<p>In Ohio I’d say it’s:</p>
<p>tOSU
Case Western
Miami</p>
<p>Michigan:</p>
<p>U-M
MSU
Wayne State
(Western Michigan gets honorable mention)</p>
<p>I don’t understand why people here think Western Michigan is more well-known than Wayne State. </p>
<p>Wayne State has an excellent medical school as well as a reputable engineering program.</p>
<p>Pennsylvania:</p>
<p>UPenn
Penn State
Pitt</p>
<p>I feel like there are other small ones that are pretty well known though. Swarthmore, Bucknell, Haverford, Lehigh, Lafayette…</p>
<p>North Carolina:</p>
<p>University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Duke University
North Carolina State</p>
<p>Ohio:
- Ohio State
- Miami University
- Case Western</p>
<p>Texas
- University of Texas- Austin
- Texas A&M
- Rice University</p>
<p>Georgia
- UGA
- Georgia Tech
- Emory</p>
<p>NC
- Duke
- UNC
- Wake Forest</p>
<p>NY
- Cornell
- Columbia
- NYU</p>
<p>Indiana
- IU
- Purdue
- Notre Dame</p>
<p>DC
- Georgetown
- GW
- American</p>
<p>California
- Berkeley
- Stanford
- UCLA/USC</p>
<p>Illinois
- UIUC
- Northwestern
- UChicago</p>
<p>Massachusetts:
-Harvard
-MIT
- Boston College (and Amherst, Williams, Tufts so many good ones…)</p>
<p>Connecticut:
-Yale
-UConn
-Wesleyan</p>
<p>Florida:
-UFlorida
-Florida State
-Miami</p>
<p>Texas:
-University of Texas
- Texas Tech
- Texas A and M</p>
<p>Virginia:
-UVA
- Virgina Tech</p>
<p>University of Florida
University of Central Florida
Florida State University</p>
<p>Guess where I live.</p>
<p>Florida? Just a guess…</p>
<p>Columbia, Cornell, NYU. I’m pretty sure that these 3 are firmly in place.</p>
<p>I’d think a school like Syracuse might be more well known than Columbia.</p>
<p>I’m lovin’ the OHIO conversation going on here.</p>
<p>But seriously y’all, Miami’s a complete joke of a school. Ohio U definitely gets notoriety for their massive Halloween party.</p>
<p>How is MU a joke of a school?</p>
<p>It just dropped 13 places on USNWR. Every time I’m walking around there (which is like once a month, actually), the only thing I ever hear students (including the girls) talk about is sex, alcohol, and drugs. No academic conversation. </p>
<p>Also, the first time I went there as a formal college visit (this summer, I had been a couple times before since my mother commuted there for her MBA and I used to live real close by), we parked right next to the university and right there, out in the open on Uni property, there were some idiot girls chuging beer through a tube. Sad thing was, they were still there when I left 5 HOURS LATER!!! I wish this place would stop acting like it’s worth something and suck up its low-ball student status already.</p>
<p>In addition, Miami consistently makes all the lists for “not tolerant of minorities or those who are not WASPS”. Somehow, this doesn’t seem like a healthy student environment, even for a WASP like myself, but maybe it’s just me. I also see sky-high transfer rates and low student satisfaction.</p>
<p>Still, since the State of Ohio pours money into this
s h!t hole like none other, maybe it will actually improve. At least I can hope so, especially since I’ll likely be the in the Miami U Class of 2014. (gotta love the type of students they draw 
)</p>
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<p>That’s nice, but the US News rankings are trash. As far as ‘no academic conversation’, I’m sure you’ll hear the same at most schools, since college students are pretty much all the same, and, well, sex, drugs and alcohol are desirable for the majority of college students.</p>
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Maybe it’s because of my relatively affluent surroundings, but people will look at you like you have a funny eye if you tell them you haven’t heard of Columbia and/or don’t know where it is. 'Cuse, while well-known as well, is not as easily located. Granted, perhaps Syracuse might compete with Cornell, which is also in a rather obscure location.</p>
<p>Pennsylvania
1- U. Penn
2- Penn State
3- Lehigh</p>
<p>New York
1- Cornell
2- Columbia
3- SUNY Binghamton</p>
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<p>Michelson–Morley vs. Ben Roethlisberger?</p>
<p>probably the latter</p>
<p>Miami is not that bad. Sure, it may not be as intellectual as Princeton, but they offer a great education in Ohio. The Farmer School of Business is ranked #19 for undergraduate business schools, above business schools at Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown, USC, Indiana, and Ohio State. It is also ranked #8 for best undegraduate teaching by USNWR, tied with Duke, Notre Dame, and above Rice (my institution), UNC, UChicago, and Wake Forest. Sure, rankings don’t mean everything, but this shows that Miami is just not a party school. If you work hard at Miami, you can get an excellent education.</p>
<p>Regarding your WASP comments, I know a lot of Indian-Americans and Asians attending Miami from my high school, and they love it there.</p>
<p>California:</p>
<p>Stanford
UC Berkeley or Cal
UCLA</p>
<p>CRWU is a first-rate academic institution known for its pre-professional Engineering & Medical related programs. It hosts one of the best if not the most comprehensive hospital system in the state of Ohio imho which include the nationally reknown Cleveland Clinic.</p>
<p>That being said, a bit off tangent if you care to read since some of you apparently expressed interest in discussing colleges in Ohio. Indeed, CWRU’s reputation has recently suffered quite a bit due to various administrative, budget and university public relation issues, (ie. “fat man with the surfboard” old school logo fiasco) which resulted in below ave. student satisfactory survey in the recent years. To resolve these issues and move forward, the school did hire professional firm to develope new strategy in an attempt to remedy these issues as of late. In maintaining its reputation as the best national university ranked by USNWR in Ohio, it offset the recent aggressive academic improvements of tOSU by hiring its lead academic administrators, the Vice Provost (Babara R. Snyder) and the Dean of the College of Engineering (William Baeslack III) from tOSU as its new school President and Executive Vice President, respectively in '07/'08. </p>
<p>Under the new leadership of President Gordon Gee, tOSU countered with these two pieces of news if you guys care to read:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>$1-Billion New University Hospital
[The</a> Columbus Dispatch : A $1 billion magnet](<a href=“http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/09/18/OSUtower.ART_ART_09-18-09_A1_JDF418H.html?sid=101]The”>http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/09/18/OSUtower.ART_ART_09-18-09_A1_JDF418H.html?sid=101)</p></li>
<li><p>Master Plan for One University
[Master</a> plan will set stage for true One University : onCampus](<a href=“http://oncampus.osu.edu/2009/08/master-plan-will-set-stage-for-true-‘one-university’/]Master”>http://oncampus.osu.edu/2009/08/master-plan-will-set-stage-for-true-‘one-university’/)</p></li>
</ol>
<p>*There is no secret that in order for tOSU to move into the rank of Top-10 Public Universities in the country, it must try to academically surpass if not on par with CWRU in the next decade or so, since CWRU consistantly ranked in the 40s on USNWR.</p>
<p>On the other hand, Miami-Oxford which has been an academically on par if not more prestigeous institution than tOSU in the past has gradually lossing its battle regardless what Princeton Review has to say. Granted, it has a great tradition as one of the ‘Old Public Ivies’ known for its undergrad education and a well established Farmer Business School with an up-and-coming new facility. It, however, IS losing its competitiveness to tOSU as of late and in the future imho. The school is rather homogenous in terms of student bodies - a negative in today’s ever so challenging globalized society. In terms of resources, Oxford, a somewhat isolated nice little town is no comparasion to what Columbus has to offer to the students. Last but not least, it’s incoming student selectivity (ie. ACT, SAT, Top 10%) has now trailed behind tOSU as of late and the gap seems to be widen as we move ahead. Worst yet, outside of midwest, its sports & school’s name recognition has been overshadowed by another “University of Miami” - the Hurricanes.</p>
<p>Finally, so far as I am concerned, Ben Roethlisberger might be a big time household name to many, but to most Asian communities in America (especially the 1st gen immigrants who can careless about American football), he is, I am sorry to say –> Nobody!!! And to limit CRWU’s name recognition to that of MichelsonMorley Theory as comparasion to what I have briefly alluded to in the discussion above would be a huge oversight!!<br>
*(Apologies in advance if any of you find me overly critical!!)</p>