And because this is College Confidential where lots of people care about the information about the highest ranked schools, here are the data on WSJ’s top 20 overall:
| School | Overall Rank | Learning Opportunities Score | Preparation for Career | Learning Facilities | Recommendation Score |
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| Stanford | 1 | 68 | 73 | 78 | 83 |
| Babson | 2 | 83 | 88 | 91 | 88 |
| Yale | 3 | 70 | 72 | 83 | 85 |
| Princeton | 4 | 75 | 77 | 89 | 86 |
| Harvard | 5 | 70 | 70 | 82 | 79 |
| Claremont McKenna | 6 | 79 | 83 | 88 | 86 |
| U. of California - Berkeley | 7 | 64 | 67 | 70 | 78 |
| Columbia | 8 | 66 | 68 | 75 | 72 |
| U. of Pennsylvania | 9 | 70 | 77 | 83 | 79 |
| Davidson | 10 | 77 | 76 | 85 | 78 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 11 | 69 | 75 | 85 | 84 |
| Bentley | 12 | 77 | 82 | 89 | 82 |
| U. of California - Davis | 13 | 67 | 68 | 76 | 76 |
| U. of California - Merced | 14 | 61 | 58 | 71 | 64 |
| Harvey Mudd | 15 | 74 | 66 | 87 | 75 |
| Georgia Institute of Tech | 16 | 71 | 74 | 79 | 84 |
| San Jose State | 17 | 61 | 65 | 70 | 71 |
| Cornell | 18 | 66 | 69 | 81 | 74 |
| Loyola Maryland | 19 | 80 | 83 | 91 | 85 |
| U. of Notre Dame | 20 | 77 | 82 | 88 | 85 |
Since in my previous post I indicated that WSJ’s “Learning Opportunities” metric most closely aligns with my definition of good academics, then the top performers from this list would be:
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Babson (83)
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Loyola Maryland (80)
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Claremont McKenna (79)
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Davidson (77)
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Bentley (77)
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U. of Notre Dame (77)