<p>dcircle,</p>
<p>I wonder why Brown never win anything in debate (do they even have a team?) and now I know. FYI: Northwestern has the best debate team in the country. Other than selectivitity, does Brown have anything that’s considered “top-5 or top-10 in the country”. You can educate me because I have trouble naming any. ;)</p>
<p>We are discussing economic/business related programs/offerings not selectivity (cos that’s already clear) and hopefully not hot girls. LOL! Is that clear? No one even disputes that Brown has lower acceptance rate/higher selectivity. Yet, four out of those six links are about selectivity. It’s funny how you try so hard to prove something no one even disputes. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.consusgroup.com/news/rankings/colleges/published.asp[/url]”>http://www.consusgroup.com/news/rankings/colleges/published.asp</a>
Composite Published Ranking:
NU: 17th
Brown: 21st
So when averaging out all different published ranking, they found that Northwestern is ranked higher. Oh yea, I can always find couple rankings that put Northwestern ahead and vice versa. I think Princeton Review even ranked NU #1 couple years ago. But I just want to look at the average just to be fair. </p>
<p>By the way, US NEWS is the most widely read one. Sorry!</p>
<p>Regarding the WSJ ranking, most of the selected top-15 (by WSJ standard which most can dispute) grad programs are in the northeast. Then, isn’t that pretty much expected Brown would do better than Northwestern because of close proximity to most of these schools? Many Northwestern grads don’t bother to go to those schools when many can choose to go to Northwestern law, medical, and business schools (all are top-20 programs). By the way, they put Dartmouth instead of Northwestern as one of the top-5 business school and Yale instead of WashU as one of the top-5 med school–two northeast schools instead of two more deserving midwest schools. Interesting!</p>