Top Private Universities by Crowd Vote

The 27 private national universities on College Clash, ranked by voters in head-to-head matchups. Cast your vote

#SchoolW–LUS News
1Harvard#1 overall138–70#3
2Stanford#2 overall160–66#5
3Princeton#3 overall139–42#2
4MIT#4 overall159–52#1
5Yale#5 overall98–50#4
6UChicago#7 overall163–70#9
7Penn#8 overall119–76#7
8Duke#10 overall122–63#8
9Brown#11 overall87–66#16
10Columbia#12 overall133–79#12
11Georgetown#14 overall97–98#23
12Dartmouth#16 overall84–71#12
13Northwestern#17 overall88–86#9
14Carnegie Mellon#19 overall114–71#14
15Rice#20 overall96–83#16
16WashU#21 overall85–86#16
17NYU#23 overall84–81#31
18Cornell#24 overall89–91#14
19Johns Hopkins#26 overall110–73#9
20Vanderbilt#27 overall89–78#16
21Caltech#29 overall99–81#5
22Boston College#30 overall79–132#31
23USC#31 overall79–116#27
24Notre Dame#40 overall87–111#20
25Boston University#42 overall80–124#34
26Emory#43 overall75–122#23
27Northeastern#49 overall23–127#42

Crowd vs US News

Voters put NYU above Caltech, the reverse of US News, which ranks them #31 and #5.

Voters put Georgetown above Northwestern, the reverse of US News, which ranks them #23 and #9.

# = rank within this list; Overall = rank on the full crowd leaderboard. US News = 2027 National Universities rank.