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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for listing the colleges/universities.  What is the methodology used?  I am curious.  This listing is so different from US News that it will be interesting to compare the two methodologies.[/quote]

In my humble opinion, these ranking gamers usually follow what their readership thinks (to sell subscriptions). That’s why Harvard is usually tops in any ranking magazines. Can you imagine a magazine ranking Harvard at #80?  Nobody will buy that ranking. WSJ, however, can rank Naval Academy at #80.  Why? Their readership usually doesn’t consist of military types so it doesn’t give a hoot about service academies.

So there is logic behind these rankings after all. It’s probably driven by subscriptions. [/quote]

USNews has ranked Princeton over Harvard consistently.  Yet Harvard is still the benchmark and most will select Harvard over Princeton.  The even sillier one is Stanford.  It is the only school that can really rival Harvard, but USNews has it at #7.  [/quote]

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