College Ranking - Aggregating 5 Major Best College Lists (including USNWR 2017)

College Search & Selection
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Making it a 6 Ranking Aggregare (with the new WSJ):

  1. Harvard
  2. Princeton
  3. Stanford
  4. MIT
  5. Yale
  6. Penn
  7. Rice
  8. CalTech
  9. Columbia
  10. Duke
  1. Brown
  2. Dartmouth
  3. Notre Dame
  4. Michigan
  5. Vanderbilt
  6. UC Berkeley
  7. Chicago
  8. Northwestern
  9. Cornell
  10. UCLA
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@ClarinetDad16
Interesting. I would love to see your methodology applied to the top 25 LACs

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@dnstudent26 wrote, “No way Rice is #7.”

On the contrary, the fact that Rice is ranked #7 is precisely what lends legitimacy to the methodology that underlies this list. ; )

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I have to say, this is probably one of the best ranking I have seen. But where is JHU?

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and Cornell?

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  1. Virginia
  2. WUSTL
  3. Georgetown
  4. North Carolina
  5. Johns Hopkins
  6. Tufts
  7. USC
  8. Emory
  9. Carnegie Mellon
  10. Wake Forest
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Imitation is the greatest form of flattery:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/10/20/heres-a-new-college-ranking-based-entirely-on-other-college-rankings/

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You were ahead of your time :slight_smile:

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The Washington Post didn’t ignore LACs though :slight_smile:

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@CollegeAngst The rankings you include are apples to oranges. ARWU, CWUR are not college rankings, but rather global university rankings, where the focus is not undergrad. USNews is a college ranking. it is good to include research prowess etc but probably not at such a high degree for college rankings.

@ClarinetDad16 haha i unknowingly imitated you haha, got somewhat similar results.

@prezbucky I did the same thing as here using 6 rankings (instead of Money i used college factual) and got similar results. Have posted it here. Also the Washington post just released a composite ranking which is also quite similar to both mine and this, at least for the top 10.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/10/20/heres-a-new-college-ranking-based-entirely-on-other-college-rankings/

1.Stanford University
2.Harvard University
3.MIT
4.Princeton University

5.Yale University

6.University of Pennsylvania

7.Duke University

8. Columbia University

9.University of California at Berkeley
10.California Institute of Technology

11.University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

12.University of California at Los Angeles

13.Rice University

14.Dartmouth College

15.Brown University
16.Cornell University

17.University of Notre Dame
18.Vanderbilt University
19.UNC
20. Georgetown
.

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“Bias” is a loaded term.
I like the word “focus”, as Penn95 used it in the last post.

If two different rankings have different objectives, you won’t necessarily improve on either one by averaging the two together. Instead, you may simply wind up with a less-focused ranking. An example is the Washington Monthly aggregate of 3 separate rankings (one each for social mobility, research, and service). Individually, they may be plausible rankings. After averaging, the result is a mish-mash that places very different kinds of schools (including Harvard, UT-El Paso, MIT, and Florida International) all in the top 20.

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All the Michigan fanboys on this forum are having wet dreamz right now…