2024 USN&WR Rankings for National Privates

[Anonymous]

1 Princeton
2 MIT
3 (Tie) Harvard, Stanford
5 Yale
6 UPenn
7 (Tie) CalTech, Duke
9 (Tie) Brown, JHU, Northwestern
12 (Tie) Columbia, Cornell, UChicago
15 Rice
16 (Tie) Dartmouth, Vanderbilt
18 Notre Dame
19 Georgetown
20 (Tie) CMU, Emory, WashU StL
23 USC
24 NYU
25 Boston College
26 Tufts
27 Boston University
28 Lehigh
29 (Tie) Univ Rochester, Wake Forest
31 (Tie) Case Western, Northeastern
33 (Tie) Brandeis, RPI, Santa Clara
36 George Washington, Syracuse, Univ Miami, Villanova
40 Tulane

Mixing up publics and privates doesn't seem to provide good information anymore.
If you just look at privates, not much changes and it makes good sense.

Noticeable changes are UChicago and WashU dropping for T20ish schools.
Boston College ranking higher than Tufts.
Lehigh rising, while Wake Forest and Tulane drop.

[Anonymous]

Lehigh 28 without bucknell is silly

They are interchangeable in quality

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1 Princeton
2 MIT
3 (Tie) Harvard, Stanford
5 Yale
6 UPenn
7 (Tie) CalTech, Duke
9 (Tie) Brown, JHU, Northwestern
12 (Tie) Columbia, Cornell, UChicago
15 Rice
16 (Tie) Dartmouth, Vanderbilt
18 Notre Dame
19 Georgetown
20 (Tie) CMU, Emory, WashU StL
23 USC
24 NYU
25 Boston College
26 Tufts
27 Boston University
28 Lehigh
29 (Tie) Univ Rochester, Wake Forest
31 (Tie) Case Western, Northeastern
33 (Tie) Brandeis, RPI, Santa Clara
36 George Washington, Syracuse, Univ Miami, Villanova
40 Tulane

Mixing up publics and privates doesn't seem to provide good information anymore.
If you just look at privates, not much changes and it makes good sense.

Noticeable changes are UChicago and WashU dropping for T20ish schools.
Boston College ranking higher than Tufts.
Lehigh rising, while Wake Forest and Tulane drop.

Agree 100%.

I separate university & college rankings into 4 categories:

Private National Universities

Public National Universities

Public National University Honors Colleges

Liberal Arts Colleges (LACs)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lehigh 28 without bucknell is silly

They are interchangeable in quality

Not sure that I understand your comment. Lehigh is a National University, while Bucknell is an LAC, however there are similarities among Lehigh, Lafayette, and Bucknell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lehigh 28 without bucknell is silly

They are interchangeable in quality

Lehigh has 1,770 graduate students; Bucknell has just 44 grad students. This is a significant distinction & explins why Lehigh is a National University while Bucknell is an LAC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1 Princeton
2 MIT
3 (Tie) Harvard, Stanford
5 Yale
6 UPenn
7 (Tie) CalTech, Duke
9 (Tie) Brown, JHU, Northwestern
12 (Tie) Columbia, Cornell, UChicago
15 Rice
16 (Tie) Dartmouth, Vanderbilt
18 Notre Dame
19 Georgetown
20 (Tie) CMU, Emory, WashU StL
23 USC
24 NYU
25 Boston College
26 Tufts
27 Boston University
28 Lehigh
29 (Tie) Univ Rochester, Wake Forest
31 (Tie) Case Western, Northeastern
33 (Tie) Brandeis, RPI, Santa Clara
36 George Washington, Syracuse, Univ Miami, Villanova
40 Tulane

Mixing up publics and privates doesn't seem to provide good information anymore.
If you just look at privates, not much changes and it makes good sense.

Noticeable changes are UChicago and WashU dropping for T20ish schools.
Boston College ranking higher than Tufts.
Lehigh rising, while Wake Forest and Tulane drop.

Agree 100%.

I separate university & college rankings into 4 categories:

Private National Universities

Public National Universities

Public National University Honors Colleges

Liberal Arts Colleges (LACs)

+1

These ranking systems are getting crazier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1 Princeton
2 MIT
3 (Tie) Harvard, Stanford
5 Yale
6 UPenn
7 (Tie) CalTech, Duke
9 (Tie) Brown, JHU, Northwestern
12 (Tie) Columbia, Cornell, UChicago
15 Rice
16 (Tie) Dartmouth, Vanderbilt
18 Notre Dame
19 Georgetown
20 (Tie) CMU, Emory, WashU StL
23 USC
24 NYU
25 Boston College
26 Tufts
27 Boston University
28 Lehigh
29 (Tie) Univ Rochester, Wake Forest
31 (Tie) Case Western, Northeastern
33 (Tie) Brandeis, RPI, Santa Clara
36 George Washington, Syracuse, Univ Miami, Villanova
40 Tulane

Mixing up publics and privates doesn't seem to provide good information anymore.
If you just look at privates, not much changes and it makes good sense.

Noticeable changes are UChicago and WashU dropping for T20ish schools.
Boston College ranking higher than Tufts.
Lehigh rising, while Wake Forest and Tulane drop.

Best post of this thread, IS News should split the rankings (and Lehigh is too high).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1 Princeton
2 MIT
3 (Tie) Harvard, Stanford
5 Yale
6 UPenn
7 (Tie) CalTech, Duke
9 (Tie) Brown, JHU, Northwestern
12 (Tie) Columbia, Cornell, UChicago
15 Rice
16 (Tie) Dartmouth, Vanderbilt
18 Notre Dame
19 Georgetown
20 (Tie) CMU, Emory, WashU StL
23 USC
24 NYU
25 Boston College
26 Tufts
27 Boston University
28 Lehigh
29 (Tie) Univ Rochester, Wake Forest
31 (Tie) Case Western, Northeastern
33 (Tie) Brandeis, RPI, Santa Clara
36 George Washington, Syracuse, Univ Miami, Villanova
40 Tulane

Mixing up publics and privates doesn't seem to provide good information anymore.
If you just look at privates, not much changes and it makes good sense.

Noticeable changes are UChicago and WashU dropping for T20ish schools.
Boston College ranking higher than Tufts.
Lehigh rising, while Wake Forest and Tulane drop.

Best post of this thread, IS News should split the rankings (and Lehigh is too high).

Agree that Lehigh is too high, but credit for Lehigh is that it produces great outcome especially in engineering and business.
Outcome should be a major factor. That's a good direction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1 Princeton
2 MIT
3 (Tie) Harvard, Stanford
5 Yale
6 UPenn
7 (Tie) CalTech, Duke
9 (Tie) Brown, JHU, Northwestern
12 (Tie) Columbia, Cornell, UChicago
15 Rice
16 (Tie) Dartmouth, Vanderbilt
18 Notre Dame
19 Georgetown
20 (Tie) CMU, Emory, WashU StL
23 USC
24 NYU
25 Boston College
26 Tufts
27 Boston University
28 Lehigh
29 (Tie) Univ Rochester, Wake Forest
31 (Tie) Case Western, Northeastern
33 (Tie) Brandeis, RPI, Santa Clara
36 George Washington, Syracuse, Univ Miami, Villanova
40 Tulane

Mixing up publics and privates doesn't seem to provide good information anymore.
If you just look at privates, not much changes and it makes good sense.

Noticeable changes are UChicago and WashU dropping for T20ish schools.
Boston College ranking higher than Tufts.
Lehigh rising, while Wake Forest and Tulane drop.

Best post of this thread, IS News should split the rankings (and Lehigh is too high).

Agree that Lehigh is too high, but credit for Lehigh is that it produces great outcome especially in engineering and business.
Outcome should be a major factor. That's a good direction.

Actually I think Lehigh is ranked perhaps slightly too low. Schools like Boston College, Georgetown and Wash U have ignored the development of their engineering and computer science programs for too long.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1 Princeton
2 MIT
3 (Tie) Harvard, Stanford
5 Yale
6 UPenn
7 (Tie) CalTech, Duke
9 (Tie) Brown, JHU, Northwestern
12 (Tie) Columbia, Cornell, UChicago
15 Rice
16 (Tie) Dartmouth, Vanderbilt
18 Notre Dame
19 Georgetown
20 (Tie) CMU, Emory, WashU StL
23 USC
24 NYU
25 Boston College
26 Tufts
27 Boston University
28 Lehigh
29 (Tie) Univ Rochester, Wake Forest
31 (Tie) Case Western, Northeastern
33 (Tie) Brandeis, RPI, Santa Clara
36 George Washington, Syracuse, Univ Miami, Villanova
40 Tulane

Mixing up publics and privates doesn't seem to provide good information anymore.
If you just look at privates, not much changes and it makes good sense.

Noticeable changes are UChicago and WashU dropping for T20ish schools.
Boston College ranking higher than Tufts.
Lehigh rising, while Wake Forest and Tulane drop.

Best post of this thread, IS News should split the rankings (and Lehigh is too high).

Agree that Lehigh is too high, but credit for Lehigh is that it produces great outcome especially in engineering and business.
Outcome should be a major factor. That's a good direction.

Agreed based on family experience. My nephew just graduate from Lehigh with a joint business/computer science degree and had several job offers from top notch finance and consulting firms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1 Princeton
2 MIT
3 (Tie) Harvard, Stanford
5 Yale
6 UPenn
7 (Tie) CalTech, Duke
9 (Tie) Brown, JHU, Northwestern
12 (Tie) Columbia, Cornell, UChicago
15 Rice
16 (Tie) Dartmouth, Vanderbilt
18 Notre Dame
19 Georgetown
20 (Tie) CMU, Emory, WashU StL
23 USC
24 NYU
25 Boston College
26 Tufts
27 Boston University
28 Lehigh
29 (Tie) Univ Rochester, Wake Forest
31 (Tie) Case Western, Northeastern
33 (Tie) Brandeis, RPI, Santa Clara
36 George Washington, Syracuse, Univ Miami, Villanova
40 Tulane

Mixing up publics and privates doesn't seem to provide good information anymore.
If you just look at privates, not much changes and it makes good sense.

Noticeable changes are UChicago and WashU dropping for T20ish schools.
Boston College ranking higher than Tufts.
Lehigh rising, while Wake Forest and Tulane drop.

Best post of this thread, IS News should split the rankings (and Lehigh is too high).

Agree that Lehigh is too high, but credit for Lehigh is that it produces great outcome especially in engineering and business.
Outcome should be a major factor. That's a good direction.

But outcome in engineering and business is not a factor if your kid wants to be a theater, music, art history or journalism major.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1 Princeton
2 MIT
3 (Tie) Harvard, Stanford
5 Yale
6 UPenn
7 (Tie) CalTech, Duke
9 (Tie) Brown, JHU, Northwestern
12 (Tie) Columbia, Cornell, UChicago
15 Rice
16 (Tie) Dartmouth, Vanderbilt
18 Notre Dame
19 Georgetown
20 (Tie) CMU, Emory, WashU StL
23 USC
24 NYU
25 Boston College
26 Tufts
27 Boston University
28 Lehigh
29 (Tie) Univ Rochester, Wake Forest
31 (Tie) Case Western, Northeastern
33 (Tie) Brandeis, RPI, Santa Clara
36 George Washington, Syracuse, Univ Miami, Villanova
40 Tulane

Mixing up publics and privates doesn't seem to provide good information anymore.
If you just look at privates, not much changes and it makes good sense.

Noticeable changes are UChicago and WashU dropping for T20ish schools.
Boston College ranking higher than Tufts.
Lehigh rising, while Wake Forest and Tulane drop.

Best post of this thread, IS News should split the rankings (and Lehigh is too high).

Agree that Lehigh is too high, but credit for Lehigh is that it produces great outcome especially in engineering and business.
Outcome should be a major factor. That's a good direction.

But outcome in engineering and business is not a factor if your kid wants to be a theater, music, art history or journalism major.

Which school has good outcome for theater, music, art history or journalism major?
Schools have more of the BS majors and produce mediocre outcomes should not ranked high.