<p>Tier 1: Harvard, Yale, Princeton
Tier 2: Columbia, Stanford, UPenn, CalTech, MIT, Dartmouth, Duke, Chicago, Northwestern
Tier 3: Hopkins, WashU, Brown, Cornell
Tier 4: Rice, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, Emory
Tier 5: Georgetown, Berkeley
Tier 6: CMU, USC, UCLA, UVA, Wake, Tufts</p>
<p>Those are you own made up tiers.</p>
<p>Those aren’t the tier system that US News uses. The one that US News uses has them all in Tier 1.</p>
<p>Are you Tier Obsessed?</p>
<p>merge tiers 4 and 3, Northwestern down one, Stanford, MIT, CIT up one</p>
<p>For years I believed there were only 4 tiers. (And I may continue to do so)</p>
<p>I thought it went something like this: Top 25 are tier 1, 25-100 are tier 2 and then it widens out down to 4.</p>
<p>That is the funniest tier list I have seen. Completely pointless.</p>
<p>Bemidji State University is a Tier 1 Regional University (Midwest). And BSU accounting graduates pass the CPA exam at a higher rate than the state average.</p>
<p>This is my new response to all ranking/tiering threads. Go Beavers!</p>