top academic sport colleges

College Search & Selection
21

<p>Notre Dame used to be good at football, but now it is a bit of a joke. They haven’t won a national championship in either football or basketball in decades. UCLA is the same.</p>

<p>The state schools usually have the best sports programs, but their academics are questionable. Michigan and Cal are good at both sports and academics. </p>

<p>Boston College has an amazing hockey team, but its football and basketball programs aren’t as good as they were a couple years ago.</p>

<p>Duke is great at basketball and academically, but not football. UNC is probably better at football, but not as good academically. Obviously they are both great at basketball most years.</p>

<p>Stanford is good all around.</p>

<p>Vandy and Northwestern are bad at sports but great academically.</p>

<p>So it is tough. The best sports schools are not great academically (see UF; Ohio State).</p>

22

<p>UConn has one or two national championships in basketball in the past few decades, not anything to write home about. It also isn’t very good academically.</p>

23

<p>Another vote for UT-Austin. Sports and academics top notch. And how many schools have their own ESPN network? :)</p>

24

<p>Got to go with the Wisconsin Badgers. Top tri-fecta-football, basketball and hockey.</p>

25

<p>All I can say, is UVA…</p>

26

<p>LOL everyone here is picking their schools.</p>

<p>

That’s isn’t considered the trifecta usually. Baseball and Lacrosse are just as popular as hockey depending on what part of the country you’re from.</p>

<p>Wisconsin is a good sports school but it has never won a football or basketball championship before. That slightly reduces its credibility as the best sports school.</p>

27

<p>It’s tempting to say Michigan, but I’ll go with UCLA, Texas, Notre Dame, and USC.</p>

28

<p>As previously shown, the top ten for combined academics and sports would be:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/11984356-post14.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/11984356-post14.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>1 Stanford 1 5 3</p>

<p>2 Duke 10 9 10</p>

<p>3 Virginia 3 25 14
4 UCLA 4 25 15
5 UC Berkeley 9 22 16
6 Princeton 32 2 17
7 USC 13 23 18
8 North Carolina 7 30 19</p>

<p>9 Notre Dame 27 19 23
10 Michigan 25 29 27</p>

29

<p>^ except schools like Michigan and Texas have much stronger faculty and academic departments than schools like UVA, UNC, USC, and Notre Dame (per actual academic measures, not US News undergrad rankings) so they should be ranked above them considering sports are also very strong, if not stronger.</p>

30

<p>Would certainly disagree about informative’s post on UCONN: </p>

<p>Men’s Basketball Championships: 1999, 2004
Womens’ Basketball Championships: 1995, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010 </p>

<p>Only School to have Dual Championships in Basketball, 2004. </p>

<p>Women’s Basketball team holds record for 90 Consecutive wins, beating John Wooden’s record. </p>

<p>Men’s Soccer Championship: 1948, 1981, 2000
Women’s Field Hockey: Final Four-9 times, Champions in 1981 & 1985 </p>

<p>UCONN’s football team has been in several bowl games during the past 5 years. </p>

<p>USNWR’s #27 for national public universities as posted above? That is not exactly shabby either. </p>

<p>As usual informative’s posts are “un-informed”.</p>

31

<p>Strongly recommend just ignoring “Informative” and his posts and maybe he will go away. Much of what he spreads is disinformation. Ironic isn’t it?</p>

32

<p>Actually Wisconsin won an NCAA basketball title. And a pile of NCAA hockey titles. And several Rose Bowls and other bowls. Winning it all once is hardly a better record than competing at a high level every year. Nearly every school that wins a football NC has FAR more local talent to draw from–CA, TX, FL, Ohio. Lacrosse is much more a local sport than hockey which actually has a major pro league. College baseball is marginal but does have a pro league. But many of the best players skip college or are from overseas and are lucky to have completed high school.</p>

<p>SI and ESPN have both noticed</p>

<p><a href=“http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2003/sioncampus/09/10/top_ten0916/index.html[/url]”>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2003/sioncampus/09/10/top_ten0916/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://www.uwtke.com/bestcollegesportstown.php[/url]”>http://www.uwtke.com/bestcollegesportstown.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

33

<p>Article on top college hockey rinks:</p>

<p>[College</a> Hockey Arenas Are the Cathedrals of Sports - WSJ.com](<a href=“College Hockey Arenas Are the Cathedrals of Sports - WSJ”>College Hockey Arenas Are the Cathedrals of Sports - WSJ)</p>

34

<p>

</p>

<p>John Wooden never held the record for most consecutive wins in Women’s basketball…</p>

35

<p>I would say</p>

<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Michigan</li>
<li>Notre Dame</li>
<li>USC</li>
</ol>

36

<p>What aajjc said.</p>

37

<p>When people consider sports, do they care about…</p>

<ol>
<li>only football and basketball?</li>
<li>only football, basketball, baseball, hockey, and lacrosse?</li>
<li>every sport (all around athletic excellence)</li>
</ol>

<p>If (1) is the criterion, then Florida would have to be the best school. If (2) is the criterion, then it’s a wash and one can choose between Texas (football and baseball), Duke (basketball and lacrosse), or Michigan (football and hockey). If (3) is the criterion, then it’s Stanford hands down.</p>

38

<p>How about all around great sports but still graduates the most athletes in four years? Hands down - Notre Dame.</p>

39

<p>

This seems good.</p>

40

<p>florida is not top 20 academically not even top 50. good in academics and good in sports i think academic would have to be ranked top 25-30 range overall</p>