Founded in 1901 by business magnate John D. Rockefeller, Rockefeller University is a private institution for postgraduate and postdoctoral education, focused around biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics and physics. To date, the university has had 24 Nobel Prize-winners and has made several notable biomedical discoveries. Live in New York’s Upper East Side to be within easy reach of Rockefeller’s 76 cutting-edge laboratories.