<p>^I think rigor would depend on your major. Cal-Poly has incredible engineering programs that are probably rigorous like most other programs, but the rest of the school is probably just as rigorous as any other CSU, which to say is not very rigorous.</p>
<p>The ranking should have a different name because it also includes attractiveness of the student body. And Pomona, Stanford, and many others should be on this list. Yale, Harvard, Amherst, Swarthmore (so beautiful!), Vassar, UWashington are all worthy but I guess the student-body attractiveness and bad weather caused them to not be ranked.</p>