<p>hi. i’m new to these forums. i’m from indiana university (bloomington) and doing a research on top schools of the world (basically collecting info and ranking them) for a project. till now- this is my list and ranking. (these include LACs and full time colleges). also- these rankings are solely based on name recognition, employer reviews, faculty fame, overall prestige and on a slightly peculiar factor- the colleges people turn down to go to X college. so, if X college ranks high- and someone who did my survey rejected X for Y, it gives Y points in the rankings. so i’m arranging them according to prestige.</p>
<p>my list so far (top 30) is:</p>
<li> Harvard University (USA)</li>
<li> Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)</li>
<li> Princeton University (USA)</li>
<li> University of Oxford (UK)</li>
<li> Stanford University (USA)</li>
<li> University of California, Berkeley (USA)</li>
<li> University of Cambridge (UK)</li>
<li> Yale University (USA)</li>
<li> University of California, Los Angeles (USA)</li>
<li>ETH Zurich (Switzerland)</li>
<li>Indian Institute of Technology (India)</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania (USA)</li>
<li>London School of Economics (UK)</li>
<li>Amherst College (LAC) (USA)</li>
<li>Williams College (LAC) (USA)</li>
<li>University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)</li>
<li>Duke University (USA)</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon University (USA)</li>
<li>Columbia University (USA)</li>
<li>National University of Singapore (Singapore)</li>
<li>University of Chicago (USA)</li>
<li>Ecole Normale Sup</li>
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