<ol>
<li>Caltech/Pomona/Stanford (listed alphabetically.)</li>
</ol>
<p>if ‘colleges’ includes both LACS and research universities, i’d say there’d be a three-way tie between Stanford, Caltech, and Pomona. Each is the best of their own type in the state: Stanford is the best non-specialized research university; Caltech is the best technical research university; and Pomona is the best LAC in the state.</p>
<p>Texas</p>
<ol>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>Trinity University</li>
<li>University of Texas at Austin</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
</ol>
<p>Iowa
<p>That’s a tough one. I’d probably say</p>
<ol>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>UNC</li>
</ol>
<p>But 3 could easily be either be Wake Forest, Davidson, or Elon.</p>
<p>
[quote]
In Maryland I think it’s</p>
<ol>
<li>University of Maryland College Park
<ol>
<li>United States Naval Academy</li>
<li>University of Maryland Baltimore County
[quote]
</li>
</ol></li>
</ol>
<p>I think I’d say</p>
<p>1) Johns Hopkins
2) USNA
3) UMCP</p>
<p>For DC I’d say</p>
<p>1) Georgetown
2/3) GWU/American
4/5) Howard/Catholic</p>
<p>Texas, most likely: univ Texas at Austin, rice university, and univ of Texas at Dallas is getting really good now</p>
<p>This is an interesting thread.
Oklahoma
OU
University of Tulsa
OSU</p>
<p>Pennsylvania:</p>
<ol>
<li>Swarthmore</li>
<li>UPenn </li>
<li>CMU/Haverford/Bryn Mawr </li>
</ol>
<p>Honorable Mentions: UPitt, Penn State</p>
<p>Oklahoma:
OKlahoma State University
University of Oklahoma
University of Tulsa</p>
<p>Haha they’re the only colleges in Oklahoma worth mentioning.</p>
<p>Kentucky</p>
<p>1.) Centre
2.) Transylvania
3.) University of Louisville</p>
<p>Connecticut:
Yale
Wesleyan
UCONN</p>
<p>Pennsylvania:
UPenn
Carnegie Mellon
Swarthmore</p>
<p>New York:
Columbia
Cornell
NYU</p>
<p>Massachusetts:
<p>Vermont:
Middlebury
University of Vermont
Bennington College</p>
<p>New Hampshire:
Dartmouth
University of New Hampshire
Saint Anselm College</p>
<p>Maine:
Bowdoin
Colby
Bates</p>
<p>New Jersey:
Princeton
The College of New Jersey
Rutgers </p>
<p>Maryland:
Johns Hopkins
University of Maryland
St. John’s College - Annapolis</p>
<p>Delaware:
University of Delaware
Goldey-Beacom College
Delaware State University</p>
<p>Rhode Island:
Brown
Bryant University
Providence College</p>
<p>Washington DC:
Georgetown
George Washington
American
(All fitting names haha)</p>
<p>^^^^^^^^The whole Northeast by me ^^^^^^^^</p>
<p>In Colorado – based on undergrad:</p>
<ol>
<li>US Air Force Academy</li>
<li>Colorado College
3a. CU-Boulder
3b. Colorado School of Mines</li>
</ol>
<p>IMO, not much separates these four in terms of overall quality.</p>
<p>Wisconsin:</p>
<p>UW-Madison
Marquette
Beloit/Lawrence</p>
<p>Indiana
Notre Dame
Rose Hulman
Purdue</p>
<p>Illinois</p>
<ol>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>Northwestern University</li>
<li>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</li>
</ol>
<p>Alabama</p>
<p>Alabama
Auburn
UAB or UAH</p>
<p>Michigan</p>
<p>UMich
Michigan State
Kalamazoo</p>