To make the university a preeminent undergraduate academic institution, administrators decided to implement President Hutchins' philosophy of secular perennialism.

DeVeaux vision of a preeminent institution of learning which would train young men in academics, trade professions and to give them an education that did not neglect religious training.

In addition, the University has been described as one of New York City's preeminent institutions of higher education.

Today, the Center is known in the United States as a preeminent institution for the training of Americans with China-focused careers.

The long-term goal of the University, according to McShane's plan, is to make Fordham the country's preeminent Catholic institution of higher learning.

In addition to extensive publishing, Kaufman has delivered speeches and lectures at a variety of preeminent institutions across the globe.

Started in 1939 by parents from the recently closed privately owned Damon School, the school is currently a preeminent institution for boy's education in San Francisco.

The university was founded in 1887 and has evolved into the preeminent institution of higher learning in southeast Alabama.

A running joke in the legal community is that Princeton's fictional legal division is also the world's preeminent institution in the formerly non-existent field of space law.

But last week, two of the country's preeminent institutions had cause to rejoice.