Niche 2023 Rankings

[Anonymous]

The top ranked LACs in the 2023 Niche ranking are:

#18 Harvey Mudd
#20 PomonaCollege
#29 Claremont McKenna College

#30 Bowdoin
#31 Swarthmore
#32 Barnard
#33 Davidson
#35 USMA at West Point
#36 Wellesley College
#37 Wash & Lee
#40 Amherst
#43 Williams
#44 Middlebury
#51 Haverford
#54 Colgate
#56 Bates
#58 Hamilton
#67 Colby
#71 Wesleyan University
#73 Grinnell
#74 Vassar
#77 Carleton
#81 U Richmond
#84 Macalester
#86 Smith
#87 Kenyon
#88 Holy Cross
#91 Pitzer
#93 Lafayette
#94 Bucknell
#101 Colorado College
#102 Scripps
#107 Reed
#108 Skidmore
#117 Bryn Mawr
#121 Trinity College
#122 Union College

Random schools:

#142 Denison
#170 Gettysburg
#173 Connecticut College
#176 Rhodes College
#209 Oberlin
#215 Franklin & Marshall

What impressed me was that the top 3 ranked LACs (Harvey Mudd,Pomona, & Claremont McKenna) are in the same consortium on adjoining campuses. This construct resembles a university setting moreso than the usual LAC setting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This, AGAIN?? Seriously, who cares? The list is the same group of schools, no matter how you slice it.

Why you mad?

This is a college forum, and these are good references for your initial college search.

They are updated annually, and one was just updated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This, AGAIN?? Seriously, who cares? The list is the same group of schools, no matter how you slice it.

Why you mad?

This is a college forum, and these are good references for your initial college search.

They are updated annually, and one was just updated.

Thank you for posting this.

A lot of people care.

Prior to US News, selecting a college or university was little more than by "word-of-mouth" reputation.

The first US News college rankings appeared in 1983. Looks as though only 13 schools were ranked--although I am not sure of this.

1983# US News rankings:

1) Stanford
2) Harvard
3) Yale
4) Princeton

5) UCal-Berkeley
6) Chicago
7) Michigan
8) Cornell
8) Illinois
10) MIT
10) Dartmouth
12) CalTech
13) Wisconsin

[Anonymous]

T50

1. MIT
2. Stanford
3. Harvard
4. Yale
5. Princeton
6. Rice
7. Caltech
8. Duke
9. Brown
10. Dartmouth
11. UPenn
12. Columbia
13. Vanderbilt
14. Northwestern
15. WashU
16. UChicago
17. Georgetown
18. Harvey Mudd
19. Notre Dame
20. Pomona
21. Johns Hopkins
22. Carnegie Mellon
23. Cornell
24. UCLA
25. Michigan
26. Georgia Institute of Technology
27. University of Virginia
28. University of Southern California
29. Claremont McKenna College
30. Bowdoin College
31. Swarthmore College
32. Barnard College
33. Davidson College
34. Emory University
35. United States Military Academy at West Point
36. Wellesley College
37. Washington and Lee University
38. Tufts University
39. Boston College
40. Amherst College
41. University of Florida
42. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
45. Northeastern University
46. University of Texas - Austin
47. Boston University
48. University of California - Berkeley
49. Wake Forest University
50. New York University

[Anonymous]

43. Williams College
44. Middlebury College

[Anonymous]

seems like a pretty reasonable list of the top 50 best schools in the USA IMO, though the order might be suspect. According to their methodology only the top 2.5% of institutions ranked get an A+ grade overall. That stops at #76.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The top ranked LACs in the 2023 Niche ranking are:

#18 Harvey Mudd
#20 PomonaCollege
#29 Claremont McKenna College

#30 Bowdoin
#31 Swarthmore
#32 Barnard
#33 Davidson
#35 USMA at West Point
#36 Wellesley College
#37 Wash & Lee
#40 Amherst
#43 Williams
#44 Middlebury
#51 Haverford
#54 Colgate
#56 Bates
#58 Hamilton
#67 Colby
#71 Wesleyan University
#73 Grinnell
#74 Vassar
#77 Carleton
#81 U Richmond
#84 Macalester
#86 Smith
#87 Kenyon
#88 Holy Cross
#91 Pitzer
#93 Lafayette
#94 Bucknell
#101 Colorado College
#102 Scripps
#107 Reed
#108 Skidmore
#117 Bryn Mawr
#121 Trinity College
#122 Union College

Random schools:

#142 Denison
#170 Gettysburg
#173 Connecticut College
#176 Rhodes College
#209 Oberlin
#215 Franklin & Marshall

What impressed me was that the top 3 ranked LACs (Harvey Mudd,Pomona, & Claremont McKenna) are in the same consortium on adjoining campuses. This construct resembles a university setting moreso than the usual LAC setting.

Why do you put those last few as “random”? Those are well known LACs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This, AGAIN?? Seriously, who cares? The list is the same group of schools, no matter how you slice it.

Why you mad?

This is a college forum, and these are good references for your initial college search.

They are updated annually, and one was just updated.

Thank you for posting this.

A lot of people care.

Prior to US News, selecting a college or university was little more than by "word-of-mouth" reputation.

The first US News college rankings appeared in 1983. Looks as though only 13 schools were ranked--although I am not sure of this.

1983# US News rankings:

1) Stanford
2) Harvard
3) Yale
4) Princeton

5) UCal-Berkeley
6) Chicago
7) Michigan
8) Cornell
8) Illinois
10) MIT
10) Dartmouth
12) CalTech
13) Wisconsin

Well I'm glad things changed. Is Illinois UIUC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The top ranked LACs in the 2023 Niche ranking are:

#18 Harvey Mudd
#20 PomonaCollege
#29 Claremont McKenna College

#30 Bowdoin
#31 Swarthmore
#32 Barnard
#33 Davidson
#35 USMA at West Point
#36 Wellesley College
#37 Wash & Lee
#40 Amherst
#43 Williams
#44 Middlebury
#51 Haverford
#54 Colgate
#56 Bates
#58 Hamilton
#67 Colby
#71 Wesleyan University
#73 Grinnell
#74 Vassar
#77 Carleton
#81 U Richmond
#84 Macalester
#86 Smith
#87 Kenyon
#88 Holy Cross
#91 Pitzer
#93 Lafayette
#94 Bucknell
#101 Colorado College
#102 Scripps
#107 Reed
#108 Skidmore
#117 Bryn Mawr
#121 Trinity College
#122 Union College

Random schools:

#142 Denison
#170 Gettysburg
#173 Connecticut College
#176 Rhodes College
#209 Oberlin
#215 Franklin & Marshall

What impressed me was that the top 3 ranked LACs (Harvey Mudd,Pomona, & Claremont McKenna) are in the same consortium on adjoining campuses. This construct resembles a university setting moreso than the usual LAC setting.

Why do you put those last few as “random”? Those are well known LACs

They are random because they were not next in order on the list. I randomly selected well known schools that were not next just topoint out their Niche ranking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This, AGAIN?? Seriously, who cares? The list is the same group of schools, no matter how you slice it.

Why you mad?

This is a college forum, and these are good references for your initial college search.

They are updated annually, and one was just updated.

Thank you for posting this.

A lot of people care.

Prior to US News, selecting a college or university was little more than by "word-of-mouth" reputation.

The first US News college rankings appeared in 1983. Looks as though only 13 schools were ranked--although I am not sure of this.

1983# US News rankings:

1) Stanford
2) Harvard
3) Yale
4) Princeton

5) UCal-Berkeley
6) Chicago
7) Michigan
8) Cornell
8) Illinois
10) MIT
10) Dartmouth
12) CalTech
13) Wisconsin

Well I'm glad things changed. Is Illinois UIUC?

No, it is the University of Illinois Urbana-Champ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This, AGAIN?? Seriously, who cares? The list is the same group of schools, no matter how you slice it.

Why you mad?

This is a college forum, and these are good references for your initial college search.

They are updated annually, and one was just updated.

Thank you for posting this.

A lot of people care.

Prior to US News, selecting a college or university was little more than by "word-of-mouth" reputation.

The first US News college rankings appeared in 1983. Looks as though only 13 schools were ranked--although I am not sure of this.

1983# US News rankings:

1) Stanford
2) Harvard
3) Yale
4) Princeton

5) UCal-Berkeley
6) Chicago
7) Michigan
8) Cornell
8) Illinois
10) MIT
10) Dartmouth
12) CalTech
13) Wisconsin

Well I'm glad things changed. Is Illinois UIUC?

No, it is the University of Illinois Urbana-Champ.

pretty sure that is what UIUC stands for

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This, AGAIN?? Seriously, who cares? The list is the same group of schools, no matter how you slice it.

Why you mad?

This is a college forum, and these are good references for your initial college search.

They are updated annually, and one was just updated.

This^. Not everyone is knowledgeable about colleges or can afford to/get freebies to visit every college, these lists fill a void.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVA is among the top 25 universities (#27 overall)

+1. No one credit niche for anything. It's USNWR that counts where UVA is 25 and no 4 of all publics in america. https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/uva-6968

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA is among the top 25 universities (#27 overall)

How is 27 among the top 25?

UVA people are weak with STEM subjects.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA is among the top 25 universities (#27 overall)

+1. No one credit niche for anything. It's USNWR that counts where UVA is 25 and no 4 of all publics in america. https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/uva-6968

Counts? For?