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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was some other interesting info from the original Reddit post that I think is worth copying and pasting here:

Fun Findings:

Using the data I obtained to make this ranking, I found some interesting datapoints and trends:

- Undisputed #1: MIT is the #1 college in the US! Incredibly, MIT was ranked as the #1 college in the country on a whopping 7 of the 13 publications!

- No Consensus T5: No school is a T5 in all 13 rankings. Stanford and Princeton are the closest, but they miss the T5 in exactly one publication each (Stanford is #9 on WalletHub, Princeton is #8 on WSJ/THE).

- Consensus T10: However, there are four schools that rank in the T10 in all 13 rankings: MIT, Stanford, Princeton, and Duke. Harvard and Yale are the next closest, both missing the T10 on two publications each.

- T5 Contenders: There are 13 schools that rank in the T5 in at least one ranking: MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Duke, Yale, Penn, Caltech, Columbia, UChicago, Berkeley, Georgia Tech, and UF. However, there are only 7 schools that rank in the T5 in multiple rankings: MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Duke, and Caltech.

- T10 Contenders: There are 25 schools that rank in the T10 in at least one ranking: MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Duke, Penn, Caltech, Northwestern, Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell, UChicago, Brown, Vanderbilt, Rice, Johns Hopkins, Notre Dame, UMich, UCLA, Berkeley, Georgia Tech, UF, UVA, and UNC. However, only 18 schools rank in the T10 in multiple rankings: MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Duke, Penn, Caltech, Northwestern, Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell, UChicago, Brown, Rice, Johns Hopkins, Berkeley, and UMich.

- Ivies vs Non-Ivies: The Ivies have an average rank of 9 on this list, while the top eight non-Ivies (MIT, Stanford, Duke, Caltech, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Rice, and UChicago) have an average rank of 7.75, so the non-Ivies win by a hair!

- State Supremacy: To determine which states might have the best schools, I took the three highest ranked schools from each state and calculated their average rank. Of course, this was for fun and is far from a perfect measure as the ranking omits LACs and other specialized schools, and three schools from each state is a small sample size and does not reflect the depth of great universities some states might have. Only 13 states had at least three schools in the T75, and the results were:

California (Stanford, Caltech, UCLA) - 10.66

Massachusetts (MIT, Harvard, BC) - 12.33

Illinois (Northwestern, UChicago, UIUC) - 19.33

New York (Columbia, Cornell, NYU) - 22.66

North Carolina (Duke, UNC, Wake Forest) - 23.33

Pennsylvania (Penn, CMU, Lehigh) - 24.66

Maryland (Johns Hopkins, [b]Georgetown[/b], UMD) - 28.66

Texas (Rice, UT Austin, Texas A&M) - 32.33

Georgia (Emory, Georgia Tech, UGA) - 35.66

Virginia (UVA, W&M, Virginia Tech) - 38.33

Indiana (Notre Dame, Purdue, IU Bloomington) - 45

New Jersey (Princeton, Rutgers, Stevens Institute of Technology) - 45.33

Florida (UF, FSU, UMiami) - 50.66

- Regional Supremacy: To determine which of the four US regions have the best schools, I took the five highest ranked schools from each region and calculated their average rank. To determine which states fall within each of the regions, I used the US Census Bureau's interpretation of what the regions are. Just like with state supremacy, this was for fun and still an imperfect measure of school quality in each region.

Northeast (MIT, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Penn) - unsurprisingly

Midwest (Northwestern, UChicago, UMich, WashU, Notre Dame)

South (Duke, Vanderbilt, Rice, UNC, UF)

West (Stanford, Caltech, UCLA, Berkeley, USC)

- Mind the Gap: There are a few large gaps between spots in the ranking. The first major gap is between #5 (tied) Duke/Yale and #7 Penn. There are more big gaps between #23 Berkeley and #24 UVA, #28 (tied) Emory/USC and #30 Georgia Tech, #42 Tufts and #43 NYU, #52 (tied) CWRU/Texas A&M and #54 Villanova, and a final large gap between the #66 OSU (Ohio) and #67 UMiami.[/quote]

Since when is Georgetown in Maryland?[/quote]

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