Interesting outcomes-based ranking.
4 metrics:
- Percentage entering elite professional schools (for MBA/JD /MD).
- Production of “American Leaders”, who are mostly leaders in business, government, and the arts.
- Percentage winning prestigious national student awards.
- Percentage getting PhDs.
Wall Street Journal’s Top 50 Feeder Schools-JD /MBA/MD
The ranking is by percentages so schools with fewer students weren’t penalized,
- Harvard University
- Yale University
- Princeton University 4.Stanford University
- Williams College
- Duke University
- Dartmouth College
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Amherst College 10.Swarthmore College 11.Columbia University 12.Brown University 13.Pomona College 14.University of Chicago 15.Wellesley College 16.University of Philadelphia 17.Georgetown University 18.Haverford College 19.Bowdoin College 20.Rice University 21.Northwestern University 22.Claremont McKenna College 23.Middlebury College 24.Johns Hopkins University 25.Cornell University 26.Bryn Mawr College 27,Wesleyan University 28.California Institute of Technology 29.Morehouse College 30.University of Michigan 31.New College of Florida 32.Vassar College 33.University of Virginia 34.United States Military Academy 35.University of Notre Dame 36.Emory University 37.United States Naval Academy 38.Macalester College 39.Brandeis University 40.Bates College 41.University of California, Berkely 42.Barnard College 43.Trinity College 44.Grinnell College 45.Tufts University 46Colby College 47.Washington University 48.Washington and Lee 49.Case Western Reserve University 50.Reed College https://hubpages.com/education/Wall-Street-Journal-College-Rankings-The-Full-List-and-Rating-Criteria