Top 125 Universities (Fall 2009)
The Top 125 Universities ranked by TrendTopper MediaBuzz.
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| Universities | |
| Rank | |
| 1 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, MI |
| 2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA |
| 3 | Harvard University, MA |
| 4 | Columbia University, NY |
| 5 | University of Chicago, IL |
| 6 | University of California-Berkeley, CA |
| 7 | University of Wisconsin-Madison , WI |
| 8 | Stanford University, CA |
| 9 | University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NC |
| 10 | Cornell University, NY |
| 11 | Yale University, CT |
| 12 | Princeton University, NJ |
| 13 | University of Pennsylvania, PA |
| 14 | University of California-Los Angeles, CA |
| 15 | University of Washington, WA |
| 16 | University of Minnesota, MN |
| 17 | New York University, NY |
| 18 | University of California-San Diego, CA |
| 19 | Johns Hopkins University, MD |
| 20 | Ohio State University-Columbus, OH |
| 21 | University of Virginia, VA |
| 22 | U. of California, Davis, CA |
| 23 | Georgia Institute of Technology, GA |
| 24 | Duke University, NC |
| 25 | Boston University, MA |
| 26 | University of Texas-Austin, TX |
| 27 | University of Florida, FL |
| 28 | University of California-Santa Barbara, CA |
| 29 | University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, IL |
| 30 | Boston College, MA |
| 31 | U. of California, Irvine, CA |
| 32 | University of Georgia, GA |
| 33 | Northwestern University, IL |
| 34 | Pennsylvania State University, PA |
| 35 | Rutgers University, NJ |
| 36 | Purdue University, IN |
| 37 | University of Phoenix, AZ |
| 38 | University of Southern California, CA |
| 39 | University of Pittsburgh, PA |
| 40 | SUNY Stony Brook, NY |
| 41 | University of Indiana–Bloomington, IN |
| 42 | University of Iowa, IA |
| 43 | California Institute of Technology, CA |
| 44 | Georgetown University, DC |
| 45 | Brown University, RI |
| 46 | Washington University in St. Louis, MO |
| 47 | Syracuse University, NY |
| 48 | George Washington University, DC |
| 49 | University of Connecticut, CT |
| 50 | Texas A&M University, TX |
| 51 | Emory University, GA |
| 52 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY |
| 53 | Vanderbilt University,TN |
| 54 | The Citadel, SC |
| 55 | University of Notre Dame, IN |
| 56 | Case Western Reserve, OH |
| 57 | University of Colorado–Boulder, CO |
| 58 | Carnegie Mellon University, PA |
| 59 | University of Arizona, AZ |
| 60 | University of Nebraska–Lincoln, NB |
| 61 | Dartmouth College, NH |
| 62 | University of Miami, FL |
| 63 | University of Rochester, NY |
| 64 | University of Maryland-College Park, MD |
| 65 | Tufts University, MA |
| 66 | American University, DC |
| 67 | Michigan State University |
| 68 | Clemson University, SC |
| 69 | Brigham Young University, UT |
| 70 | Auburn University, AL |
| 71 | Rice University, TX |
| 72 | Tulane University, LA |
| 73 | University of Delaware, DE |
| 74 | University of Kansas |
| 75 | Fordham University, NY |
| 76 | Baylor University, TX |
| 77 | Lehigh University , PA |
| 78 | SUNY Buffalo, NY |
| 79 | Virginia Tech, VA |
| 80 | Southern Methodist University, TX |
| 81 | University of Oklahoma, OK |
| 82 | Miami University, OH |
| 83 | New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ |
| 84 | Wake Forest University, NC |
| 85 | University of Missouri–Columbia, MO |
| 86 | Brandeis University, MA |
| 87 | Marquette University, WI |
| 88 | Santa Clara University, CA |
| 89 | North Carolina State University, NC |
| 90 | Loyola Marymount, CA |
| 91 | Northeastern University, MA |
| 92 | Florida State University, FL |
| 93 | College of William and Mary, VA |
| 94 | University of San Diego. CA |
| 95 | Providence College, RI |
| 96 | CUNY Queens College, NY |
| 97 | College of New Jersey, NJ |
| 98 | Iowa State University, IA |
| 99 | Villanova University, PA |
| 100 | Rochester Institute of Technology, NY |
| 101 | CUNY Brooklyn College, NY |
| 101 | James Madison, VA |
| 102 | SUNY Purchase, NY |
| 103 | Creighton University, NE |
| 104 | Texas Christian University, TX |
| 105 | Yeshiva University, NY |
| 106 | Drexel University, PA |
| 107 | Pepperdine University, CA |
| 108 | Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ |
| 109 | SUNY Binghamton, NY |
| 110 | SUNY Albany, NY |
| 111 | Drake University, IA |
| 112 | University of Vermont, VT |
| 113 | CUNY Baruch College, NY |
| 114 | SUNY Albany, NY |
| 115 | University of Redlands, CA |
| 116 | University of Tulsa, OK |
| 117 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA |
| 118 | Butler University, IN |
| 119 | Gonzaga University, WA |
| 120 | Valpariso University, IN |
| 121 | Bradley University, IL |
| 122 | Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, CA |
| 123 | CUNY City College, NY |
| 124 | Xavier University, LA |