If the Ivy label never existed, what are the true top 10 best U.S. colleges in your mind?
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Anonymous
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Pretend you are USNWR and take into consideration all popular majors and the criteria most important to you.
The ask is which are your top 10 if Ivy prestige is not a factor. |
Anonymous
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Stanford
MIT Harvard Yale U Chicago Duke Princeton Berkeley Beyond that, its a toss up of many institutions that could all “top 10” but together add up to more than 10 |
Anonymous
| Great list |
Anonymous
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1) Uchicago
2) CalTech 2) Reed 3) Princeton 4) Deep Springs (but it's not a 4-year), Swarthmore 5) Harvey Mudd 6) Amherst 7) Williams or Pomona 8) Pomona or Williams 9) Berkeley 10) St Johns I tend to personally rank STEM-heavy colleges lower on the intellectual component, but even I can admit Caltech is deeply committed to science and progress in a way that most colleges with career-hungry stem students aren't. My main criteria is an intellectual atmosphere that emphasizes rigor aka ... a college. |
Anonymous
| Duke and Stanford and who cares about anything else. |
Anonymous
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Harvard
Stanford MIT Princeton Yale Caltech |
Anonymous
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MIT
Princeton Stanford Rice Berkeley Michigan Cornell UCLA Penn Texas Schools that aren't outstanding in engineering should not be on any list in 2025. |
Anonymous
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HYPSM
Penn Chicago Hopkins Cornell Berkeley By strength of STEM and other programs |
Anonymous
| We’re honest with each other we have no way of knowing. |
Anonymous
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Stanford
Harvard MIT Caltech Berkeley Then a big gap before everything else. |
Anonymous
1) MIT 2) Princeton 3) Stanford 4) Harvard 5) Yale 6) Northwestern, Duke, & U Penn 9) UC-Berkeley 10) Cornell & CMU |
Anonymous
Yale is very meh in this area |
Anonymous
| UVA |
Anonymous
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1. Yale
2. Harvard 3. Amherst 4. Dartmouth 5. Stanford Kid wants to go to law school |
Anonymous
| “Best” is a vague and useless term, unless you define your criteria. |