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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. Harvard
2. Stanford
3. Columbia
4. UPenn
5. MIT
6. Caltech
7. Yale
8. Princeton
9. UChicago
10 UC Berkeley[/quote]

+1. OP is asking for the top 10 universities, not colleges within these universities; the list must be based on a comprehensive evaluation of all programs within a university. The addition of UC Berkeley is necessary because of its top graduate programs; overall, it's a more productive and successful university than the likes of Duke and Northwestern.

MIT should be ahead of Columbia because its research in STEM is so productive that it outweighs their relative lack of professional schools and non-STEM subjects. The opposite argument can be made about Yale and Caltech, with Caltech being even more niche than MIT. UC Berkeley loses points for not having a top undergraduate college. Columbia ahead of Yale because of better med and business, way better STEM overall that outweighs Yale's slightly better humanities, and other elite programs like Journalism, SIPA, that Yale doesn't have. Penn ahead of Princeton because while Penn's arts and sciences may be weak on this list, their overall strength in professional schools make them above Princeton with only SPIA.

1. Harvard
2. Stanford
3. MIT
4. Columbia
5. Yale
6. Caltech
7. Penn
8. Princeton
9. UC Berkeley
10. UChicago

This list is very similar to the world rankings of US News, ARWU, CWUR, Round University Rankings, etc.[/quote]

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