Best Colleges for Future Leaders 2026

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Taylor Swift didn't attend college

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Anonymous wrote:Mamdami went to Bowdoin

So did Netflix co founder.
Leaders can be found everywhere.

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Alma mater of Hurley a co founder of your favorite YouTube is Indiana University of Pennsylvania

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Anonymous wrote:Alma mater of Hurley a co founder of your favorite YouTube is Indiana University of Pennsylvania

And the other co founders of YouTube are alum of University of Illinois UC fighting Illini

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Anonymous wrote:These lists are only interesting in terms of schools that punch above or below their rate compared to the USNews rankings.

Just a quick eyeballing...it seems Georgetown, Indiana, Howard (44 on full list), University of Hawaii (46), University of Iowa (51) punch considerably above their weight as example vs. the USNews rankings, while schools like Vandy (39), WashU (41), Caltech (49), Ga Tech (75), Amherst (85) and then a school like Williams which doesn't even make the top 100, punch below their weight.

They never know what to do with the small schools, one of many reasons I never take these lists seriously.

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Anonymous wrote:Mamdami went to Bowdoin

This is not something Bowdoin is going to brag about in the long-term.

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Anonymous wrote:Elizabeth Warren attended Univ of Houston. And Rutgers Law. So....?

Elizabeth Warren is that woman who lived at the end of the cul-de-sac when you were growing up, drove a Subaru, and called the cops or your parents if you had a small party when they were out of town.

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Interesting to see how "local" universities were ranked:

9. Georgetown
17. UVA
25. JHU
29. GWU
42. UMDCP
65. W&M
86. AU
125. JMU

Not Ranked: VA Tech

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Anonymous wrote:These lists are only interesting in terms of schools that punch above or below their rate compared to the USNews rankings.

Just a quick eyeballing...it seems Georgetown, Indiana, Howard (44 on full list), University of Hawaii (46), University of Iowa (51) punch considerably above their weight as example vs. the USNews rankings, while schools like Vandy (39), WashU (41), Caltech (49), Ga Tech (75), Amherst (85) and then a school like Williams which doesn't even make the top 100, punch below their weight.

Does Williams even have a graduate school?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These lists are only interesting in terms of schools that punch above or below their rate compared to the USNews rankings.

Just a quick eyeballing...it seems Georgetown, Indiana, Howard (44 on full list), University of Hawaii (46), University of Iowa (51) punch considerably above their weight as example vs. the USNews rankings, while schools like Vandy (39), WashU (41), Caltech (49), Ga Tech (75), Amherst (85) and then a school like Williams which doesn't even make the top 100, punch below their weight.

Does Williams even have a graduate school?

No...I thought this list was only undergrad...if it also includes grad school grads, then it makes sense why the LACs don't rank well. I guess still doesn't explain why Middlebury, Smith and Amherst are on the list and Williams doesn't make it at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Elizabeth Warren attended Univ of Houston. And Rutgers Law. So....?

…so she would be completely unknown if she hadn’t taken advantage of gullible white libs stumbling all over themselves to assuage their feelings of guilt over being successful even though they are idiots.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These lists are only interesting in terms of schools that punch above or below their rate compared to the USNews rankings.

Just a quick eyeballing...it seems Georgetown, Indiana, Howard (44 on full list), University of Hawaii (46), University of Iowa (51) punch considerably above their weight as example vs. the USNews rankings, while schools like Vandy (39), WashU (41), Caltech (49), Ga Tech (75), Amherst (85) and then a school like Williams which doesn't even make the top 100, punch below their weight.

Does Williams even have a graduate school?

They offer a couple grad programs

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting to see how "local" universities were ranked:

9. Georgetown
17. UVA
25. JHU
29. GWU
42. UMDCP
65. W&M
86. AU
125. JMU

Not Ranked: VA Tech

The GU and UVA haters are going to hate this. Commence the methodology bashing and data points of one to discredit the rankings...

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mamdami went to Bowdoin

So did Netflix co founder.
Leaders can be found everywhere.

NP - Are you and PP saying this b/c Bowdoin is not supposed to be good? I'm new to LACs

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Anonymous wrote:in reading the methodology, it is unclear that they accounted for university size. They made some adjustment for size, but I couldn’t tell if that was about the organization or about the school.

Yes. Some of those ivies have like 4k-6k total undergrads.