Which do you think are the ten best colleges and universities in the world?

[VarlosZ]

Probably not exactly what the OP had in mind, but Julliard is apparently the toughest American school to get into, accepting only 8% of applicants.

[GrahamWellington]

I should have thought to mention in my first post that one can go to collegereviews.com and check out what students have to say about the shools they’re attending. But I would guess that some of the comments are probably written by people pretending they’re going there just so they can trash them.

[liberty3701]

@mhendo

I’m a big fan of small, liberal-arts colleges. i think that they provide a fantastic education, and the faculty members are often excellent teachers and mentors.

But to assert, as Phlosphr has, that a liberal arts college like Bowdoin, with an enrolment of less than 2000 students and essentially no graduate and post-doctoral research, belongs in the top 10 “Based on well rounded academia and research,” is patently ridiculous.

Bowdoin might offer the best undergraduate education in the known world, but it’s not a research university, and really can’t be compared at all with institutions like Harvard, MIT, Oxford, Cal-Berkeley, etc.

That’s not what I was saying at all. Pomona College is a great liberal arts school, as good as Bowdoin. Just curious that he chose Bowdoin over Pomona. And I think small schools can give a lot that those larger institutions can’t.

[uglybeech]

@Phlosphr

Based on well rounded academia and research etc…etc… I’d say:

Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Brown
Dartmouth
Stanford
Bowdoin
MIT
CIT
Oxford

Bowdoin, but no Williams or Amherst?

[mhendo]

@liberty3701

That’s not what I was saying at all. Pomona College is a great liberal arts school, as good as Bowdoin. Just curious that he chose Bowdoin over Pomona. And I think small schools can give a lot that those larger institutions can’t.

Which is exactly the point i made.

I was merely noting that if you are going to rank colleges on a national or global scale by teaching and research, there’s really no way that small liberal arts colleges can compete in the latter category.

[aktep]

1. USC
2. Texas
3. Virginia Tech
4. Florida State
5. Georgia
6. Ohio State
7. Alabama
8. Tennessee
9. Miami
10. California