Football academics. 4 of the top 20 academic schools (as rated by U.S. News and World Report) played bowl games this year. That sounds like a pretty poor showing for the athlete/scholars, but when you consider that the 8 Ivy League Schools play no post-season games and that another 6 of the top 20 either don't have football teams or do not have BCS Bowl Category teams (MIT, Cal Tech, Chicago, Washington of St. Louis, Johns Hopkins and Emory. Please correct me if I'm wrong about any of these, as I know little about Emory or Johns Hopkins), it is really 4 out of 6 that made it.
Anyway, 3 of those bowl teams, Rice (#17), Vanderbilt (#18 tie) and Notre Dame #18 tie), won their games and Northwestern (#12) played a competitive, interesting game. California, rated #21 and the top public school, also won, but top 20 doesn't include #21. <G>
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Schools in the National Universities category, such as Yale and UCLA, offer a full range of undergraduate majors, master's, and doctoral degrees. These colleges also are committed to producing groundbreaking research.
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1 Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Score 100 Tier 1
Costs:
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $36,173 2007 Total enrollment:
19.257 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate:
9.2 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
2 Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Score 99 Tier 1
Costs:
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $34,290 2007 Total enrollment:
7.334 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate:
9.7 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
3 Yale University
New Haven, CT
Score 98 Tier 1
Costs:
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $35,300 2007 Total enrollment:
11.454 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate:
9.9 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Score 94 Tier 1
Costs:
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $36,390 2007 Total enrollment:
10.220 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate:
12.5 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
4 Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Score 94 Tier 1
Costs:
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $36,030 2007 Total enrollment:
19.782 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate:
10.3 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
6 California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
Score 93 Tier 1
Costs:
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $34,437 2007 Total enrollment:
2.133 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate:
16.9 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
6 University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Score 93 Tier 1
Costs:
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,526 2007 Total enrollment:
18.916 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate:
16.0 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
8 Columbia University
New York, NY
Score 90 Tier 1
Costs:
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $39,326 2007 Total enrollment:
22.655 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate:
10.6 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
8 Duke University
Durham, NC
Score 90 Tier 1
Costs:
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,525 2007 Total enrollment:
13.598 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate:
23.0 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
8 University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Score 90 Tier 1
Costs:
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,632 2007 Total enrollment:
12.336 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate:
34.7 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
11 Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
Score 89 Tier 1
Costs:
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $36,915 2007 Total enrollment:
5.849 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate:
15.3 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
12 Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Score 87 Tier 1
Costs:
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,125 2007 Total enrollment:
18.028 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate:
26.8 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
12 Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
Score 87 Tier 1
Costs:
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,248 2007 Total enrollment:
13.382 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate:
17.3 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
14 Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Score 86 Tier 1
Costs:
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $36,504 2007 Total enrollment:
19.800 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate:
21.4 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
15 Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
Score 85 Tier 1
Costs:
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,700 2007 Total enrollment:
19.737 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate:
24.3 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
16 Brown University
Providence, RI
Score 84 Tier 1
Costs:
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,718 2007 Total enrollment:
8.167 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate:
14.0 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
17 Rice University
Houston, TX
Score 80 Tier 1
Costs:
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $28,996 2007 Total enrollment:
5.243 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate:
25.1 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
18 Emory University
Atlanta, GA
Score 79 Tier 1
Costs:
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $36,336 2007 Total enrollment:
12.570 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate:
27.2 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
18 University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
Score 79 Tier 1
Costs:
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $36,847 2007 Total enrollment:
11.733 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate:
24.5 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
18 Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
Score 79 Tier 1
Costs:
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,005 2007 Total enrollment:
11.847 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate:
32.8 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
21 University of California--Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Score 77 Tier 1
Costs:
2008-2009 In-state: $8,932; Out-of-state: $29,540 2007 Total enrollment:
34.953 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate:
23.3 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
22 Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
Score 75 Tier 1
Costs:
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $38,844 2007 Total enrollment:
10.493 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate:
28.0 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
23 Georgetown University
Washington, DC
Score 74 Tier 1
Costs:
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $38,122 2007 Total enrollment:
14.826 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate:
20.8 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
23 University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Score 74 Tier 1
Costs:
2008-2009 In-state: $9,300; Out-of-state: $29,600 2007 Total enrollment:
24.257 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate:
35.2 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
25 University of California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Score 73 Tier 1
Costs:
2007-2008 In-state: $7,034; Out-of-state: $26,102 2007 Total enrollment:
38.896 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate:
23.6 %
What does this prove? Nothing. It is just trivia that interests me.
I also wonder why football is the black sheep of the smart factories? I know that The Ivy League plays national level basketball and Penn made the Final Four when I was at grad school there. Are basketball players smarter than football players? Not the ones I know. <VBG> |
