Best Universities in USA

Can anyone share me the best Universities in USA?

 

Harvard, there is no substitute

 

MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology has ranked higher than Harvard, and in Asia is the American school to aim for first.

 

The Stanford of the east!

 

Best for what?

Football? The University of Alabama.

Basketball? Villanova or UNC-Chapel Hill.

Academics? That's an extremely subjective question.

 

I don't believe that there is any one correct answer to that question.

An answer would depend on what level of study one is looking for. Many of America's best undergraduate programs are at small 'liberal arts' colleges that don't even offer graduate degrees. So don't mistake research reputation with quality of undergraduate instruction.

On the graduate level particularly, an answer will depend on what subject you want to study. There's no single university that offers the best program in every subject. At the doctoral level, there's the question of research specialities. A well regarded department that's otherwise very strong might be weak in a particular research area of interest to you.

For doctoral programs, I would suggest following the literature in your subject. (You should be doing that anyway.) Pay attention to who is writing the papers that impress you and whose ideas people seem to always be discussing. The departments where those people teach might be the places where you want to apply. At the doctoral level, prospective employers are less impressed by the name of the university you graduated from than they are with who you studied with.

On the undergraduate level, a good rule of thumb is how selective a school or program is. The more selective ones are generally perceived as being the better ones. That might be more important for a student studying on campus than for a distance learning student though.

 

There are lots of ranking systems around and you could waste an afternoon debating which one is best. The Top 10 never changes much, #1 switches spots with #2, etc. and I'm sure there are people who celebrate a bit if their school jumps up the list a bit, especially if they are administrators. Maybe it's "sour grapes" on my part because my little school will never break into the Top 100 (or even the Top 200) but I don't think it matters too much. If you're heartbroken because you have to go to Princeton because you didn't get into Harvard then I think you're paying attention to the wrong things in life. In any case, here's a new listing"

The Top U.S. Colleges - WSJ

 

Depends on what field one wants to study. If I wanted an engineering degree then it would be MIT hands down. But I do not wish to study engineering. I wish to study history. For history, it's Harvard hands down. Unless your field is history of science, in which case it would be MIT hands down.

 

Hello, Yup, Absolutely Stanford is the Best choice..

 

Yeah but you know what? If someone was sharp enough to get into Stanford then they're also sharp enough that they don't need this forum to find a Top 100 list on the interwebs.

 

Washington State University, they have the best looking alumni. Good cheese too.

 

This is spot on, particularly the bit regarding doctoral-level study. In my case, I was able to go to my first choice university. It wasn't as highly ranked as some others I applied to, but it was the one that offered the opportunity to conduct interdisciplinary study under two individuals whose expertise was just what I needed, which made all the difference in what I was able to do with my education.

It's interesting to me that approaching higher education from a 'principled' perspective as outlined by Heirophant above frequently produces that same result as someone operating from a 'prestige' perspective. In other words, going about it by seeking the best supervision for your studies may land you at Harvard alongside someone who sought Harvard simply because they wanted the elite pedigree. Inherently elitist systems (like higher ed, where better faculty tend to gravitate 'upwards' to the prestige unis, for the pay increase if nothing else) are difficult to describe honestly without sounding as if one has also bought into the desire for or resentment of elitism.

 

A lot also depends on where you're from and what opportunities are available to you where you are from in relation to moving someplace else. For example, a student growing up in Virginia who is able to gain admittance to UVA while only having to pay in-state tuition may have a better opinion of their university experience and outcomes than if they had gone to an institution that is ranked slightly higher, but ended up costing 2-3 times as much over the course of their college career. That being said, it may be worth differentiating between top public and privates in this discussion.

 

It can also work in reverse. If you're able to get into Harvard and your family income is <65K then you can go for free. That same person would be paying full tuition at UMass.

 

Thanks for sharing your views guys,I have acquired 312..

 

312 schools? That is quite a list. Good luck with that...

 

312 is the area code for Chicago so maybe he's taken over the city. It's also the name of a beer and so maybe he's decided to get drunk and forget the whole thing. It's also the number of people in the Baseball Hall of Fame and so maybe someone should call Springfield, you know, just in case. It's also the FEMA code for protecting your house from flooding. It's also . . .

:hijacked:

 

You are just all agog over the Cubs win last night aren't you? LOL

 

top universities in New York include the musical University of Rochester (ranked 194th), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (joint 310th), the Jewish Yeshiva University (joint 330th) Syracuse University (551-600), New School University (601-650), Clarkson University (601-650) and Fordham University (701+).