<p>1 WUST
2 Berkeley
3 Emory
4 Vanderbilt
5 G-Town
6 NYU
7 Northwestern
8 Cornell
9 Brown
10 Duke
11 Stanford
12 Penn
13 Harvard
14 Columbia
15 Princeton
16 Chicago
17 Yale
18 Dartmouth
19 MIT
20 MICH
21 UVA
22 JHU
23 UCLA
24 UT
25 Notre Dame</p>
<p>i'm presuming you made this up...</p>
<p>MIT sure isn't going all to smooth ... lol</p>
<p>lol i miss read "2066" thought it was 2006 and was about to start yelling at op for lying.</p>
<p>Um...dude you're so wrong..Harvard and MIT wouldn't exist because they'd be underwater! DUH!</p>
<p>Like any industry, I feel that there hasn't been enough consolidation in the college/university sector. </p>
<p>My predictions? In a blockbuster merger, Chicago and NU fuse together to dominate Chicago, Illinois, and the entire country (taking the number 1 ranking along the way).</p>
<p>how did vanderbilt get so high? that's impressive</p>
<p>The South is growing faster than the North - so in 6 decades most of the population lives closer to Vandy and Emory than Penn and Columbia.</p>
<p>collegeyahoo,
Great comic relief. Many thanks.</p>
<p>What do you mean NO RICE IN THE TOP 25! Are you out of your mind? What are you smoking?? And Northwestern still well ahead of U Michigan! Mon dieu! </p>
<p>Anyway, knowing USNWR and the great welcoming nature of the educational elites to newcomers in the top ranks, I predict the following rankings in 2066:</p>
<p>1 Princeton
2 Harvard
3 Yale
4 Cal Tech
4 Stanford
4 MIT
7 U Penn
8 Duke
9 U Chicago
9 Dartmouth
9 Columbia
12 Wash U StL
12 Cornell
14 Northwestern
15 Brown
16 J Hopkins
17 Rice
18 Emory
18 Vanderbilt
20 Notre Dame
21 UC Berkeley
21 Carnegie Mellon
23 Georgetown
24 U Michigan
24 U Virginia</p>
<p>What a risktaker, that Hawkette.</p>
<p>You know hawkette, those look oddly familiar... ;)</p>
<p>And thethoughtprocess:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_University#History%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_University#History</a></p>
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My predictions? In a blockbuster merger, Chicago and NU fuse together to dominate Chicago, Illinois, and the entire country (taking the number 1 ranking along the way).
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<p>i think the poster above me already linked to this, but this actually almost happened.</p>
<p>northwestern was going to be the undergraduate campus, chicago the graduate campus, and northwestern's chicago campus was going to be the law/med/business schools.</p>
<p>it literally would have been the best school in the world, too bad northwestern backed out</p>
<p>but LOOK AT THE LAST SENTENCE</p>
<p>"In my judgment the merger will become a reality at some future date"</p>
<p>The Universities of Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin will merge to form the Great Lakes University which will be ranked in the Top 10 as they skim the top students and faculty from the three states. The combined endowment will be over $1 Trillion.</p>
<p>i predict that community colleges will turn the tables and one day rule USNEWS</p>
<p>By 2066, someone will have destroyed the USNews rankings' building and kidnapped their staff.</p>
<p>more like august 2007</p>
<p>lmao (10 char)</p>