<p>What are some good colleges/universities whose reputation is getting better? So far I think: </p>
<p>Tulane
USC
Vanderbilt
NYU
Middlebury
Bowdoin
Claremont McKenna/ the other claremont schools</p>
<p>Do you people agree with these, also are there anymore.</p>
<p>You and Dr. Kat seem to agree on at least a few of these.</p>
<p>[Dr</a>. Kat’s List: Colleges that Have Risen to Prominence in the Past 25 Years | ApplyWise.com](<a href=“http://www.applywise.com/apr09_up_and_coming.aspx]Dr”>http://www.applywise.com/apr09_up_and_coming.aspx)</p>
<p>Temple
BU
Northeastern
Indiana
UCF
George Mason
James Madison
Ohio State
Georgia
UConn
Delaware
MSU
FSU
USF
South Carolina</p>
<p>I’d look at schools whose PA has gone up the most in the last ten years.</p>
<p>George Mason University
Michigan State University
University of Minnesota- Twin Cities
Western Michigan University</p>
<p>That would be a few listed above, thought I would only mention universities ranked by USNEWS 60 or above.</p>
<p>Grinnell has definitely gained prominence among the LACs.</p>
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<p>…why?</p>
<p>Because many universities ranked in top 30 by USNEWS generally would not be considered up and coming as they have already went through that stage, but ofcourse still do have room for improvement.</p>
<p>It depends on the timeframe you’re talking about. If it’s like the last 25 years or so, NYU, Georgetown, Indiana, George Mason, Northeastern, Providence, Penn, Brown, Duke, George Washington, U of Georgia, Florida State, Cornell, Washington University, Clemson, VaTech UCSD, and Boston College have gone up.</p>
<p>In that same time period, Boston University, UC Berkeley, and Holy Cross come to mind as places that have lost some ground (most notably to Northeastern, Stanford/UCLA/UCSD, and BC, respectively). Is William and Mary going down as George Mason and Georgetown go up?</p>
<p>Back around the early 1970’s Holy Cross was about as hot as it got for Catholics in the East, BU was comfortably ahead of both BC and Northeastern (BC almost went bankrupt around this time). </p>
<p>Rutgers seems like a place that’s always going up or down…I’d imagine it’s shifted also, but I don’t know in which direction.</p>
<p>Northeastern comes to mind and they were ranked #2 for up and coming. They seem to be getting better every year in terms of prestige.</p>
<p>Tulane
USC
Vanderbilt
NYU
Middlebury
Bowdoin
Claremont McKenna/ the other claremont schools</p>
<p>Collegemom, this is a good list.</p>
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<p>Ummmm no, it’s the complete opposite. BU used to be a school for stupid rich kids.</p>
<p>“Ummmm no, it’s the complete opposite. BU used to be a school for stupid rich kids.”</p>
<p>I went to high school and college in the Boston area a few decades ago…there is little doubt that around that time BU was a bit ahead of BC and way way ahead of Northeastern in the Boston-area pecking order. It was a legit backup to the Ivies, and I knew some really smart students who were glad to go there. Nowadays it’s smoked by BC in many respects, and it’s much closer to Northeastern than it used to be.</p>
<p>Bowdoin has always been one of the top LACs so I’m not sure it belongs on that list.</p>
<p>Reputation improved in the past 25 years:
USC
NYU
American (overrated)
Middlebury
Carleton
Grinnell
Texas A & M
Florida
Ohio State
Michigan State
Temple
Northeastern
James Madison
George Mason
Central Florida
BC
Va Tech
Clemson
U Washington
UCSD
UCI
Emory
Vanderbilt
Worchester Poly
UMass
UConn
Auburn
Ithaca
SUNY Colleges
Furman
Trinity (TX)
Temple
Tulsa</p>
<p>Reputation Plateaued/Finding It Hard to Rise Higher:
Indiana
WUSTL
Holy Cross
Brandeis
Penn State
Minnesota</p>
<p>Reputation Slipped:
Tulane
Womens Colleges
Case Western
Berkeley</p>
<p>Cant Get Reputation Up No Matter What:
SUNY Univerities
Rutgers</p>
<p>William & Mary applications have doubled over the past 10 yrs, yet at the same time their USNWR ranking has dropped. So obviously their popularity has gained in the “real” world while the magazine lives in PA land. Not exactly reality.</p>
<p>UMN - TC
Udub
Texas A&M</p>
<p>As the costs for privates have skyrocketed, William and Mary has become the closest approximation to elite medium-sized privates at a public price. It is one of the few truly unique colleges in the country.</p>
<p>umbc in baltimore was recenttly named as an upand coming school</p>
<p>UVa has always been a top public school but amongst minorities its reputation in growing… and @zapfino, SUNY Binghampton and Geneseo have growing reputations.</p>