<p>2010 USNEWS Top National Universities - OFFICIAL </p>
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<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Chicago</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Washu</li>
<li>Hopkins</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Emory
!7. Rice</li>
<li>Vanderbilt</li>
<li>Notre Dame</li>
</ol>
<p>I’ll be glad to break the ties for you 
:</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li><p>Princeton</p></li>
<li><p>Stanford</p></li>
<li><p>MIT</p></li>
<li><p>Cal Tech</p></li>
<li><p>Penn</p></li>
<li><p>Columbia</p></li>
<li><p>U. Chicago</p></li>
<li><p>NWern</p></li>
<li><p>Wash U</p></li>
<li><p>Rice</p></li>
<li><p>Vandy</p></li>
<li><p>Emory</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Hmm, maybe by the time I graduate, Vandy will be ahead of Brown and possibly Cornell. Oh well, we’ll see.</p>
<p>rice and emory are the right schools for vandy to be tied with, since they’re the most all-around similar universities i can think of.</p>
<p>how much has vandy climbed in the last decade?</p>
<p>[U.S</a>. News Rankings Through the Years](<a href=“http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:DjJZAS7ZGZcJ:chronicle.com/stats/usnews/index.php%3Fcategory%3DUniversities+chronicle.com/stats/usnews/index.php%3Fcategory%3DUniversities&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us]U.S”>http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:DjJZAS7ZGZcJ:chronicle.com/stats/usnews/index.php%3Fcategory%3DUniversities+chronicle.com/stats/usnews/index.php%3Fcategory%3DUniversities&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us)</p>
<p>20 in 99</p>
<p>Nobody cares!</p>
<p>I wouldn’t go out on that limb, iDoStuff. In the Vanderbilt feed on fb, there have been a number of comments by alums saying things like thanks for making my degree more valuable every year.</p>
<p>A significantly smaller proportion of the Vanderbilt community finds this topic remotely interesting than found at comparably ranked schools, aka nobody cares!</p>