This America focused ranking of colleges is done by Top Tier Educational Services.
What they look at:
Assessment by academic peers | Assessment by higher level management | Assessment by Graduate and Professional School Admissions Officer | Assessment of the quality of the student body | Resources and expenditure per student | Faculty : Student ration | Salaries of faculty | number of applications to the university |
What they came up with
With this measurement system, they created a top 100 of the best universities.
The top ten is as follows:
1. Yale
2. Princeton
3. Harvard
4. Williams
5. Amherst
6. Stanford
7. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
8. California Inst. of Technology
9. Columbia
10. Penn
Go the website of the Top Tier Educational Services University rankings