Besides the Ivy Legues, what are the best Private colleges to go to in the United States?

Lots of People flock to the Ivy Leagues and there are lots of other colleges out there to choose from. In your opinion, what/where are they and why?

Besides the Ivy Legues, what are the best Private colleges to go to in the United States?
Don't forget the Seven Sisters! Well, technically they are down to six now, since Radcliffe merged with Harvard.



Barnard

Bryn Mawr

Mount Holyoke

Smith

Wellesley

Vassar



These colleges consistently rank in the top 20 colleges nationwide. They are highly selective, but support students with financial need quite well.



Other top liberal arts colleges have been mentioned already, but I'll mention them here. These schools are universally recognized for outstanding quality of education, superb professors with international recognition, great campus climate, committment to diversity, and active alumni/ae networks.



Amherst

Barnard

Bates

Bowdoin

Bucknell

Bryn Mawr

Carleton

Claremont McKenna

Colby

Colgate

Davidson

Dickinson

Grinnell

Hamilton

Harvey Mudd

Haverford

Kenyon

Macalester

Middlebury

Mount Holyoke

Oberlin

Pomona

Smith

Swarthmore

Trinity

Washington and Lee

Wellesley

Wesleyan

Williams

Vassar
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Reply:Well there are schools like Stanford and Duke that are of Ivy League quality but simply not in the official Ivy League as it is really just a northeastern athletic league. Other excellent schools and why people go to them:



Stanford - people prefer warm weather

Duke - people prefer the southeast US or a bigger sports culture on campus

MIT - It's MIT!

UChicago - probably more rigorous undegraduate eduation than any Ivy

Amherst/Williams - some people prefer the small intimate liberal arts college setting as opposed to the big impersonal research university setting

Georgetown - In DC, the heart of politics. Some people want to be in the center of it all.

Johns Hopkins - for great IR and premed



There are also state schools of exceptional quality like



-Berkeley

-UCLA

-UWisconsin

-Rice

-UVA

-UMichigan
Reply:M.I.T. has my heart: it's great for folks with a flair for the technical.
Reply:Purdue University. You get an Ivy League education for a fraction of the cost.
Reply:if you're into aeronautics, go to Embry-Riddle University. there are 2 campuses, one in Daytona Beach, Florida (that's the main one), the other in Prescott, Arizona.



I've wanted to go there for a while, they teach a lot of flight training, engineering, etc.
Reply:Some universities to consider:

Baylor University - Waco, Texas

Rice University - Houston, Texas

Texas Christian University - Forth Worth, Texas

Harvard University - Boston, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Yale University - New Haven, Connecticut

University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

University of Notre Dame - Notre Dame, Indiana

The George Washington University - Washington, D.C.

Stanford University - Stanford, California

Princeton University - Princeton, New Jersey

Northwestern University - Evanston, Illinois

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, Massachusetts

Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore, Maryland

Georgetown University - Washington, D.C.

Duke University - Durham, North Carolina

DePaul University - Chicago, Illinois

Cornell University - Ithaca, New York

Columbia University - New York, New York

Brigham Young University - Provo, Utah

Boston College - Boston, Massachusetts

California Institute of Technology - Pasadena, California

John Jay College of Criminal Justice - New York, New York



Why do private schools fare better than publics in the U.S. Newsrankings?

Overall, private colleges and universities do better on several measures in our ranking model, including student selectivity, graduation and retention rates, and class size. Because of their mission to serve students in their state, publics generally don't score as high on selectivity as private colleges that have more stringent admissions standards. In addition, public colleges and universities tend to have lower graduation and retention rates and larger classes. Finally, the public schools often lack the financial resources of the better-endowed private universities.U.S. News does publish separate rankings of the top public schools in each category.
Reply:George Washington University

Georetown University

Vanderbilt University