<p>Below are Edward Fiske's 2009 academic ratings:</p>
<p>***** LACs
Amherst College
Barnard College
Bowdoin College
Bryn Mawr College
Carleton College
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Haverford College
Pomona College
Swarthmore College
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Williams College</p>
<p>***** Universities
Brown University
California Institute of Technology
College of William and Mary
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth college
Duke University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Northwestern University
Princeton University
Rice University
Stanford University
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Los Angeles
University of California-San Diego
University of Chicago
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virginia
Yale University</p>
<p>****1/2 LACs
Bates College
Claremont McKenna College
Colby College
Colgate University
Davidson college
Deep Springs College
Grinnell College
Hamilton college
Harvey Mudd College
Macalester College
Middlebury College
Oberlin College
Reed College
St. John's College
Smith College
Vassar College
Washington And Lee University</p>
<p>****1/2 Universities
Georgetown University
Miami University (OH)
New York University
Pennsylvania State University
SUNY-Binghamton
Tufts University
University of Texas-Austin
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Washington University-St Louis</p>
<p>Universities in Fiske Top 25 but not in U.S. News Top 25:</p>
<p>College of William and Mary
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of California - San Diego
University of Illinois
University of Michigan
University of North Carolina</p>
<p>Universities in U.S. News Top 25 but not in Fiske Top 25:</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon University
Emory
Georgetown
Notre Dame
Vanderbilt
Washington University in St. Louis</p>
<p>19 Universities on both Top 25 lists:</p>
<p>Brown
Cal - Berkley
Cal Tech
Chicago
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Duke
Harvard
Johns Hopkins
MIT
Northwestern
Penn
Princeton
Rice
Stanford
UCLA
Virginia
Yale</p>
<p>Another intriguing thing is that if you look at the Times Higher Education Supplement’s World Rankings, UMichigan is rated in the top 20 (#19) and is placed ahead of many universities in the US that are in the US News Top 25.</p>
<p>USC does not receive a *<em>**1/2 by Fiske. It receives an academic rating of </em><em>1/2. Emory, Notre Dame and Vanderbilt get academic ratings of </em> and Boston College and USC get academic ratings of ***1/2.</p>
<p>Please keep in mind that no ranking/rating is 100% accurate. Fiske seems to slightly (by probably 1/2 a point) underrate schools like BC, Emory, Notre Dame, USC and Vanderbilt and seems to slightly (by probably 1/2 a point) overrate schools like Barnard, GT, Penn State, UCSD and UIUC.</p>