Highest Academic Rigor Ranking
by: mcK
got off the McKinsey methodology for insiders
1) California Inst of Technology
2) Princeton University
3) Massachusetts Inst of Technology
4) University of Chicago
5) Yale University
6) Stanford University
7) University of Pennsylvania
8) Columbia University
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9) Carnegie Mellon University
10) Johns Hopkins University
11) Georgia Inst of Technology
12) Harvey Mudd College
13) Duke University
14) Rice University
15) Swarthmore College
16) Harvard University
17) Brown University
18) Reed College
19) Northwestern University
20) Williams College
21) Cornell University
22) University of California, Berkeley
23) Dartmouth College
24) Vanderbilt University
25) University of Notre Dame
26) University of California, Los Angeles
27) Washington University
28) Amherst College
29) University of California, San Diego
30) Emory University
...especially consider the top 8 schools, they just built different. sorry cornell.
Comment#2by: not even an insult lol
tbh not even mad Cornell is 21st. makes sense considering we have a very diverse course offering. it still puts it very very high in academic rigor. and if we are ranked above Dartmouth and Dartmouth is one of the most prestigious schools in the country, then that makes Cornell even more prestigious
by: well its about rigor
Just checked Georgia tech has 15k engineering undergrads and total undergrad population of 16.5k, actually comparable to Cornell's total population. but basically 90% of students are engineers. in fact Georgia tech is the most selective public engineering school. Engineering will always beat the other majors in rigor, regardless of prestige of the name of the institution.
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by: bruh
Harvard is known to be a relative breeze. in fact, many Cornell programs like Dyson, Engineering and CAS are more difficult and strenuous than Harvard.
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by: Cornell lover
@Dumb you're making us look dumb as hell with this comment. ITs GeorgiaTech not Georgia, and stop praying to Harvard
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by: Lol can you not read
Dude the rank is based on academic rigor at undergraduate level only. 95% of the Gatech majors in engineering. That’s even higher than MIT. It’s not talking about prestige, quality of education/research or opportunities provided to students. Obviously Harvard or Stanford would dominate prestige
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by: Lol can you not read
This is a rank based solely off how much academic work students take up during the school year and how difficult it is to be in the top 10% of your class.
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by: Lol can you not read
Same thing with HMC. That’s a science and engineering college only so it’s ranked higher than what you’d expect because it’s more rigorous on average
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by: Lol can you not read
And Caltech is #1 because it’s like the most intense science and engineering program in the world, but obviously it doesn’t have the typical name recognition as Harvard. The McKinsey methodology will favor schools where higher percentages of the population take on difficult programs or schools with higher percentages of difficult classes like Marxist theory or something advanced in engineering. Cornell just offers way too many random classes like fashion and hotel management and agriculture. Otherwise we would be in the top 15
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by: Lol can you not read
At Princeton all students are required to do research and at schools like Stanford, Chicago, Columbia, Penn and even Hopkins, students tend to have a much higher focus on overworking themselves to death. Cornell is just more diverse personality and academics wise which has great benefits too.
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by: abcd
Pretty sure a Georgia tech CS or Electrical engineering degree is much more prestigious than Cornell Hotel School or Fiber science. I don’t think this rank is about prestige, that’s superficial and it’s not about employment outcomes either.
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by: well its about rigor
I think its because its Georgia Tech not "U of Georgia". GaTech is an extremely elite engineering school and my friend who just graduated harvard undergrad in math is doing his masters and phd at georgia tech lol. This is not a prestige ranking, it is an academic rigor ranking.
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