Anonymous
Post 06/12/2026 17:18     Subject: another rankings list. I don't hate it
Anonymous wrote:Proof that lacs still can't make it to the top


They are the top for undergraduate education.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2026 16:56     Subject: another rankings list. I don't hate it
Anonymous wrote:This one is better.
https://collegerankings.city-journal.org/rankings?sort=2&order=asc

? why. This ranking seems like it's more about free speech and balanced politics than academics or outcomes.


Our rankings combine publicly available information from sources such as the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), the Department of Education’s College Scorecard, and the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s College Free Speech Rankings. We also developed original measures exclusively for this project, such as the ideological balance of student political organizations and the partisan makeup of faculty campaign contributions.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2026 15:32     Subject: another rankings list. I don't hate it
Proof that lacs still can't make it to the top
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2026 15:31     Subject: another rankings list. I don't hate it
Anonymous wrote:Notable Pairings

Williams
Amherst

W&L
Davidson

Bates
Colby

Bucknell
Lafayette

What do you mean by pairings?
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2026 15:30     Subject: another rankings list. I don't hate it
Nice to see Fordham in the top 100. I've always felt it was underrated for what it offers.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2026 15:15     Subject: Re:another rankings list. I don't hate it
Anonymous wrote:It's nice to see the LACs in with the rest at least.


agree
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2026 11:55     Subject: Re:another rankings list. I don't hate it
It's nice to see the LACs in with the rest at least.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2026 11:40     Subject: another rankings list. I don't hate it
Anonymous wrote:If you click around, you'll see:

40% outcome
20% academics
20% selectivity
20% campus life

Of course, how each of these categories is defined is not immediately obvious.


40% OUTCOMES
;5, 15, and 30-year median career earnings paired with alumni prestige across industries.

This is really unclear. How exactly do they measure it? I'm sure they don't track every single person who went to that school.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2026 10:36     Subject: another rankings list. I don't hate it
I like combining Universities and Colleges.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2026 10:36     Subject: another rankings list. I don't hate it
Penn ahead of MIT, Princeton and yale? GTFOH
Dartmouth ahead of CalTech? GTFOH

This list makes USNWR look decent.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2026 10:35     Subject: Re:another rankings list. I don't hate it
Anonymous wrote:Berkeley is so much lower than UCLA (and Michigan)…puzzling!


I agree with this. Housing is Cal's pain point - a very real issue for kids who are being forced to move off off off campus. Not ideal
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2026 09:12     Subject: another rankings list. I don't hate it
Anonymous wrote:It’s a list, put together by someone which roughly tracks the already known. It’s not a bad list but it says nothing new. The top R1s are the top R1s and the top SLACs are the top SLACs. One could quibble with it but why, there is nothing new.


The already known, lol.

Most of the top universities are 100 to 300 years old.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2026 09:10     Subject: another rankings list. I don't hate it
Anonymous wrote:https://subject.com/subject100


It's the same damn schools, all the time, just slightly reshuffled.

These "rankings" are beyond worthless.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2026 09:08     Subject: another rankings list. I don't hate it
JHU, CIT are lower than USC, UCLA, UMich? LOL.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2026 09:00     Subject: another rankings list. I don't hate it
I do