Which colleges are considered top elite in the US?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Same types of post over and over again. OP, you need to get a real hobby

I'll bet that you post this same response repeatedly. If you don't like a thread topic, then just ignore it rather than spending time trying to ruin the experience for others.

Ruin the experience for others? Hahahahahahahahaha! What a joke!

[Anonymous]

Harvard
Yale
Stanford
Columbia
Princeton
MIT
Penn
Chicago
Northwestern
Johns Hopkins
Cornell
Brown
Duke
Caltech
Williams
Amherst
Dartmouth

fin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harvard
Yale
Stanford
Columbia
Princeton
MIT
Penn
Chicago
Northwestern
Johns Hopkins
Cornell
Brown
Duke
Caltech
Williams
Amherst
Dartmouth

fin.

You forgot UVA.

[Anonymous]

Gotta be Northeastern

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gotta be Northeastern

+1 Northeastern. Way harder to get into than Michigan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For what major? Or do you not actually care about academics and teaching quality?

Not decided yet but leaning engineering or CS.

So you may want to ask which schools are top for engineering or for CS. This will be a different list from your first question. The list will be different yet again if you would like the schools with the best reputation for undergraduate teaching in these disciplines or if you prefer a particular size school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does elite mean to you?

Ideally it would be colleges with best faculty, high quality education, diverse social group of students and career service.

Best faculty in which area? Most schools will spend more to attract talent in particular areas and be weaker in other areas.

[Anonymous]

Amherst, NEU are the next Ivies

[Anonymous]

No one considers NEU elite. Not even the most deluded and shameless of NEU boosters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one considers NEU elite. Not even the most deluded and shameless of NEU boosters.

???

[Anonymous]

Elite is subjective. There is no correct answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For what major? Or do you not actually care about academics and teaching quality?

Not decided yet but leaning engineering or CS.

As a non-expert, I would think:
MIT
Cal Tech
Cornell
Rice
Carnegie Mellon
Harvey Mudd
state tech colleges (Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Colorado School of Mines, etc.) and flagships

Here are some lists from the “experts”:
https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankings

https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/eng-rankings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one considers NEU elite. Except for the most deluded and shameless of NEU boosters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:any ivy league, Stanford, MIT, Cal Tech, Duke, Chicago, Northwestern, Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Pomona.

Below that non-ivies could be Hopkins, Georgetown, UVA, Michigan, and Cal Berkley. State schools by definition are less prestigious.

I'd agree with ivy league, Stanford, MIT, Cal Tech, Duke but the rest although decent schools are hardly elite and fall in with your non-vies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For what major? Or do you not actually care about academics and teaching quality?

Not decided yet but leaning engineering or CS.

As a non-expert, I would think:
MIT
Cal Tech
Cornell
Rice
Carnegie Mellon
Harvey Mudd
state tech colleges (Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Colorado School of Mines, etc.) and flagships

Here are some lists from the “experts”:
https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankings

https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/eng-rankings

VT is like 40th in the US for CS whereas schools like UMD are listed from 11th to 16th in various credible rankings.

Please use US News or CSRankings.org for more specialized ranking like ML or Systems.