Top 10 nyc colleges

[mintgum84]

Originally Posted by NooYowkur81

I think a top 5 would be more reasonable. Since its only NYC.

1. Columbia
2. NYU
3. Fordham
4. St. Johns
5. CUNY (By CUNY I mean the better CUNY's like City, Hunter, and Baruch)

St. Johns is Catholic, private. It's a good school, but its not better than Fordham which is also Catholic and private.

Honestly IMO, no one is really touching Columbia. There is a big gap there between 1 and the rest.

That's not actually that impressive is it? Other then Columbia which is a great school and NYU which is v.good, the rest are nothing.

There is a city that has LSE, KCL, Imperial, UCL, LBS, SOAS and not to mention about 20 other decent schools.

[Mr. Zero]

Originally Posted by itshim

For engineering? Perhaps. But it's more of a specialized school. If selectivity is the criteria, then I'd say Julliard. But overall academically I'd say Columbia and then NYU by far.
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Actually, all three schools at Cooper are well-respected... I would say that the art and architecture programs are even more selective than the engineering program. As for overall selectivity, the last time I saw Juilliard release admissions data, it was about the same as Cooper (8%) which is about the same as Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Annapolis and West Point. Columbia admits about 10% of applicants and NYU admits around 38%.

[itshim]

Originally Posted by Mr. Zero

Actually, all three schools at Cooper are well-respected... I would say that the art and architecture programs are even more selective than the engineering program. As for overall selectivity, the last time I saw Juilliard release admissions data, it was about the same as Cooper (8%) which is about the same as Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Annapolis and West Point. Columbia admits about 10% of applicants and NYU admits around 38%.

All of those schools are pretty reputable for whatever they offer. Out of the NYC schools, Julliard is technically the most selective. West Point, Cornell etc aren't NYC schools, hence why they don't qualify on this list. Columbia imo is the best due to the variety of their programs being of very high quality all around, including their graduate and professional schools. Every degree program that they have is probably ranked within the top 10 nation wide, with several of them being in the top 5. NYU is a clear 2nd imo, for similar reasons but replacing it with the fact that many of their programs rank somewhere in the top 50 or top 25, with a few in the top 15 or so.