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Best U.S. Universities Map Quiz

Can you name the best universities in the United States?
For 2022-23
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Quiz by geographynerd
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Last updated: September 12, 2022
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First submittedMay 14, 2021
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Rank
School
1
Princeton
2
MIT
3 (tie)
Harvard
Stanford
Yale
6
Chicago
7 (tie)
Johns Hopkins
Penn
9
Cal Tech
10 (tie)
Duke
Northwestern
Dartmouth
13 (tie)
Brown
Vanderbilt
15 (tie)
Rice
Washington (St. Louis)
17
Cornell
18 (tie)
Columbia
Notre Dame
20 (tie)
Berkeley
UCLA
22 (tie)
Carnegie Mellon
Emory
Georgetown
25 (tie)
NYU
Rank
School
25 (tie)
Michigan
USC
Virginia
29 (tie)
Florida
North Carolina
Wake Forest
32 (tie)
Tufts
UC Santa Barbara
34 (tie)
UC Irvine
UC San Diego
36 (tie)
Boston College
Rochester
38 (tie)
UC Davis
Texas
Wisconsin
41 (tie)
Boston University
Illinois
William & Mary
44 (tie)
Brandeis
Case Western
Georgia Tech
Northeastern
Tulane
49 (tie)
Ohio State
Georgia
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Level 55
Sep 4, 2022
Great idea for a quiz, but perhaps use a different source? There is no way Princeton is the "best" university in the country as a whole; Harvard and MIT (and possibly Stanford) are almost certainly "better" colleges. Despite being a very good college, it also does not make sense to put Columbia at the same rank as the aforementioned Bostonian ones. Furthermore, I don't why UWash @ St. Louis is ranked even higher than colleges like Cornell and CMU.
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Level 44
Nov 16, 2022
This is far and away the generally accepted list for the "best" schools. Individual schools' prestige might be higher. The reason columbia is so low is because they used to be #2, but it turns out they were tricking the ranking comittee by reporting false stats, so they were put this low as a "punishment" https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/09/09/columbia-usnews-college-ranking/