<p>I liked some of the criteria the Washington Monthly used to devise its rankings, but it clearly had a one-track mind and lost touch with some of the basics. All I've done is taken 7/8 of the USNews rank with 1/8 of the Washington Monthly rank. That score is on the right; * denotes a public school.</p>
<p>1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3.625
2 Yale University 4.125
3 Stanford University 4.375
4 Harvard University 5.25
5 Princeton University 6.25
6 University of Chicago 9.625
7 University of Pennsylvania 9.875
7 Duke University 9.875
9 Cornell University 11.5
10 Dartmouth College 12.25
11 Columbia University 12.375
12 Washington University in St. Louis 16.125
13 California Institute of Technology 17.125
14 Brown University 17.375
15 Northwestern University 17.5
16 Johns Hopkins University 17.625
17 Rice University 18.125
18 University of California, Berkeley* 18.625
19 University of Notre Dame 19.125
20 Vanderbilt University 21.625
21 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor* 23.25
21 University of California, Los Angeles* 23.25
23 University of Virginia* 23.5
24 Georgetown University 24
25 Carnegie Mellon University 25.125
26 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill* 27.625
27 Emory University 27.75
27 University of Southern California 27.75
29 College of William and Mary 29.5
30 University of Wisconsin, Madison* 31.125
31 University of Rochester 32.375
32 Tufts University 32.875
33 Wake Forest University 33.125
34 University of California, San Diego* 34
35 Brandeis University 36.25
36 Case Western Reserve University 36.375
37 New York University 37.75
38 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign* 37.875
39 University of Washington* 38.625
40 Georgia Institute of Technology* 41.125
41 Pennsylvania State University, University Park* 41.5
42 University of California, Davis* 42.375
43 Boston College 42.75
44 University of Texas, Austin* 43.25
45 Lehigh University 43.375
46 University of Florida* 45.75
47 University of California, Irvine* 47.5
48 University of California, Santa Barbara* 48.25
49 Tulane University 48.75
50 Texas A&M University* 53.125
51 Syracuse University 53.25
51 Ohio State University, Columbus* 53.25
53 George Washington University 54.125
54 Pepperdine University 57
55 University of Maryland, College Park* 57.125
56 Boston University 57.375
57 University of Pittsburgh* 58.125
58 Rutgers University, New Brunswick 59.125
59 University of Iowa* 63.375
60 Yeshiva University 63.5
61 Miami University, Oxford* 65.25
62 Purdue University, West Lafayette* 65.375
62 Fordham University 66.375
64 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities* 67
65 Michigan State University* 67.5
66 University of Georgia* 68.25
67 University of Miami 68.5
67 Indiana University, Bloomington* 68.5
69 University of Delaware* 70.375
70 University of Connecticut* 72.375
71 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 72.75
72 University of California, Santa Cruz* 75
73 Brigham Young University 76.75
74 Southern Methodist University 80.75
75 Stevens Institute of Technology 90.5</p>