US News 2020 rankings
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
In annual fundraising, over the last 12 years, Stanford has been tops 9 and Harvard 3. Stanford professors and associate professors are the highest paid, and assistant professors are the second highest paid. |
Anonymous
When I'm looking at resumes, I certainly don't think "well this one went to number 25 and this one 36". |
Anonymous
Stanford is a juggernaut. |
Anonymous
| Does anyone even care about any of the schools ranked outside the Top 25? |
Anonymous
I imagine the academic peer rating of Wisconsin and Texas are higher than Florida. It is the other things USNWR throws in that result in Florida being ranked higher. |
Anonymous
Yes. And is there a sudden invisible cutoff between 25 and 26? |
Anonymous
Put that way, it's an interesting point. That said--most gen Y and Zs consider Stanford and Harvard #1 peers. |
Anonymous
At your "Top Tier" schools like Cal, UCLA, you can live on campus for about 1 year out of 4+ years. At Michigan, perhaps 1.3 out of 4+ years.. At Yale, Harvard, and Princeton, you will live on campus for all 4 years. These aren't even remotely the same type of schools. |
Anonymous
But here's a counterpoint: In annual fundraising, over the last 12 years, Stanford has been tops 9 and Harvard 3. Stanford professors and associate professors are the highest paid, and assistant professors are the second highest paid. |
Anonymous
I really think a good consistent list of top schools is to look at is how College Confidential organizes it. There are the ivies in one category, top universities in another, and then top liberal arts colleges. This is consistent and is not ranked. Ivies: Brown Columbia Cornell Dartmouth Harvard Penn Princeton Yale Top universities: Berkekely UCLA Cal Tech Carnegie Mellon Chicago Duke Emory Georgetown Hopkins MIT Michigan Chapel Hill Northwestern Notre Dame Rice Stanford Tulane UVA Vanderbilt Wash U Top Liberal Arts Colleges: Amherst Barnard Bates Bowdoin Bryn Mayr Carleton Claremont Colby Colgate Davidson Grinnell Hamilton Harvey Mudd Haverford Kenyon Macalester Middlebury Mount Holyoke Oberlin Pomona Reed Smith Swarthmore Trinity Vassar Washington & Lee Wellesley Wesleyan Whitman Williams All other schools in one separate batch alphabetically. Simple, clean. |
Anonymous
Well there are two lists, the national universities and the Liberal Arts colleges. Would you include the Liberal Arts colleges in this question? |
Anonymous
Idiot, you can live on campus all 4 years at Michigan. In fact, seniors who have lived on campus for 3 years have top pick for housing their senior year. If you’re going to criticize schools at least learn basic facts about them. Also, are you trying to say they don’t have the money to provide housing? Michigan’s endowment is 12 billion—9th highest in the country. |
Anonymous
Huh? The Ivies are not necessarily better than other top schools. |
Anonymous
Nobody is saying that. It is just a way to organize top schools. They are all top schools, just not ranked. Ivy League is what it is. |
Anonymous
It’s an athletic league. That’s what it is. Like the Big Ten. It was established in 1954, so the concept isn’t even that old. |