<p>Princeton is just the best at everything it teaches.</p>
<p>If it had a law,business, medical, or school of education they would be the best in the nation as well. Damn, when will you FOOLS learn??? Pton is just the best!!!! :)</p>
<p>Why do these threads keep coming up? Its always duke v cornell, or penn v duke, or cornell v penn-and they never end!</p>
<p>That said, here is my personal ranking of the schools given:</p>
<p>1.Princeton
1.Stanford
3. Columbia
4. Duke
4. Penn
6. Amherst
6. Georgetown
6. Williams
9. Cornell</p>
<p>It really depends on the major/department ur interested in, as well as the academic/social atmosphere u like.</p>
<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Williams</li>
<li>Amherst</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
</ol>
<p>1.Princeton
2.Stanford
3. Columbia
4. Duke
4. Penn
6. Cornell
7. Georgetown</p>
<p>Williams and Amherst would be the top 2, if you are that kind of person, but i just put the uni's here</p>
<p>let's add some other universities to the mix here. You guys rank them.</p>
<p>Harvard
Princeton
Yale
UPenn
Duke
Stanford
MIT
Cal Tech
Columbia
Dartmouth
Northwestern
WUSTL
Brown
Cornell
JHU
U of Chicago
Rice</p>
<p>in no order</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>Well, I know I am being seduced into a firefight, but here goes...</p>
<p>HarvardPrincetonYale
StanfordMITCal Tech
UPennDukeColumbiaDartmouth
NorthwesternBrownCornellJHUU of Chicago
RiceWUSTL</p>
<p>I have only my preconceioved notions to back up these suppositions :)</p>
<p>I actually might agree with this one dog :P:</p>
<p>Rice is better than WUSTL though.</p>
<p>lol, hm, now things get a bit tricky.</p>
<p>Harvard-Yale-Princeton-Stanford-MIT
Caltech-Columbia
Duke-UPenn-Dartmouth
Brown-Cornell-Northwestern
JHU-Chicago
Rice
WUSTL</p>
<p>The third and fourth tiers gave me the most trouble. The difference between them is beyond miniscule. Honestly you could probably combine levels 3-5 into one. Only the top and bottom tiers are for sure, IMO.</p>
<p>Harvard-Yale-Princeton-Stanford-MIT
Caltech
Columbia-UPenn-Dartmouth
Duke-Brown-Cornell-Northwestern-Chicago
JHU-Rice
G-Town</p>
<p>WUSTL</p>
<p>Ouch.</p>
<p>(10 characters)</p>
<p>PS: I say Banana's list is the most sufficient.</p>
<p>LOL</p>
<p>i was teasing you Devil.......................</p>
<p>it worked.................yes i put duke in the wrong place probably. </p>
<p>now tell me why Duke is awesome academically....i dont know much about this university's undergrad:( i mean, is it strong in liberal arts areas? what's duke's strongest(top 10 in the nation) areas?</p>
<p>No, Untitled, I was referring to your WUSTL ranking. LOL That was harsh, buddy.</p>
<p>I would say Duke's strongest departments are Polisci, Economics, and English. At least, these professors have garnered a significant amount of reputation to consider their progams as noteworthy. Our BME program is arguably the best in the country and our med school (and med placement) might almost be the best. Duke has an almost miraculous level of grad placement as well. In fact, soemtimes it transcends the level of its Ivy counterparts and peers. We have around a 90% law school admit rate and around an 85% med school admit rate. We also have a substantial recruiter assesment considering as how Goldman Sachs, Merril Lynch, etc seem particularly drawn towards Duke economics majors. However, Dartmouth is the number one school recruited from Wall Street (I think).</p>
<p>where did you guys get this thing about dartmouth on wall street. It could be true, but doesn't make much sense. I mean, its economics program is pretttttty weak.</p>
<p>Slipper told me and showed me the salary figures of recent Dartmouth Tuck students. It does not sound too off base considering as how the school has great networking.</p>
<p>haha pretty much everyone smacks down WUSTL...
Doesn't Duke have a good pre-med program? I think thats one of its strengths. Its grad econ isn't nearly as good as other top schools, from what I hear...</p>
<p>I would agree with banaba's list but bring down Columbia one tier, and move Rice up one tier</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale,Princeton
MIT,Stanford
Caltech, Columbia
Dartmouth, PENN, Duke
Brown, Cornell, JHU, Chicago
Northwestern
Rice
WUSTL</p>
<p>Collegekid, do you know how little the "real world" and grad schools care about individual department rankings? Its misconception #1. The only exceptions are "vocational" areas like film, music, engineering, computer science, etc. McKinsey couldnt care less.</p>
<p>Duke's undergraduate public policy program is one of, if not the, best in the country. </p>
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<p>If I had to revise the list I'd move Columbia down into its own tier below Caltech and above Duke, Penn, and Dartmouth, but I think Rice is in the right place. :)</p>
<p>Then again, these are really, really specific tiers. If we're going more general, HYPSM is a tier, and then all the other schools save WUSTL are in the tier below it.</p>