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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This debate was basically ended through that popular Reddit post where someone took all the popular ranking systems and averaged each top school's ranks to find the best overall schools: https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/xc0v5x/the_2023_supreme_t75_college_ranking_aggregating/

My breakdown would be:
1A) MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Duke, Yale
1B) Penn, Caltech, Columbia, Northwestern

2A) Vanderbilt, Rice, Dartmouth, Brown, UChicago, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Pomona
2B) UMich, Johns Hopkins, WashU, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UCLA, Berkeley, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna

3A) UVA, UNC, CMU, UF, Emory, USC, Georgia Tech, Wellesley, Barnard, Carleton, Middlebury
3B) UCSD, BC, UT Austin, W&M, UIUC, W&L, Vassar, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford[/quote]

Interesting compilation, but I would prefer to see such a compilation based on just US News, WSJ/THE, & Forbes. I do not give much credence to either Niche or the Washington Monthly rankings.[/quote]

Washington Monthly is incredibly underrated and in my opinion deserves to be in the 5 major rankings along with US News, WSJ/THE, Forbes, and Niche, but I understand it might not fit the criteria you care most about. If you take the average rankings of just US News, WSJ/THE, and Forbes, you get:

1. MIT
2. Stanford
3. Princeton
4. Yale
5. Harvard (Forbes put Harvard at 15 otherwise it would obviously be higher)
6. Duke
7. Penn
8. Northwestern
9. Johns Hopkins
10. Brown
11. Columbia (tie)
11. Dartmouth (tie)
13. UChicago
14. Vanderbilt
15. Cornell
16. Rice
17. UCLA
18. Berkeley
19. WashU
20. Caltech (Forbes put it at 45, otherwise it would obviously be higher)[/quote]

I agree Washington Monthly is a great resource. Can you do the same but with the top 8 rankings (US News, WSJ/THE, Niche, Forbes, Washington Monthly, Money, Wallet Hub, Degree Choices). I think these are the only rankings I see to have meaningful difference and impact with their methodologies, making an average of them actually somewhat useful. No worries if you don't want to but if you already have the numbers pulled up and can easily do it, would appreciate it greatly.[/quote]

Sure thing. If you take the average ranking from US News, WSJ/THE, Niche, Forbes, Washington Monthly, Money, Wallet Hub, and Degree Choices, you get:

1. MIT
2. Stanford
3. Princeton
---Big Gap---
4. Harvard
5. Yale
6. Duke
7. Penn
---Big Gap---
8. Caltech
9. Northwestern
10. Columbia
11. Vanderbilt
12. UCLA
13. Berkeley
14. UMich
15. Dartmouth
16. Georgetown
17. Johns Hopkins
18. Cornell
19. Notre Dame
20. WashU (tie)
20. UChicago (tie)
22. UNC
23. UF (tie)
23. UVA (tie)
25. CMU
---Big Gap---
26. Georgia Tech
27. UCSD
28. USC
29. Emory
30. UIUC
31. UCD
32. UCI
33. UW Seattle
34. BC
35. Wake Forest
36. UT Austin
37. UW Madison
---Big Gap---
38. W&M
39. UCSB
40. Lehigh
41. Purdue
---Big Gap---
42. Texas A&M
43. UMD
44. Virginia Tech
45. BU
46. UGA
47. NYU
48. NCSU
49. BYU
50. GW[/quote]

Wow good work. It's also nice to see the big publics get some love after saving families tens of thousands every year while providing top notch education and research opportunities.[/quote]

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