Top-3 US Universities MIT. The promised land of all IT professionals. It was here that many famous physicists, programmers, engineers and technologists studied, who now hold key positions at Microsoft, Apple, Hewlett Packard and other large companies. Even fictional characters have graduated from MIT - like Gordon Freeman (Half Life) and Tony Stark (Marvel). Let's add a few ministers and presidents who also studied here. Harvard. One of the oldest universities, adjacent to MIT and a member of the "Ivy League" - an elite association of private educational institutions in America. Significant people of our era studied here: Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Barack Obama. Even Natalie Portman - Thor's fiancée from the movie - graduated from this university. In the US job market, a Harvard graduate will always find a good job. Stanford. Located in sunny California, where Terminator became governor. The founders of Google, Yahoo! and PayPal. Americans consider this place ...