Ranking of US Colleges

College Search & Selection
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<p>I have gone through websites like topuniversities.com and usnews.com, however, I have heard that those rankings are largely based on factors that are irrelevant to students (income of teachers, area covered by university, racial diversity etc).</p>

<p>Is there a website which may allow me to rank colleges based on my preferred criteria (academic rigor, job opportunities etc)?</p>

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<p>alumnifactor.com (likely better than the other options, but you need to pay for a subscription to rank colleges on your preferred metrics, regrettably)</p>

<p>collegefactual.com</p>

<p>Niche (College Prow—) used to allow consumers to change the weights of metrics. Now Niche has gone the way of USNews…</p>

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<p>collegefactual looks good, but it requires a long process of filling in my information before I reach the rankings.</p>

<p>Thanks though :)</p>

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<p>You can look through the subrankings of the Forbes ranking and weigh or tier to form you own rankings. That’s what I did to form my Ivy-equivalent and near-Ivy tiers: <a href=“Ivy-equivalents - College Search & Selection - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1682986-ivy-equivalents.html&lt;/a&gt; </p>

<p>Maybe incorporate LinkedIn’s specific career-focused rankings as well.</p>

<p>USNews has a few limited subrankings that they make public (like reputation according to college officials).</p>

<p>Also, the various USNews department rankings may be insightful.</p>

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<p>I think if one is interested in majoring in English, he would not need to worry about Caltech or MIT’s ranking.</p>

<p>If someone is interested in Engineering, the ranking of Yale, Harvard, and Dartmouth may not be relevant. The caliber of students each universities with good Engineering reputation reported to American Society for Engineering Education probably interested him the most:</p>

<p><a href=“http://profiles.asee.org/profiles/5566/screen/19?school_name=Massachusetts+Institute+of+Technology”>http://profiles.asee.org/profiles/5566/screen/19?school_name=Massachusetts+Institute+of+Technology&lt;/a&gt; <a href=“http://profiles.asee.org/profiles/5586/screen/19?school_name=Cornell+University”>http://profiles.asee.org/profiles/5586/screen/19?school_name=Cornell+University&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://profiles.asee.org/profiles/5694/screen/19?school_name=Stanford+University”>http://profiles.asee.org/profiles/5694/screen/19?school_name=Stanford+University&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://profiles.asee.org/profiles/5661/screen/19?school_name=The+Cooper+Union”>http://profiles.asee.org/profiles/5661/screen/19?school_name=The+Cooper+Union&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://profiles.asee.org/profiles/5692/screen/19?school_name=Princeton+University”>http://profiles.asee.org/profiles/5692/screen/19?school_name=Princeton+University&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth…etc. didn’t provide information.</p>

<p>In terms of Ivy-equivalents, Yale said these are her peers:
<a href=“http://oir.yale.edu/peers-data”>http://oir.yale.edu/peers-data&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>(Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, MIT, and Stanford)</p>

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<p>A US News web page describes its ranking ranking factors and weights:
<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2014/09/08/best-colleges-ranking-criteria-and-weights”>http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2014/09/08/best-colleges-ranking-criteria-and-weights&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;