this list is the results from a survey:
1) Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Columbia, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Brown, Dartmouth, Penn, Chicago, Northwestern, Berkeley, and Cornell.
2)all 8 of the Ivy League Institutions, Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, the University of Chicago, the University of California-Berkeley, John Hopkins University, MIT, and Cal Tech.
3)Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, MIT, Yale, Stanford, Berkleley, Zurich, (Switzerland), Princeton, Caltech, UPenn, Cornell, Columbia, JHU
4)1. Harvard, 2. MIT, 3. Oxford, 4. Stanford, 5. Princeton, 6. Cambridge, 7. Yale, 9. Berkeley, 10. Columbia, 11. Caltech, 12. Penn,
13. Cornell, 14. Chicago, 15. JHU
5) 15 is too short a list. I can give you the top 5 or the top 20, but not the top 15.
TOP 5:
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton University
Stanford University
Yale University
GROUP II
Brown University
California Institute of Technology
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Johns Hopkins University
Northwestern University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Pennsylvania
OTHER VERY PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITIES (those schools are more prestigious than the school above in many circles):
Carnegie Mellon University
Emory University
Georgetown University
Rice University
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Notre Dame
University of Texas-Austin
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Vanderbilt University
Washington University-St Louis
SOME OTHERS:
Boston College
Brandeis University
College of William and Mary
New York University
Tufts University
University of Rochester
University of Southern California
6)1. Harvard
2.Princeton
=Yale
=MIT
=Stanford
6. Duke
=Columbia
8. Dartmouth
=U Penn
=Brown
11. Cal Tech
12. Northwestern
13. Johns Hopkins
14. U Chicago
=Washington U in St. Louis
16. Georgetown
=Carnegie Mellon
=Vandy
19. Rice
20. UC-Berkeley
7)down where i live it’s
Harvard
Yale
princeton
MIT
Stanford
Duke
Chicago
Vandy
UVA
UNC
Berkeley
Michigan
UPenn
Cornell
Columbia