The Hottest Colleges In The Nation: Inside College List

What are the hottest colleges? An existential question for the ages.

Inside College's panel of experts recently named the hottest colleges in the nation. The list features colleges that are, to quote Inside College, "the place to be." A thing we all should know.

Check our our slide show of Inside College's list of the hottest colleges. Then tell us, do you agree with these selections? Let us know in the comments section.

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[cvperdomo]

04:46 PM on 04/15/2012

Where is University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus?!

[rewith85man]

09:07 PM on 03/14/2012

What are the true benefits of going to any of these schools?

[artem5708]

12:42 AM on 03/01/2012

How about U of H, UT, or A&M where is the whole city is a one big campus! Boston, what a joke....

[Kevin Arthus]

07:44 AM on 03/02/2012

"where is the whole city is a one big campus!"
what a joke...

[zazbelle]

11:58 PM on 02/29/2012

pretentious list for the most part.....

[mdlt]

10:17 PM on 02/29/2012

don't tell Rick.... he will just go crazy...ier....

[Maria Rodgers]

10:11 PM on 02/29/2012

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[Professor Wagstaff]

10:09 PM on 02/29/2012

Arizona State University in Tempe AZ should head the list - it gets very hot there in the summer.

[jerickinsf]

09:40 PM on 02/29/2012

These lists are only as viable as the raters and where they're from. Obviously just people from the East Coast and mid-West. All but two colleges of 21 listed here are on or east of the Mississippi River. Hello, California and Texas are the two biggest states in our country. Somebody's thinking is that the two most powerful and populace states in our country aren't the 'place to be'. I'll take a wild guess and say that most of these 'raters' have never been to either state, must less the many dozens of high quality and 'hot' universities there...

[dlinden55]

09:35 PM on 02/29/2012

Vanderbilt University--a great school, wonderful financial aid, great city, beautiful campus, and many opportunities to prepare kids for future success. A jewel of the South !

[RAStewart]

07:42 PM on 02/29/2012

I've helped three kids find their colleges and am starting the process with our youngest. All these lists of "hot colleges" are silly. I hope nobody involved in a college search takes a list like this seriously--that would be a good way for a young person to waste a year of more of their life and lots of money in an unhappy college experience, while halfway across the country or 50 miles down the road is a school that would have been right for them but wasn't "hot" that particular year.

[Chloe---Sofia]

07:33 PM on 02/29/2012

Why is Smith not on here?!

[Donald Kinge]

06:53 PM on 02/29/2012

Imagine that...a bunch of private schools!

[merlinslover]

08:07 PM on 02/29/2012

College of Charleston is not a private college.

[Jodi Pollock]

09:30 PM on 02/29/2012

University of Delaware is a state school. I know. I pay OUT of state tuition for my daughter.

[Donald Kinge]

09:47 PM on 02/29/2012

Sorry, the MAJORITY are private...I should have specified!

[Alice Mayhamen]

06:43 PM on 02/29/2012

Possibly the worst list I've ever seen. Ever.
U of M? George Washington?
Yeah. This was put together by college advisers trying to sell the "You're not quite Ivy smart, but don't go to that party school and have fun!" colleges.

[tamerlane]

03:57 PM on 02/29/2012

Twenty-one colleges listed and only THREE are west of the Mississippi? I'm getting a sharp whiff of East Coast bias. My picks would include Stanford, CalTech, UC Berkeley, Univ of Arizona, Reed College, and University of Washington.

[JoditoB]

03:31 PM on 02/29/2012

For everybody wondering what being on this list event means, according to InsideCollege.com (the people who compiled the list), "Any school on this list is the place to be. They are our experts' choice for schools most popular with students." At InsideCollege.com, you can read about who their experts are, but they boil it down to "high school counselors, admission representatives, educational planners, and other industry pros."