Anonymous wrote:GWU but not UMD? Really

Np...UMD is 77

Completely different methodology than US News, with student test scores and grades, admit rates and yields not included. The rankings are based on resources (like endowment), student engagement (by survey), outcomes (graduate salaries) and environment (measure of diversity). So naturally the wealthiest schools rise to the top. The pecking order we are used to based on selectivity gets shaken up here, after the top cluster at least.

Seems odd that William and Mary, Washington and Lee and yes, GT are missing. Also odd to include Boston University and omit Northeastern with co-ops.

Hopkins is clearly higher than it should be and Brown should probably trade places with Princeton, but this is overall better than USNWR.

It made this Tar Heel smile to see UNC over UCB. But c’mon... maybe decades ago that would be the case, but now I’d say UNC should be much lower than UCB. Sad but true.

Go Brown Nation!

Seems odd to me too. A notable omission in my book was Georgia Tech. University of Miami, but not Georgia Tech? No Maryland?

GWU but not UMD? Really

A bit odd espicially afterthe top 5 or so.

What an amazing list of America's educational institutions. I love seeing them laid out like this. Thrilled if my kid gets into one of them this year.

UVA is at 51

More accurate than US News.

Anonymous wrote:Cornell top 10 and > Columbia Dartmouth and Penn. Awright!

It’s cruel to make fun of those lower Ivys Columbia Penn and Dartmouth

Cornell top 10 and > Columbia Dartmouth and Penn. Awright!

Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/2021-best-colleges-in-america-harvard-leads-the-university-rankings-11600383996
Methodology: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/USmethodology2021

Thoughts?

1 Harvard University
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3 Yale University
4 Stanford University
5 Brown University
5 Duke University
7 California Institute of Technology
7 Princeton University
9 Cornell University
10 Northwestern University
11 Johns Hopkins University
12 Dartmouth College
13 University of Pennsylvania
14 The University of Chicago
15 Columbia University
15 Rice University
17 Vanderbilt University
18 Washington University in St Louis
19 University of Southern California
20 Carnegie Mellon University
21 Amherst College
21 Williams College
23 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
24 Emory University
24 Pomona College
26 University of California, Los Angeles
27 New York University
28 University of Notre Dame
29 Wellesley College
30 Swarthmore College
31 Tufts University
32 Georgetown University
33 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
34 University of California, Berkeley
35 Claremont McKenna College
36 Carleton College
37 Middlebury College
38 University of California, Davis
39 University of California, San Diego
40 Boston University
40 Haverford College
42 Bowdoin College
43 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
43 Smith College
45 University of Washington-Seattle
46 Wesleyan University
47 Purdue University West Lafayette
48 Case Western Reserve University
49 University of Rochester
50 Colgate University
51 University of Virginia (Main campus)
52 Barnard College
53 University of Miami
54 Mount Holyoke College
55 Boston College
56 University of Florida
56 Hamilton College
58 Lehigh University
59 Davidson College
59 University of Richmond
61 University of Texas at Austin
62 Vassar College
63 Bates College
64 Wake Forest University
65 University of Wisconsin-Madison
66 Bryn Mawr College
66 Scripps College
68 Grinnell College
68 Tulane University
70 George Washington University