The New Ivy League: Unigo List

The hallowed Ivy League is famed for its exclusivity, and cluster of eight elite Northeastern institutions can only accomodate a fraction of today's talented students. But fear not, there are other places in America that can offer a home of equal value to the world's burgeoning brains.

Using student reviews they compiled, Unigo formed a list of colleges that match the Ivies in terms of rigor and vigor. See them below in alphabetical order.

Do you agree/disagree with this list? Have your own "New Ivy" to add? Weigh in below.

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[mass maritimer]

02:16 PM on 09/29/2011

Quinnipiac should be on this list I think.....

Many of Southern my family went to Duke.....great school

[vonric]

11:43 PM on 09/28/2011

Certainly an interesting list, but one wonders where the University of Chicago and Stanford are? Vanderbilt in the running? Tulane? Carlton? Ah, well, another list, another catfight....

[onyourleft]

11:55 PM on 09/27/2011

I kind of wonder if this "New Ivies" ranking is more of an insult than a compliment. That being said... go Mac.

[dbdel]

02:25 AM on 09/28/2011

Is that Mac, as in Mac the cab driver? Or Big Mac?

[fem56]

11:18 PM on 09/27/2011

How about ITT in Culver City California

[ricchh]

04:09 PM on 09/27/2011

These schools are not even close. They are not massive research institutions with masssive graduate schools and departments, medical, law, business, architecture schools and hospitals. They do not do research in a fraction of the ivies. The ivies have research and papers and endowments that rival some nations, and all, but Cornell, are older than the United States.

[dbdel]

02:03 AM on 09/28/2011

How do "massiveness" and multiple professional schools and faculty members who do a lot of research (and minimal teaching) have a bearing on the quality of education a student receives? My dear ricchh, you sound like an arrogant Ivy Leaguer who feels threatened by a loss of status. What, specifically, can you cite as ways in which these "new ivies" offer less of an education than the venerated eight ivies?

[Yossarian22]

11:35 PM on 11/08/2011

I agree with the OP on this. The point isn't that these aren't great schools; it's that the Ivies are known as much for their staff's research and their graduate programs as they are for their undergrad education.

[dennissinned]

04:38 PM on 09/28/2011

Oh REALLY?? Duke is not a massive research institution with massive graduate schools and departments ... (blah blah nonesense)?

[CarolinaDem]

02:25 PM on 10/05/2011

"Course not. Duke is a massive monument to a bad habit.

[MMRDO]

04:03 PM on 09/27/2011

If you're up for a challenge, the NY Maritime College is it. The school is regimented and if you are going for a license or a specialized degree, be prepared for a hard time and a huge credit load. You make a lot of money when you get out there though, we lead this business for a reason...

[mass maritimer]

02:19 PM on 09/29/2011

And if you want to go to a Maritime Academy that is NOT under a bridge check out Mass Maritime!

Either way, it's getting a lot harder to get into either one....

[MMRDO]

03:05 PM on 09/29/2011

lol, true and our chief mate is a Mass Maritime guy, but regardless, living under a bridge can be a rewarding experience...

[jdshaw]

02:58 PM on 09/27/2011

Dartmouth should be on everyone's number one list. A+ faculty that is dedicated to teaching. Wonderful students that are passionate about learning (and playing). Fantastic setting in New Hampshire.

[ricchh]

04:04 PM on 09/27/2011

Except it is below zero most of the year and there is nothing to do in Hanover but drink.

[fem56]

04:10 PM on 09/27/2011

Also it just so happens to already to be in the Ivy League.

[palindrom]

09:39 PM on 09/28/2011

Well, there is fantastically good biking, hiking, and skiing, and the outing club is about the friendliest, sanest bunch of students you'd ever care to meet. And it's really only below zero for about 4 months.

Oh, and yes, it is indeed in the Ivy League.

[lenguss]

02:14 PM on 09/27/2011

"Ivy League" is a concept and other schools do not fit. It has nothing to do with quality of education but is simply a group of older eastern colleges founded many years ago. I went to Penn, founded by Ben Franklin; it is a great school and so are hundreds of others. Trying to emulate the Ivy League is as futile as trying to emulate the Big 10 or any other group. Doing so would make other schools feel second-rate, which they most assuredly are not.

[realpragmatist]

12:59 PM on 09/28/2011

Interesting perspective. I agree.

[perpetual astonishment]

02:09 PM on 09/27/2011

Wesleyan University?

[mass maritimer]

02:19 PM on 09/29/2011

and Quinnipiac....yes!

[perpetual astonishment]

02:04 PM on 09/27/2011

Wesleyan University

[Lex Anton]

02:02 PM on 09/27/2011

Trinity College woo.

[KennebunkportIndependent]

02:01 PM on 09/27/2011

Why not look at the Little Ivys - a league that already exists (several of its members are included here)?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ivies

[dbdel]

02:11 AM on 09/28/2011

There's a lot of elitism and self-important arrogance in that grouping of schools. Nothing further west than Swarthmore and Haverford. What about the rest of the country?

As I point out to the Obama detractors, Occidental College has always been a very selective and highly respected college; nothing unusual about a transfer from there to Columbia.

[vonric]

09:51 AM on 09/29/2011

agreed, clearly a list made by an East-coast edu-snob... leaving out Mac, Carlton, Rice, and a collection of other fine schools...

[susanlc]

01:55 PM on 09/27/2011

I went to Macalester and it was All That, but where's Carleton College? My siblings went there and it was even a little more so.

[palindrom]

09:40 PM on 09/28/2011

I have heard from many that Carleton is a great school.

[dmsdzinr]

01:46 PM on 09/27/2011

Decide WHAT you want to do and then RESEARCH the BEST Universities for your intended career path.

[Zak Kirchner]

01:41 PM on 09/27/2011

No Standford, U. Chicago or Northwestern? Weak sauce.

[OneFish]

02:53 PM on 09/27/2011

Standford? Do you mean Stanford, the school that rehired Condoleeza Rice? Yeccchh!!!

[Betty Jo Complete]

03:38 PM on 09/27/2011

no I think he means the one that hired John Yoo.