Originally posted by Dhavlos
Chicago is not an Ivy! Ivy League is technically an athletic conference consisting of eight schools (Harvard, Yale, Brown, Cornell, U.Penn, Columbia, Dartmouth and Princeton). But with time, it has developed into a loose term to describe the top schools in the States.
Below is a recently released rankings of the top US universities by US News Report. These rankings are very controversial, but still important enough to make national news:
As you can see, Chicago always makes the top 10!
BEST UNIVERSITIES
1. Princeton University(NJ)
2. Harvard University(MA)
3. Yale University(CT)
4. California Institute of Technology
4. Stanford University(CA)
4. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
7. University of Pennsylvania
8. Duke University(NC)
9. Columbia University(NY)
9. University of Chicago
9. Dartmouth College(NH)
BEST BUSINESS SCHOOLS
1. Harvard University (MA)
2. Stanford University (CA)
3. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
5. Northwestern University (Kellogg) (IL)
6. Columbia University (NY)
6. University of Chicago
8. University of California – Berkeley (Haas)
9. Dartmouth College (Tuck) (NH)
10. University of Michigan Ann Arbor
BEST LAW SCHOOLS
1. Yale University (CT)
2. Harvard University (MA)
3. Stanford University (CA)
4. Columbia University (NY)
5. New York University
6. University of Chicago
7. University of Pennsylvania
8. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
8. University of Virginia
10. Northwestern University (IL)
BEST ECONOMICS PH.D PROGRAMS
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1. University of Chicago
3. Harvard University (MA)
3. Princeton University (NJ)
3. Stanford University (CA)
3. University of California Berkeley
7. Yale University (CT)
8. Northwestern University (IL)
9. University of Pennsylvania
10. University of California San Diego
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