The True Top 15 US Colleges

kpackett
Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:17:50 +0000

Here is my ranking:

1. Harvard

2. Yale, Princeton, Stanford (tied for second)

3. MIT

4. Caltech and UPenn (tied for sixth)

5. Brown

6. Duke

7. UC Berkeley

8. Georgetown

9. Columbia

10. Northwestern

11. Notre Dame

12. Chicago

Note: I am only looking at Universities, not LACs.

Here is my methodology:

1. New York Times Cross Admit Data
[The New York Times > Week in Review > Image > Collegiate Matchups: Predicting Student Choices/url.


Wall Street Journal Prestigious College Grad School Feeders
[url=http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB106453459428307800-search,00.html]Want to Go to Harvard Law? - WSJ.com/url.
US News
[url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities]National University Rankings | Top National Universities | US News Best Colleges/url.
Forbes College Rankings
[url=http://www.forbes.com/top-colleges/list/]America’s Best Colleges List - Forbes/url.
TIMES Top 400 World Rankings
[url=World University Rankings 2011-12 | Times Higher Education (THE)]Top 400 - The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2011-2012](The New York Times > Week in Review > Image > Collegiate Matchups: Predicting Student Choices)
General prestige in common conversation in the US


Thoughts?