WSJ/THS Rank USC at #15

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Southern California
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-biggest-surprises-in-college-rankings-1475030103

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These are very interesting rankings. I wonder how they’ll be received as the word gets out. I think that these days, the Wall Street Journal is a more reputable publication than US News (which I’ve heard pretty much only still exists because of its ranking issue).

The online comments associated the Wall Street Journal article include a lot of Ivy League types trading jabs at each other. Haven’t seen anyone post anything about USC in the comments, but there is a parallel article in the WSJ that mentions how USC got a big boost, compared to the US News rankings. The Journal’s rankings put liberal arts colleges in the same set as research universities, US News separates them into a different list altogether.

Here are the research schools in the Wall Street Journal’s top-25, with their most recent US News ranking in parentheses:

  1. Stanford (5)
  2. MIT (7)
  3. Columbia (5)
  4. Penn (8)
  5. Yale (3)
  6. Harvard (2)
  7. Duke (8)
  8. Princeton (1)
  9. Cornell (15)
  10. Caltech (12)
  11. Hopkins (10)
  12. Wash. U. (19)
  13. Chicago (3)
  14. Northwestern (12)
  15. USC (23)
  16. Dartmouth (11)
  17. Emory (20)
  18. Rice (15)
  19. Carnegie Mellon (24)
  20. Brown (14)
  21. Vanderbilt (15)
  22. Michigan (27)
  23. Notre Dame (15)
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@s0meUSCkid95 Thanks for listing it out. Very interesting. And with USC climbing to #15 via WSJ, their #10 ranking at Niche does not seem so popularity driven. And I certainly agree with your WSJ / USNews comparison.

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And here is USC News’ own article about the ranking…

http://news.usc.edu/108766/usc-ranked-no-15-nationally-in-new-comprehensive-wall-street-journal-survey/

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If any of you are curious, here are the top 100 universities (Research and LAC):

1 Stanford University

2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

3 Columbia University

4 University of Pennsylvania

5 Yale University

6 Harvard University

7 Duke University

8 Princeton University

9 Cornell University

10 California Institute of Technology

11 Johns Hopkins University

11 Washington University in St Louis

13 University of Chicago

13 Northwestern University

15 University of Southern California

16 Dartmouth College

17 Emory University

18 Rice University

19 Carnegie Mellon University

20 Brown University

21 Vanderbilt University

22 Williams College

23 Amherst College

24 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

25 University of Notre Dame

26 University of California, Los Angeles

27 Tufts University

28 Pomona College

29 Georgetown University

30 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

30 Wellesley College

32 Case Western Reserve University

33 New York University

34 Swarthmore College

35 Smith College

36 Middlebury College

37 University of California, Berkeley

37 Carleton College

37 Haverford College

37 University of Miami

37 Purdue University West Lafayette

42 Boston University

43 University of California, Davis

44 Bowdoin College

45 Wesleyan University

46 Claremont McKenna College

47 Bryn Mawr College

48 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

49 University of California, San Diego

50 Lehigh University

51 Georgia Institute of Technology

51 University of Texas at Austin

53 Bucknell University

54 Colgate University

54 Wake Forest University

56 University of Florida

56 University of Virginia

58 University of Rochester

59 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh campus

60 Hamilton College

61 Oberlin College

62 Boston College

62 Michigan State University

64 Trinity College

65 Colby College

66 George Washington University

66 Macalester College

66 University of Wisconsin-Madison

69 Worcester Polytechnic Institute

70 Ohio State University

71 Northeastern University

72 Lafayette College

72 Trinity University

74 Tulane University

74 Vassar College

76 Davidson College

77 Grinnell College

77 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

79 Barnard College

79 Texas A&M University-College Station

81 Drexel University

82 Denison University

83 Occidental College

83 University of Richmond

85 Southern Methodist University

86 Howard University

87 College of the Holy Cross

88 Brandeis University

89 University of Denver

90 DePauw University

91 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

92 William & Mary

93 Kenyon College

94 Bentley University

95 Connecticut College

95 Pennsylvania State University

95 Scripps College

98 Stevens Institute of Technology

99 Franklin & Marshall College

99 University of Maryland, College Park