<p>Good Southern Universities:
-Duke (North Carolina)
-Emory (Georgia)
-Georgia Tech
-Rice (Texas)
-Tulane (Louisiana)
-University of Florida
-University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
-University of Virginia (Virginia)
-Vanderbilt (Tennessee)
-Washington University - St. Louis (Missouri)</p>
<p>decent universities:
-North Carolina State University
-Texas A&M
-Virgina Tech</p>
<p>Compared to the North:
-Brown
-Boston University
-Columbia
-Cooper Union
-Cornell
-Dartmouth
-Georgetown
-Harvard
-Lehigh
-MIT
-Northwestern
-Penn State
-Princeton
-Purdue
-Rensselaer
-Tufts
-University of Chicago
-University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
-University of Maryland -College Park
-University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
-University of Pennsylvania
-Yale
… and many others plus “decent” ones</p>
<p>West:
California State University (kind of)
Caltech
Stanford
University of California
University of Southern California
…probably many more</p>