The Top 50 National Universities by Average Rank from the 8 Most Influential Rankings
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Anonymous
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If you take the average ranking from US News, WSJ/THE, Niche, Forbes, Washington Monthly, Money, Wallet Hub, and Degree Choices, you get an overall ranking of:
1. MIT 2. Stanford 3. Princeton ---Big Gap--- 4. Harvard 5. Yale 6. Duke 7. Penn ---Big Gap--- 8. Caltech 9. Northwestern 10. Columbia 11. Vanderbilt 12. UCLA 13. Berkeley 14. UMich 15. Dartmouth 16. Georgetown 17. Johns Hopkins 18. Cornell 19. Notre Dame 20. WashU (tie) 20. UChicago (tie) 22. UNC 23. UF (tie) 23. UVA (tie) 25. CMU ---Big Gap--- 26. Georgia Tech 27. UCSD 28. USC 29. Emory 30. UIUC 31. UCD 32. UCI 33. UW Seattle 34. BC 35. Wake Forest 36. UT Austin 37. UW Madison ---Big Gap--- 38. W&M 39. UCSB 40. Lehigh 41. Purdue ---Big Gap--- 42. Texas A&M 43. UMD 44. Virginia Tech 45. BU 46. UGA 47. NYU 48. NCSU 49. BYU 50. GW |
Anonymous
| Lol at GW making this list |
Anonymous
GW is a good school though? |
Anonymous
Very interesting. No Tufts? What ranking did it do bad on to remove it from the top 50? |
Anonymous
It's nice to see public schools near the top 10 overall. Most people don't know this, but in the early days of US News in the 1980s multiple public schools were in or near the top 10. This is definitely a better overall representation than just using US News or Wall Street Journal or Forbes. |
Anonymous
Why is this methodology useful at all? |
Anonymous
From the original post where the data was taken from: https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/xc0v5x/the_2023_supreme_t75_college_ranking_aggregating/ "In a nutshell, the rankings like Forbes, Washington Monthly, and Money care more about which schools provide high social mobility and opportunity access for lower income students while minimizing debt, rankings like WSJ/THE, Degree Choices, and WalletHub care more about pure earning potential, student outcomes, and ROI, rankings like US News care more about the achievements of students entering the college, the resources of the college, and the reputation of the college, and rankings like Niche care more about the overall student experience beyond just academics, such as student satisfaction/happiness, food, campus life and amenities, etc. So, by finding which schools are the best through an aggregate ranking, we find which schools succeed in all of these manners that singular rankings such as US News or Forbes might undervalue or miss completely." |
Anonymous
| This is dumb. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
Nice job, although I hate to concede to the Duke and Penn boosters that they may have a point. Hopefully they don't take it as far as HYPPSMD. |
Anonymous
Wow, is UChicago paying US News or something? Because it looks like they do much worse on every ranking that is not US News. Really puts them in a different light once you look outside the US News tunnel. Same with Johns Hopkins, it dropped dramatically once you look outside US News. |
Anonymous
| No Brown? |
Anonymous
| people really take time out of their day and cross reference lists to create another list? |
Anonymous
For UMC, like me, based on above, niche and wallethub rankings are more important. |
Anonymous
Both U. Chicago and Hopkins are focused on students going onto further studies, which obviously lowers their earning potential 5-10 years out from college. U. Chicago focuses on graduate/law school rather than sending students to Wall Street/top-tier consulting etc. Hopkins focuses on pre-med. Otherwise if you look at departmental rankings, Hopkins doesn't do any better than the state flagships in engineering, etc. And it doesn't send many to Wall Street/top-tier consulting. Obviously Hopkin's top tier medical school does not help much for undergraduate education, so not sure why it is such a sought after pre-med destination. Ironically the culture of stress at these universities probably reduce the students chances of getting into good graduate/law/professional schools. |