Parchment Student Choice College Rankings 2019

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Rank (rank change vs 2018)		Score (Elo points)	Matchups (Student decisions)	Peer Colleges
1 (16)	University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN Nearby: South Bend, Elkhart, Mishakawa	2162	2156	Vanderbilt University Northwestern University Duke University
2 (24)	Northwestern University Evanston, IL Nearby: Chicago, Naperville, Michigan City	2135	2069	University of Chicago University of Pennsylvania Brown University
3 (—)	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY Nearby: New York, Newark, Bridgeport	2079	1022	Brown University University of Pennsylvania Princeton University
4 (10)	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI Nearby: Detroit, Warren, Flint	2076	16583	Michigan State University Grand Valley State University Central Michigan University
5 (4)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA Nearby: Boston, Worcester, Manchester	2074	1041	Princeton University Stanford University Cornell University
6 (16)	University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA Nearby: Los Angeles, Long Beach, Riverside	2068	4111	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Berkeley University of California, San Diego
7 (74)	Parsons School of Design New York, NY Nearby: New York, Newark, Bridgeport	2025	217	Fashion Institute of Technology Pratt Institute Rhode Island School of Design
8 (6)	Stanford University Stanford, CA Nearby: San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland	2018	1899	Yale University Princeton University Harvard University
8 (2)	Caltech Pasadena, CA Nearby: Los Angeles, Long Beach, Riverside	2018	341	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Carnegie Mellon University Harvey Mudd College
10 (1)	University of Chicago Chicago, IL Nearby: Chicago, Naperville, Michigan City	2005	1748	Northwestern University Columbia University in the City of New York University of Pennsylvania
11 (12)	Brigham Young University-Provo Provo, UT Nearby: Salt Lake City, Ogden, Clearfield	1970	720	Brigham Young University-Idaho Utah State University Utah Valley University
12 (31)	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL Nearby: Champaign, Urbana	1953	8810	University of Illinois at Chicago Illinois State University Purdue University-Main Campus
13 (3)	University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA Nearby: San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland	1949	6385	University of California, Los Angeles Stanford University University of California, San Diego
14 (11)	Cornell University Ithaca, NY Nearby: Ithaca, Cortland	1945	2176	Princeton University University of Pennsylvania Brown University
15 (1)	University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA Nearby: Los Angeles, Long Beach, Riverside	1940	6629	University of California, Berkeley University of California, San Diego University of Southern California
16 (11)	Princeton University Princeton, NJ Nearby: New York, Newark, Bridgeport	1934	1178	Yale University Stanford University Cornell University
16 (9)	Brown University Providence, RI Nearby: Boston, Worcester, Manchester	1934	1288	Columbia University in the City of New York Princeton University University of Pennsylvania
18 (6)	University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA Nearby: Charlottesville	1917	3246	Virginia Tech James Madison University College of William and Mary
19 (1)	Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD Nearby: Washington, Baltimore, Northern Virginia	1913	990	Brown University Duke University University of Pennsylvania
20 (5)	Tufts University Medford, MA Nearby: Boston, Worcester, Manchester	1910	641	Northeastern University Boston College Amherst College
21 (17)	University of Wisconsin - Madison Madison, WI	1898	12401	University of Minnesota - Twin Cities University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
22 (2)	Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN Nearby: Nashville, Davidson, , Murfreesboro, , Columbia	1896	1390	Duke University Dartmouth College Johns Hopkins University
23 (15)	Dartmouth College Hanover, NH Nearby: Claremont	1894	804	Brown University Columbia University in the City of New York Princeton University
24 (143)	Wilmington College Wilmington, OH Nearby: Philadelphia, Camden, Vineland	1876	114	Wilmington University Southeastern University Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute
25 (27)	Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette, IN Nearby: Lafayette, Frankfort	1858	13849	Indiana University - Bloomington Ball State University Indiana University - Purdue University-Indianapolis

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