Ruin the experience for others? Hahahahahahahahaha! What a joke! |
Harvard
Yale Stanford Columbia Princeton MIT Penn Chicago Northwestern Johns Hopkins Cornell Brown Duke Caltech Williams Amherst Dartmouth fin. |
You forgot UVA. |
Gotta be Northeastern |
+1 Northeastern. Way harder to get into than Michigan. |
So you may want to ask which schools are top for engineering or for CS. This will be a different list from your first question. The list will be different yet again if you would like the schools with the best reputation for undergraduate teaching in these disciplines or if you prefer a particular size school. |
Best faculty in which area? Most schools will spend more to attract talent in particular areas and be weaker in other areas. |
Amherst, NEU are the next Ivies |
No one considers NEU elite. Not even the most deluded and shameless of NEU boosters. |
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Elite is subjective. There is no correct answer.
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As a non-expert, I would think: MIT Cal Tech Cornell Rice Carnegie Mellon Harvey Mudd state tech colleges (Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Colorado School of Mines, etc.) and flagships Here are some lists from the “experts”: https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankings https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/eng-rankings |
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I'd agree with ivy league, Stanford, MIT, Cal Tech, Duke but the rest although decent schools are hardly elite and fall in with your non-vies. |
VT is like 40th in the US for CS whereas schools like UMD are listed from 11th to 16th in various credible rankings. Please use US News or CSRankings.org for more specialized ranking like ML or Systems. |