Kiplinger just came out with 2016 rankings. Their methodology uses quality measures for 55% and financial measures for 45% of the total. Emory fairs better than the “other ivies” Dartmouth, Brown, UPENN, Cornell, as well as Northwestern, JHU, Wash StL, and UND. Their methodology helps the LAC’s.
- W&L
- Princeton
- Harvard
- Davidson
- Swathmore
- Vanderbilt
- Rice
- Pomona
- Yale
- UNC
- Duke
- Kenyon
- Williams
- Wesleyan
- Cal-T
- Middlebury
- MIT
- Grinnell
- Colgate
- Amherst
- Stanford
- Thomas Aquinas
- Emory
- Dartmouth
- Brown
- UPenn 35 Cornell
- Northwestern
If you look at only top national private U’s.
- Princeton
- Harvard
- Vanderbilt
- Rice
- Yale
- Duke
- Cal-t
- MIT
- Stanford
- Emory
- Dartmouth
- Brown
- UPenn
- Cornell
- NU
- UND
- GU
- JHU
- BC
- Wash St-L