<p>wow begoodagain, reed college is not in the midwest. It's in oregon (which is above california)</p>
<p>Texas:</p>
<ol>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>UT-Austin</li>
<li>SMU</li>
<li>Texas A&M</li>
<li>Trinity</li>
<li>Baylor</li>
<li>UT-Dallas</li>
<li>Texas Tech</li>
<li>TCU</li>
<li>North Texas</li>
</ol>
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<p>Sorry, I thought it was in Ohio! Ehh, I feel so dumb. Clearly, I have limited knowledge about colleges outside the east coast.</p>
<p>Missouri</p>
<ol>
<li> Washington University</li>
<li> Truman State University</li>
<li> University of Missouri - Rolla<br></li>
<li> University of Missouri - Columbia</li>
<li> St. Louis University</li>
<li> Webster University</li>
<li> Westminster </li>
<li> William Woods</li>
<li> Missouri State University / Stephens College</li>
<li>University of Missouri - Kansas City / Univeristy of Missouri - St. Louis</li>
</ol>
<p>Washington University is number one by a wide margin. The rankings of schools 2 through 10 are not based on anything other than a vague personal general impression. UM - Rolla is an outstanding engineering school. UM - Columbia has one of the best journalism programs in the United States. Webster University is outstanding in the performing arts. I don't know much about Northwest Missouri State, Central Missouri State, Drury, Columbia College and other Missouri schools that might be included.</p>
<p>Pennsylvania</p>
<ol>
<li>Swarthmore College</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>Haverford College</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon University</li>
<li>Lehigh University</li>
</ol>
<p>Washington:</p>
<p>Top 5</p>
<p>Whitman College
University of Washington
Seattle Pacific University
Whitworth
Western Washington University</p>
<p>Maine
1. Bowdoin
2. Colby
3. Bates
4. U Maine
5. USM</p>
<p>Big Blue, are you from Maine?</p>
<p>Haha, TourGuide, you listed the top five schools in hawaii... those are like practically the only 5 schools in hawaii... lol! UH Manoa is the only somewhat good one though (UH hilo for a couple subjects like marine bio/hawaiian studies) but the others are not even ranked really (for undergrad at least)</p>
<p>A few comments:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Hey, you can't leave out the 50th state just because it doesn't have a lot of colleges. And as a proud Chaminade Silversword alumnus, I resent your comment about UH Manoa being the only good college in the state. I'm also a graduate of Boston College and the U of Toronto, and I'll tell you that some of the Chaminade courses were very tough. There was an Ethnobotany course which was one of the toughest courses I took anywhere.</p></li>
<li><p>Brandeis is the 10th best college in Mass. In how many other states would it be the best college?</p></li>
<li><p>It was always a joy to be walking through those Midwest cornfields and see the buildings of Reed College in the distance. It was amazing how that school took all those raw-boned farm boys and turned them into dope-smoking neo-hippies. What? Reed is Oregon? Sorry. Scratch #3.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>For the MA list, I think that MIT should be ranked above or tied with Harvard. Although the curriculum is more specific (i.e. Harvard is obviously a better school for Classical Literature majors), at MIT it is much more rigorous. Therefore, MIT students graduate knowing more in their fields, and are better prepared for the workforce or grad school.</p>
<p>Somebody said Wyoming would be hard. Actually, Wyoming has a grand total of 1 four year university, so I say it'd be pretty easy:</p>
<ol>
<li>University of Wyoming</li>
</ol>
<p>Somebody also said you can't compare schools in the midwest to school in the East. I don't know, that's getting dangerously close to saying you can't compare students in the midwest to students on the coasts. Which is obviously false. On the coasts, the private schools are awesome and the state schools are horrible. In the midwest, there aren't a lot of private schools, so the few that there are are awesome, and then the state schools end up picking up a lot of the slack, becoming good in themselves since a lot of really good students end up going there, University of Illinois or UT-Austin, as examples. And then there's California, which just doesn't fit into the pattern at all.</p>
<p>I think it should be top 5 and split National vs LACs. </p>
<p>You really can't compare the two.</p>
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<p>You really can't compare the two.
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<p>Finally, someone spouts out the obvious. I stopped reading when I saw Caltech ranked #9 in Cali. This thread is quite a laugh.</p>
<p>Massachusetts:</p>
<p>Harvard
MIT
Amherst
Smith
Williams</p>
<p>Smith is not better than Williams. Smith isn't better than Wellesley or Mount Holyoke or Tufts.</p>
<p>PENNSYLVANIA:</p>
<ol>
<li>Swarthmore</li>
<li>Bryn Mawr</li>
<li>Haverford</li>
<li>Bucknell</li>
<li>CMU</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Lehigh</li>
<li>Franklin & Marshall</li>
<li>Muhlenberg Coll</li>
<li>Penn State (U. Park)</li>
</ol>
<p>MICHIGAN</p>
<ol>
<li>Kalamazoo</li>
<li>UM</li>
<li>MSU</li>
<li>Kettering</li>
<li>Mich Tech</li>
<li>Albion</li>
<li>Western Mich</li>
<li>Wayne State</li>
<li>Hope
10 Eastern</li>
</ol>
<p>OHIO</p>
<ol>
<li>Oberlin</li>
<li>Kenyon</li>
<li>Case</li>
<li>Miami</li>
<li>Ohio Wesleyan</li>
<li>Coll of. Wooster</li>
<li>Denison</li>
<li>Ohio U.</li>
<li>The Ohio State</li>
<li>Bowling Green
.
.</li>
<li>Hiram</li>
<li>John Carroll</li>
</ol>
<p>BJM8, just curious...what is your reasoning for putting Smith in the ranks of Williams and Amherst?</p>
<p>My thoughts on colleges in IL:
1. University of Chicago
2. Northwestern University
3. Illinois Institute of technology
4. Wheaton College
5. U. of I. (Urbana-Champaign)
6. U. of I. (Chicago)
7. Loyola University
8. Knox College
9. DePaul University
10. Illinois Wesleyan</p>
<p>My rankings might be a bit jumbled - except for the fact that UChicago is #1. :)</p>
<p>Alaska:</p>
<p>Igloo University
Polar Bear State
"my tongue is stuck to a pole help me god!" College</p>