Elite colleges: T10? T20? Or T25?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are around 4,300 degree granting colleges in the US. Of your remove the 2 year colleges from those, that still leaves around 2,800 colleges.
Around 115 are very high output research universities. If you take even the top 25% of these, those would make about 30 universities that are very very elite. What's that list?

If you take the Nine founding members of the AAU from 1900 and then add the private universities that were inducted into this exclusive club before the end of World War II, you would get a list of the 25 or so most elite universities in the US. Then you can add in the elite public universities like Berkeley, Michigan etc. ( Maybe 10+?) , that are also on this list below, which includes all the 64 members


https://www.aau.edu/who-we-are/our-members

Add in 1% ( about 10) of the top Baccalaureate colleges and you have a working list of the very very elite institutions of this country.

LOL AAU again

Let me guess your kids school. I bet one of these;
Penn State
Indiana U
Stony Brook
Ohio
UW
U Colorado
UF
Iowa State
U Arizona
Illinois
McGill
U Iowa
UM
UTha
Michigan Sate
Kansas
Brendis
Minnesota
Missouri
Wisconsin
Oregon
Tulane
Buffalo
Rutgers
U Pitt
one of the none-UCLA non-Berkely UCs

If you are interesed in research school, here's the list of R1 Research University.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_research_universities_in_the_United_States#Universities_classified_as_%22R1:_Doctoral_Universities_%E2%80%93_Very_high_research_activity%22

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For the umpteenth time, the only unambiguously elite colleges in this country are:

HYPSM, UChicago, MIT, Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Berkeley, Caltech, Williams, and Amherst.

The Elite 18:
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
MIT
Caltech
Columbia
UPenn
Duke
Chicago
Dartmouth
Northwestern
Brown
John Hopkins
Cornell
Berkeley
Williams
Amherst

[Anonymous]

The Wash U people clearly slept in today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Wash U people clearly slept in today.

Hallelujah! Not an elite school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am mostly curious about the ones T20-T25. They sometimes get mentioned.

Also where do SLAC T5 and T10 fit in?

Elite? Top 40. Top 5 more elite -- but top 40 is the number.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are around 4,300 degree granting colleges in the US. Of your remove the 2 year colleges from those, that still leaves around 2,800 colleges.
Around 115 are very high output research universities. If you take even the top 25% of these, those would make about 30 universities that are very very elite. What's that list?

If you take the Nine founding members of the AAU from 1900 and then add the private universities that were inducted into this exclusive club before the end of World War II, you would get a list of the 25 or so most elite universities in the US. Then you can add in the elite public universities like Berkeley, Michigan etc. ( Maybe 10+?) , that are also on this list below, which includes all the 64 members


https://www.aau.edu/who-we-are/our-members

Add in 1% ( about 10) of the top Baccalaureate colleges and you have a working list of the very very elite institutions of this country.

Why only 1% of the Baccalaureate colleges? Seems too tilted to research universities IMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For the umpteenth time, the only unambiguously elite colleges in this country are:

HYPSM, UChicago, MIT, Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Berkeley, Caltech, Williams, and Amherst.

The unambiguously elite are Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, and Caltech.

Then perhaps you can throw in Columbia, Penn and Chicago.

The rest are top universities, elite in certain domains and no so elite in other domains. Williams and Amherst are SLACs so it's unfair to compare them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are around 4,300 degree granting colleges in the US. Of your remove the 2 year colleges from those, that still leaves around 2,800 colleges.
Around 115 are very high output research universities. If you take even the top 25% of these, those would make about 30 universities that are very very elite. What's that list?

If you take the Nine founding members of the AAU from 1900 and then add the private universities that were inducted into this exclusive club before the end of World War II, you would get a list of the 25 or so most elite universities in the US. Then you can add in the elite public universities like Berkeley, Michigan etc. ( Maybe 10+?) , that are also on this list below, which includes all the 64 members


https://www.aau.edu/who-we-are/our-members

Add in 1% ( about 10) of the top Baccalaureate colleges and you have a working list of the very very elite institutions of this country.

LOL AAU again

Let me guess your kids school. I bet one of these;
Penn State
Indiana U
Stony Brook
Ohio
UW
U Colorado
UF
Iowa State
U Arizona
Illinois
McGill
U Iowa
UM
UTha
Michigan Sate
Kansas
Brendis
Minnesota
Missouri
Wisconsin
Oregon
Tulane
Buffalo
Rutgers
U Pitt
one of the none-UCLA non-Berkely UCs

If you are interesed in research school, here's the list of R1 Research University.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_research_universities_in_the_United_States#Universities_classified_as_%22R1:_Doctoral_Universities_%E2%80%93_Very_high_research_activity%22

Low IQ clearly and extremely poor comprehension. Must have done really poorly in the standardized tests. Clearly, did not read the post.

[Anonymous]

Northwestern, Duke and Hopkins may be considered elite in their specific regions (Midwest/South/Mid-Atlantic) but they are not internationally elite.

HYPSMC(altech) are internationally elite, unquestionably.

[Anonymous]

So exhausting.

[Anonymous]

The idea of “elite colleges” is a myth. If you buy into it, you’re only fooling yourself.

The classification of “elite” dates back to the time when these schools catered to children of wealthy families, to the children of society’s “elite”. To this day what separates elite colleges is their wealth, but that really doesn’t define any student’s educational experience. Students get out of college what they put into it. Colleges don’t do something to them. What they can do for them is limited even at schools which provide extra opportunities because these are late adolescents, each with their own quirks, inclinations and abilities. I say this as someone with 2 kids at “elite” colleges.

[Anonymous]

Please tell me this thread was started by an immature 16 year old.

[Anonymous]

There is an athletic conference comprised of the elite colleges: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Penn, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth.

Sometimes we include Stanford as our hip west coaster and MIT as our hyper geek for diversity purposes.

There's no objective argument to include any others into this illustrious group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please tell me this thread was started by an immature 16 year old.

I think that's a given

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The top 25 unis and top 5 LACs are the elite schools in the country.

Historically, were there a lot of movements? I ask because at the end, the degree does matter when it comes to job hunting.