Top 20 Colleges

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RML: Hmm, I figured you would point to prestige/“brand name”… but you must concede that a large portion of Cal’s prestige is derived from its grad programs. How much, who knows? One can’t really quantify that.

Alam1: Most people outside of CC aren’t aware of what you’re talking about. </p>

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In that case, then why is Dartmouth up there? Also, if you wanna go by that, schools like NYU, UCLA, Wisconsin, and Texas would trump Brown, Rice, ND, Emory, Dartmouth and Vanderbilt.

Confusedboy: I said, a ranking for undergraduate, and Dartmouth is quite prestigious for undergraduate. In fact, on average, Darmouth graduates enjoy the highest salary scale according to payscale.com, and that’s one of the reasons for ranking Dartmouth very highly.</p>