<p>By then, many of the “schools on the rise” that may have not yet built up the long-standing reputation to draw more talented applicants and become more selective (this is why no top school is younger than 100 years old…it takes time) will have matured…I’m thinking a school like USF…so, what will the top universities and LAC’s look like 100 years from now?</p>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>Chicago</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>USC (I know…risky)</li>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>MIT (Big drop)</li>
<li>Wash U.</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>UC-B</li>
<li>UCSD</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
<li>Umich</li>
<li>Vandy</li>
<li>UT-Austin</li>
<li>Emory</li>
<li>UNC-Chapel Hill</li>
<li>Tulsa (Another big jump…just a gut feeling as power shifts away from east coast)</li>
<li>G’town</li>
<li>Notre Dame</li>
<li><p>Pitt: already moving up the rankings</p></li>
<li><p>Amherst</p></li>
<li><p>Swarthmore</p></li>
<li><p>Williams</p></li>
<li><p>Carleton</p></li>
<li><p>Davidson</p></li>
<li><p>Pomona</p></li>
<li><p>Bates (will skyrocket as the leader in non-SAT admits)</p></li>
<li><p>Middlebury</p></li>
<li><p>Conn. College (the only somewhat young LAC to already be ranked highly)</p></li>
<li><p>McKenna</p></li>
<li><p>Colorado</p></li>
<li><p>Haverford</p></li>
<li><p>Bowdoin</p></li>
<li><p>Wesleyan</p></li>
<li><p>Harvey Mudd</p></li>
</ol>
<p>I can't imagine the ivies dropping too far...they'll be another 100 years older, so more prestigious.</p>
<p>The good state schools ought to move up. Tuition advantage. Shudder to think what tuition will be at privates by then.</p>
<p>Can't see USC moving up like that. It doesn't have a niche, ie super strong in one particular field. That could change in a century. One advantage for USC---California population growth continuing to outstripping rest of US, so geographic advantage. Tulsa? Not a chance...all those schools it would have to jump over won't be standing still.</p>
<p>We're just at the beginning of explosions in technology and biomedical engineering. Schools like MIT, Caltech, RPI, CMU, Rice, JHU, Case in addition to big state schools strong in tech, might be winners, esp with a med school...UMich, Pitt, UCSD, Texas.</p>
<p>Assumes education as we know it still exists. How will virtual learning change the bricks and mortar variety?</p>
<p>Now my question is why are you concerned about college ranking in 2108? College rankings are bs now, and you will be dead in 2108. Must be a slow day for you, no?</p>
<p>I find 2331clk's question "How will virtual learning change the bricks and mortar variety?" extremely interesting. Who's to say that it will even exist? The proliferation of online schooling is amazing even now in 2008! I can't even begin to understand its growth by 2108! As an anecdote, my high school schedule right now is already half online university courses.</p>
<p>You do realize that Claremont McKenna College was founded in 1946, far newer than any other top school, and it is already ranked between 10-15 (I don't remember exactly). If it has risen this fast this quickly, think what it can do in the future.</p>
<p>I am actaully thinking Portland State U might get good. Right now all you need is a 1000/1600 on the SAT, but its rising, due to Intel nearby, and already many good programs are springing up. by 2108 it may not be a top ranked, but i think it will be respectable.</p>
<p>You can't predict 100 years into the future. You can't realistically defend any arguments you make for each school in this scenario.</p>
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I find 2331clk's question "How will virtual learning change the bricks and mortar variety?" extremely interesting. Who's to say that it will even exist? The proliferation of online schooling is amazing even now in 2008! I can't even begin to understand its growth by 2108! As an anecdote, my high school schedule right now is already half online university courses.
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<p>That's pretty interesting. Some schools offer entire degree programs online; I know Columbia does this for a limited number of MS degrees. In the future, you may not even have to be on campus to get the same type of education. In 100 years, I'm sure they will have perfected the virtual classroom that will allow for interactive discussions, which is the most glaring omission of online programs currently.</p>
<p>Seeing as half the jobs people will have in future haven't even been invented yet, it's impossible to say what kind of schools will come out on top 100 years from now.</p>
<p>lol, the world will be gone by then. everything will be ranked THE SAME
and why is MIT so low?? if anything will prevent the world from being destroyed, it'll be MIT</p>
<p>Claremont McKenna College is only 60 years old and is ranked #11 for LACs. It is the youngest highly ranked college for both universities and LACs (that is a fact). Every other school ranked as high is well over a 100 years old. I expect that in maybe 10 or 20 years, when west coast schools become as prominent as east coast ones, Claremont McKenna's rank will skyrocket.</p>
<p>^^ yup, because universities are static like that.</p>
<p>Really, 100 years is too far to tell. I'm sure that by then, many will have risen in ranks, many will have dipped in ranks. But Berkeley at the same US News rank as it is now, even though it's clear that it's making leaps in its offerings? UCLA not on the list at all? USC that high despite the fact that it doesn't have the resources to go anywhere near that, and despite the fact that MIT has many more resources and is ranked behind it? Right.</p>
<p>The world will be drastically different by then. The educational system has already dramatically changed in the past hundred years. Hopefully, those of us who wish to do some work in educational policy will see shifts take place.</p>
<p>With the polar ice caps melting due to global warming, much of the Eastern US coast will be under water. HYP and some other far thinking schools will have purchased land in the West (maybe Arizona) and built campuses so they can survive and still maintain their rankings.</p>