U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT'S BEST NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES for 2000 in roughly descending order:
Subject to their own methodology
California Institute of Technology, Harvard, Mass. Institute of Tech., Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Duke, Johns Hopkins, U. Pennsylvania, Columbia, Cornell U., Dartmouth, Chicago, Brown, Northwestern, Rice, Washington U. of St. Louis, Emory, Notre Dame, U. C. Berkeley, Vanderbilt, U. Virginia, Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown, U. C. Los Angeles, U. Michigan, U. N. C. Chapel Hill, Wake Forest, William & Mary, Tufts, Brandeis, U. C. San Diego, U. Rochester, Case Western Reserve, Lehigh, NYU, U. Illinois-Urbana Champaign, U Wisconsin Madison, Boston College, Georgia Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania State , U. C. Davis, Southern California, Tulane, U. C. Santa Barbara, U. Texas Austin, U. Washington, Yeshiva, U.C. Irvine, U. Florida

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT'S BEST NATIONAL LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES for 2000 in roughly descending order:
Subject to their own methodology
Swarthmore, Amherst, Williams, Wellesley, Haverford, Middlebury, Pomona, Carleton, Bowdoin, Wesleyan, Davidson, Grinnell, Smith, Claremont McKenna, Washington & Lee, Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Colby, Colgate, Hamilton, Trinity (CT), Bates, Macalester, Barnard, Colorado College, Connecticut College, Oberlin, U. of the South, Bucknell, Holy Cross, Kenyon, Lafayette, Union, Franklin & Marshall, Scripps, Whitman, Sarah Lawrence, Dickinson, Bard, Lawrence U., Occidental

THE TOUGHEST SCHOOLS TO GET INTO
Based on The Princeton Review's Admssions Rating in roughly descending order:
Subject to their own methodology,
Harvard, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, U.S. Air Force Academy, Cooper Union, Princeton, Stanford, U.S. Military Academy, U.S. Naval Academy, Brown, Yale, California Institute of Technology, Swarthmore, Dartmouth, Amherst, Mass. Institute of Technology, Georgetown, Columbia, Duke, Bowdoin, Cornell U.

THE FISKE GUIDE TO COLLEGES for 2000 BEST BUYS in roughly descending order:
Subject to their own methodology,
PUBLIC:
U. Colorado Boulder, Evergreen State, Georgia Institute of Technology, U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign, U. Iowa, U. Kansas, Mary Washington, Miami U. of Ohio, U. Minnesota Twin Cities, New College, U.N.C. Asheville, U.N.C. Chapel Hill, U. Oregon, St. Mary's C. of MD, SUNY Binghamton, SUNY Geneseo, U. Texas Austin, U. Virginia, U. Washington, William & Mary, U. Wisconsin Madison
PRIVATE:
Alverno, Baylor, Birmingham Southern, Brigham Young, Calvin, Centre, Cooper Union, Gustavus Adolphus, Hendrix, Howard, Millsap, Rice, St. John's/St. Benedict, Spelman, Southwestern, Texas Christian, Wabash, Wheaton IL

WOMEN'S COLLEGES WE HAVE VISITED:
Agnes Scott, Bryn Mawr, Cedar Crest, Chatham, Douglass, Hollins, Mills, Moore, Mount Holyoke, Pine Manor, Randolph Macon Woman's, Russell Sage, Scripps, Simmons, Smith, Spelman, Sweet Briar, Wellesley, Wells, William Smith

UNIVERSITIES WE HAVE VISITED THAT MIGHT BE OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO ENGINEERING STUDENTS: Besides the state universities, consider California Institute of Technology, Case Western Reserve University, Colorado School of Mines, Georgia Institute of Technology, Harvey Mudd College, Johns Hopkins University, Lehigh University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, Purdue University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Texas A & M University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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