<p>It depends which source you look at… US News is the gold standard, so if I were to look at rankings that is the one I would look at. The colleges view that one as the best as well… there are others; ie, FORBES, Princeton which are essentially knockoffs. From my experience, Lafayette is not all that selective. Villanova somewhat -crazymama obviously likes liberal arts schools which is a whole other animal and you can’t compare the two types of schools. In my view there is no other school like NEU - my two sons go there – will both come out with 2 years relevant work experience - because of extended co-ops etc., - can’t beat it but not worth a student going into extreme debt over it because they will pay for the rest of their lives. </p>