USNews Prestige Ranking

Universities with the highest academic reputation.

1 Harvard University (MA) 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3 Stanford University (CA) 4 Princeton University (NJ) 5 Yale University (CT) 6 University of California--Berkeley 7 Columbia University (NY) 8 University of Chicago 9 California Institute of Technology 10 Johns Hopkins University (MD) 11 Cornell University (NY) 12 Duke University (NC) 13 University of Pennsylvania 14 Dartmouth College (NH) 15 Northwestern University (IL) 16 Brown University (RI) 17 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor 18 University of Virginia 19 Carnegie Mellon University (PA) 20 University of California--Los Angeles 21 University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill 22 Washington University in St. Louis 23 Vanderbilt University (TN) 24 Georgetown University (DC) 25 Georgia Institute of Technology 26 University of Wisconsin--Madison 27 University of Texas--Austin

Ranking is by peer assessment. wwwusnewscom/education/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2013/02/28/which-universities-are-ranked-highest-by-college-officials

38 Comments
 

Personally, I do not understand how UC Berkeley is ranked higher than UPenn / Cornell / Columbia / etc. Berkeley is an amazing school, but IMO cannot touch the network of the schools listed above.

 
"short_round"

Two state schools (Berkeley, Cornell) in the top 15. Very impressive.

Cornell is not a state school now get me my fucking multiples

 

Top 10 for what? I think most people, myself included, don't consider Berkeley a top 10 university.

For example, US News ranks Berkeley as the 20th best university in the United States. The global scale you are referring to doesn't make sense at all and shouldn't be referenced. The US News global ranking system is a mess. In fact, I think all of the global ranking scales are seriously misleading. You can't seriously believe Berkeley to be better than Stanford, Cambridge, and Princeton.

 

I think its a similar argument to Berkeley. Cornell has prestige+very high academics. Whereas Dartmouth is more prestige but so-so academics. Cornell in my view is more of a complete package. But that's just my opinion. BTW, Cornell is an ivy and is private, not sure why people are saying its a public school.

 
Berettapeople still care about this crap?
You mean that thing where people compile objective data and compare institutions based on that data using transparent criteria? Yeah people still care about that...
 

ltohang, I love how all these trolls ask pointless questions or demean you after you provide a perfectly legitimate link with information relevant to the industry and working world. Thank you for posting, helpful to see where things shake out on the rankings front.

 
Soapy.Detergentltohang, I love how all these trolls ask pointless questions or demean you after you provide a perfectly legitimate link with information relevant to the industry and working world. Thank you for posting, helpful to see where things shake out on the rankings front.

But how exactly does one define "link?" I do not purport to be someone who has the authority to make such determinations as calling something "helpful" vs. not so helpful, what makes you any different? Why is the world the way it is? What am I?

 
Soapy.Detergentltohang, I love how all these trolls ask pointless questions or demean you after you provide a perfectly legitimate link with information relevant to the industry and working world. Thank you for posting, helpful to see where things shake out on the rankings front.

I don't see how this "objective" ranking is at all useful. As someone who goes to an Ivy (my 2 brothers go to a different Ivy), I seriously doubt there's a big difference in education between Brown/Columbia or Darmouth/Cornell.

 

Still interested by these rankings, but everything past harvard is decided by more political jockeying at this point than "facts". Don't know how anyone could justify Columbia or Chicago as better undergraduate institutions than Stanford.

There is no spoon
 

The only thing I can see when looking at this list is that I could be dropping nearly half a mil for two kids' college educations (in today's dollars). Mind blowing.

 

The troll has been fed.

The answer to your question is 1) network 2) get involved 3) beef up your resume 4) repeat -happypantsmcgee WSO is not your personal search function.
 

There are geniuses everywhere, there are idiots everywhere. Thus the VERY correct assumption that these lists are always asinine. Also, lol @ calling them objective.

GBS
 

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