Lots of People flock to the Ivy Leagues and there are lots of other colleges out there to choose from. In your opinion, what/where are they and why?
2006-08-02 23:24:41 · 9 answers · asked by bella 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
Don't forget the Seven Sisters! Well, technically they are down to six now, since Radcliffe merged with Harvard.
Barnard
Bryn Mawr
Mount Holyoke
Smith
Wellesley
Vassar
These colleges consistently rank in the top 20 colleges nationwide. They are highly selective, but support students with financial need quite well.
Other top liberal arts colleges have been mentioned already, but I'll mention them here. These schools are universally recognized for outstanding quality of education, superb professors with international recognition, great campus climate, committment to diversity, and active alumni/ae networks.
Amherst
Barnard
Bates
Bowdoin
Bucknell
Bryn Mawr
Carleton
Claremont McKenna
Colby
Colgate
Davidson
Dickinson
Grinnell
Hamilton
Harvey Mudd
Haverford
Kenyon
Macalester
Middlebury
Mount Holyoke
Oberlin
Pomona
Smith
Swarthmore
Trinity
Washington and Lee
Wellesley
Wesleyan
Williams
Vassar
2006-08-03 13:53:21 · answer #1 · answered by X 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well there are schools like Stanford and Duke that are of Ivy League quality but simply not in the official Ivy League as it is really just a northeastern athletic league. Other excellent schools and why people go to them:
Stanford - people prefer warm weather
Duke - people prefer the southeast US or a bigger sports culture on campus
MIT - It's MIT!
UChicago - probably more rigorous undegraduate eduation than any Ivy
Amherst/Williams - some people prefer the small intimate liberal arts college setting as opposed to the big impersonal research university setting
Georgetown - In DC, the heart of politics. Some people want to be in the center of it all.
Johns Hopkins - for great IR and premed
There are also state schools of exceptional quality like
-Berkeley
-UCLA
-UWisconsin
-Rice
-UVA
-UMichigan
2006-08-02 23:34:43 · answer #2 · answered by John K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some universities to consider:
Baylor University - Waco, Texas
Rice University - Houston, Texas
Texas Christian University - Forth Worth, Texas
Harvard University - Boston, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Yale University - New Haven, Connecticut
University of Rochester - Rochester, New York
University of Notre Dame - Notre Dame, Indiana
The George Washington University - Washington, D.C.
Stanford University - Stanford, California
Princeton University - Princeton, New Jersey
Northwestern University - Evanston, Illinois
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, Massachusetts
Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore, Maryland
Georgetown University - Washington, D.C.
Duke University - Durham, North Carolina
DePaul University - Chicago, Illinois
Cornell University - Ithaca, New York
Columbia University - New York, New York
Brigham Young University - Provo, Utah
Boston College - Boston, Massachusetts
California Institute of Technology - Pasadena, California
John Jay College of Criminal Justice - New York, New York
Why do private schools fare better than publics in the U.S. Newsrankings?
Overall, private colleges and universities do better on several measures in our ranking model, including student selectivity, graduation and retention rates, and class size. Because of their mission to serve students in their state, publics generally don't score as high on selectivity as private colleges that have more stringent admissions standards. In addition, public colleges and universities tend to have lower graduation and retention rates and larger classes. Finally, the public schools often lack the financial resources of the better-endowed private universities.U.S. News does publish separate rankings of the top public schools in each category.
2006-08-03 02:29:40 · answer #3 · answered by Expert Answers™ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
George Washington University
Georetown University
Vanderbilt University
2006-08-02 23:31:36 · answer #4 · answered by First Lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Purdue University. You get an Ivy League education for a fraction of the cost.
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2016-10-01 10:22:07 · answer #6 · answered by emanus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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