Forbes "New Ivy" List

[Anonymous]

NYU and USC should replace Tufts and Case.

[Anonymous]

The public school list is always weird to me. UVA and UMich the only ones that should be there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the update 2026 list:

Private "Top Ten" new ivies (alphabetical order, not ranked):

Carnegie Mellon
Case Western
Emory
Georgetown
Northwestern
Notre Dame
Rice
Tufts
Vanderbilt
WashU St. Louis

Public "Top Ten" new ivies (alphabetical order, not ranked):

US Air Force Academy
U Florida
Georgia Tech
Michigan
UNC Chapel Hill
Purdue
UT Austin
UVA
William & Mary
U Wisconsin Madison

Air Force Academy & Case Western are NEW to the list. Which schools came off?

West Point and Johns Hopkins

Hopkins didn't really come off the list...they moved it into the "Ivy +" group.

it came off lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The public school list is always weird to me. UVA and UMich the only ones that should be there.

your opinion seems weird to me. Troll

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The public school list is always weird to me. UVA and UMich the only ones that should be there.

Georgia Tech, Purdue, Texas, and even Wisconsin and Florida are all stronger in engineering than the majority of Ivy schools. And given that a very high percentage of smart kids these days go into engineering, it makes sense for those schools to be listed. Which is why employers like those schools over some of the Ivy schools.That’s where the smart kids are at.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The public school list is always weird to me. UVA and UMich the only ones that should be there.

Georgia Tech, Purdue, Texas, and even Wisconsin and Florida are all stronger in engineering than the majority of Ivy schools. And given that a very high percentage of smart kids these days go into engineering, it makes sense for those schools to be listed. Which is why employers like those schools over some of the Ivy schools.That’s where the smart kids are at.

Agreed. Everyone know this. That poster is a troll that you are responding to.

[Anonymous]

To clarify for some confused posters:

These 20 schools are in addition to the Ivy and the Ivy Plus schools mentioned elsewhere in the article:

"The Ivy League includes eight East Coast schools: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale. The “Ivy Plus” grouping is less fixed and this year we defined it to include five schools: Stanford, MIT, Duke, the University of Chicago and John Hopkins."

Another notable school absent among the 33: Caltech.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The public school list is always weird to me. UVA and UMich the only ones that should be there.

"Our New Ivies candidates were then included in a survey we sent to C-suite and hiring executives, asking them to rank graduates of individual schools, provided they had experience with them."

"Many schools are on our list for the third year in a row, including Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, which received the highest C-suite rating of any school and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, with the second highest score."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciapark/2026/04/08/how-forbes-selected-the-new-ivies-for-2026-our-third-annual-list/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The public school list is always weird to me. UVA and UMich the only ones that should be there.

Georgia Tech, Purdue, Texas, and even Wisconsin and Florida are all stronger in engineering than the majority of Ivy schools. And given that a very high percentage of smart kids these days go into engineering, it makes sense for those schools to be listed. Which is why employers like those schools over some of the Ivy schools.That’s where the smart kids are at.

You mean the ones getting fired from their tech companies

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To clarify for some confused posters:

These 20 schools are in addition to the Ivy and the Ivy Plus schools mentioned elsewhere in the article:

"The Ivy League includes eight East Coast schools: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale. The “Ivy Plus” grouping is less fixed and this year we defined it to include five schools: Stanford, MIT, Duke, the University of Chicago and John Hopkins."

Another notable school absent among the 33: Caltech.

Caltech should be Ivy Plus. So odd to not see Cal and UCLA on this list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The public school list is always weird to me. UVA and UMich the only ones that should be there.

Georgia Tech, Purdue, Texas, and even Wisconsin and Florida are all stronger in engineering than the majority of Ivy schools. And given that a very high percentage of smart kids these days go into engineering, it makes sense for those schools to be listed. Which is why employers like those schools over some of the Ivy schools.That’s where the smart kids are at.

Sorry but if there were just one combined list of 10 schools these wouldn't make it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To clarify for some confused posters:

These 20 schools are in addition to the Ivy and the Ivy Plus schools mentioned elsewhere in the article:

"The Ivy League includes eight East Coast schools: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale. The “Ivy Plus” grouping is less fixed and this year we defined it to include five schools: Stanford, MIT, Duke, the University of Chicago and John Hopkins."

Another notable school absent among the 33: Caltech.

Caltech should be Ivy Plus. So odd to not see Cal and UCLA on this list.

I assume it's because Caltech is so small and like 40% go on to get a PhD, so the recruiters who fill out this survey encounter their grads so infrequently. The smallest school on the list is Rice at 4,800 undergrads.

Again, they don't rank any school that doesn't require SAT scores which is why there are no UC schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The public school list is always weird to me. UVA and UMich the only ones that should be there.

Georgia Tech, Purdue, Texas, and even Wisconsin and Florida are all stronger in engineering than the majority of Ivy schools. And given that a very high percentage of smart kids these days go into engineering, it makes sense for those schools to be listed. Which is why employers like those schools over some of the Ivy schools.That’s where the smart kids are at.

You mean the ones getting fired from their tech companies

If you are going to troll at least try to be good at it.

https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-engineering/
https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-tech/
https://americancaldwell.com/articles/f/want-to-work-at-google-or-apple-look-at-these-schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The public school list is always weird to me. UVA and UMich the only ones that should be there.

Georgia Tech, Purdue, Texas, and even Wisconsin and Florida are all stronger in engineering than the majority of Ivy schools. And given that a very high percentage of smart kids these days go into engineering, it makes sense for those schools to be listed. Which is why employers like those schools over some of the Ivy schools.That’s where the smart kids are at.

Sorry but if there were just one combined list of 10 schools these wouldn't make it.

Which one of these schools rejected your kid? Time to get over it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NYU and USC should replace Tufts and Case.

Why do your think so?