Wall Street Journal 2024 College Ranks

Hot off the press - Top 25

  1. Princeton

  2. MIT

  3. Yale

  4. Stanford

  5. Columbia

  6. Harvard

  7. University of Pennsylvania

  8. Amherst

  9. Claremont McKenna

  10. Babson

  11. Swarthmore

  12. Georgetown

  13. Vanderbilt

  14. Lehigh

  15. University of Florida

  16. Duke University

  17. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

  18. California Institute of Technology

  19. New Jersey Institute of Technology

  20. BYU

  21. Dartmouth

  22. USC

  23. Illinois Institute of Technology

  24. Cornell

  25. Northwestern

“Ranked on Student Outcomes (70%), Learning Environment (20%), and Diversity (10%)”

What are the initial reactions? I’m surprised at how many “Institute of Technology” schools are on the list.

Also don’t MS me for just being a messenger. These are not necessarily my beliefs.

 
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“Maybe the goal of WSJ is to just expedite the inevitable implosion of college rankings. The list actually gets more ridiculous as it goes on. For example:

• ⁠51. UC Berkeley

• ⁠55. U Chicago

• ⁠64. Rice

• ⁠67. Brown

• ⁠76. UCLA

• ⁠77. Wesleyan

• ⁠83. UNC Chapel Hill

• ⁠84. Bowdoin

• ⁠89. University of Virginia

• ⁠99. Johns Hopkins

The above 10 colleges were ALL outranked by

• ⁠New Jersey Institute of Tech

• ⁠Thomas Jefferson University

• ⁠University of La Verne

• ⁠University of Utah

• ⁠University of Detroit Mercy

• ⁠Cal State Northridge

• ⁠Marquette University

• ⁠Drexel University

• ⁠Michigan State

• ⁠UC Merced

Then you have NYU #166, Vassar # 284, Tufts #287 and other absurdities but I can't even waste more time on WSJ”

Not to crap on those schools, but we can all agree that UChicago and La Verne are not on the same level.

They supposedly added “value” or something like that to the calculation, but you have notable state schools getting reamed, so not sure how it was calculated.

 
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