Afterfourtries, HarvardreturnedtothetoprankingofAmericanuniversitiesbyInternetMediaBuzz, edgingoutastrongchallengebyNorthwestern. TheUniversityofCalifornia, Berkeley, Columbia, Caltech, andMIT – allfinishingwithin 1% ofeachother – tooktheNo. 3 throughNo. 6 positions. StanfordreturnedtotheTopTenatNo. 7, followedbytheever-strongChicago, theUniversityofTexas, andCornell.
FollowingwereMichigan, theUniversityofWashington, PennState, Yale, andWisconsin. RoundingouttheTopTwentywerePrinceton, Penn, UCLA, CalDavis, andGeorgiaTech.
“TheTrendTopperMediaBuzzRankingsmeasureaninstitution’sperceivedvalueusingthesamemethodologiesusedtocompareanyotherproductsofvalue, suchasBMWvs. Mercedes, saidPaulJJPayack, thepresidentofGlobalLanguageMonitor. “GLM’sTrendTopperMediaBuzzRankingsremovesallbiasinherentineachoftheotherpublishedrankings, sincetheyactuallyreflectwhatisbeingsaidandstatedonthebillionsofwebpagesthatwemeasure.
InaremarkabledemonstrationofthegrowinginfluenceofthePublicIvies, somefourteenoftheTopThirtyschoolsarepublicinstitutions, andnowincludeeightBigTenschools, sixfromtheIvyLeague (BrownandDartmouthweretheexceptions), threeTechnologicalInstitutes – andfourfromCalifornia’sfabledUniversitysystem.
Overall, theUniversityofCaliforniasystem, asawholecontinuestodwarfallotheracademicassociations, leaguesandconferences. Thisisafinetributetoasystemthathashadtoendureacontinuedseriesofbudgetcutsandcutbacks.
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