8. Stanford University: Stanford University was founded in the year 1891, by Leland Stanford, a Californian railroad tycoon and politician in honor of his son, Leland Stanford, Jr.  This university is structured into seven schools which  includes academic schools of Humanities and Sciences and Earth Sciences as well as professional schools of Business, Education, Engineering, Law, and Medicine. Stanford University is situated in Stanford, California. More than 50 Stanford faculty, staff, and alumni are Nobel Prize winners; apart from that Stanford has the largest number of Turing award winners for a single institution.

7. University of California – Los Angeles: Positioned in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California,United Staes, University of California – Los Angeles extends over 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines. This university is structured into five undergraduate colleges, seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. It was ranked 1^st for most economically diverse university amid "elite schools".