The True Top 15 US Colleges

kpackett
Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:32:38 +0000

I would recommend that you read the entire study here: [A Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities by Christopher Avery, Mark Glickman, Caroline Hoxby, Andrew Metrick :: SSRN](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=601105)
It is not biased to Northeastern Universities.


2.The prestigious schools they use are almost universally accepted. For example, everybody knows Stanford Law or Harvard Medical School are prestigious. I think WSJ is a good approximation.


How is US News wrong? They seem to be very fair.
[How U.S. News Calculates the College Rankings - US News and World Report](http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2011/09/12/how-us-news-calculates-the-college-rankings-2012)
They specifically deny any regional bias. I would agree that Stanford should be ahead of Columbia and at least tied with Yale at third. I think they also overrank Chicago. Would you agree?
Forbes looks at economic diversity/graduating debt free, which is important.


Would you not deny that saying “I go to Stanford or Princeton” carries more prestige in a conversation that saying “I go to UC Berkeley”? That is what I meant by that comment.

But post your own rankings on this thread, phantasmagoric! I am curious about what other people think.