states with the best colleges

College Search & Selection
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<p>Boston wins as best city/metro, with Harvard, MIT, Tufts, BC, BU, and Emerson, off the top of my head.</p>

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<p>I would say California over Massachusetts because it has a better state school.</p>

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<p>I'd say Connecticut due to the ratio of top schools to state population.</p>

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<p>Although it is not a state, DC holds its own :
georgetown, george washington, american u, catholic, howard. not too bad for just being a city.</p>

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<p>Overall...california has the most schools ranked in the top 50 but....CA pop is soooo biggg so it's not quite fair to compare it w/ lets just say mass.</p>

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<p>my vote's going with north dakota</p>

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<p>north dakota it is, ur vote counts for all :D</p>

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<p>I think Mass. clearly wins. Smith,Harvard, MIT, BU,BC, Williams, Mt. Hol., Bran., Amherst, Tufts, all are top schools. Cali, Penn, and NC hold their own.
UNC-Chap, Davidson,Wake Forest, Duke, etc.</p>

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<p>
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I think Mass. clearly wins. Smith,Harvard, MIT, BU,BC, Williams, Mt. Hol., Bran., Amherst, Tufts, all are top schools.

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<p>You forgot Wellesley ;]</p>

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<p>California:
Stanford
Caltech
Harvey Mudd
Pomona
Claremont McKenna
Scripps
Pepperdine
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UCSD
USCD
Deep Springs College</p>

<p>California wins. If you want to compare it to Mass. you could easily say Stanford=Harvard, Caltech=MIT, Pomona=Williams/Amherst. Then throw in the UC system. Massachusetts has a lot of overrated schools. Tufts, BU, and BC are all overrated. I don't think any of the top California schools are overrated, more like underrated. Also if you want to look at grad schools, California has an even bigger edge. Most of the UC's are all amazing for grad and so is Caltech and Stanford. I'd only say that MIT and Harvard are amazing for grad in Mass. I'm from the east coast and I love Massachusetts, but California edges it out a little and the gap will grow with time.</p>

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<p>ILLINOIS:</p>

<p>You forgot Hamburger University</p>

<p><a href="http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/career/hamburger_university.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/career/hamburger_university.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I would say Alexandre's order, but would put CT in front of IL and NC.</p>

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<p>With the beginning of the annexing of California by Illinois or vice versa in research areas, Illifornia will move to the top of anybody's rankings....</p>

<p><a href="http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/oped/ci_5160514%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/oped/ci_5160514&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>LONG LIVE ILLIFORNIA!</p>

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<p>Mass. has great privates-Harvard of IVY fame, Wellesley and Smith for womens colleges, MIT-engineering, Holy Cross-top Catholic school, great rural LAC's in Williams and Amherst but as pointed out under-funded state schools. Public school edge to California.</p>

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<p>California....hands down.<br>
Cal Tech
UC's (namely Berkeley, LA, San Diego....but all are very good)
Claremont McKenna College
Harvey Mudd College
Pomona College
Stanford University
Pepperdine
USC
University of San Diego
Santa Clara
Cal Poly</p>

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<p>
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You forgot Hamburger University</p>

<p><a href="http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/career...niversity.html%5B/url%5D%5B/quote%5D"&gt;http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/career...niversity.html

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<p>that's lovely haha</p>

<p>CA is probably a little better than MA interm of # of schools. However MA is smaller. if rank by state CA wins because of the number of schools. but east coast as a whole has more great schools than west coast.</p>

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<p>
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but east coast as a whole has more great schools than west coast.

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<p>Yeah, but the west coast has better views.</p>