<p>What would you rank as the best young (<50 years old) colleges? It seems to me that most of the prestige a college has is due to a large alumni base, and the older the school, the more graduates. So this ranking of young colleges would eliminate that age of school bias.</p>
<p>Olin .</p>
<p>Olin College of Engineering</p>
<p>New College of Florida</p>
<p>Claremont McKenna College is 62 years old and Harvey Mudd is 53 years old. USNews ranks CMC 11th best LAC and HMC 15th.</p>
<p>Thanks. Other than UCI I think we named most of them. There are not many top schools so young AND highly ranked. (Arguably, CMU also qualifies since it was created in a merger in 1967.) A young school usually means less endowment (from which to provide scholarships and hire top professors) as well as fewer alums and thus less prestige and thus lower USNWR rankings. So for these to be highly ranked, they must be achieving a great deal to rise so fast in the rankings.</p>
<p>Definitely Olin. </p>
<p>For Nationals, Carnegie Mellon is the only Top 25 (or even Top 30?-40?) school that was founded in the 20th century (1900) and if you want to get technical, it was founded as it is in 1967.</p>
<p>"In 1967, the Carnegie Institute of Technology merged with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to form Carnegie Mellon University. "</p>
<p>The school has been rising ever since, achieving more than double the applications in the recent years.</p>
<p>University of California-San Diego (found in 1960 I believe)</p>
<p>Olin College</p>
<p>Hampshire is 50; Brandeis, 60.</p>
<p>no love for Pitzer? Founded1963.</p>
<p>University of California, Santa Barbara – became part of the UC system in '58</p>
<p>University of California, Irvine - 1965</p>
<p>Prior to becoming CMU, the Carnegie Institute of Technology was a pretty good school in its own right. It was originally founded such that the steel mill workers could take classes at night to advance higher up through the company and during the day their children could get a good education at a reasonable price. Sadly, this ideal has been lost a bit in recent times, and I think you’d be pretty hard pressed to find a coal miner’s child there.</p>
<p>I’d also say RIT has a pretty nice campus for having moved to there in the 1960s.</p>
<p>Brandeis is 60 years, but it’s amazing quality and repuatation exceeds its age.</p>
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<p>I would rethink that sweeping statement, if I were you. Rice was founded in 1912, and it’s a Top 20 school. It’s done exceedingly well for a school at its relatively young age (in comparison to its peers).</p>
<p>Sorry about that hotasice. Ah okay, I looked up wikipedia and it said this.</p>
<p>"Rice University was founded by William Marsh Rice in 1891 and was originally named The William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Letters, Science, and Art.</p>
<p>Before the Rice Institute could be opened, there were challenges to be endured. William Marsh Rice, 84 and living alone in New York, was poisoned by his valet in 1900. On discovery that Rice’s will had been changed to leave the bulk of his estate to a lawyer “friend,” Albert T. Patrick, Mr. Rice’s lawyers and the New York district attorney uncovered evidence proving Patrick had conspired with Rice’s valet to prepare the false will, leading to Patrick’s murder conviction in 1901. Legal challenges to William Rice’s will continued through 1904, when the Rice Institute finally received a $4.6 million (about $95 million in 2005 dollars) funding endowment. By the time the Institute opened in 1912, its endowment had grown to almost $10 million, the seventh largest university endowment in the country at the time.</p>
<p>Edgar Odell Lovett of Princeton was selected as the first president of the Rice Institute. Lovett undertook extensive research before formalizing plans for the new Institute, including visits to 78 institutions of higher learning across the world in 1908 and 1909. The cornerstone was laid for the first campus building, now Lovett Hall, in 1911. In 1912, course work began. Rice was unusual for that time in admitting both male and female students. The first class consisted of 48 men and 29 women. The student body voted to adopt an Honor System in 1916; Rice’s first commencement exercises were held the same year."</p>
<p>So I guess if depends on how you look at it, when it was founded or when it opened.</p>
<p>One to be considered is the Air Force Academy. The first class graduated in 1959.</p>
<p>William & Mary closed after the Civil War and became state supported circa1906. Pretty amazing comeback. Also, Duke bought out Trinty college sometime in the 1930s. Wake Forest moved over 100 miles to their present day campus in the late 1950s.</p>
<p>DUke bought out Trinity??</p>