I can notice that the leftmost is MIT, the tallest one is UCBerkeley, but I couldn't figure out others. May be the second one from left is Cambridge.
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2They're just buildings that look like they might be typical university buildings. Many universities have a clock tower, for example, not only UC Berkeley.– ff524Oct 10, 2016 at 17:14
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@ff524 Still no one can deny that leftmost depicts MIT– ankitOct 10, 2016 at 17:16
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4You mean the one with columns? Again, many universities have such buildings. See e.g. Columbia University.– ff524Oct 10, 2016 at 17:17
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Cambridge, England or Cambridge, USA? Both are home to famous universities.– gerritOct 10, 2016 at 18:34
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1@gerrit yes, but for all I know the universities in Cambridge, MA are usually not referred to as "Cambridge." (Furthermore, one of them was already mentioned separately.)– quidOct 10, 2016 at 20:01
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To be more precise, they look a lot like the average USA-centric image of a university.– Federico PoloniNov 7, 2016 at 8:40
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I do not think that the buildings are intended to represent particular universities, instead the are just fictional buildings that look like university buildings.
You can read more about this in the post where the designers explained their design UPDATED (APRIL 14): Design for Academia.se