New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!

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Anonymous wrote:Go UC Davis! California’s 5th best state school, with a 42% admit rate, is ranked #32 in the country.

How many times can a shark be jumped?

UC Davis is an excellent, all around school, with a charming college town setting, without toxic, competitive students.

In California, it is considered too far from the coast, from the mountains, from SF, even though it would be considered close to them if it were on the east coast.

Davis is a great school. Better than many overpriced privates like wake, emory, and georgetown.

UC Davis-
1160- 1370/25-31
Emory
1470-1550/32-35
Georgetown
1390-1550/30-35

UC Davis is overrated, Emory and GU underrated.

Davis a great school but not in same category by a mile.

According to USNWR, it is. How does your data/analysis differ?

Davis is not T25. Thats Emory's and GUs category.

24 to 32 is not a big difference

Rankings work in tiers. You clearly have no idea how hard it would be or how much money it would need to raise to add 8 points to its ranking to be where the other 2 are.

Do you even hear yourself? These ranking are the product of a random editor at US News. Nothing more. You seriously need to get a grip, get some air, get a freaking life.

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UVA is very prestigious.

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Anonymous wrote:Privates and Publics should be ranked separately like LACs.

Yes, and put the military academies in the publics where they belong.

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Anonymous wrote:Still vastly overranks public’s especially the underfunded uc system. Until the undo the changes from two years ago, garbage in, garbage out.

All of the publics are 5 spots too high.

Not Virginia or William and Mary though. William and Mary should be about 10 higher. Merced? 40 lower? Any other UC school, 10 lower. Including Berkeley and UCLA.

Another UVA booster.

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Anonymous wrote:Still vastly overranks public’s especially the underfunded uc system. Until the undo the changes from two years ago, garbage in, garbage out.

All of the publics are 5 spots too high.

Not Virginia or William and Mary though. William and Mary should be about 10 higher. Merced? 40 lower? Any other UC school, 10 lower. Including Berkeley and UCLA.

Berkeley- 20-25
UCLA, Umcih, UVa- 25-30
UNC-30-35
GT,UT UCSD, UF, UCD- 35-45

Now rank by a significant school like Engineering. What do you get? I mean we are talking about jobs and careers correct?

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Anonymous wrote:Low lying ivy protagonists don’t comprehend…bottom 4 ivies are nothing to write home about.. WAKE UP doofuses!

They are 2 and 3 in best undergrad teaching, doofus. There’s also fit.

+1 my kid chose over Hopkins. Didn’t want Baltimore and Chicago was a no-go.

same clown angry at being overranked in the teens

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Here are the 2026 ranking factors and their relative weights:

National Universities 2026 Best Colleges Ranking Factor Weights
Indicator

2026 National Universities Weight for Schools With Usable SAT/ACT

Graduation rates

16%

First-year retention rates

5%

Graduation rate performance

10%

Pell graduation rates

5.5%

Pell graduation performance

5.5%

College grads earning more than a high school grad

5%

Borrower debt

5%

Peer assessment

20%

Financial resources per student

8%

Faculty salaries

6%

Full-time faculty

2%

Student-faculty ratio

3%

Standardized tests

5%

Citations per publication

1.25%

Field-Weighted Citation Impact

1.25%

Publication share in the Top 5% of Journals by CiteScore

1%

Publication share in the Top 25% of Journals by CiteScore

0.5%

TOTAL

100

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So it makes sense that Chicago would rise in the rankings back to #6, where they were a couple of years ago, given these factors are all related to academic quality/peer assessment/
research/undergraduate graduation rates, so back to the core of what makes UChicago so great.

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Anonymous wrote:So it makes sense that Chicago would rise in the rankings back to #6, where they were a couple of years ago, given these factors are all related to academic quality/peer assessment/
research/undergraduate graduation rates, so back to the core of what makes UChicago so great.

No that doesn’t really make sense at all

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Anonymous wrote:Still vastly overranks public’s especially the underfunded uc system. Until the undo the changes from two years ago, garbage in, garbage out.

All of the publics are 5 spots too high.

Not Virginia or William and Mary though. William and Mary should be about 10 higher. Merced? 40 lower? Any other UC school, 10 lower. Including Berkeley and UCLA.

What gives you the expertise to make this assessment?? Do you know anything about Merced? Or any other school for that matter?

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Let me try again for U Chicago. Look at the ranking factors. For each category in the rankings this year, Chicago may have improved or not improved. However, in the aggregate across all categories, Chicago must have performed better than the other universities in the national category, by these measurable factors, or it would not have risen back to #6.

It's math.

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Well documented UChicago has huge financial problems.

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Anonymous wrote:Let me try again for U Chicago. Look at the ranking factors. For each category in the rankings this year, Chicago may have improved or not improved. However, in the aggregate across all categories, Chicago must have performed better than the other universities in the national category, by these measurable factors, or it would not have risen back to #6.

It's math.

Fully agree. Also, it is noteworthy that acceptance rate and yield are not factors in the ranking.

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Anonymous wrote:Here are the 2026 ranking factors and their relative weights:

National Universities 2026 Best Colleges Ranking Factor Weights
Indicator

2026 National Universities Weight for Schools With Usable SAT/ACT

Graduation rates

16%

First-year retention rates

5%

Graduation rate performance

10%

Pell graduation rates

5.5%

Pell graduation performance

5.5%

College grads earning more than a high school grad

5%

Borrower debt

5%

Peer assessment

20%

Financial resources per student

8%

Faculty salaries

6%

Full-time faculty

2%

Student-faculty ratio

3%

Standardized tests

5%

Citations per publication

1.25%

Field-Weighted Citation Impact

1.25%

Publication share in the Top 5% of Journals by CiteScore

1%

Publication share in the Top 25% of Journals by CiteScore

0.5%

TOTAL

100

Wow, itreally is alot of garbage in. The citations criteria isn’t adjusted for size, so massively benefits the very large public institutions. Further, they use a six year graduation rate, which is also pretty meaningless. Still have the Pell grant nonsense as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Still vastly overranks public’s especially the underfunded uc system. Until the undo the changes from two years ago, garbage in, garbage out.

All of the publics are 5 spots too high.

Not Virginia or William and Mary though. William and Mary should be about 10 higher. Merced? 40 lower? Any other UC school, 10 lower. Including Berkeley and UCLA.

What gives you the expertise to make this assessment?? Do you know anything about Merced? Or any other school for that matter?

All the UCs are very overrated, but particular schools like Merced, Davis, Irvine, etc . . .