State Schools Vs. Private universities.

StitchInTime
Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:07:19 +0000

Via [Ask the Dean](http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/archives/000294.htm):



…While attending a private school is reputed to translate into less red tape and more personal attention than you’ll find at the public counterparts, it’s important to look carefully at each individual college and to separate rumor from reality…



If dedication to undergraduate teaching is a priority, you should look at USNWR’s recognition of publics within the list of [Best Colleges: Undergraduate Teaching at National Universities](http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/best-colleges/2009/08/19/methodology-best-undergrad-teaching.html):



For the first time, in the spring of 2009, U.S. News asked top academics as part of the regular U.S. News peer assessment survey to name the schools that they think have faculty with an unusually strong “commitment to undergraduate teaching.” These new rankings are the schools whose faculty and administrators are committed to teaching undergraduate students in a high-quality manner. College presidents, provosts, and admissions deans were asked to nominate up to 10 colleges in their U.S. News America’s Best Colleges ranking category with a “commitment to undergraduate teaching.”…



The publics from the [list[/url] are noted below:



College/Rank (publics bolded)

Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 1
Princeton University Princeton, NJ 2
Yale University New Haven, CT 3
Stanford University Stanford, CA 4
University of Maryland–Baltimore County Baltimore, MD 4
Brown University Providence, RI 6
College of William and Mary Williamsburg, VA 6
Duke University Durham, NC 8
**Miami University–Oxford Oxford, OH 8 **
University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 8
**Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 11 **
Howard University Washington, DC 11
Rice University Houston, TX 11
**University of California–Berkeley Berkeley, CA 11 **
University of Chicago Chicago, IL 11
**University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI 11 **
**University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 11 **
University of St. Thomas St. Paul, MN 11
Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC 11



Many of the publics in this list were also recognized as [url=Public Ivy - Wikipedia]Public Ivies](http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/national-ut-rank):



The original eight Public Ivies list by Moll (1985):

College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia)
Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)
University of California (campuses as of 1985)
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Texas at Austin
University of Vermont (Burlington)
University of Virginia (Charlottesville)