After a period of decline, Bologna was reorganized in 1860 and resumed its place among Italy's foremost universities.
Cambridge is home to one of the world's foremost universities; Newmarket, in Suffolk, is a world-famous centre for horse racing.
He held lectureships at some of the world's foremost universities, including Harvard, where, starting in the 1980s, he taught regularly for many years; Oxford; and the University of California, Berkeley.
It looked like Imperial College had lost its liberal bearings: a ban on hijab at one of Britain's foremost universities would have set a dangerous precedent (College security ban on hijabs and hoodies, November 24).
This soon became the foremost university school of education in the United States.
Tune in to the steady murmur of intellectual conversation or, better still, eavesdrop on the posturing and plans for youthful high jinks, the hallmarks of one of France's foremost university towns.
In 1872 she sat for the entrance examination at the University of Michigan, then the foremost university to which women were admitted, and although she proved deficient in some areas, the deep impression she made on the university's president, James B. Angell, induced him to admit her.
It would appear from the context of Bacon's works for the Pope that the remedies had to do with educational matters at Paris, which at this time was the foremost university of the Christian commonwealth.
Considered one of the foremost research universities in the United States, the university has very high research activity and its comprehensive graduate program offers doctoral degrees in the humanities, social sciences, and STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) as well as professional degrees in medicine, law, pharmacy, nursing, social work and dentistry.
Ann Arbor is home to the University of Michigan, one of the foremost research universities in the United States.
Peking University has maintained its position as the foremost nontechnical university in China.
