What Is Each Ivy League U Known For?

cmburns14
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:53:16 +0000

when you think about how good the elite US universities are compared to the rest of the world, you get a sense of how incredible any ivy is, from an academic point of view. I believe these rankings focus on research productivity- and not the quality of undergraduate education. Tsinghua and Peking in China and the top Grandes Ecoles in France generally produce more accomplished students than ivy BA grads.

ARWU (2009)
[ARWU 2009](http://www.arwu.org/ARWU2009.jsp)

1 Harvard University Americas 1 1 100 100 100 100 100 74.8 100.0
2 Stanford University Americas 2 2 39 78.7 87.1 67.3 70.1 66.9 73.1
3 University of California, Berkeley Americas 3 3 67.4 77.1 68.4 71.1 69 53.2 71.0
4 University of Cambridge Europe 1 1 89.4 91.5 53.8 53.9 65.4 65.5 70.2
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Americas 4 4 71 80.6 65.7 67.9 62 54.4 69.5
6 California Institute of Technology Americas 5 5 51.5 69.1 57.1 66.2 47.7 100 64.8
7 Columbia University Americas 6 6 70.6 67.7 55.7 49.1 69.6 46.5 61.7
8 Princeton University Americas 7 7 57.8 85.2 61.6 41.5 45.7 61.4 60.2
9 University of Chicago Americas 8 8 65.8 84.3 49.7 38.6 51.6 41.8 57.0
10 University of Oxford Europe 2 2 57.6 57.9 48.9 49.8 66.1 45.7 56.3
11 Yale University Americas 9 9 49.8 43.6 57.6 55.7 62.7 49.5 55.2
12 Cornell University Americas 10 10 40.5 51.3 54.3 51.7 61.2 39.9 53.1
13 University of California, Los Angeles Americas 11 11 23.8 42.8 57.4 50.3 74.5 36.2 52.3
14 University of California, San Diego Americas 12 12 15.5 35.9 60.3 53.9 65.2 48 50.7
15 University of Pennsylvania Americas 13 13 30.9 34.4 57.6 44.1 69 39.8 49.3
16 University of Washington Americas 14 14 25 31.8 53.3 48.8 73.7 28.1 48.0
17 University of Wisconsin - Madison Americas 15 15 37.5 35.5 52.3 39.8 66.7 28.6 46.7
18 University of California, San Francisco Americas 16 16 0 36.8 53.8 49.7 59.9 46.7 45.9
19 The Johns Hopkins University Americas 17 17 44.7 27.8 41.7 49.1 67.1 24.9 45.2
20 The University of Tokyo Asia/Pacific 1 1 34.1 14.1 42.9 49 79.7 34.1 45.1
21 University College London Europe 3 3 30.4 32.2 40.4 45.2 66 36.1 44.6
22 University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Americas 18 18 37.5 0 60.3 41.4 77.3 31.4 43.8
23 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Europe 4 1 35 36.3 35.9 41.8 52.6 57 43.6
24 Kyoto University Asia/Pacific 2 2 34.6 34.9 38.4 34.6 67.3 31 42.7
25 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Americas 19 19 36.2 36.6 42.9 35.9 59.7 26.8 42.4
26 The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Europe 5 4 18.1 37.4 40.4 35.9 61.7 39.4 41.9
27 University of Toronto Americas 20 1 24.4 19.3 39.1 35.1 78.2 27.5 40.5