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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Shit even Vandy was considered a regional school 25-30 years ago.[/quote]

I attended Vanderbilt in the late 1980’s. At that time, it was ranked 25th on the USNEWS national university list. Every school, even the very best, has a strong regional pull, but that doesn’t make it a regional school. [/quote]

But it was and still is a regional school though. It's the top school in its region, but to say its not a regional school is inaccurate.[/quote]

Perhaps, you have your own definition of a regional school. USNEWS, as one ranking organization example, has a separate list for regional schools. 34% of Cornell’s class comes from NY. Does that make it a regional school?[/quote]
No one considers USNews to be the arbiter of what is and isn’t a regional school.

USNews considers regional schools to be schools that only provide masters as the highest degree, that’s a completely irrelevant metric on what is and isn’t a regional school.

Schools like Case Western and Colorado School of Mines are both top and well known schools in their region. But neither have great national let alone international reach. Similar with Rice, Southern Methodist, etc. that’s what makes them regional schools.

Of course, top once-regional schools do gain prominence and become nationally and internationally recognized. One example is Duke, another is Stanford, and perhaps Boston University most recently. Perhaps USC and NYU as well (although the former primarily due to scandals and sports)[/quote]

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