<p>The current US News Top Nat'l Undergrad Universities include:</p>
<p>Brown
Caltech
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Duke
Emory
Harvard
Johns Hopkins
MIT
Northwestern
Notre Dame
Princeton
Rice
Stanford
UChicago
UPenn
Vanderbilt
WashU StL
Yale</p>
<p>Based on your subjective opinions, rank these schools by level of prestige.</p>
<p>To get things rolling, I guess I’ll take a stab at it:</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>UChicago</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>WUSTL</li>
<li>Emory</li>
<li>Notre Dame</li>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>Vanderbilt</li>
</ol>
<p>From a New Yorker’s perspective:</p>
<p>Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Stanford
MIT
Caltech
Columbia
Brown
UPenn
Dartmouth
Duke
UChicago
Northwestern
Cornell
Johns Hopkins
WashU StL
Notre Dame
Rice
Vanderbilt
Emory</p>
<p>Sorry if you don’t like my rankings!</p>
<p>I don’t even think Vandy and Notre Dame should be in the top 20 when it comes to prestige (top 25 maybe), but then again USNWR has a lot of problems.</p>
<p>From the perspective of most Oregonians:</p>
<p>Harvard
Stanford
MIT
Yale
Princeton
Caltech
Columbia
Dartmouth
Duke
University of Pennsylvania
Cornell
Brown
Northwestern
Notre Dame
University of Chicago
Johns Hopkins
Rice
Vanderbilt
Washington University
Emory</p>
<p>Stanford is effectively tied with Harvard, though. Note that this does not reflect my rankings, but rather those of an average Oregonian.</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
Stanford
MIT
Princeton
Columbia
Cornell
CalTech
UPenn
Johns Hopkins
Brown
Duke
U chicago
Wash U.
Northwestern
Rice
Notre Dame
Vanderbilt
Emory</p>
<p>Harvard
Princeton
MIT
Yale
Stanford
Columbia
CalTech
UPenn
Dartmouth
Cornell
UChicago
Johns Hopkins
Duke
Brown
Northwestern
Wash U.
Rice
Notre Dame
Emory
Vanderbilt</p>
<p>some outside of the Top20 colleges could easily replace Emory/Notre Dame/Vanderbilt for prestige, such as Georgetown, NYU, and Carnegie Mellon.</p>
<p>But of course, this also depends on what region of the country you are from. I think it’s safe to say someone from Indiana will view Notre Dame as much more prestigious than Georgetown.</p>
<p>Berkeley isn’t on your list, but that’s definitely one of the 20 most prestigous colleges in the country.</p>
<p>^^ Top 20 on USNWR. Berkeley is Top 30.</p>
<p>Harvard
Stanford
Princeton
MIT
Yale
Caltech
Penn
Columbia
Johns Hopkins
Cornell
Chicago
Duke
Brown
Dartmouth
Northwestern
WUSTL
Notre Dame
Rice
Vanderbilt
Emory</p>
<p>Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Stanford
MIT
Caltech
Columbia
Chicago
Dartmouth
Penn
Duke
Brown
Cornell
Northwestern
Johns Hopkins
Rice
WUSTL
Vanderbilt
Notre Dame
Emory</p>
<p>Harvard
Stanford
Yale
Princeton
MIT
Caltech
Brown
Columbia
UPenn
Dartmouth
Duke
UChicago
Northwestern
Cornell
Johns Hopkins
WashU StL
Notre Dame
Rice
Vanderbilt
Emory</p>
<p>Really. Does anyone really care about the rest of the so called top 20 after HYPSM? Why not make it the top 10 or the top 25? I laugh at these prestige threads.</p>
<p>@rjkofnovi: I care ;)</p>
<p>Could you guys also say what state or region you’re from? That helps to decipher any regional differences in prestige-perceptions.</p>
<p>Just in Louisiana</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
Stanford
Princeton
Dartmouth
Notre Dame
MIT
Vanderbilt
Duke</p>
<p>And honestly they probably wouldn’t recognize any of the others.</p>
<p>I’ve had to explain what MIT is before.</p>
<p>Your problem is that Prestige is based 100% on Ph.D. faculty. Therefore, large Research Institutions like Berkeley, Michigan and UCLA are not on your list, but in fact occupy a prestige heirarchy approximately at 1 or 2, 10, 12 in the country respectively.</p>
<p>the fact that 3 of the top 12 prestige universities are not in the USNWR top 20 should tell you that prestige is not a major factor in this publication’s list, so you shouldn’t use this list as a start point for prestige rankings.</p>
<p>From the overly ambitious CC-esque people in the Philadelphia suburbs:</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
Stanford
Princeton
MIT
Penn
Columbia
Dartmouth
Brown
Duke
Cornell
Chicago
JHU</p>
<p>WUSTL
Emory</p>
<p>With the rest drawing a blank. You might get Georgetown mentioned, actually. Probably just after Cornell.</p>
<p>Harvard
Stanford
MIT
Yale
Princeton
Caltech</p>
<p>(very big gap, an abyss really)</p>
<p>U Chicago
Columbia</p>
<p>(gap)</p>
<p>the rest of the lesser Ivies</p>
<p>(gap)</p>
<p>Duke</p>
<p>Yeah, there are the acronyms for a reason:</p>
<p>HYP -
HYPS - adding Stanford
HYMPSM - adding MIT
CHYMPS - adding Caltech</p>
<p>This order is decades old, with only Stanford breaking in over the past 25 years.</p>
<p>There is a large gap between the acronym’d, and the not.</p>