University of Michigan is top public university in U.S. (#21 overall in the world)
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2017/06/university_of_mic…
University of Michigan / Ann Arbor are on a real roll here. After Ann Arbor gets voted the #1 city in the U.S., UM repeats as the #1 public school in the U.S. and moves up into a tie with Duke for #21 overall (from #23 last year). Duke and Michigan are tied for #12 overall in the U.S.
This is a very impressive accomplishment and I will do my best never to take it for granted that Michigan succeeds in the classroom, in the lab, in the community and on the field.
The only other B1G schools near the top were Northwestern at #28 and Wisconsin at #55. Ohio State and Michigan State actually did pretty well at #86 and #149 respectively.
Also, water is wet.
in the top 15 preseason in 2007. Moral of the story is not to take good shit for granted.
If you wanna compare the combination of academic rankings / Director's Cup standings / performance in major sports, there are few schools in the same category. Probably just Stanford, UNC, Duke, and Ohio State
I mean, Ohio State is #86 in the world apparently, is typically good in a number of sports, and has been very good in football for a long time. We can dislike them, but I wouldn't discourage a HS senior from going there
What do you have against HS seniors?
UCLA probably on that list as well.
I only left them off because it feels like it's been a while since UCLA has been really good at football or basketball, but UCLA (and maybe USC) both have a good argument to be included
Team/ Times in top 10 in Directors Cup/ Ranking US News Report (a couple years ago)
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Stanford |
23 |
5 |
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Florida |
23 |
49 |
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UCLA |
21 |
23 |
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UNC |
19 |
30 |
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Michigan |
17 |
28 |
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Texas |
17 |
52 |
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USC |
14 |
23 |
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OSU |
10 |
52 |
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Georgia |
9 |
60 |
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California |
8 |
20 |
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PennState |
8 |
47 |
|
Virginia |
7 |
23 |
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Duke |
6 |
7 |
For Academics AND Athletic excellence, Michigan in top 5 in the nation
I always sort of laugh at Dartmouth which is usually laughably behind the rest of the Ivy League. It's kind of embarassing for them
#3 Harvard
#13 Princeton
#14 Cornell
#16 Yale
#18 Columbia
#19 Penn
#53 Brown
....
#169 Dartmouth
was not impressed
I've been out of the loop on all things Ivy League for, well.... all my life - what happened to Dartmouth? Has it always been a poor sister or did it fall of a cliff for some reason during our lifetime?
Ah OK - that makes sense. There's nothing wrong with being a top-notch research university or 4-year undergrad school with hands-on professors and those certainly don't have to be mutually exclusive - it's just that those things primarily benefit different types of students.
Indeed -- it's hard to infer much from these rankings in terms of choosing an undergraduate institution. Brown is a bit more research-focused, especially in the health sciences, and they seem to be taking that more seriously in their new schools of public health and med school. That was my impression during my PhD interview there, at least. Beautiful campus, too, but their raw research output doesn't compare to somewhere like Michigan.
The Michigan of the East Is #3.
especially for those in programs such as Engineering, Ross, Computer Sciences, etc who should get good jobs right out of undergraduate school, and have a solid resume going to grad schools.
The rankings looks pretty accurate but I think Cal Berkeley is rising quickly in reputation as being at least even with Michigan as the top public university.
All very good schools. All very big and like UM you can get a terrific education or you can skate by. I mentioned Berkeley because they are really challenging Stanford, the gold standard, in the quality of programs (especially grad schools) and graduates they are producing.
Right now, I have one at UM and one going to Caltech. Each was the best choice for them based on areas of interest, culture, size of school, etc. There is no one right formula so these rankings are somewhat suspect and more directional in nature.
I never stood a chance to get into UM. Didn't really take high school seriously until my senior year and by then it was too late. Had to settle for a school of much less quality. Go blue!
Says who ? What poll is this ?
That was my point. Why should I have to click a link ? The intro should have defined the basis.
just remember that we have better academics than MSU and OSU
I hung my hat on that for most of the last 10 years.
I like it better when our sports don't suck.
are all pretty dumb and based on lots of ridiculous things. read about how northeastern invented a bunch of small classes and shot up the rankings, it is pretty funny.
that said, michigan a top school? sounds like this rating is a good one. :)