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Anonymous wrote:These lists are only interesting in terms of schools that punch above or below their rate compared to the USNews rankings.

Just a quick eyeballing...it seems Georgetown, Indiana, Howard (44 on full list), University of Hawaii (46), University of Iowa (51) punch considerably above their weight as example vs. the USNews rankings, while schools like Vandy (39), WashU (41), Caltech (49), Ga Tech (75), Amherst (85) and then a school like Williams which doesn't even make the top 100, punch below their weight.

Does Williams even have a graduate school?

No...I thought this list was only undergrad...if it also includes grad school grads, then it makes sense why the LACs don't rank well. I guess still doesn't explain why Middlebury, Smith and Amherst are on the list and Williams doesn't make it at all.

Anonymous wrote:This looks like the US News Reputation rankings.

Maybe reputation is shaped by a school's propensity to produce leaders.

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Anonymous wrote:Yet another ranking. Pretty solid Top 25, though. Public schools fared quite well.

1 Harvard University
2 Stanford University
3 Yale University
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5 Columbia University
6 University of Pennsylvania
7 University of California, Berkeley
8 New York University
9 Georgetown University
10 Princeton University
11 University of Michigan
12 Northwestern University
13 Cornell University
14 University of Chicago
15 Duke University
16 Dartmouth College
17 University of Virginia
18 Brown University
19 University of Southern California (USC)
20 University of California, Los Angeles
21 University of Texas at Austin
22 University of Wisconsin-Madison
23 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
24 Indiana University
25 Johns Hopkins University

https://time.com/7333710/best-colleges-future-leaders-2026/

Seems this is only ranking mid-size and large unis. Not smaller liberal arts colleges. Feels incomplete. Many governors, mayors, former CEOs attended SLACs.

They didn’t calculate on a per capita basis, and also included graduate programs. Both would underweight slacs and overweight flagships.

If this is true then UVA is far and away the top public as they have half the students of Michigan or Berkeley. And Dartmouth would jump way up the list. They're tiny.

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Anonymous wrote:Elizabeth Warren attended Univ of Houston. And Rutgers Law. So....?

Elizabeth Warren is that woman who lived at the end of the cul-de-sac when you were growing up, drove a Subaru, and called the cops or your parents if you had a small party when they were out of town.

Anonymous wrote:LeBron James skipped college

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Anonymous wrote:Yet another ranking. Pretty solid Top 25, though. Public schools fared quite well.

1 Harvard University
2 Stanford University
3 Yale University
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5 Columbia University
6 University of Pennsylvania
7 University of California, Berkeley
8 New York University
9 Georgetown University
10 Princeton University
11 University of Michigan
12 Northwestern University
13 Cornell University
14 University of Chicago
15 Duke University
16 Dartmouth College
17 University of Virginia
18 Brown University
19 University of Southern California (USC)
20 University of California, Los Angeles
21 University of Texas at Austin
22 University of Wisconsin-Madison
23 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
24 Indiana University
25 Johns Hopkins University

https://time.com/7333710/best-colleges-future-leaders-2026/

Seems this is only ranking mid-size and large unis. Not smaller liberal arts colleges. Feels incomplete. Many governors, mayors, former CEOs attended SLACs.

They didn’t calculate on a per capita basis, and also included graduate programs. Both would underweight slacs and overweight flagships.

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Anonymous wrote:Yet another ranking. Pretty solid Top 25, though. Public schools fared quite well.

1 Harvard University
2 Stanford University
3 Yale University
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5 Columbia University
6 University of Pennsylvania
7 University of California, Berkeley
8 New York University
9 Georgetown University
10 Princeton University
11 University of Michigan
12 Northwestern University
13 Cornell University
14 University of Chicago
15 Duke University
16 Dartmouth College
17 University of Virginia
18 Brown University
19 University of Southern California (USC)
20 University of California, Los Angeles
21 University of Texas at Austin
22 University of Wisconsin-Madison
23 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
24 Indiana University
25 Johns Hopkins University

https://time.com/7333710/best-colleges-future-leaders-2026/

Seems this is only ranking mid-size and large unis. Not smaller liberal arts colleges. Feels incomplete. Many governors, mayors, former CEOs attended SLACs.

They rank 125 in total...there are some SLACS but not many...Middlebury, Smith, Amherst, Oberlin and Bucknell I recall seeing.

You have to click on the link.

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Anonymous wrote:Yet another ranking. Pretty solid Top 25, though. Public schools fared quite well.

1 Harvard University
2 Stanford University
3 Yale University
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5 Columbia University
6 University of Pennsylvania
7 University of California, Berkeley
8 New York University
9 Georgetown University
10 Princeton University
11 University of Michigan
12 Northwestern University
13 Cornell University
14 University of Chicago
15 Duke University
16 Dartmouth College
17 University of Virginia
18 Brown University
19 University of Southern California (USC)
20 University of California, Los Angeles
21 University of Texas at Austin
22 University of Wisconsin-Madison
23 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
24 Indiana University
25 Johns Hopkins University

https://time.com/7333710/best-colleges-future-leaders-2026/

Seems this is only ranking mid-size and large unis. Not smaller liberal arts colleges. Feels incomplete. Many governors, mayors, former CEOs attended SLACs.

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Anonymous wrote:Yet another ranking. Pretty solid Top 25, though. Public schools fared quite well.

1 Harvard University
2 Stanford University
3 Yale University
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5 Columbia University
6 University of Pennsylvania
7 University of California, Berkeley
8 New York University
9 Georgetown University
10 Princeton University
11 University of Michigan
12 Northwestern University
13 Cornell University
14 University of Chicago
15 Duke University
16 Dartmouth College
17 University of Virginia
18 Brown University
19 University of Southern California (USC)
20 University of California, Los Angeles
21 University of Texas at Austin
22 University of Wisconsin-Madison
23 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
24 Indiana University
25 Johns Hopkins University

https://time.com/7333710/best-colleges-future-leaders-2026/

Seems this is only ranking mid-size and large unis. Not smaller liberal arts colleges. Feels incomplete. Many governors, mayors, former CEOs attended SLACs.

Anonymous wrote:Yet another ranking. Pretty solid Top 25, though. Public schools fared quite well.

1 Harvard University
2 Stanford University
3 Yale University
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5 Columbia University
6 University of Pennsylvania
7 University of California, Berkeley
8 New York University
9 Georgetown University
10 Princeton University
11 University of Michigan
12 Northwestern University
13 Cornell University
14 University of Chicago
15 Duke University
16 Dartmouth College
17 University of Virginia
18 Brown University
19 University of Southern California (USC)
20 University of California, Los Angeles
21 University of Texas at Austin
22 University of Wisconsin-Madison
23 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
24 Indiana University
25 Johns Hopkins University

https://time.com/7333710/best-colleges-future-leaders-2026/

Anonymous wrote:in reading the methodology, it is unclear that they accounted for university size. They made some adjustment for size, but I couldn’t tell if that was about the organization or about the school.

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Anonymous wrote:These lists are only interesting in terms of schools that punch above or below their rate compared to the USNews rankings.

Just a quick eyeballing...it seems Georgetown, Indiana, Howard (44 on full list), University of Hawaii (46), University of Iowa (51) punch considerably above their weight as example vs. the USNews rankings, while schools like Vandy (39), WashU (41), Caltech (49), Ga Tech (75), Amherst (85) and then a school like Williams which doesn't even make the top 100, punch below their weight.

Does Williams even have a graduate school?

They offer a couple grad programs