<p>Great, Clemson dropped to #23 for public universities…this means another year of listening to President Barker’s top 20 spiel</p>
<p>I am still observing the ranking but thought it was interesting that Purdue University took a big leap to being in the top 50.
University of Iowa appears to rank very similar as it did the previous year, though I still remember 2 years ago the school was ranked at 66.
-Back to USNEWS rankings</p>
<p>Columbia deserves the rank.</p>
<p>^ Better Columbia at 4 than Penn…</p>
<p>“I am still observing the ranking but thought it was interesting that Purdue University took a big leap to being in the top 50.”</p>
<p>Purdue is 56th coolbrezze. Unbelievable!</p>
<p>Penn is a MUCH better school. The educational style of Columbia (what the hell are they trying to accomplish with the core?) gives me the shutters.</p>
<p>This is a sad, sad day for UCLA.</p>
<p>But everything aside, I think the university deserves to be and will be rank #25 for many years to come.</p>
<p>Surprised that MIT/CALTECH went down a lot. though they are still the tops at their fields. </p>
<p>Columbia #4 is surprising. I thought they would go to 5/6/7.</p>
<p>Well Clemson manipulated it’s data and their was a whole publication about so no surprise there.</p>
<p>pinball, 3 spots is alot?</p>
<p>UCLA has seen tough times along with the other UC schools. I think the ranking may be justified in this case</p>
<p>and yes I expected Clemson to drop but good thing we didn’t drop that much</p>
<p>Well UCLA has historically be 25/26 for the past 10 years. What this is really unfortunate for is Virginia. This is a new low for the university sharing 25 with us.</p>
<p>(In case you want to know why UCLA students are whining, its because USC leaped to 23 and not so much that we retook 25.)</p>
<p>Penn is definitely not a better school then Columbia. Columbia is equal to Penn if not better. Columbia Universities average SAT scores are higher then U Penn’s. I really don’t even know why U Penn is higher then MIT/Caltech. </p>
<p>Columbia definitely deserves the rank.</p>
<p>Well, not it isnt a “lot”. poor choice of words admittedly but i am surprised that it didnt stay top 5. It is what it is though.</p>
<p>nothingto, I don’t know what seadog.overseas is smoking by saying Penn is better than Columbia. Columbia deserves #4 from day 1. Not Penn.</p>
<p>Ranking should be:</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>MIT/Caltech</li>
<li>Columbia/Chicago</li>
<li>Dartmouth/Duke/Penn</li>
</ol>
<p>Note, however, how all the ranking SCORES were moved significantly closer together. I’m tempted to claim that the entire reason that US News used the new methodology was to make it so that the rankings within the top 10 move around a lot naturally, without having to change the methodology in the future.</p>
<p>And columbia where^?</p>
<p>Below Dartmouth? LMAOOO</p>
<p>Anyone have info on Peer Assessment scores for top 25?</p>
<p>^^^^ Was that sarcasm?</p>
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<p>Uh-oh… <em>leaves before TCBH arrives</em></p>
<p>And I agree with what someone has probably said about Brown being ranked too low</p>
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<p>Changed it. Columbia should be tied at 7. I would have a hard time saying that Columbia is a better school than Stanford, MIT, or Caltech. But Penn, no doubt.</p>