Top Research Universities

Colleges & Universities Columbia University
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<p>This is taken from a thread in college search and selection, which has a link to the 2007 ranking of top research universities, based on factors like funding, number of faculty in the national academies, annual giving, SAT scores, and other measures. Obviously having a medical center is a boost. Still, at the risk of provoking those who worry endlessly on here about Columbia’s prestige, I thought it worth taking some pride in:</p>

<p>FIRST TIER
Columbia
Harvard
MIT
Stanford
Penn</p>

<p>SECOND TIER
Duke
Berkeley
Michigan-Ann Arbor
Johns Hopkins</p>

<p>THIRD TIER
Yale
UCLA
Univ Washington
Wisconsin-Madison</p>

<p>FOURTH TIER
Univ Minnesota-Twin Cities
WUSTL
UCSF
Northwestern</p>

<p>FIFTH TIER
Chicago
UCSD
UNC-CH
Princeton
Cornell</p>

<p>SIXTH TIER
USC
Ohio State
Penn State
Florida</p>

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<p>Don’t you just hate those people? Columbia is (arguably) the forth best Ivy League school, and yet people worry about its prestige. Granted, some people at my High School thought I was Colombian when I started wearing a Columbia hat, but in Columbia’s defense, they would have thought I lived in Harvard Square had I worn a Harvard hat instead.</p>

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<p>It’s off-topic, but they couldn’t have paid me enough to have gone to Harvard. After 18 years growing up in that area, and 2 years driving right through harvard square to work every day and back, I’d had it up to here with cambridge, harvard students and the atmosphere.</p>

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<p>^Fo’ Sho’</p>

<p>(10 Charizzles)</p>