Two things stood out to me in the Liberal Arts section. Hamilton was ranked in the top 10 and Harvey Mudd was ranked in the twenties. The Harvey Mudd ranking is crazy as someone else pointed out. Their students would blow out the water the students at Colorado College, the school with the same ranking.

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Anonymous wrote:Harvey Mudd College
Claremont, CA

#25
in
National Liberal Arts Colleges (tie)


Crazy.

Crazy how?

By any standard, Mudd comes out on top or near the top of any engineering school evaluation.

I have no skin in the game, did not go there, and have no kids there. But for aspiring engineers, I'd rank it somewhere near MIT.

+1 Mudd is the college with no grad school equivalent to MIT. Hard to get into. Infamously hard to survive. And I’ve never had a kid interested in it either. But, it’s impressive.

Anonymous wrote:The ranking is a total joke. UChicago tied with Stanford? Princeton's yield is the worst among T5, and Columbia is not in T5.

Columbia has always been T4 as long as I remember.

Ivy = IV = Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia.

Anonymous wrote:The ranking is a total joke. UChicago tied with Stanford? Princeton's yield is the worst among T5, and Columbia is not in T5.

Princeton NJ is a sleepy town. Great school but the location is dull.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvey Mudd College
Claremont, CA

#25
in
National Liberal Arts Colleges (tie)


Crazy.

Crazy how?

By any standard, Mudd comes out on top or near the top of any engineering school evaluation.

I have no skin in the game, did not go there, and have no kids there. But for aspiring engineers, I'd rank it somewhere near MIT.

Anonymous wrote:US News has to change the list a lot every year. Otherwise people has no interests in the latest ranking and its business will suffer.

The changes in the ranking have more to do with the nature of USW business model than the academy of these colleges.

Does anyone actually know what the rankings were in 2020 as opposed to 2021? Find a better use of your time if so.

The ranking is a total joke. UChicago tied with Stanford? Princeton's yield is the worst among T5, and Columbia is not in T5.

Anonymous wrote:Harvey Mudd College
Claremont, CA

#25
in
National Liberal Arts Colleges (tie)


Crazy.

Crazy how?

US News has to change the list a lot every year. Otherwise people has no interests in the latest ranking and its business will suffer.

The changes in the ranking have more to do with the nature of USW business model than the academy of these colleges.

Anonymous wrote:Columbia is so overrated

Before Trump's endorsement, it was tied for 3rd with MIT and Yale. Columbia got a bump after Trump described it as a 'disgraceful institution.' My kind of school.

Columbia is so overrated

Anonymous wrote:Harvey Mudd College
Claremont, CA

#25 in National Liberal Arts Colleges (tie)

Crazy.

Indeed. Excellent example that the rankings often don't make sense.

Harvey Mudd College
Claremont, CA

#25
in
National Liberal Arts Colleges (tie)


Crazy.

1 Princeton
2 Harvard
3 Columbia
4 MIT
4 Yale
6 Stanford
6 U Chicago
8 Penn
9 Northwestern
9 Johns Hopkins
9 Caltech
12 Duke
13 Dartmouth
14 Brown
14 Vanderbilt
16 Rice
16 WashU
18 Cornell
19 Notre Dame
20 UCLA
21 Emory
22 UC Berkeley
23 Georgetown
24 USC
24 Michigan
26 CMU
26 UVA
28 Wake Forest
28 UNC
30 NYU
30 Tufts
30 U Florida
30 UCSB
34 U Rochester
35 Georgia Tech
35 UC Irvine
35 Boston College
35 UCSD
39 UC Davis
39 William & Mary
41 Tulane
42 Boston University
42 Brandeis
42 Case Western
42 U Wisconsin
42 UT Austin
47 UIUC
47 U Georgia
49 Northeastern
49 Lehigh
49 Pepperdine
49 U Miami
53 Villanova
53 RPI
53 Ohio State
53 Santa Clara
53 Purdue
58 Syracuse
58 Florida State
58 U Pittsburgh
58 U Washington
58 U Maryland
63 Penn State
63 Rutgers
63 U Conn
66 Loyola Marymount
66 SMU
66 Umass Amherst
66 WPI
66 GWU
66 Texas A&M
66 U Minn
66 Fordham
74 Clemson
74 Va Tech
76 American
76 Baylor
76 Indiana U
76 Yeshiva
80 Stevens Inst Tech
80 BYU
80 Gonzaga
80 Michigan State
80 NC State
80 TCU
80 U Denver
80 Howard
88 SUNY Bing
88 SUNY Buffalo
88 CO Mines
88 Elon
88 Marquette
88 U Iowa
88 SUNY Stony Brook
88 U San Diego
88 UC Riverside
97 UC Santa Cruz
97 U Delaware
97 Auburn
97 U Utah
97 UC Merced
97 U Arizona
103 Clark
103 Miami Ohio
103 St Louis U
103 USF
103 CU Boulder
103 Temple
103 U Oregon
103 U South Florida
103 Arizona State

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities

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