<p>NYU is not a top 30 school because
- Its relatively poor (its endowment per student is crazy low), it doesn’t spend money on its students on ANYTHING (look it up!), doesn’t seem to have strong graduate placement, isn’t super selective, and has large classes. So its not a strong undergraduate school like Brown, dartmouth, Princeton, the LACs, Rice, Vanderbilt, or even BC and Wake Forest.</p>
<p>2) Its not a great reseach school: Outside of its professional programs (and a couple areas) it gets owned by places like Michigan, Cornell, Berkeley, in terms of research. So its not that good in this area.</p>
<p>So its not good at undergrad, and its not good as a grad school. Outside of NYC (I have no idea why anyone would want to go to a school with no campus, seems terrible to me) why does it deserve to rank better?</p>