“Best” is a vague and useless term, unless you define your criteria.

1. Yale
2. Harvard
3. Amherst
4. Dartmouth
5. Stanford
Kid wants to go to law school

UVA

Anonymous wrote:MIT
Princeton
Stanford
Rice
Berkeley
Michigan
Cornell
UCLA
Penn
Texas

Schools that aren't outstanding in engineering should not be on any list in 2025.

Yale is very meh in this area

Anonymous wrote:MIT
Princeton
Stanford
Rice
Berkeley
Michigan
Cornell
UCLA
Penn
Texas

Schools that aren't outstanding in engineering should not be on any list in 2025.

1) MIT
2) Princeton
3) Stanford
4) Harvard
5) Yale

6) Northwestern, Duke, & U Penn

9) UC-Berkeley

10) Cornell & CMU

Stanford
Harvard
MIT
Caltech
Berkeley

Then a big gap before everything else.

We’re honest with each other we have no way of knowing.

HYPSM
Penn
Chicago
Hopkins
Cornell
Berkeley

By strength of STEM and other programs

MIT
Princeton
Stanford
Rice
Berkeley
Michigan
Cornell
UCLA
Penn
Texas

Schools that aren't outstanding in engineering should not be on any list in 2025.

Harvard
Stanford
MIT
Princeton
Yale
Caltech

Duke and Stanford and who cares about anything else.

1) Uchicago
2) CalTech
2) Reed
3) Princeton
4) Deep Springs (but it's not a 4-year), Swarthmore
5) Harvey Mudd
6) Amherst
7) Williams or Pomona
8) Pomona or Williams
9) Berkeley
10) St Johns

I tend to personally rank STEM-heavy colleges lower on the intellectual component, but even I can admit Caltech is deeply committed to science and progress in a way that most colleges with career-hungry stem students aren't.

My main criteria is an intellectual atmosphere that emphasizes rigor aka ... a college.

Great list

Stanford
MIT
Harvard
Yale
U Chicago
Duke
Princeton
Berkeley

Beyond that, its a toss up of many institutions that could all “top 10” but together add up to more than 10

Pretend you are USNWR and take into consideration all popular majors and the criteria most important to you.

The ask is which are your top 10 if Ivy prestige is not a factor.