The Top 10 Nerdiest Colleges

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According to the Princeton Review, the New College of Florida in Sarasota is a school for "dodgeball targets" (which we can only assume is a compliment, since we were that). Their top 10 list includes schools from Vermont, Oregon and New York City.

Check out the top 10 in order below.

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[marshallmeyer12]

01:53 PM on 09/14/2012

Horrible, horrible list. What about Harvey Mudd? Highest study rate? Well that should be there for sure. NYU shouldn't make the 10. The only school where you hit the nail on the head was Reed. Here is a list that is much better.

-Reed College
-Harvey Mudd
-Frankling W. Olin College of engineering
-Cal Tech
-Harvard
-Marlboro
-MIT
-Grinnell
-Princeton
-University of Chicago

GET IT RIGHT, or don't post.

[trslynx]

09:52 AM on 05/05/2012

Evergreen is #10
Kosmo Kramer might not agree.

[Kozyavin]

09:57 PM on 05/03/2012

Prescott College is super nerdy, without the socially inept part. The majority of our curriculum is so heavily focused on critical thinking, writing and research skills (I had to write a 10 page paper and do a presentation for an f-ing liberal arts math course), presentations (every class), portfolios (also, every class), and group dynamics that you have to be extremely dedicated, responsible and all about teamwork to succeed here. Although, they do give you so many tools, resources and experiential learning that you have to go out of your way to alienate people, slack off and fail. It's more closely related to a career or graduate program than standard rank & file undergrad schools; mediocrity is not an option.

[morestupidnonjournalism]

02:59 AM on 05/21/2012

Wow. I worked there for five years and I must say, a frightening number of the graduates are inarticulate, can't write worth a damn, and are more likely to spout sustainability and environmental jargon than to engage thoughtfully in conversation that requires the deployment of critical thinking strategy and technique. Prescott is NOT a nerdy school.

More to the point, this list is fairly ridiculous. The idea that any of these schools is more nerdy than your garden variety engineering or math/sci university stretches the imagination and reflects poorly on the journalistic prowess of the Huff Post.

[saaba]

09:26 AM on 06/07/2012

F&F, especially for the comment on "the journalistic prowess of HP". The only items worth reading on this site are the writings of professional bloggers and the stories that are linked to real news papers.

[tibz]

03:11 PM on 04/30/2012

Prescott College is oh so nerdy. Really one of the most popular divisions is Adventure Education. Rock Climbing for credit anybody? You do find students who "geek out" on interesting and relevent scientific information like the said rock climbers who have an amazing handle on geology... "Yeah bra, that rock your climbing is intrusive igneous formed 1.2 million years ago...". Shredders with an ecological bend, yes. Nerds, not quite.

[Kozyavin]

10:00 PM on 05/03/2012

Psh, whatever, AE bro. Arts & Letters FTW! And seriously, have you kicked it with the CRS kids lately? All kinds of nerdy up in there.

[tibz]

11:38 PM on 05/03/2012

Actually I'm not an AE bro, but that was totally my thing when I transferred 7 yrs ago. I'm a single mother of two studying Natural History and Ecology, minoring in Outdoor Experiencial Ed and believe it or not... CRS.

[planetguy2]

05:55 AM on 04/29/2012

This list is bunk. Where's Caltech? MIT? Dartmouth? Really?

[TiaC]

08:03 PM on 04/27/2012

How is Bennington one of the nerdiest colleges?! Whoever compiled this list must not have been accepted to anywhere.

[John Borden]

12:20 AM on 04/27/2012

You're trolling me HuffPo, not a single one of these colleges look like a nerd haven to me. If I'm not mistaken, St John's in New Mexico is an art school, and last time I checked art students are less socially inept than nerds (frustating at moments, but not socially inept).

[Suzie Vlcek]

12:06 PM on 04/27/2012

Check your facts, dude ... St. John's is a LIBERAL Arts school. Liberal Arts does not mean watercolors of Barack Obama, or the excessive use of paint supplies. Liberal Arts means the study of philosophy, literature, mathematics, laboratory sciences, music, ancient Greek via the Great Books Program... you can't get much nerdier, or more socially inept.

[Carolyn Manning]

01:11 PM on 04/27/2012

It is not an art school. It is Great Books school, where we study the best hits of the western cannon. We don't even have an official art program (which I personally find to be a travesty).

[Carolyn Manning]

01:13 PM on 04/27/2012

canon*, and there's supposed to be an "a" before the "Great." So mad I forgot to both spell and edit my post properly. Sigh.

[Philovitist]

09:52 PM on 04/26/2012

Please. That list only gives props to the lesser knowns.

[fredpa]

07:48 PM on 04/26/2012

These are great schools. Each one of them deserves a story of its own on HP.

[jchowell3657]

04:36 PM on 04/26/2012

A high prevalence of Magic the Gathering is a definite sign of an extremely nerdy school. I just hated it when those nerds used to interrupt our Dungeons and Dragons games.

[dogtowndennis]

04:17 PM on 04/26/2012

This list is bogus--every list of nerdiest colleges has to start with CalTech. Socially inept geniuses.

[MBGarcia]

04:02 PM on 04/26/2012

Ah, yes...St. John's College...proud to be a nerd!

[maria52]

04:02 PM on 04/26/2012

I beg to differ -- how did they manage to include Evergreen State College? That is a hipster school, dude....

[jchowell3657]

04:38 PM on 04/26/2012

Nah, it's a stoner school.

[maria52]

04:39 PM on 04/26/2012

How do u know? :)

[helenahandbasket1]

03:26 PM on 04/26/2012

This article could have been more informative. A picture and the name? Nothing else? You worked hard for the money. Or rather, someone at the Princeton Review did and you got a press release and figured you needed to fill space. Next time, please do a better job.

[southparkrepublican]

01:38 PM on 04/26/2012

How about instead of "nerdy" we use the term "best"?

Because when the list of party schools is far more anticipated and celebrated, there's a problem with the sheer amount of lackluster genes in the national pool.