Best state for higher education

College Search & Selection
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<p>Im interested to hear what people think. MASS VS CALI which is better. These two states account for majority of the top 100 according to us news. I included LAC's as well. </p>

<p>MA</p>

<p>Harvard
MIT
Amherst
Williams
Wellesly
Tufts
Brandeis
Boston College
Boston University
Northeastern University
WPI
Clarke University
Smith College
Mt. Holyoke</p>

<p>CA
Stanford
Cal Tech
UC Berk
UCLA
USC
UC San Diego
Claremont Mckenna
Pamona
Harvey Mudd
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Cruz
Pepperdine
UC Riverside
UC Santa Barbara</p>

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<p>east coast for sure.
no question.</p>

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<p>btw uc schools are NOWHERE as prestigious as the long established schools on the east coast
UCLA and UCBerkeley are ok, but the other ones…davis, irvine etc might as well be state schools</p>

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<p>Penn
Swarthmore
Haverford
Bryn Mawr
Carnegie Mellon
Lehigh
Bucknell
Lafayette
Allegheny
Villanova
Dickinson
Franklin and Marshall
Muhlenberg
Juniata
Gettysburg
Ursinus
Duquesne
University of Scranton
Curtis (most selective school in the United States)
Temple
Pitt
Penn State</p>

<p>Pennsylvania is up there.</p>

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<p>Now I know for sure that you didn’t graduate from an Ivy.</p>

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<p>They ARE state schools…</p>

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<p>Massachusetts has the number one college town in the country, Boston. My vote is for MA. PA and CA are no joke, though.</p>

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<p>Voting for Mass on this one</p>

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<p>It’s highly overrated in that respect.</p>

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<p>lol, I lived right across the river from Boston all my life. The only major colleges I knew in the Boston area were Harvard, MIT, Tufts, BC, BU, and Northeastern LOL. Man, I was so ignorant lol… Then there are the minor ones, I didn’t really think colleges around Boston represent a significant portion of the residential population, or if they didn’t I surely didn’t notice them lol.</p>

<p>Boston is not a collegetown…</p>

<p>MA probably has the largest concentration of prestigious colleges… but I thought everyone knew that though… Not really groundbreaking find or anything lol</p>

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<p>Columbia
Cornell
NYU
U Rochester
RPI
Yeshiva
Syracuse
Fordham
Vassar
US Military Academy
Barnard
Colgate
Hamilton
Sarah Lawrence
Bard
Union
Skidmore
Hobard and William Smith</p>

<p>New York is no slouch.</p>

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<p>MA is a pretty great state for colleges. Well, the actual state schools aren’t very good. But the privates are outstanding. Too bad I can’t wait to get outta here. New York and California are top contenders as well.</p>

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<p>in terms of prestige? MA
in terms of education? toss up
in terms of sports? CA
in terms of weather? CA</p>

<p>etc etc</p>

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<p>CA rocks. 10char</p>

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<p>MA, CA, PA, in that order.</p>

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<p>Everything else on this board seems to go by the rankings. I was just going by the rankings.</p>

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<p>For public schools, CA. For private schools, MA.
For the best combination of public and private, I would go with North Carolina (Duke and UNC Chapel Hill) although PA has Penn, CMU, lots of great LACs and Penn State.</p>

<p>Residents of CA, MI, VA, WI, IL, TX, FL, and NC have great public universities.</p>

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<p>a historic debate on this state pride topic…
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/93568-state-pride-best-state-higher-education-why.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/93568-state-pride-best-state-higher-education-why.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>The California schools in the top 50 Nat Unis include:</p>

<p>Stanford
Caltech
UCB
UCLA
UCSD
UCSB
UCD
UCI</p>

<p>LACs certainly in the top 20:</p>

<p>Pomona
Harvey Mudd
Claremont McKenna</p>

<p>Looks like a tie to me. However, given the size of Massachussetts — a more fair comparison would be NCal and SCal as separate states… MA is singular.</p>

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<p>If one limits this to Ph.D. programs, then it’s really a landslide in favor of CA:</p>

<p>Top 3 World Universities:</p>

<ol>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
</ol>

<p>that pretty much defines it.</p>

<p>MIT/Caltech score simultaneous knockouts.</p>

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<p>Yep, I’d say MA, CA and PA are tops.</p>

<p>And add Cooper Union and Julliard to the list of great schools in NY.</p>