The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Ranking 2021 (WSJ/THE 2021) was just released. Harvard is number one again (Harvard Produces Wealthy Alumni)! All of the Ivy League universities are among the top 15 schools. With their rarefied, global social alumni networks, door-opening reputations, prestige and superior academics, it isn’t surprising that the schools mentioned are all brand-name institutions.
The rankings emphasize how well a college will prepare students for life after graduation. The overall ranking is based on 15 factors across four areas: Outcomes, Resources, Engagement and Environment. Each school’s overall score is determined by student outcomes (including a measure of graduate salaries), the school’s academic resources, how well it engages students and the diversity of the students and staff. The data come from a variety of sources: the US government (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System – IPEDS), the College Scorecard, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), the THE US Student Survey, the THE Academic Survey, and the Elsevier bibliometric dataset.
My team and I personally visit top colleges three times annually to understand each of their ever changing and unique admissions policies as well as the campus environment. As a result, we garner and develop our proprietary knowledge to help our clients achieve admissions success. (Why Dr. Paul Lowe Visits College Campuses). This ranking is very accurate!
The WSJ/THE College Rankings takes a different approach as compared to other rankings; it emphasizes the return on investment students see after they graduate. Schools that fare the best on this list have graduates who generally are satisfied with their educational experience and land relatively high-paying jobs that can help them pay down student loans.” These two factors are clearly why our clients retain us as admissions advisors who specialize in Ivy League admissions: Ivy League Admissions Advisors and seek the personalized superior admissions advice from Dr. Paul Lowe.
Here is a list of THE TOP TWENTY:
1. Harvard University (Dr. Lowe Visits Harvard) | (Harvard University Produces Wealthy Alumni)
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3. Yale University
4. Stanford University
5. Brown University, Duke University
7. Princeton University, California Institute of Technology
9. Cornell University
10. Northwestern University
12. Dartmouth College
13. University of Pennsylvania
14. University of Chicago
15. Columbia University, Rice University
17. Vanderbilt University
18. Washington University in St. Louis
19. University of Southern California
20. Carnegie Mellon University
Parents and students often use ranking as a resource and reference. Why would you have college rankings if it doesn’t really matter? Our blog: Does it Matter Where You Attend College? Absolutely!
Our clients care about WHERE their children will attend college!
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Dr. Paul Reginald Lowe, founder and managing director of Pinnacle Educational Center Admissions Advisors Group, provides comprehensive counseling advice, exclusively for admissions to top private schools; Ivy League and highly-selective colleges/universities; BS/MD programs; graduate and medical schools and top visual and performing arts programs. The admissions affiliate: Ivy League Admissions Advisors specializes in admissions to Ivy League and highly selective colleges, Dr. Lowe also specializes in helping students who have been wait-listed, deferred or rejected gain admission into their top-choice schools: College Application Rejected. and student who wish to transfer to another college: College Transfer Admissions Advisors.
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