Top 10 colleges academically and in reputation in your state? (private schools, live)

[Traveler87]

Originally Posted by costello_musicman

Here's my Ohio rankings:

1) Case Western Reserve University
2) The Ohio State University
3) Oberlin College
4) Kenyon College
5) University of Cincinnati
6) Xavier University
7) Denison College
8) Miami University of Ohio
9) College of Wooster
10) John Carroll University



Side shout outs: Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland Institute of Art

University of Dayton, too.

[Traveler87]

Originally Posted by BigLake

Michigan, lets do 5. Like Ohio, not an educational powerhouse of top-tier schools, but Michigan is one of the best universities in the world, so it does some lifting.

1.) Michigan
2.) Kalamazoo
3.) Michigan Tech
4.) Michigan State
5.) Albion

Sounds like you're from Michigan, no? And outside of UofM and MSU, there is really nothing in Michigan. Wayne State isn't bad if you like sitting in a decent area surrounded by a whole lot of nothing. Too bad UofM can't hold onto its graduates and keep them in state. We all know they could use em.

[Traveler87]

Indiana: Chalk full of some of the nation's finest...

Notre Dame
Purdue
Indiana University (Go Hoosiers!)
Butler University

[ram2]

Originally Posted by Traveler87

Sounds like you're from Michigan, no? And outside of UofM and MSU, there is really nothing in Michigan. Wayne State isn't bad if you like sitting in a decent area surrounded by a whole lot of nothing. Too bad UofM can't hold onto its graduates and keep them in state. We all know they could use em.

Michigan Tech tramples Ohio State in engineering.

You should try sitting in Bowling Green - now there's a place surrounded by a whole lot of nothing ! After further thought, you could say the same about Columbus, Ohio.

[knke0204]

Minnesota, I'll do 5 for Public and Private, by enrollment.

Public:
- University of Minnesota -Twin Cities
- St. Cloud State University
- Minnesota State University - Mankato
- University of Minnesota - Duluth
- Winona State University

Private: (not by enrollment)
- University of St. Thomas
- Hamline University
- Bethel Unversity
- St. Olaf College
- College of St. Benedict, St. John's University

[po-boy]

1. University of Virginia
2. Washington & Lee
3. William & Mary
4. U of Richmond
5. Virginia Tech
6. George Mason
7. Hampden-Sydney
8. VMI
9. JMU
10. Sweetbriar

[ram2]

Originally Posted by Traveler87

University of Dayton, too.

Why don't you include CSU ?

[Harrier]

California

1. Stanford
2. USC
3. UC Berkely
4. UCLA
5. Cal Tech
6. Cal Poly Pomona
7. UC Davis
8. UC Irvine
9. UC San Diego
10. Pepperdine

I was tempted to put one of the Claremont Colleges at #10(such as Harvey-Mudd) but the OP asked for academics and reputation - while H-M has both it is not widely known as other schools(like Pepperdine).

[BigLake]

Originally Posted by Traveler87

Sounds like you're from Michigan, no? And outside of UofM and MSU, there is really nothing in Michigan. Wayne State isn't bad if you like sitting in a decent area surrounded by a whole lot of nothing. Too bad UofM can't hold onto its graduates and keep them in state. We all know they could use em.

Unfortunately, pretty much agree with this.

[thePR]

Originally Posted by ChikidII

Illinois:
1. University of Chicago
2. Northwestern University
3. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4. DePaul University
5. Loyola University
6. Illinois Institute of Technology
7. University of Illinois at Chicago
8. Illinois State University
9. Nothern Illinois University
10. Southern Illinois University

Mine would be a little different:

1. Chicago
2. Northwestern
3. Illinois
4. Depaul
5. Loyola
6. IIT
7. Illinois State
8. UIC
9. Illinois Wesleyan
10. Southern Illinois