing, China
University of Basel – Basel, Switzerland
University of Cape Town – Cape Town, South Africa
University of Chile – Santiago, Chile
University of Coimbra – Coimbra, Portugal
University of Edinburgh – Edinburgh, Scotland
University of Freiburg – Freiburg, Germany
University of Helsinki – Helsinki, Finland
University of Iceland – Reykjavík, Iceland
University of Lagos – Lagos, Nigeria
University of Melbourne – Melbourne, Australia
University of Oslo – Oslo, Norway
University of Otago – Dunedin, New Zealand
University of Padua – Padua, Italy
University of Queensland – Brisbane, Australia
University of Salamanca – Salamanca, Spain
University of Sao Paulo – Sao Paulo, Brazil
University of Sydney – Sydney, Australia
University of Tokyo – Tokyo, Japan
University of Vienna – Vienna, Austria
University of Witwatersrand – Johannesburg, South Africa
University of Zurich – Zurich, Switzerland
Uppsala University – Uppsala, Sweden
Utrecht University – Utrecht, The Netherlands
Xiamen University – Xiamen, China
Yonsei University – Seoul, South Korea
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