HYP reign supreme; Stanford drops below Columbia, Chicago

College Search & Selection
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<p>National</a> University Rankings | Top National Universities | US News Best Colleges</p>

<p>The new U.S. News elite top 5 are:
Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Columbia
Chicago</p>

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<p>What ~2,000 academics think:</p>

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<li>Harvard/ MIT/ Stanford</li>
<li>Princeton/ Yale</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>Caltech/ Chicago/ Columbia/ Cornell/ Johns Hopkins</li>
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<p>Top 5 elite academically are HYPSM…and all is right in the world. :)</p>

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<ol>
<li>Duke University ;)</li>
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<p>Stanford’s ranking might be the lowest in the U.S. News ranking’s history, according to this article, which shows how the rankings have changed through the years:
[U.S&lt;/a&gt;. News Best Colleges Rankings 1983-2013 - The Airspace](<a href=“The Air Space - Play beyond Reality”>The Air Space - Play beyond Reality)</p>

<p>U.S. News 1983: 1
U.S. News 2006: 5
U.S. News 2012: 5
U.S. News 2013: 6</p>

<p>Any explanations for this? Stanford seems to be getting richer and more selective at a simliar rate to other top schools, so why has it lagged in the rankings?</p>

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<p>^ Someone pointed out that Stanford has lower financial resources and faculty resources per student than Chicago because it has more students. This accounts for 30% of the USNWR score. </p>

<p>Stanford doesn’t care about its USNWR rank.</p>

<p>East coast bias.</p>

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fify ;)</p>

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<p>For what it’s worth, Stanford has been ranked at #6 in six previous US News rankings (so a total of seven times including 2013)–1989, 1990, 1994, 1997, 2000, and 2001:</p>

<p>[U.S&lt;/a&gt;. News Rankings Through the Years](<a href=“http://web.archive.org/web/20070905010206/chronicle.com/stats/usnews/index.php?category=Universities&orgs=&sort=1983]U.S”>http://web.archive.org/web/20070905010206/chronicle.com/stats/usnews/index.php?category=Universities&orgs=&sort=1983)</p>

<p>Bottom line: movements a few places up or down from year to year are pretty meaningless.</p>

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<p>I am actually surprised to see the drop of Princeton.</p>

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<p>^^ And 1983 methodology was 100% peer assessment. Stanford is tied for #1 (with Harvard and MIT) if 100% peer assessment were used today. </p>

<p>Nothing’s changed…just the ranking methodology.</p>

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<p>Stanford is declining that’s what it means</p>

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<p>I’ve long said that Stanford undergraduate is overrated. USNWR has finally caught on.</p>

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<p>^ Moreso than Harvard?</p>