2024 College & University Rankings by WalletHub

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA #39

Still seems a bit high.

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Why the snark?

+1. Plus they can't read or think. Wallethub's ranking is "top is performing schools with lowest cost to students" so of course privates with huge endowments, huge alumni giving and resources are going to rank higher than most publics on Wallethub. By the way no one in college admissions reads wallethub. They all use the gold standard of USNWR where UVA is ranked no 24 in the nation.

[Anonymous]

Boss: How do we drive up web traffic so we can sell ads?

Intern: we could create a ranking using data used by other rankings, but just tweak the calculations.

Boss: are people that stupid?

Intern: trust me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://wallethub.com/edu/e/college-rankings/40750

Several interesting separate rankings given for each school.

12 schools earned top score of 99:

1) Yale
2) MIT
3) Princeton
4) CalTech
5) Harvard
6) Duke

7) Rice
8) Northwestern
9) Johns Hopkins
10) Stanford
11) Dartmouth
12) Swarthmore

You got it wrong, this is the ranking from the site:

1. Princeton University
2. Yale University
3. Harvard University
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5. Dartmouth College

[Anonymous]

Interesting ranking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://wallethub.com/edu/e/college-rankings/40750

Several interesting separate rankings given for each school.

12 schools earned top score of 99:

1) Yale
2) MIT
3) Princeton
4) CalTech
5) Harvard
6) Duke

7) Rice
8) Northwestern
9) Johns Hopkins
10) Stanford
11) Dartmouth
12) Swarthmore

You got it wrong, this is the ranking from the site:

1. Princeton University
2. Yale University
3. Harvard University
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5. Dartmouth College

That was posted in 2023.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://wallethub.com/edu/e/college-rankings/40750

Several interesting separate rankings given for each school.

12 schools earned top score of 99:

1) Yale
2) MIT
3) Princeton
4) CalTech
5) Harvard
6) Duke

7) Rice
8) Northwestern
9) Johns Hopkins
10) Stanford
11) Dartmouth
12) Swarthmore

You got it wrong, this is the ranking from the site:

1. Princeton University
2. Yale University
3. Harvard University
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5. Dartmouth College

That was posted in 2023.

This is the 2025 ranking posted in October 2024.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://wallethub.com/edu/e/college-rankings/40750

Several interesting separate rankings given for each school.

12 schools earned top score of 99:

1) Yale
2) MIT
3) Princeton
4) CalTech
5) Harvard
6) Duke

7) Rice
8) Northwestern
9) Johns Hopkins
10) Stanford
11) Dartmouth
12) Swarthmore

You got it wrong, this is the ranking from the site:

1. Princeton University
2. Yale University
3. Harvard University
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5. Dartmouth College

That was posted in 2023.

This is the 2025 ranking posted in October 2024.

Yes, but you said the pp you quoted “got it wrong”. They didn’t get it wrong, it’s just been superseded. You didn’t look at the posting date.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rank, Percentile, School, State, Score, Selectivity, Cost Rank, Faculty Rank, Safety Rank, Education Rank, Career Rank
23 97 WL VA 73.48 44 836 11 602 96 12 17
39 95 UVA VA 71.74 42 755 456 267 364 9 42
53 94 W&M VA 69.13 63 712 308 146 256 51 182
58 93 UR VA 68.77 68 802 34 388 79 69 56
121 86 VT VA 62.54 127 674 749 103 504 87 59
129 85 VMI VA 61.73 373 463 111 740 120 187 31
142 83 HSC VA 60.98 160 669 65 839 39 204 172
306 64 SBC VA 55.96 356 596 20 640 99 585 443
337 61 RU VA 55.48 138 219 727 283 828 621 724
344 60 JMU VA 55.37 389 666 712 338 546 148 117
374 56 CNU VA 54.90 481 614 422 767 239 185 245
379 56 EMU VA 54.77 485 538 320 384 575 352 411
380 56 MW VA 54.75 464 481 420 326 291 260 489
414 52 GMU VA 54.11 524 482 763 96 659 250 125
487 43 RC VA 52.93 496 651 246 692 165 316 529

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Rice at 7 is absolutely ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

The liberal arts college list is an absolute mess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The liberal arts college list is an absolute mess.

How so? I didn’t do a deep dive, but if one of the criteria is affordability, and another is earnings, it makes some sense to me. Seems like a balance of (1) well-endowed schools that offer financial aid to a wider range of students, (2) schools that send a high percentage of kids into high-earning careers like finance or consulting, and (3) schools that lower cost by offering considerable merit aid.

[Anonymous]

Why do Princeton and Yale keep scoring so high on all these things. I thought they were in decline

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do Princeton and Yale keep scoring so high on all these things. I thought they were in decline

LOL

[Anonymous]

Stupid ass ranking

[Anonymous]

This ranking has the best methodology I have seen so far. None of the "peer" reviews subjective weighting of 20% or number of first generation/pell grants we see in US News ranking.