Sentence examples for first-rate university from inspiring English sources

Agnew went on to Rice, a first-rate university with an improving football program.

Under Jim Crow, Cohen said, Georgia could never have hoped to attract enough professors of distinction to become a first-rate university.

The location redefined the university just as the university was beginning to redefine itself, as a first-rate university rather than a finishing school for Egypt's elite.

UNC's a first-rate university and they produces mensches who are also champions - Michael Jordan, Big Game James Worthy, Vince Carter, Bobby Jones, Brad Daugherty.

We want to turn first-rate universities into second-rate businesses.

Thus in a state that became known for first-rate universities, it was illegal to buy a cocktail for most of the 20th century.

If U.S. Steel was to keep its Pittsburgh executives happy, and if it was to attract new ones from elsewhere, it needed a city with first-rate universities, the Steelers and the Pirates and -- oh, yes -- a symphony orchestra.

His indictment of the IMF's policies during the Asian financial crisis outraged the Fund rather less than his claim that it hires third-rank economists from first-rate universities.

With that kind of money, plus the federal matching dollars it would bring, Texas could have several first-rate universities, strong public schools and community colleges, and health and human services that aren't an embarrassment.

Many first-rate universities -- M.I.T. and the University of Chicago in the United States, and Oxford and Cambridge in England, to name a few -- do not have elite sports programs or do not offer athletic scholarships, but this has not diminished their reputations for academic excellence.

These were important but insufficient prescriptions by what Nobel Laureate Joe Stiglitz said were "second-tier economists from first-rate universities".