Cominbed Ranking: Universities and LAC's

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<p>By the Consus group. Takes into account selectivity, yield and research among other factors. </p>

<p>Place whatever value in it you want.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.consusgroup.com/news/rankings/colleges/colleges.asp%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.consusgroup.com/news/rankings/colleges/colleges.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Some notes:
UChicago gets screwed because of their highe acceptance rate and low yield.
UC's get boosted because of quantity of graduate research.
Other than that, nothing major of notice.</p>

<p>1 Harvard University
2 Princeton University
3 Stanford University
4 Columbia University
5 California Institute of Technology
6 Yale University
7 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
8 Brown University
9 University of California, Berkeley
10 University of California, Los Angeles
11 University of Pennsylvania
12 Dartmouth College
13 Rice University
14 Duke University
15 Swarthmore College
16 Amherst College
17 University of California, San Diego
18 Williams College
19 Georgetown University
20 Cornell University
21 Northwestern University
22 Pomona College
23 U.S. Naval Academy
24 University of California, Santa Barbara
25 University of California, Santa Cruz
26 University of California, Davis
26 Harvey Mudd College
28 Haverford College
29 U.S. Military Academy
30 University of Notre Dame
31 The Johns Hopkins University
32 Washington University (WashU)
33 University of Virginia
34 Middlebury College
35 Bowdoin College
36 Claremont McKenna College
37 Washington & Lee University
38 Davidson College
39 U.S. Air Force Academy
40 Tufts University
41 Barnard College
42 College of William & Mary
43 Wesleyan University
44 Carnegie Mellon
45 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
46 Colgate University
47 Wellesley College
48 The University of Chicago
49 Vassar College
50 New York University
51 Colby College
52 Carleton College
53 Emory University
54 University of Southern California
55 Grinnell College
56 Case Western Reserve University
57 Brandeis University
58 Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art
59 Wake Forest University
60 Boston College
61 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
62 Vanderbilt University
63 Pepperdine University
64 Bryn Mawr College
65 Macalaster College</p>

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<p>Wow.. Michigan at 61. lol..</p>

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<p>Their stated methodology says nothing about research, and includes only survey and popularity. No quality factors whatsoever are included, and not a word about outcomes.</p>

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<p>Columbia over Yale? That's interesting.
So is UCSD over Northwestern and Chicago.
Davis over Hopkins is the most RIDICULOUS.
Hahaha, this ranking is even worse than US News. xD</p>

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<p>This is pretty horrible.. UC Santa Cruz over U Chicago.. hahaha</p>

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<p>I think the Top 20 or so are fairly accurate, albeit not correctly ordered amongst themselves, after that, there are problems though.</p>

<p>Still, I find this list more credible than the year USNews put Penn ahead of Stanford, MIT and Caltech.</p>

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<p>Wow. This list is messed up. Mudd after UC Santa Cruz and other state schools? I think not.</p>

<p>"Place whatever value in it you want."
Zero Value.</p>

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<p>I think this list is dumber than the Washington Monthly rankings, and that takes something.</p>

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<p>Claremont Mckenna AFTER UC SB???!!?!?!</p>

<p><em>falls off chair</em></p>

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<p>Washington Monthly is not dumb at all; in contrast to US News they tell you exactly what their ranking is trying to measure.</p>

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<p>Claremont Mckenna AFTER UC SB???!!?!?!</p>

<p>-Yeah.... I know nothing about either of those schools.... :rolleyes:</p>

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<p>kk19131</p>

<p>U don't know the Claremont Colleges? Or the University of California system?</p>

<p>lol and ...</p>

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<p>Carleton is 52 and all his peer schools are within top 40.</p>

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<p>"U don't know the Claremont Colleges? Or the University of California system?"</p>

<p>-Pomona, Harvey Mudd, Berkeley, and UCLA.... That's pretty much all that matters... :rolleyes:</p>

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<p>As much as I love to see Berkeley in the top 10, no. That list is rather stupid.</p>

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<p>someone else trying to attract website traffic.</p>

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<p>Why is Berkeley so far ahead of UMich, it doesn't make any sense?</p>

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<p>"Berkeley is a top 10 US Uni...period"
- Of course its a top 10 US University, but probably about top 25 for undergrad. UCLA probably top 40. I think this is a Californian ranking.</p>

<p>I'm not sure why people complain about US News so much. US News very clearly states what it measures - for example, resources and student body strength. In fact, aside from THES and WSJ feeder, I think its the most transparent ranking. </p>

<p>US News is much more reliable for parents/students looking at colleges than stuff like this. I'd definetely recommend it over any other popular ranking. And, of course, US News is the most accurate too in my opinion (HYPSM at the top, then Penn Duke Dartmouth Brown Columbia, then etc.).</p>

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<p>Mostly the ones that are higher on it on US News (for undergrad).</p>

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<p>This list is filled with ignorance.</p>