Anonymous wrote:This list is not based in reality. I graduated from Cornell and hated it. Dark, cold and depressing. Unfriendly students.

The only list that matters is the US News and World Report on top National Colleges/Universities. The top 5 Public’s for combination of excellent education, school spirit, athletics, college atmosphere, and job/internships.

1 - UCLA
2 - UC Berkeley
3 - Michigan
4 - UVA
5 - University of Florida, UC Santa Barbara, and UNC

As my family is not in CA - the three are Michigan, UVA and University of Florida

A Cornell alumni

+1

I was just about to post that this peer list has a huge bias against public universities which are the actual power houses in promoting access to quality education, social mobility, academic performance (collaborative well cited research) and popular team sports.

There was a post way back with some attempt to measure academic performance internationally and the public universities did way better.

This list is not based in reality. I graduated from Cornell and hated it. Dark, cold and depressing. Unfriendly students.

The only list that matters is the US News and World Report on top National Colleges/Universities. The top 5 Public’s for combination of excellent education, school spirit, athletics, college atmosphere, and job/internships.

1 - UCLA
2 - UC Berkeley
3 - Michigan
4 - UVA
5 - University of Florida, UC Santa Barbara, and UNC

As my family is not in CA - the three are Michigan, UVA and University of Florida

A Cornell alumni

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UPDATED: Top 10 universities based on peer reputation

1 -MIT
1 -Stanford
1 -Columbia
4 - Princeton
4 - Yale
6 - Harvard
6 - Northwestern
6 - UC - Berkeley
9 - Chicago
9 - Penn
9 - Caltech
9 - Rice

Significant movers - Peer ranking vs. overall ranking:

Top 20 Peer ranked, up 5 or more spots from National rank - Stanford, Berkley, Rice, Michigan

Top 20, down 5 or more spots - Duke, Vanderbilt
20-50, up 10 or more spots - Georgia Tech, UT-Austin, Wisconsin, UIUC, Ohio State, Washington, Purdue, Virginia Tech
20-50, down 10 or more spots - WashStL, Cornell, Florida, Tufts, Wake Forest, UC_Santa Barbara

50-100, up 25 or more - Colorado, Iowa, Arizona, Oregon, UC-Santa Cruz

50-100, down 25 or more - Rochester, Lehigh, Santa Clara, WPI, Yeshiva

To be honest this updated list actually doesn't really surprise me too much. The only change I'd make here is bump up Chicago to ~6 or even ~4, given what I know about the faculty hires they've made over the last couple of years.

There is no updated list, what you posted wholly incorrect. Can someone just buy a subscription, it was $33 for me.

I mean if you bought the subscription couldn’t you just share the data yourself…?

I did. I'm the poster that posted the first top 25 list. Someone else rearranged the order.

Anonymous wrote:UPDATED: Top 10 universities based on peer reputation

1 -MIT
1 -Stanford
1 -Columbia
4 - Princeton
4 - Yale
6 - Harvard
6 - Northwestern
6 - UC - Berkeley
9 - Chicago
9 - Penn
9 - Caltech
9 - Rice

Significant movers - Peer ranking vs. overall ranking:

Top 20 Peer ranked, up 5 or more spots from National rank - Stanford, Berkley, Rice, Michigan

Top 20, down 5 or more spots - Duke, Vanderbilt
20-50, up 10 or more spots - Georgia Tech, UT-Austin, Wisconsin, UIUC, Ohio State, Washington, Purdue, Virginia Tech
20-50, down 10 or more spots - WashStL, Cornell, Florida, Tufts, Wake Forest, UC_Santa Barbara

50-100, up 25 or more - Colorado, Iowa, Arizona, Oregon, UC-Santa Cruz

50-100, down 25 or more - Rochester, Lehigh, Santa Clara, WPI, Yeshiva

I'm pretty sure this is the counselor assessment score, not the peer assessment one.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UPDATED: Top 10 universities based on peer reputation

1 -MIT
1 -Stanford
1 -Columbia
4 - Princeton
4 - Yale
6 - Harvard
6 - Northwestern
6 - UC - Berkeley
9 - Chicago
9 - Penn
9 - Caltech
9 - Rice

Significant movers - Peer ranking vs. overall ranking:

Top 20 Peer ranked, up 5 or more spots from National rank - Stanford, Berkley, Rice, Michigan

Top 20, down 5 or more spots - Duke, Vanderbilt
20-50, up 10 or more spots - Georgia Tech, UT-Austin, Wisconsin, UIUC, Ohio State, Washington, Purdue, Virginia Tech
20-50, down 10 or more spots - WashStL, Cornell, Florida, Tufts, Wake Forest, UC_Santa Barbara

50-100, up 25 or more - Colorado, Iowa, Arizona, Oregon, UC-Santa Cruz

50-100, down 25 or more - Rochester, Lehigh, Santa Clara, WPI, Yeshiva

To be honest this updated list actually doesn't really surprise me too much. The only change I'd make here is bump up Chicago to ~6 or even ~4, given what I know about the faculty hires they've made over the last couple of years.

There is no updated list, what you posted wholly incorrect. Can someone just buy a subscription, it was $33 for me.

I mean if you bought the subscription couldn’t you just share the data yourself…?

Whoever posted that on CC is just lying. They didn't even post the scores for the supposed list they made just the ranking. If Harvard is ranked 6th for reputation then what would the corresponding score be?!?! It's weird someone would lie like that but even weirder that no one wants to verify.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UPDATED: Top 10 universities based on peer reputation

1 -MIT
1 -Stanford
1 -Columbia
4 - Princeton
4 - Yale
6 - Harvard
6 - Northwestern
6 - UC - Berkeley
9 - Chicago
9 - Penn
9 - Caltech
9 - Rice

Significant movers - Peer ranking vs. overall ranking:

Top 20 Peer ranked, up 5 or more spots from National rank - Stanford, Berkley, Rice, Michigan

Top 20, down 5 or more spots - Duke, Vanderbilt
20-50, up 10 or more spots - Georgia Tech, UT-Austin, Wisconsin, UIUC, Ohio State, Washington, Purdue, Virginia Tech
20-50, down 10 or more spots - WashStL, Cornell, Florida, Tufts, Wake Forest, UC_Santa Barbara

50-100, up 25 or more - Colorado, Iowa, Arizona, Oregon, UC-Santa Cruz

50-100, down 25 or more - Rochester, Lehigh, Santa Clara, WPI, Yeshiva

To be honest this updated list actually doesn't really surprise me too much. The only change I'd make here is bump up Chicago to ~6 or even ~4, given what I know about the faculty hires they've made over the last couple of years.

There is no updated list, what you posted wholly incorrect. Can someone just buy a subscription, it was $33 for me.

Anonymous wrote:UPDATED: Top 10 universities based on peer reputation

1 -MIT
1 -Stanford
1 -Columbia
4 - Princeton
4 - Yale
6 - Harvard
6 - Northwestern
6 - UC - Berkeley
9 - Chicago
9 - Penn
9 - Caltech
9 - Rice

Significant movers - Peer ranking vs. overall ranking:

Top 20 Peer ranked, up 5 or more spots from National rank - Stanford, Berkley, Rice, Michigan

Top 20, down 5 or more spots - Duke, Vanderbilt
20-50, up 10 or more spots - Georgia Tech, UT-Austin, Wisconsin, UIUC, Ohio State, Washington, Purdue, Virginia Tech
20-50, down 10 or more spots - WashStL, Cornell, Florida, Tufts, Wake Forest, UC_Santa Barbara

50-100, up 25 or more - Colorado, Iowa, Arizona, Oregon, UC-Santa Cruz

50-100, down 25 or more - Rochester, Lehigh, Santa Clara, WPI, Yeshiva

To be honest this updated list actually doesn't really surprise me too much. The only change I'd make here is bump up Chicago to ~6 or even ~4, given what I know about the faculty hires they've made over the last couple of years.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UPDATED: Top 10 universities based on peer reputation

1 -MIT
1 -Stanford
1 -Columbia
4 - Princeton
4 - Yale
6 - Harvard
6 - Northwestern
6 - UC - Berkeley
9 - Chicago
9 - Penn
9 - Caltech
9 - Rice

Significant movers - Peer ranking vs. overall ranking:

Top 20 Peer ranked, up 5 or more spots from National rank - Stanford, Berkley, Rice, Michigan

Top 20, down 5 or more spots - Duke, Vanderbilt
20-50, up 10 or more spots - Georgia Tech, UT-Austin, Wisconsin, UIUC, Ohio State, Washington, Purdue, Virginia Tech
20-50, down 10 or more spots - WashStL, Cornell, Florida, Tufts, Wake Forest, UC_Santa Barbara

50-100, up 25 or more - Colorado, Iowa, Arizona, Oregon, UC-Santa Cruz

50-100, down 25 or more - Rochester, Lehigh, Santa Clara, WPI, Yeshiva

Is this right? How is Harvard 6??

Exactly, they aren't right. I don't have a CC account but I have a USnews account. I can post a picture.

Can you please

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UPDATED: Top 10 universities based on peer reputation

1 -MIT
1 -Stanford
1 -Columbia
4 - Princeton
4 - Yale
6 - Harvard
6 - Northwestern
6 - UC - Berkeley
9 - Chicago
9 - Penn
9 - Caltech
9 - Rice

Significant movers - Peer ranking vs. overall ranking:

Top 20 Peer ranked, up 5 or more spots from National rank - Stanford, Berkley, Rice, Michigan

Top 20, down 5 or more spots - Duke, Vanderbilt
20-50, up 10 or more spots - Georgia Tech, UT-Austin, Wisconsin, UIUC, Ohio State, Washington, Purdue, Virginia Tech
20-50, down 10 or more spots - WashStL, Cornell, Florida, Tufts, Wake Forest, UC_Santa Barbara

50-100, up 25 or more - Colorado, Iowa, Arizona, Oregon, UC-Santa Cruz

50-100, down 25 or more - Rochester, Lehigh, Santa Clara, WPI, Yeshiva

Is this right? How is Harvard 6??

Exactly, they aren't right. I don't have a CC account but I have a USnews account. I can post a picture.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UPDATED: Top 10 universities based on peer reputation

1 -MIT
1 -Stanford
1 -Columbia
4 - Princeton
4 - Yale
6 - Harvard
6 - Northwestern
6 - UC - Berkeley
9 - Chicago
9 - Penn
9 - Caltech
9 - Rice

Significant movers - Peer ranking vs. overall ranking:

Top 20 Peer ranked, up 5 or more spots from National rank - Stanford, Berkley, Rice, Michigan

Top 20, down 5 or more spots - Duke, Vanderbilt
20-50, up 10 or more spots - Georgia Tech, UT-Austin, Wisconsin, UIUC, Ohio State, Washington, Purdue, Virginia Tech
20-50, down 10 or more spots - WashStL, Cornell, Florida, Tufts, Wake Forest, UC_Santa Barbara

50-100, up 25 or more - Colorado, Iowa, Arizona, Oregon, UC-Santa Cruz

50-100, down 25 or more - Rochester, Lehigh, Santa Clara, WPI, Yeshiva

Is this right? How is Harvard 6??

You must be old, still following the old almanac.

Ask your grandkids if you want to know what’s been happening since.

Anonymous wrote:UPDATED: Top 10 universities based on peer reputation

1 -MIT
1 -Stanford
1 -Columbia
4 - Princeton
4 - Yale
6 - Harvard
6 - Northwestern
6 - UC - Berkeley
9 - Chicago
9 - Penn
9 - Caltech
9 - Rice

Significant movers - Peer ranking vs. overall ranking:

Top 20 Peer ranked, up 5 or more spots from National rank - Stanford, Berkley, Rice, Michigan

Top 20, down 5 or more spots - Duke, Vanderbilt
20-50, up 10 or more spots - Georgia Tech, UT-Austin, Wisconsin, UIUC, Ohio State, Washington, Purdue, Virginia Tech
20-50, down 10 or more spots - WashStL, Cornell, Florida, Tufts, Wake Forest, UC_Santa Barbara

50-100, up 25 or more - Colorado, Iowa, Arizona, Oregon, UC-Santa Cruz

50-100, down 25 or more - Rochester, Lehigh, Santa Clara, WPI, Yeshiva

Is this right? How is Harvard 6??

UPDATED: Top 10 LACs based on peer reputation (2022 version)

1 - Williams College
2 - Amherst College
2 - Swarthmore College
4 - Pomona College
4 - Wellesley College
4 - Bowdoin College
7 - Harvey Mudd College
8 - United States Naval Academy
8 - Claremont McKenna College
8 - Carleton College
8 - Middlebury College
8 - United States Military Academy
8 - Davidson College
8 - Grinnell College
8 - Smith College

Significant movers - Peer ranking vs. overall ranking:

Top 20 Peer ranked, up 5 or more spots from National rank - Harvey Mudd (up 21), Davidson, Grinnell, Smith, USAF, Vassar, Bates, Bryn Mawr
Top 20, down 5 or more spots - none

20-50, up 10 or more spots - Spelman, Reed, Rhodes, St. Olaf, Bard

20-50, down 10 or more spots -Washington & Lee, Hamilton, Berea, Whitman

50-110, up 20 or more - Lewis & Clark, Wheaton College (MA), University of Puget Sound, Hendrix College, Ohio Weslyan, Southwestern University, St. John’s (MN)

50-110, down 20 or more - Thomas Aquinas, Juniata, Soka U of America, Hillsdale College, Principia (all but one of these down 50+ positions)

UPDATED: Top 10 universities based on peer reputation

1 -MIT
1 -Stanford
1 -Columbia
4 - Princeton
4 - Yale
6 - Harvard
6 - Northwestern
6 - UC - Berkeley
9 - Chicago
9 - Penn
9 - Caltech
9 - Rice

Significant movers - Peer ranking vs. overall ranking:

Top 20 Peer ranked, up 5 or more spots from National rank - Stanford, Berkley, Rice, Michigan

Top 20, down 5 or more spots - Duke, Vanderbilt
20-50, up 10 or more spots - Georgia Tech, UT-Austin, Wisconsin, UIUC, Ohio State, Washington, Purdue, Virginia Tech
20-50, down 10 or more spots - WashStL, Cornell, Florida, Tufts, Wake Forest, UC_Santa Barbara

50-100, up 25 or more - Colorado, Iowa, Arizona, Oregon, UC-Santa Cruz

50-100, down 25 or more - Rochester, Lehigh, Santa Clara, WPI, Yeshiva

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. Princeton 4.8
2. Columbia 4.7
Harvard 4.9
MIT 4.9
5. Yale 4.8
6. Stanford 4.9
U Chicago 4.6
8. UPenn 4.6
Caltech 4.6
9. Duke 4.5
John's Hopkins 4.7
Northwestern 4.4
13. Dartmouth 4.4
14. Brown 4.5
Vanderbilt 4.3
WashU 4.2
17. Cornell 4.6
Rice 4.1
19. Notre Dame 4.2
20. UCLA 4.4
21. Emory 4.2
22. UC Berkeley 4.7
23. Georgetown 4.2
U Michigan 4.5
25. Carnegie Mellon 4.3
UVA 4.3
You're welcome! However a caveat... There are several important factors that should go into the rankings and peer reputation is only one factor. Student selectivity and institutional resources matter for the entire quality of the school. Peer Reputation can also be gamer as well.

Are you sure this is correct? Here's what someone on CollegeConfidential put:

"Top 10
1 -MIT
1 -Stanford
1 -Columbia
4 - Princeton
4 - Yale
6 - Harvard
6 - Northwestern
6 - UC - Berkeley
9 - Chicago
9 - Penn
9 - Caltech
9 - Rice"

That was from 2021. I don't have a subscription for this year. Here is a link to the College Confidential discussion - https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/2022-usnews-rankings-posted/3575443/181