top 15 most prestigious universities

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2021

<p>Shameless rank whore who followed this thread for a while, here.</p>

<p>I may be necroposting here, but I think “prestige” is generally synonymous with name brand recognition. On an entirely national scale, regions notwithstanding, I’d say IvyPBear and Mr. Prince pretty much have it right. Just to throw out my two cents, however…</p>

<p>Group 1

  1. Harvard
  2. Yale/Princeton/Stanford
  3. MIT/Caltech</p>

<p>Group 2
6. Columbia/Dartmouth/Duke/UPenn
10. U Chicago/Brown</p>

<p>Group 3.
11. Johns Hopkins/Northwestern/Cornell</p>

2022

<p>Internet brand equity (most written about schools)</p>

<ol>
<li>University of Wisconsin—Madison</li>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>Harvard University</li>
<li>Massachusettes Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Columbia University</li>
<li>University of Michigan—Ann Arbor</li>
<li>Cornell University</li>
<li>University of California—Berkley</li>
<li>Yale University</li>
<li>University of Texas—Austin</li>
</ol>

<p>[The</a> Most Buzzed-About University? Wisconsin - TIME NewsFeed](<a href=“The Most Buzzed-About University? Wisconsin | TIME.com”>The Most Buzzed-About University? Wisconsin | TIME.com)</p>

2023

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Which is apparently something you yourself neglected to do. Cornell and Princeton engineering are pretty much neck-and-neck.</p>

2024

<p>Employer: So tell me, why do you think that Wisconsin is the best school in the country?</p>

<p>Potential Employee: Well, it is because it is the most talked about college on the Internet.</p>

<p>Employer: oh…mmmm…ok…look over your shoulder and you will see the door over to the right, please don’t forget to shut it when you leave.</p>

2025

<p>^ spelled country wrong…</p>

2026

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<p>Monstor, you are correct here…</p>

<p>USNWR Undergraduate Engineering Rankings:</p>

<p><a href=“http://premium.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate/spp+25[/url]”>http://premium.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate/spp+25&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Cornell tied for 8th with Carnegie Mellon and Purdue, with Princeton the next ranked school at #11</p>

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<p>National Research Council (NRC) 2010 Graduate Engineering School Rankings:</p>

<p>CHEMICAL ENGINEERING</p>

<p>1—Cal Tech
2—MIT
3—Berkeley
4—UC Santa Barbara
5—UT Austin
6—Princeton
7—U. of Minnesota
8—Stanford
9—U. of Michigan
10—U. of Wisconsin</p>

<p>CIVIL ENGINEERING</p>

<p>1—Berkeley
2—UT Austin
3—MIT
4—Princeton
5—Yale
6—Stanford
7—U. of Illinois Urbana
8—Georgia Tech
9—Purdue
10–Northwestern</p>

<p>ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING</p>

<p>1—Stanford
2—Princeton
3—Harvard
4—UC Santa Barbara
5—U. of Illinois Urbana
6—Cal Tech
7—Georgia Tech
8—UCLA
9—U. of Michigan
10–MIT</p>

<p>MECHANICAL ENGINEERING</p>

<p>1—MIT
2—Stanford
3—Berkeley
4—U. of Michigan
5—Brown
6—Northwestern
7—UC Santa Barbara
8—Georgia Tech
9—Princeton
10–U. of Maryland</p>

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<p>National Academy of Engineering Members</p>

<p>Nationwide Leading Schools</p>

<p>113—MIT
95----Stanford
75----Berkeley
48----U. of Texas
32----CalTech
31----U. of Illinois
28----Princeton, Georgia Tech
26----Cornell, Carnegie Mellon
25----USC
23----U. of Michigan
22----UC Santa Barbara
21----UC San Diego, UCLA
20----Harvard</p>

<p>Within the Ivy League</p>

<p>28----Princeton
26----Cornell
20----Harvard
16----Columbia
10----Penn
7-----Yale
3-----Brown, Dartmouth</p>

2027

<p>[Best</a> Engineering School Rankings | Engineering Program Rankings | US News](<a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/eng-rankings]Best”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/eng-rankings) </p>

<p>Above link is for graduate school. The link onecircuit posted does not work. </p>

<p>Monster344 and onecircuit
The breadth of the undergraduate programs are not neck and neck…but what ever makes you happy.:)</p>

2028

<p>Prestige as according to whom?</p>

<p>If it’s the average joe’s opinion on the most prestigious then I’d say, from my experience:</p>

<p>Edit: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Duke, Brown, Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth, Cornell, Berkley, Amherst, Georgetown, Oxford, Cambridge. In no particular order after HYPSM.</p>

2029

<p>“Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Duke, Brown, Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth, Cornell, Berkley, Amherst, Georgetown, West Point and UCLA.”</p>

<p>As has been discussed many times here on CC, the first five would be on most people’s list. After that it’s all regional.</p>

2030

<p>^ LOL </p>

<p>True its regional though</p>

2031

<p>I like how there are 136 pages of this thread of people giving their opinions just like I am but I’m the one who gets called out…</p>

2032

<p>You poor chap, but how dare you? Its actually:</p>

<p>“Michigan, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Duke, Brown, Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth, Cornell, Berkley, Amherst, Georgetown, West Point and UCLA.”</p>

<p>Personally i agree its very very regional. Likely you live in the northeast if i made a guess.</p>

2033

<p>It’s not all regional after HYPSM. I’ve never met any adult who doesn’t live under some sort of extraordinary circumstances (below the poverty line, homeless, etc.) who has not heard of and isn’t aware of the prestige of Notre Dame, Duke, Georgetown and Columbia to an extent.</p>

<p>Do these same people regard Notre Dame as being equivalent to Harvard? Nope, but they know its a good school.</p>

2034

<p>Georgetown? LOL</p>

2035

<p>^Georgetown has a lot of social cachet and prestige due to its location in DC and connection to government/politics. I thought it was the 4th most prestigious school in America during middle school after HYP.;)</p>

2036

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<p>but smyleygerl, that is not what Monstor said, did he?</p>

<p>your statement that a University that has a wider breath of engineering taught at the University makes it a much higher quality engineering program is simply erroneous.</p>

<p>here is an example:</p>

<p># of Engineering concentrations offered
11 - University of Nevada
6 - Princeton</p>

<p>USNWR Undergraduate Engineering Ranking 2010</p>

<h1>140 - University of Nevada</h1>

<h1>11 - Princeton</h1>

2037

<p>Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT, Berkley, Harvey Mudd, Vanderbuilt, University of Texas, USC, Univesity of Chicago, Notre Dame, Columbia, Michigan, Rice, Brigham Young.</p>

2038

<p>@UTPG you can’t spell dude</p>

2039

<p>@woeishe Mix of beer and insomnia for the loss.</p>

2040

<p>Top 15 in no particular order for prestige - </p>

<p>Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Columbia
Cornell
Brown
Dartmouth
UPenn
Stanford
MIT
Caltech
Oxford
Cambridge
LSE
UCL</p>

<p>In my opinion this is pretty much non-arguable. If you extend to top 25, you can include Berkeley, Paris IV - Sorbonne, UChicago, Duke etc.</p>