<p>This is so silly. Apples and oranges. Come on.</p>
<p>New Jersey:</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Rutgers</li>
<li>Drew</li>
<li>TCNJ</li>
<li>Stevens</li>
<li>Rutgers-Newark</li>
<li>NJIT</li>
<li>Rutgers-Camden</li>
<li>Rowan</li>
<li>Monmouth</li>
</ol>
<p>Massachusetts:
- Harvard
- MIT
- Tufts
- Wellesley
- Amherst
- Boston College
- Brandeis
- Northeastern
- Boston University
- Holy Cross</p>
<p>There are probably some other schools that belong on this list too, but I’m not to familiar with a lot of the liberal art schools.</p>
<p>illinois resident
1: uchicago
2: northwestern
3: uiuc
big drop
4: Knox
5: Illinois wesleyan
6: Loyola
7: illinois institute of tech
8: UIC
9: lake forest
10: depaul</p>
<p>I just posted a much-too-long summary of Colorado schools in the “your state’s college reputations thread.” Here’s a quick summary–obviously we don’t have the same density of universities as other states!</p>
<p>1) University of Denver (DU): really on the move, great business and law schools, private school prestige. Suffers from rich kid stigma, but is working on diversity.</p>
<p>2) Colorado College (CC)–an excellent liberal arts school. Intriguing block plan, high admission standards. </p>
<p>3) Colorado School of Mines: if you want to be an engineer, come here by all means. If you’re not sure, then maybe not. </p>
<p>4) CU-Boulder–beautiful location, very good law school, but too much partying for serious undergrad students. Seems to be on a reputational downswing in the past 10 years. </p>
<p>5) Colorado State (CSU): a good school, but admission standards are not as rigorous as the schools listed above.</p>
<p>Kentucky:
- Centre College.
- Transylvania University.
- Berea College.
- Asbury College.
- Georgetown College.
- Bellarmine University.
- Univeristy of Kentucky.
- Murray State University.
- University of Louisville.
- Western Kentucky University. </p>
<p>I’d also like to give recognition to Eastern and Northern Kentucky university.</p>
<p>Illinois:</p>
<p>1: UChicago
2: Northwestern
3: Illinois-Urbana Champaign
big drop
4: Knox
5: Illinois wesleyan
6: Loyola
7: Illinois Institute of Tech
8: UIC
9: Depaul
10: Wheaton</p>
<p>Texas
1a Rice
1b UT Austin
3. A&M
4. UT Dallas
5. Trinity
6. SMU
7. Baylor
8. UH
9. UT Arlington
10. TCU</p>
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<p>[College</a> Rankings - Top Ranked Schools by State - StateUniversity.com](<a href=“USA University College Directory - U.S. University Directory - State Universities and College Rankings”>Top Ranked Schools by State)</p>
<p>Those rankings are awful.
Principia, Wheaton, IIT, and Illinois Wesleyan above UIUC?
Nuh uh</p>
<p>Lol @ pitt and penn state over penn. Looks like anyone can put together a random string of schools and market them as a “ranking”</p>
<p>three things. Texans, do you forget about /Southwestern, isn’t that supposed to be a great school? Also Michigan people how do you rank Albion above Kalamazoo? and lastly i’m obviously from missouri so top 5</p>
<p>1) Washington University in St.louiks
2) St. Louis University
30 University of Missouri
4) Truman State University
5) Missouri S &T
6) UMSL
7) College of the Ozarks
8) UMKC
9) William Jewell
10) Rockhurst</p>
<p>Ohio
- Oberlin
- Kenyon
- Ohio State
- Case Western
- Denison
- Wooster
- Xavier
- Wesleyan
9 and 10 idk</p>
<p>UT-Southwestern? That’s the one i think you’re referring to. It’s a great top 20 med school. It doesn’t offer any undergraduate degrees, akin to UC San Francisco.</p>
<p>There is also Southwestern college, which is a tiny LAC type school, which will give a solid education.</p>
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<p>Of course. There is no national academy or branch of the Department of Education to approve/disapprove a college ranking before it can be posted to somebody’s web site.</p>
<p>stateuniversity.com does at least offer some description of its methodology. It claims to be entirely data-driven (so, unlike USNWR, it has no subjective peer assessment or guidance counsellor assessment component). The data sources and methods aren’t described in much detail, but factors include student retention, faculty salary, and student:faculty ratio.</p>
<p>Why would stateuniversity.com rank UPenn so much lower than some other rankings do? Maybe because it lists UPenn’s S:F ratio at 17:1. USNWR lists UPenn’s S:F ratio at 6:1. So apparently at least one of them is just wildly wrong, or else they are applying very different counting standards/methods. </p>
<p>It would be interesting to compare actual undergraduate class sizes in popular courses at Penn, Pitt, and Penn State. When I’ve done this for a few other highly selective, private universities, I’ve been surprised to see the number of very high course enrollments (> 100 students), despite the very low S:F ratios they report.</p>
<p>You mean like Caltech’s 3:1 despite the fact that they have a large number of classes with greater than 20 students. (36.5%).</p>
<p>Iowa:</p>
<p>1) Grinnell
2) Iowa State
3) University of Iowa
4) Luther College
5) Drake University
6) Cornell College
7) University of Northern Iowa
8) Central College
9) Coe College
10) Loras College</p>
<p>Kentucky:</p>
<p>1.) Centre College (LAC)
2.) Berea College (LAC)
3.) University of Louisville
4.) University of Kentucky
5.) Georgetown College (LAC)</p>
<p>What about Wittenberg for Ohio? I visited both, it looks just as good as Wooster.</p>
<p>DC:
- Georgetown
- George Washington (Depends on Major/Program)
- American
- Catholic
- Trinity
- Galludet is a speciality school for the deaf, shouldn’t be included in rankings (In my view)</p>
<p>MD:
- Johns Hopkins University
- Loyola University of MD
- University of Maryland (College Park)
- St Mary’s of Maryland
- Mount Saint Mary’s University
- University of Maryland (Baltimore County)
- Towson University
- Salisbury University
- Frostburg State University
- University of Baltimore/ Frostburg State University</p>