<p>What are the best 10 colleges in Massachusetts. I would say:
1) Harvard
2)Amhearst
3)Williams
4)Tufts
5)Brandeis
6)Boston College
7)Boston University
8)Emerson
9)Babson
10)Northeastern</p>
<p>What does everyone else think?</p>
<p>Mit…?</p>
<p>I was thinking the same thing.</p>
<p>MIT, Wellesley, Olin, etc.</p>
<p>lol OP how could you forget MIT and Wellesley?</p>
<p>MIT, Wellesly, Smith, Mount Holyoke College, and Holy Cross should be in the discussion … I think 3-4 of your top 10 list should be switched. If you were shooting for top 15 and added these 5 you’d be pretty close.</p>
<p>Stonehill College is a wonderful mid sized private college in Easton…great academics, Division II sports, involved and engaging faculty, nice facilities, good academics and programs, selective and 22 miles outside of Boston with the T line right on campus.</p>
<p>1) Harvard
2) MIT
3) Tufts
4) Amherst
5) Williams
6) Wellesley
7) Boston College
8) Brandeis
9) Smith
10) Holy Cross</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Amherst, Williams, Olin</li>
<li>Tufts</li>
<li>Wellesley, Boston College</li>
<li>Brandeis </li>
<li>Smith</li>
</ol>
<p>Why is Brandeis ranked below Boston College?</p>
<p>1.Harvard
2.MIT
3.Amherst, Williams
4.Tufts/Wellesley
5.Brandeis
6.BC/WPI
7.Smith/Mount Holyoke
8.Holy Cross
9.BU/Northeastern</p>
<p>*WPI does not get the recognition it deserves. At Orientation everyone gets the “Look to your left/right, chances are they will not be there next year” speech. It’s a hardcore program.</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard, MIT</li>
<li>Amherst, Williams</li>
<li>Wellesley</li>
<li>Smith, Mt. Holyoke</li>
<li>Tufts</li>
<li>Brandeis</li>
<li>BC, Holy Cross, WPI</li>
</ol>
<p>If you compare the 10th-best college in each state, which state wins, Massachusetts or California? Consider - Stanford, Cal Tech, Berkeley, Pomona, UCLA, Harvey Mudd, UCSD, USC, Claremont McKenna . . . - what’s next? UC-Davis? UC-Irvine? UCSB? Who wins between that bunch and Smith / Holy Cross / BU?</p>
<p>Does there have to be a “state” winner? And are we determining this based on pre- or post-California state budget cuts?</p>
<ol>
<li>harvard
2.amherst</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Williams</li>
<li>tufts</li>
<li>Wellesley</li>
<li>BC</li>
<li>Holy Cross</li>
<li>Smith</li>
<li>MHC</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Amherst
Education Quality: A
86% of students would return to Amherst</li>
<li>Tufts:
Education Quality: A-
82% of students would return to Tuft</li>
<li>Smith
Education Quality: A-
78% of students would return to Smith</li>
<li>MIT
Education Qualty: A-
78% of Students would return to MIT
5.Harvard:
Education Quality: B
76% of students would return Harvard</li>
<li>Brandeis
Education Quality: B+
70% of students would return to Brandeis</li>
<li>Wellesley
Education Quality: A-
64% of students would to return to Wellesley</li>
<li>Williams
Education Quality: B+
62% of students would return to Williams</li>
<li>Boston College
Education Quality: B+
57% of students would to return to Boston College</li>
<li>Boston University
Education Quality: B
69% of students would return to BU</li>
</ol>
<p>superstar12: since when was a high drop-out rate considered the mark of a good school?</p>
<p>compaq10: your source link is broken. Also, since when was student desire to return the mark of a good school? I would also be interested in seeing the reasons why students chose to not return.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Yes. There must.</p>
<p>Hawkwings, take a look at the curriculum of WPI and then talk to me. Since when is a high drop out rate a bad thing? it weeds out people who can’t hack it in particular fields. Topic is completely subjective.</p>
<p>WPI was once ranked among the top 50…has much changed with WPI? …no, has much changed with the ranking structure of usnews? yes…is WPI underranked?..IMO yes.</p>
<p>i know that compaq10’s list is not his own, but studentreview is a completely nonverified and biased source. whether or not you think that williams offer the best undergraduate education in the world, it certainly offers a similar enough education to amherst that is is crazy that they would be separated by 7 spots, regardless of actual ranking.</p>
<p>High drop rate can be a bad thing because it could show that the faculty is not good at teaching their students, who proceed to do poorly on tests, get discouraged, and drop out. Or it may show that the faculty feels that they need to weed out a certain percentage of students no matter if they all placed in the 90%+ range, because of some professional/social/rankings/whatever pressure. Drop rate does not show the actual performance of the students in question, only that they dropped.</p>
<p>Also, it is not my job to do research for you. Find out about WPI’s curriculum and post it here, then I’ll take a look at it.</p>