Best Colleges for Future Leaders 2026

[Anonymous]

Yet another ranking. Pretty solid Top 25, though. Public schools fared quite well.

1 Harvard University
2 Stanford University
3 Yale University
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5 Columbia University
6 University of Pennsylvania
7 University of California, Berkeley
8 New York University
9 Georgetown University
10 Princeton University
11 University of Michigan
12 Northwestern University
13 Cornell University
14 University of Chicago
15 Duke University
16 Dartmouth College
17 University of Virginia
18 Brown University
19 University of Southern California (USC)
20 University of California, Los Angeles
21 University of Texas at Austin
22 University of Wisconsin-Madison
23 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
24 Indiana University
25 Johns Hopkins University

https://time.com/7333710/best-colleges-future-leaders-2026/

[Anonymous]

in reading the methodology, it is unclear that they accounted for university size. They made some adjustment for size, but I couldn’t tell if that was about the organization or about the school.

[Anonymous]

These lists are only interesting in terms of schools that punch above or below their rate compared to the USNews rankings.

Just a quick eyeballing...it seems Georgetown, Indiana, Howard (44 on full list), University of Hawaii (46), University of Iowa (51) punch considerably above their weight as example vs. the USNews rankings, while schools like Vandy (39), WashU (41), Caltech (49), Ga Tech (75), Amherst (85) and then a school like Williams which doesn't even make the top 100, punch below their weight.

[Anonymous]

Colin Powell went to City College of NY

[Anonymous]

Madeleine Albright attended Wellesley

[Anonymous]

Elizabeth Warren attended Univ of Houston. And Rutgers Law. So....?

[Anonymous]

Josh Shapiro undergrad is from Univ of Rochester

[Anonymous]

Mamdami went to Bowdoin

[Anonymous]

#6 on that list produced a small hands orange felon. So....?

[Anonymous]

These are all politicians...the list is leaders across politics, business, arts, academia, etc.

[Anonymous]

Santa Clara Univ CA attended by many including Gavin Newsome Governor of CA

[Anonymous]

Business worl: Kevin O Leary went to Univ of Waterloo. Oh right, he's Canadian

[Anonymous]

The annoying sports guy Stephen don't forget the A Smith went to Winston Salem State. Probably located in NC.

[Anonymous]

Jensen Huang CEO Nvidia is a Beaver Oregon State

[Anonymous]

Henry Oscar Houghton (Houghton Mifflin -- the one your kids and their teachers love) attended Univ of Vermont