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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't get the Emory, Vanderbilt, and Rice comparisons. They are all T25 schools with great students. But they are very distinct, particularly Rice and Vanderbilt. I get they are all in the South, but there's not a lot of commonality. US News jumped the shark a couple of years ago, so it's not a useful metric anymore. Emory, Vanderbilt, and Rice are all swimming in the same sea as Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, Chicago, Columbia, Northwestern, Michigan, WashU, Georgetown, and Notre Dame.

Judging from other rankings, Rice is clearly the top academic school. And Vanderbilt is Vanderbilt. But Emory more than holds their own these days. But when it comes to "prestige," the Oxford thing is not helpful for Emory. It's a very Northeastern thing to do.      [/quote]
Yes they are peer schools but Rice is the lowest asked if you combine all the rankings. Its ranked #223 in the global rankings vs 63 for the other 2. 
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/rice-university-227757
Also Vandy has a 4.3 reputation score for the undergrad ranking, while Emory and Rice have a 4.2. So Emory more than holds its own. Also, Oxford was Emory’s first campus, they moved to Atlanta in 1911. What should they have done with their original campus? Oxford is the most selective 2 year school on earth. That speaks for something. 
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Rice, like Dartmouth, doesn't really do grad school. It's very undergrad focused. So it will never do well on "global rankings." I think it's 18 in US News, and top ten in Niche and Forbes. All those rankings are significantly higher than Emory.

Out of curiosity, I took a look at US News global rankings. The University of Washington is number 7. UC San Diego is 21, just above the National University of Singapore. I'm sure it's useful for PhD type comparisons. But not really for American undergrad comparisons.

And "most selective 2 year school on earth" doesn't mean anything. As far as I know, Emory is not a community college.  [/quote]
18 is not much higher than 24, especially when they have the same reputation score. You can't say Rice is better academically when the ranking based solely on academics ranks them out of the top 200. For undergrad Roce and Emory academically get the same score. [/quote]

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