The Global Language Monitor

Best in Class US Colleges and Universities by Internet Media Buzz

Published: May 9th, 2012

Austin, Texas, May 9, 2012 The Best in Class US colleges and universities as ranked by Internet Media Buzz were announced today by the Global Language Monitor. This follows the release of the in April of the eighth TrendTopper MediaBuzz rankings over the preceding five years; the rankings are conducted every nine months.

“The American Higher Education system is, without question, the envy of the world,” said Paul JJ Payack, president and Chief Word Analyst of GLM. “It is a very real pleasure to honor those schools who have proved to be the Best in Class for their individual areas of excellence.”
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Buy the Spring/Summer 2012 TrendTopper MediaBuzz Guide, Enrollment Management Edition. Get All the Numbers Behind the Numbers, to better understand your precise position & positioning. (GLM also provides you with one hour of free consulting with your purchase.)

The TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings have been cited by the Chronicle of Higher Education and University Business as an essential tool to measure the “Buzz” that colleges and and universities crave and need for their admissions, retention and development efforts.

The TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings measure near real-time movements of an institution’s reputation or ‘brand equity’, using the same techniques used to measure the appeal of any other branded product, such as luxury automobiles, or consumer electronics. For the first time GLM expanded the Rankings to over 400 schools, 215 in the University Division with another 200 in the College Division to widen the bases of comparison for the education marketplace.

For the complete list of all 215 Top Universities go here.

The Best in Class Universities by TrendTopper MediaBuzz for Spring/Summer 2012 by area of excellence with current ranking follow:

Best in Class Overall: MIT
Best in Class Private University: MIT, No. 2 Harvard University (2), No, 3 University of Chicago (3)
Best in Class Technological Institute: MIT, No. 2 Virginia Tech (19), No. 3 Georgia Tech (23)
Best in Class Public University: University of Wisconsin–Madison, No. 2 University of California—Los Angeles (7), No. 3 University of Texas—Austin (10)
Best in Class West Coast University: University of California—Los Angeles (7), No. 2 Stanford (8), No. 3 University of California—Berkeley (14)
Best in Class University Athletic Conference (1-AA): Ivy League
Best in Class University Athletic Conference (1-A): Pacific 12
Best in Class Catholic University: Georgetown University and Boston College (26 Tie), No. 3 University of Notre Dame (54)
Best in Class Internet University: University of Phoenix (39), No. 2 Kaplan (130), No. 3 Walden University (145) — Of note: Capella University
Best in Class Christian University: Baylor University (75), No. 2 Southern Methodist University (No. 89), No. 2 Texas Christian University (No. 101)
Best in Class Historically Black University: Tuskegee University, No. 2 Howard University (90), No. 3 Morgan State University (182) – Of note: Xavier University of Louisiana (186)
Best in Class Jewish University: Brandeis University (102), No. 2 Yeshiva University (133)
Best in Class Women’s University: St. Catherine’s (125), No. 2 Mills College (165)
The Best in Class Colleges by TrendTopper MediaBuzz for Spring/Summer 2012 by area of excellence with current ranking follow:
Best in Class Overall: University of Richmond (1), No. 2 Williams College (2), No. 3 Smith College (3) – Fast mover: Bucknell University (4)
Best in Class Technological Institute: Cooper Union (9), Harvey Mudd College (73), No. 2 Milwaukee School of Engineering (84) — Up-and-Coming: Olin College (162)
Best in Class Private: University of Richmond (1), No. 2 Williams College (2), No. 3 Smith College (3)
Best in Class Public College: SUNY—Purchase (55), No. 2 Rowan University (121 ), No. 3 SUNY—Geneseo (169 )
Best in Class Public Liberal Arts College: University of Minnesota, Morris
Best in Class West Coast College: Occidental College (13), No. 2 Pomona (18), No. 3 Claremont McKenna College (33)
Best in Class University Athletic Conference: Patriot League
Best in Class Catholic College: College of the Holy Cross (51 ), No. 2 Siena College (72), No. 3 St. Michael’s College (101)
Best in Class Christian College: Concordia University Texas (45) , No. 2 Ohio Wesleyan University (49), No. 3 Gustavus Adolphus (52)
Best in Class Historically Black College: Morehouse (41), No. 2 Bethune-Cookman University (76), No. 3 Fisk University (96) — On the Move: Elisabeth City State (189)
Best in Class Historically Black Women’s College: Spelman (83)
Best in Class Women’s College: Smith College (3), No. 2 Wellesley (12), No 3 Barnard College (28)
Best in Class Outre College: Oberlin College (8), No. 2 Bard (43), No. 3 Skidmore College (77)
Best in Class Art College: Pratt Institute (10), No. 2 School of the Visual Arts (32 ), No. 3 Rhode Island School of Design (37 )
Best in Class Music School: The Juilliard School (15), No. 2 Boston Conservatory (153), No.3 Berklee College of Music (154) — Of Note: Cleveland Institute of Music (156)
Best in Class Museum-associated School: SAIC: School of the Art Institute of Chicago (17)
Best in Class Service Academy: United States Military Academy (19), No. 2 United States Naval Academy (24), No 3 United States Air Force Academy (35)
Best in Class Fashion School: Fashion Institute of Technology (31)
Best in Class Media Studies: Emerson College (21)
Best in Class Business: Babson College (27)

About the Rankings

The TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings measure near real-time movements of an institution’s reputation or ‘brand equity’, using the same techniques used to measure the appeal of any other branded product, such as luxury automobiles, or consumer electronics. For the first time GLM expanded the Rankings to over 400 schools, 210 in the University Division with another 200 in the College Division to widen the bases of comparison for the education marketplace.

What Others are Saying:

Colleges, Ranked by ‘Media Buzz’

By Eric Hoover

A savvy enrollment manager once told me that a crucial part of his job was getting his college’s name in newspapers and magazines. After all, he said, the more people see an institution’s name, the more familiar it becomes, and the more attractive it seems to prospective students.

He was describing “buzz,” something most colleges crave. In case you didn’t know, the Global Language Monitor will measure it for you.

The Summer / Spring 2012 Edition now includes over 400 schools, including specialty, Art, Design, Music, online, and for-profit institutions. It includes positive or negative movement vs the competition. It also ranks school by MediaBuzz Velocity and Momentum that tells how a school’s (short-term and long-term) brand equity is increasing or decreasing against its peer group, and the other colleges.

Buy the Spring/Summer 2012 TrendTopper MediaBuzz Guide, Enrollment Management Edition. Get All the Numbers Behind the Numbers, to better understand your precise position & positioning. (GLM also provides you with one hour of free consulting with your purchase.)

Buy the TrendTopper MediaBuzz Guide (Spring/Summer ’12) Student Edition and priced accordingly.

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If the book does not download automatically, call 1.512.815.8836 and specify 1) the Fall/Winter Guide Student Edition, 2) the Spring/Summer Student Edition, or 3) The Enrollment Management Edition, for college executives who need to know the complete data for their school and that of their competitors.

Unlike other college rankings, specialty schools such as Julliard, SAIC, and the Cooper Union, the service academies, business, tech schools are included in the rankings. Also incorporated into the rankings are ‘for profit” (University of Phoenix) and online institutions, such as Capella and Walden. This is to provide true comparisons between and among the various types of post-secondary institutions now available to the discerning educational consumers. The full rankings include positive or negative movement, and MediaBuzz Velocity and Momentum that reveal how a school’s (short-term and long-term) brand equity is increasing or decreasing against its peer group, and the other competitors.

Methodology

The TrendTopper MediaBuzz Analysis uses the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s classifications as the basis to distinguish between Universities and Colleges. The schools were ranked in the last week of March 2012, with a December snapshot as well as the last day of the previous surveys as the base.

TrendTopper MediaBuzz utilizes a mathematical model that ‘normalizes’ the data collected from the Internet, social media, and blogosphere as well as the top 175,000 print and electronic media, as well as new social media as they emerge. The end result is a non-biased analytical tool that provides a gauge of relative values among various institutions, as well as measures of how that value changes over time.

For more information go to www.LanguageMonitor.com or call 1.512.815.8836 or send email to info@LanguageMonitor.com.

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2012 Top 300 US Colleges by Internet Media Buzz: Harvard Returns to the top

By: admin

Published: August 30th, 2011

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Harvard Returns to the top, beating Northwestern and Berkeley

But Big Ten Beats Ivies: 8-6 in the Top 50

Williams Tops Richmond as No.1 in the College Category

Austin, Texas, September 3, 2011 – After four tries, Harvard returned to the top ranking of American universities by Internet Media Buzz, edging out a strong challenge by Northwestern. The University of California, Berkeley, Columbia, Caltech, and MIT – all finishing within 1% of each other – took the No. 3 through No. 6 positions. Stanford returned to the Top Ten at No. 7, followed by the ever-strong Chicago, the University of Texas, and Cornell.

Memorial Church, Harvard

Following were Michigan, the University of Washington, Penn State, Yale, and Wisconsin. Rounding out the Top Twenty were Princeton, Penn, UCLA, Cal Davis, and Georgia Tech.

“The TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings measure an institution’s perceived value using the same methodologies used to compare any other products of value, such as BMW vs. Mercedes,” said Paul JJ Payack, the president of Global Language Monitor. “GLM’s TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings removes all bias inherent in each of the other published rankings, since they actually reflect what is being said and stated on the billions of web pages that we measure.”

See where your school (or prospective schools) ranks: Click below to download your 2012 Guide for $19.97.

In a remarkable demonstration of the growing influence of the Public Ivies, some fourteen of the Top Thirty schools are public institutions, and now include eight Big Ten schools, six from the Ivy League (Brown and Dartmouth were the exceptions), three Technological Institutes – and four from California’s fabled University system.

Overall, the University of California system, as a whole continues to dwarf all other academic associations, leagues and conferences. This is a fine tribute to a system that has had to endure a continued series of budget cuts and cutbacks.

The words, phrases and concepts are tracked in relation to their frequency, contextual usage and appearance in global media outlets. This exclusive ranking is based upon GLM’s Narrative Tracking technology. NarrativeTracker analyzes the Internet, blogosphere, the 75,000 print and electronic media, as well as new social media sources (such as Twitter).

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The Top 25 Universities by Internet Media Buzz

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1. Harvard University (3) – Dr. Faust sets things aright and Harvard again assumes the No. 1 spot in the survey.

2. Northwestern University (31) – Catapults to No.2 while leading the Big Ten charge up the rankings.

3. University of California, Berkeley (8) – Cal considers itself THE University of California and the rankings back this up.

4. Columbia University (5) – Columbia has never finished out of the Top 10 in the TrendTopper rankings.

5. California Institute of Technology (19) – CalTech nips its East Coast competitor for top tech honors.

6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (4) – The former ‘Boston Tech’ rejected Harvard’s repeated entreaties to merge in the late 19^th century.

7. Stanford University (11) – The former ‘Harvard of the West’ has long emerged from Cantabrigia’s fabled shadow.

8. University of Chicago (2) – Dropped out of the Big Ten in the late 1930s; loss of big-time football doesn’t seem to have hurt their rankings.

9. University of Texas, Austin (10) – It new branding, “What starts here, changes the world’ is more than a slogan.

10. Cornell University (7) – Few know that the Ivy titan is also a Land Grant institution.

11. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (6) – Took top honors twice in previous surveys.

12. University of Washington (17) – U Dub, as it is affectionately known, is the emerging powerhouse of the Northwest.

13. Pennsylvania State University (24) — Penn State’s new identity campaign has evidently been quite successful.

14. Yale University (9) – Vassar declined an invitation to merge with Yale in 1966.

15. University of Wisconsin, Madison (1) – Had a very strong global media run during the previous cycle.

16. Princeton University (12) – The First Lady’s Alma Mater was originally known as the College of New Jersey.

17. University of Pennsylvania (22) – The Wharton School greatly strengthens Penn’s brand equity.

18. University of California, Los Angeles (16) – Tops in LaLa Land, though USC is making great strides forward.

19. University of California, Davis (13) – Originally established as the agricultural extension of UC Berkeley known as the University Farm.

20. Georgia Institute of Technology (27) – The Yellow Jackets ramble into the Top 20.

21. Georgetown University (14) – Once again, the Top Catholic University in the land.

22. New York University (18) – Growing global ambitions reflected in the global media.

23. Indiana University, Bloomington (46) – Steadily gaining in prestige and the rankings reflect it.

24. Boston College (39) – A generation ago, the Flutie Effect launched the school on its present stellar trajectory.

25. University of California, San Diego (23) – UCSD receives about a billion dollars a year in research grants.

The Top 25 Colleges by TrendTopper MediaBuzz

The College category also produced a new No. 1, Williams College of Massachusetts as a strong No. 1 in the College Division. (Little Three companion schools Amherst and Wesleyan claimed the No. 7 and thirteen spots, respectively.)

Williams is the fifth different college to take the top spot since these rankings began, which now have been represented by the South (Davidson), the West (Colorado College), the East (Wellesley College) and the Midwest (Carleton College). Wellesley was also the only Women’s College to top a general college ranking.

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In another first, three of the Claremont Colleges finished in the Top Ten: No. 4 Claremont McKenna, No. 5 Harvey Mudd, and No. 6 Pomona. In addition, another Claremont College, Scripps — the Women’s College, finished at No. 18.

The Top 25 Colleges by TrendTopper MediaBuzz

Rank / Colleges Fall 2011

Williams College Museum

1. Williams College – The Ephs (or is it Blue Cows?) set the standard, once again, however a first in Internet MediaBuzz..

2. University of Richmond — Richmond looking stronger and stronger in the classroom, the athletic field and the media.

3. Union College – A sometimes overlooked gem of a school making strides in the Internet age.

4. Claremont McKenna College – CMC marks the beginning of the Claremont Colleges surge.

5. Harvey Mudd College – One of the top technical schools in the nation finally getting it due.

6. Pomona College – Perhaps the most akin to Williams on the list (minus the SoCal climate and beaches).

7. Wesleyan University – Firmly wedged between Williams and Amherst, as is its usual fate.

8. The Juilliard School – A school that truly deserves to be in the nation’s Top Ten, though it is often relegated to ‘Unranked’ or ‘Other’ categories.

9. Carleton College – A past No.1 that continues to gain in global reputation.

10. Bates College – With Colby and Bowdoin, one of the three little Ivies from the state of Maine.

11. Pratt Institute – Pratt’s mission is to educate artists and creative professionals and, indeed, that is what it does.

12. Amherst College – Always lurking near the top of the Liberal Arts College rankings.

13. Wellesley College – The only Woman’s College to achieve No. 1 in any comprehensive national rankings.

14. Bryn Mawr College – Katy Hepburn would be proud of how the little school has come of age (125^th anniversary).

15. Middlebury College – Such a large global footprint for such a small school.

16. Bowdoin College – Used to boast of being the first US college to witness the sunrise.

17. Smith College – The women’s school of the Five Colleges Consortium around Amherst, Massachusetts.

18. Scripps College – Yet another of the Claremont Colleges to emerge into the top ranks.

19. Bucknell University – Bucknell is the largest private Liberal Arts college in the nation and its outsized reputation is beginning to reflect this fact.

20. Oberlin College – From the Arb to the Arch the college holds many firsts in American academic history, such as the first co-ed college to graduate a woman.

21. Colorado College – CC, of Block Plan fame, was the first No. 1 west of the Mississippi.

22. School of the Art Institute of Chicago – SAIC deserves to be in the top reaches of any serious collegiate ranking.

23. Babson College – Specialized in entrepreneurship before entrepreneurship was cool.

24. United States Military Academy – Army and Navy were considered part of the traditional Ivy League a century before the Ivy Group sports conference was formed.

25. United States Air Force Academy – Service Academies are amazingly unranked by US News and others

The Top Specialty Schools.

Top Engineering Schools: CalTech, MIT, Georgia Tech (College: Harvey Mudd)

Top Online/For Profit Schools: the University of Phoenix.

Top Business School: Babson College

Top Christian School: Wheaton College, IL

Top Military Academy: United States Military Academy

Top Multi-disciplinary Art & Design School: Pratt Institute

Top School of Art: School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)

Top Music School: the Julliard School

Top Catholic University: Georgetown University

Top Catholic College: College of the Holy Cross

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The Global Language Monitor publishes the TrendTopper Media Buzz College and University Rankings, twice a year, with spring and fall editions. Many institutions of higher education, including Wisconsin, Harvard, Boston College, and Vanderbilt have used the rankings as a validation of their recent reputation management decisions.

About The Global Language Monitor

Austin-Texas-based Global Language Monitor analyzes and catalogues the latest trends in word usage and word choices, and their impact on the various aspects of culture, with a particular emphasis upon Global English. Since 2003, GLM has launched a number of innovative products and services monitoring the Internet, the Blogosphere, Social Media as well as the Top 75,000 print and electronic media sites.

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2011 Top 300 Colleges and Universities Ranked by Internet ‘Brand Equity’

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Published: January 4th, 2011

For Current Edition Summer/Spring 2012 (April 2012), Click here

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Wisconsin Tops Chicago and Harvard in Universities; Davidson over Occidental and Williams in Colleges

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Historic Re-alignment of what is considered an ‘elite’ school

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AUSTIN, Texas January 11, 2011 (Updated) — The University of Wisconsin at Madison, one of the nation’s most storied land-grant institutions, leaped over Chicago, Harvard, MIT, Columbia and two-time defending No. 1 (and fellow Big Ten academic powerhouse) Michigan, as the Top University according to the TrendTopper MediaBuzz Internet analysis released by the Global Language Monitor.

There have now had three different schools taking the top spot for Universities in the last three years: Harvard, Michigan and now Wisconsin. As for Harvard, it slipped to No. 3, while the University of Chicago moved into the No. 2 spot. Cornell University and the University of California at Berkeley broke into the Top Ten, knocking out Stanford and Princeton. UCLA also fell out of the Top Ten. Other big movers included Georgetown, California-Davis and CalTech, each moving up 10 or more spots.

“The ‘flight to quality’ continues unabated. The savvy consumer of the education marketplace appears centered on the price-sensitive ‘public ivies’ and technology-centered schools, as well as on-line alternatives. The solidly performing ‘little ivies’ are now now fairly well distributed across the country– and are holding their own,” said Paul JJ Payack, President of the Global Language Monitor.” One aftermath of the recent recession is that consumers understand that it is smart not to accept ‘retail pricing’ and that colleges are no different in this regard from any other institution.”

The TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings are a way of seeing the schools through the eyes of the world at large. It is a democratic, self-generating ratings system, since it captures the brand equity associated with each of these fine institutions. GLM’s TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings actually removes all bias inherent in each of the other published rankings, since they actually reflect what is being said and stated on the billions of web pages that we measure.

The TrendTopper MediaBuzz Analysis uses the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s classifications as the basis to distinguish between Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges. The schools were ranked in the last week of December with a mid-year snapshot, and the last day of 2009 as the base.

TrendTopper MediaBuzz utilizes a mathematical model that ‘normalizes’ the data collected from the Internet, social media, and blogosphere as well as the top 75,000 print and electronic media. The end result is a non-biased analytical tool that provides a gauge of relative values among various institutions, as well as measures of how that value changes over time.

The Top Ten Universities by the TrendTopper MediaBuzz Internet rankings follow.

1. Univ. of Wisconsin—Madison

2. University of Chicago

3. Harvard University

4. Mass. Institute of Technology

5. Columbia University

6. Univ. of Michigan—Ann Arbor

7. Cornell University

8. University of California–Berkeley

9. Yale University

10. University of Texas—Austin

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The Top Twenty Universities now include four Ivy League schools, four Public Ivy’s (two from the Big Ten), one technological institute and the always formidable University of Chicago.

The College category also produced a new No. 1, Davidson College of North Carolina. This is the fourth different college to take the top spot since these rankings began which now have been represented by the West (Colorado College), the East (Wellesley College) and the Midwest (Carleton College). Wellesley was also the only Women’s College to top a general college ranking.

Davidson, as well as L.A.’s Occidental College (where President Obama spent his first year in college) both leaped over the Little Three (Amherst, Williams and Wesleyan University) as well as all three previous No. 1’s.

The Top Ten Colleges by the TrendTopper MediaBuzz Internet rankings follow.

1. Davidson College

2. Occidental College

3. Williams College

4. Wesleyan University

5. Carleton College

6. Amherst College

7. Bucknell University

8. Oberlin College

9. United States Air Force Academy

10. Pomona College

The Top Ten among colleges included Bucknell, Oberlin, Pomona and the US Air Force Academy. The Top Twenty included the Little Three, four of the former Seven Sisters (though Vassar is now co-ed), two Patriot League schools, two US Service Academies, the top Catholic College in the US (College of the Holy Cross), two of the Claremont Colleges, and two schools that are not included in the traditional college rankings: the Juilliard School and Pratt Institute, both in New York City.

The TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings are the only to include specialty schools, such as Art, Business, Design, Music, as well as Internet-based (and for-profit) All these were included in the College category with the exception of the online university, which was assigned to the University category.

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In addition, the BOC notation signifies Best of Class; it is noted for those schools that are either first in the overall ranking, or first in a specific classification.

Top in the US/Best of Class (BOC) designation was awarded for:

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Top Colleges Winter 2011

By: admin

Published: January 3rd, 2011

2011 TrendTopper MediaBuzz Internet “Brand Equity” Rankings

Wisconsin Tops Chicago and Harvard in Universities; Davidson over Occidental and Williams in Colleges

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Historic Re-alignment of what is considered an ‘elite’ school

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AUSTIN, Texas December 30, 2010 – The University of Wisconsin at Madison, one of the nation’s most storied land-grant institutions, leapt over Chicago, Harvard, MIT, Columbia and two-time defending No. 1 (and fellow Big Ten academic powerhouse) Michigan, as the Top University according to the TrendTopper MediaBuzz Internet analysis released by the Global Language Monitor.

There have now had three different schools taking the top spot for Universities in the last three years: Harvard, Michigan and now Wisconsin. As for Harvard, it slipped to No. 3, while the University of Chicago moved into the No. 2 spot. Cornell University and the University of California at Berkeley broke into the Top Ten, knocking out Stanford and Princeton. UCLA also fell out of the Top Ten. Other big movers included Georgetown, California-Davis and CalTech, each moving up ten or more spots.

“The ‘flight to quality’ continues unabated. The savvy consumer of the education marketplace appears centered on the price-sensitive ‘public ivies’ and technology-centered schools, as well as on-line alternatives. The solidly performing ‘little Ivies’ are now now fairly well distributed across the country– and are holding their own,” said Paul JJ Payack, President of the Global Language Monitor.” One aftermath of the recent recession is that consumers understand that it is smart not to accept ‘retail pricing’ and that colleges are no different in this regard from any other institution.”

The TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings are a way of seeing the schools through the eyes of the world at large. It is a democratic, self-generating ratings system, since it captures the brand equity associated with each of these fine institutions. GLM’s TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings actually removes all bias inherent in each of the other published rankings, since they actually reflect what is being said and stated on the billions of web pages that we measure.

The TrendTopper MediaBuzz Analysis uses the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s classifications as the basis to distinguish between Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges. The schools were ranked in the last week of December with a mid-year snapshot, and the last day of 2009 as the base.

TrendTopper MediaBuzz utilizes a mathematical model that ‘normalizes’ the data collected from the Internet, social media, and blogosphere as well as the top 75,000 print and electronic media. The end result is a non-biased analytical tool that provides a gauge of relative values among various institutions, as well as measures of how that value changes over time.

The Top Twenty Universities by the TrendTopper MediaBuzz Internet rankings follow.

1. Univ. of Wisconsin—Madison

2. University of Chicago

3. Harvard University

4. Mass. Institute of Technology

5. Columbia University

6. Univ. of Michigan—Ann Arbor

7. Cornell University

8. University of California–Berkeley

9. Yale University

10. University of Texas—Austin

11. Stanford University

12. Princeton University

13. University of California — Davis

14. Georgetown University

15. Duke University

16. University of California—Los Angeles

17. University of Washington

18. New York University

19. California Institute of Technology

20. Johns Hopkins University

The Top Ten Universities now include four Ivy League schools, four Public Ivy’s (two from the Big Ten), one technological institute and the always formidable University of Chicago.

We have now three different schools taking the top spot for Universities in the last three Years: Harvard, Michigan and now Wisconsin.

As for Harvard, it slipped to No. 3, while the University of Chicago moved into the No. 2 spot. Cornell University and the University of California at Berkeley broke into the Top Ten, knocking out Stanford and Princeton. UCLA also fell out of the Top Ten.

Other big movers included Georgetown, California-Davis and CalTech, all moving up ten or more spots.

The College category also produced a new No. 1, Davidson College of North Carolina. This is the fourth different college to take the top spot since these rankings began which now have been represented by the West (Colorado College), the East (Wellesley College) and the Midwest (Carleton College). Wellesley was also the only Women’s College to top a general college ranking.

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Davidson, as well as L.A.’s Occidental College (where President Obama spent his first year in college) both leapt over the Little Three (Amherst, Williams and Wesleyan University) as well as all three previous No. 1’s: Carleton College, Wellesley College, and Colorado College.

The Top Twenty Colleges by the TrendTopper MediaBuzz Internet rankings follow.

1. Davidson College

2. Occidental College

3. Williams College

4. Wesleyan University

5. Carleton College

6. Amherst College

7. Bucknell University

8. Oberlin College

9. United States Air Force Academy

10. Pomona College

11. Wellesley College

12. Juilliard School of Music

13. Vassar College

14. Pratt Institute

15. United States Military Academy

16. Smith College

17. Bowdoin College

18. College of the Holy Cross

19. Claremont McKenna College

20. Bryn Mawr College

The Top Ten among colleges included Bucknell, Oberlin, Pomona and the US Air Force Academy. The Top Twenty included the Little Three, four of the former Seven Sisters (though Vassar is now co-ed), two Patriot League schools, two US Service Academies, the top Catholic College in the US (College of the Holy Cross), two of the Claremont Colleges, and two schools that are not included in the traditional college rankings: the Juilliard School and Pratt Institute, both in New York City.

The TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings are the only to include specialty schools, such as Art, Business, Design, Music, as well as Internet-based (and for-profit) All these were included in the College category with the exception of the online university, which was assigned to the University category.

In addition, the BOC notation signifies Best of Class; it is noted for those schools that are either first in the overall ranking, or first in a specific classification.

Top in the US/Best of Class (BOC) designation was awarded for:

• Top University: University of Wisconsin, Madison

• Top College: Davidson College

• Top Engineering Hybrid School: The Cooper Union

• Top Business: Babson College

• Top Art and Design School: Pratt Institute

• Top Art School: School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)

• Top Music School: The Juilliard School

• Top Online University: University of Phoenix

• Top Christian School: Wheaton College, Illinois

• Top Catholic College: College of the Holy Cross

• Top Catholic University: Georgetown University

• Top Service Academy: United States Air Force Academy

• Top Outré College (New Category): Oberlin

The rankings also include the Biggest Movers for both colleges and universities and the Top States for Top Colleges.

The Universities that gained the most ‘media momentum’ since our last analysis were:

1. Worcester Polytechnic Institute

2. Miami University—Oxford

3. Lehigh University

4. Cal Poly—San Luis Obispo

5. University of California—Irvine

6. CUNY-Queens

7. Georgetown University

8. Mills College

9. University of Denver

10. Rice University

The Colleges that have gained the most ‘media momentum’ since our last analysis were:

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1. Smith College

2. Trinity College CT

3. St. John’s College MD

4. School of Visual Arts (NY)

5. Fashion Institute of Technology

6. St Lawrence University

7. Swarthmore College

8. Hampshire College

9. Gettysburg College

10. Oberlin College

In addition, each of the forty-two states with top colleges is listed with the combined rankings of colleges and universities within the state.

The top five states for top colleges, along with the number of top colleges within the states include:

1. New York (45)

2. California (30)

3. Massachusetts (25)

4. Pennsylvania (22)

5. Illinois (12)

The 2011 TrendTopper MediaBuzz Internet Rankings contains all of the above information on the Top 300 US Colleges and Universities, with added detail.

About The TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings

GLM created the TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings to remove all bias that we saw as inherent in each of the other published rankings, be they peer assessments, the opinion of high school guidance counselors, the ratio of endowment to number of students, number of left-leaning professors, and all the rest.

The 53 page guide includes the following:

Why another college guide; why TrendTopper MediaBuzz?
Introduction – A New Reality
Highlights for Winter/Spring 2011
About TrendTopper MediaBuzz™
Top Universities for Winter/Spring 2011
Top Colleges for Winter/Spring 2011
Universities with Greatest Change
Biggest Movers – Universities
Biggest Movers – Colleges
Top States for Top Schools
TrendTopper MediaBuzz Backgrounder

We found it highly interest that many institutions used our rankings as a validation of their recent reputation management decisions:

Harvard University: “Rankings highlight correlation between university prestige and media coverage … Indeed, the study seems to validate the Harvard Kennedy School’s recent decision to rebrand itself. Known as the Kennedy School of Government until last spring, the public policy and administration changed its shorthand so that it includes the word “Harvard”.

GLM’s College Reputation Management Services are part of our TrendTopper Branding Services.

To learn more, click here.

Boston College: “University Spokesman Jack Dunn said, “Boston College’s ranking in this study serves as an affirmation of what we have long believed. Academic research and accomplishments along with media citations and this recent ranking are all affirmations of the growing steam of this university.” The major factors that contributed to BC’s high ranking were a well-published academic community, a strong public relations office, and a successful sports program in recent years.

Vanderbilt University: “… when prospective students, faculty, friends and neighbors hear ‘Vanderbilt’ they associate it with excellent academic programs, innovative research, world class health care, the best students, a gorgeous campus, a dynamic hometown, rockin’ athletics and more. And, by one measure at least, we’re succeeding.”

Chronicle of Higher Education: “[GLM’s TrendTopper analysis] is at least one measure of wealth, success and prestige,” Hoover said. “Even on campuses where presidents do not put too much stock into rankings themselves, it is something they must think about” because alums and top students pay attention to them. – Eric Hoover, marketing strategies, Chronicle of Higher Education, quoted in Harvard Crimson.

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Highlights for Winter/Spring 2011
About TrendTopper MediaBuzz™
Top Universities for Winter/Spring 2011
Top Colleges for Winter/Spring 2011
Universities with Greatest Change
Biggest Movers – Universities
Biggest Movers – Colleges
Top States for Top Schools
TrendTopper MediaBuzz Backgrounder

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NY Named Top State for Top Colleges for 2010

By: admin

Published: August 25th, 2010

Calif, Mass, Pa, Ill, Ohio, Va, Texas, NC and Minn follow

AUSTIN, Texas. (August 26, 2010) — New York state has been named the Top State for Top Colleges followed by California, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Illinois. Ohio, Virginia, Texas, North Carolina and Minnesota rounded out the Top Ten. The list was assembled by the Global Language Monitor in its twice yearly TrendTopper Media Buzz analysis of the nation’s Top 300 Colleges and Universities.

“The TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings is a democratic, self-generating ratings system, since it captures the brand equity associated with each of these fine institutions. We survey social media such as Twitter, as well as the Internet, blogosphere, and the global print and electronic media.” said Paul JJ Payack, the president of Global Language Monitor. “As such, we remove the biases inherently built into each of the other published rankings. For example, US News recently announced that it has changed a key component to their rankings thereby lowering the value of year-by-year comparisons.”

The Top Ten States with the Most Top Colleges are listed below. Listings include Ranking, the number of top schools in parentheses, the Top University and College, National Best of Class Institutions and Top Surprises for each state.

Asterisks (*) indicate National Best-in-Class

State Rank
No. 1	New York (44)
Top College	Vassar College
Top University	Columbia University
Top Academy	United States Military Academy *
Top Music School	Juilliard School *
Top Design School	Pratt Institute *
Top Surprise	NY as the No. 1 State

No. 2	California (29)
Top College	Pomona College
Top University	University of California—Los Angeles
Top Surprise	Stanford & UC San Diego top Berkeley

No. 3	Massachusetts (25)
Top University	Harvard University
Top College	Williams College
Top Business College	Babson College *
Top Engineering School	Massachusetts Institute of Technology *
Top Catholic School	College of the Holy Cross *
Top Surprise	Amherst falls out of Top 10

No. 4	Pennsylvania (22)
Top University	Pennsylvania State University
Top College	Bucknell University
Top Surprise	Penn State over U of Pennsylvania

No. 5	Illinois (13)
Top University	University of Chicago
Top College	Wheaton College
Top Christian College	Wheaton College *
Top Surprise	Northwestern University at No. 39

No. 6	Ohio (11)
Top University	Ohio State University—Columbus
Top College	Kenyon College
Top Surprise	Oberlin College Slips

No. 7	Virginia (10)
Top College	University of Richmond
Top University	Virginia Tech
Top Surprise	VT over UVA

No. 8	Texas (10)
Top University	University of Texas—Austin
Top College	Austin College
Top Surprise	UT breaks into the Top Ten

No. 9	North Carolina (8)
Top University	Duke University
Top College	Davidson College
Top Surprise	UNC falls out of Top Ten

No. 10	Minnesota (8)
Top College	Carleton College *
Top University	University of Minnesota
Top Surprise	Capella now No. 2 Internet School

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The complete listings of all the states can be found here.

The Global Language Monitor publishes the TrendTopper Media Buzz College and University Rankings. twice a year, with spring and fall editions. Many institutions of higher education, including Harvard, Boston College, and Vanderbilt have used the rankings as a validation of their recent reputation management decisions.

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Top 300 US Colleges and Universities by Internet Media Buzz

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Published: July 28th, 2010

For Current Edition Summer/Spring 2012 (April 2012), Click here

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Michigan Again Bests Harvard as Top University

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UCLA, Texas break into Top Ten

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Carleton Beats Williams and Pomona on College List

Austin, Texas, July 29, 2010 – The University of Michigan again edged out Harvard atop the Global Language Monitor’s TrendTopper Media Buzz list of the nation’s Top 300 Colleges and Universities. Notably UCLA and the University of Texas moved into the Top Ten for the first time. In the College category, Carleton College beat Williams and Pomona to notch the Top Spot for the first time. In the Fall 2009 edition, Wellesley came in No. 1.

“The TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings are a way of seeing the schools through the eyes of the world at large. It is a democratic, self-generating ratings system, since it captures the brand equity associated with each of these fine institutions,” said Paul JJ Payack, the president of Global Language Monitor. “GLM’s TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings actually removes all bias inherent in each of the other published rankings, since they actually reflect what is being said and stated on the billions of web pages that we measure.”

The Top 25 Universities by TrendTopper MediaBuzz include the following.

	Summer/Spring 2010
Rank
1	University of Michigan—Ann Arbor
2	Harvard University
3	University of Chicago
4	University of California—Los Angeles
5	Stanford University
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
7	University of Texas—Austin
8	Princeton University
9	Yale University
10	Columbia University
11	Washington University in St. Louis
12	Cornell University
13	University of California—San Diego
14	University of California–Berkeley
15	University of Wisconsin—Madison
16	Pennsylvania State University
17	University of Washington
18	Duke University
19	University of Pennsylvania
20	Johns Hopkins University
21	New York University
22	Virginia Tech
23	University of Virginia
24	University of Minnesota
25	University of Rochester

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For University Rankings Nos. 26 to 162, go here.

The Top 25 Colleges by TrendTopper MediaBuzz include the following.

	Summer/Spring 2010
Rank
1	Carleton College
2	Williams College
3	Pomona College
4	Middlebury College
5	University of Richmond
6	Wellesley College
7	Vassar College
8	Union College
9	Cooper Union
10	Hamilton College
11	United States Military Academy
12	Colgate University
13	Sarah Lawrence University
14	Colorado College
15	College of the Holy Cross
16	Pratt Institute
17	Bard College
18	Bucknell University
19	Reed College
20	Drew University
21	Harvey Mudd College
22	Davidson College
23	Occidental College
24	Skidmore College
25	Claremont McKenna College

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For College Rankings Nos. 26 to 150, go here.

The Top Specialty schools listed in their categories as well as overall rank include:

Top Engineering Schools: MIT (6 overall, university), The Cooper Union (9 overall, college), Harvey Mudd (21 overall, college), California Institute of Technology (CalTech) (35 overall, university), and Carnegie Mellon University (42 overall, university).
Top Online/For Profit Schools: the University of Phoenix (63 overall, university), Kaplan University (124 overall, university) and Capella University (140 overall, university)
Top Christian School: Wheaton College, IL (16 overall, college)
Top Military Academies: the United States Military Academy (11 overall, college), the United States Naval Academy (26 overall, college), and the United States Air Force Academy (31 overall, college), United States Coast Guard Academy (118 overall, college), and United States Merchant Marine Academy (119 overall, college).
Top Art and Design Schools: Pratt Institute (16 overall, college), Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) (51 overall, college), and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (66 overall, college), California Institution of the Arts (70 overall, college), and Minneapolis College of Art and Design (92 overall, college).
Top Music Schools: the Julliard School (39 overall, college), Berklee College (87 overall, college), the Curtis Institute, (108 overall, college), the Cleveland Institute of Music (110 overall, college), and the New England Conservatory of Music (131 overall, college).

Top Business School: Babson College (37 overall, college).

The Global Language Monitor publishes the TrendTopper Media Buzz College and University Rankings. twice a year, with spring and fall editions. Many institutions of higher education, including Harvard, Boston College, and Vanderbilt have used the rankings as a validation of their recent reputation management decisions.

The complete report, including short term and long term change, rankings by state, and complete PQI index is available for $998. For more information, call 1.925.367.7557 or email pjjp@post.harvard.edu

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Pomona College Ranked Sixth in Media Awareness

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Published: April 24th, 2010

Pomona College is currently ranked sixth out of all colleges on The Global Language Monitor’s TrendTopper MediaBuzz College and University Rankings.

The report, released biannually, ranks colleges and universities in terms of their presence in international print and electronic media. The report is meant to assess schools’ media awareness and global reputations.

Pomona rose from its position of 21 in the spring 2009 college rankings to sixth this previous fall. The top-ranked college was Wellesley College, while the University of Michigan topped the university rankings.

“During 2008-09, Pomona College was mentioned more than 2,800 times in print, broadcast, and on online news sites, a record for the nine years we’ve been tracking,” said Cynthia Peters, Director of Media Relations at Pomona College. (Read More.)

GLM’s Top 300 Colleges and Universities Spring 2010 Edition will be released Week of May 24th.

See November Rankings here.

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Published: December 9th, 2009

For Immediate Release

Top 225 Colleges and Universities Ranked

by TrendTopper MediaBuzz™

Austin, TX December 8, 2009 – The Global Language Monitor today announced the immediate availability of the TrendTopper MediaBuzz College and University Rankings. Unlike other college guides, it is published twice a year, with spring and fall editions. This means that readers can make crucial decisions using information from near real time rankings. The data for the current edition is accurate as of November 1, 2009. The 73-page guide is available for download from the Global Language Monitor site.

The guide uses exclusive TrendTopper MediaBuzz™ analyses of the nation’s colleges and universities according their appearance in the global print and electronic media, on the Internet throughout the blogosphere, and including social media such as Twitter. The GLM rankings are also the first to include specialty schools, such as Art, Business, Music and Engineering schools, as well as online universities.

“TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings remove all bias that we saw as inherent in each of the other published rankings, be they peer assessments, the opinion of high school guidance counselors, the ratio of endowment to number of students, number of left or right-leaning professors, and all the rest,” said Paul JJ Payack, the president of Global Language Monitor. “The TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings are a way of seeing the schools through the eyes of the world at large. As with any brand, prospective students, alumni, employers, and the world at large believe that students who are graduated from such institutions will carry on the all the hallmarks of that particular school.”

Institutions are ranked by overall presence, and how quickly they are moving over the short and long-term. In addition, the study reveals the actual scores that separate the Top 225 Colleges and Universities from one another. In addition, the schools are ranked by their position in their state.

Many institutions of higher education, including Harvard, Boston College, and Vanderbilt have used the rankings as a validation of their recent reputation management decisions.

Since TrendTopper MediaBuzz ranks overall media awareness and strength of a school’s ‘brand’ or reputation, the Global Language Monitor included specialty schools, which were included in the College category with the exception of the online universities, which was assigned to the University category.

In the University category, the University of Michigan moved up three places to the top spot, while Harvard saw a decline in Media Buzz citations of some 20%. Other major movers include MIT jumping from No. 16 to No. 2 and North Carolina, another public ivy, movinginto the Top Ten, with California—Berkeley moving from No.10 to No. 6.

In the College category, Wellesley overtook Colorado College, Williams and Amherst to claim the No. 1 position, a first for a women’s college. Pomona College, one of California’s Claremont Colleges re-emerged in the Top Ten, and Eugene Lang College of New School University debuted at a very strong No. 9.

The Top Specialty schools listed in their categories as well as overall rank are listed below.

• Top Business school was Babson College was the Top Business (67 overall, college).

• Top Art and Design schools were Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) (27 overall, college), Pratt Institute (28 overall, college), and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (47 overall, college).

• Top Engineering school was The Cooper Union (38 overall, college).

• Top Music Schools were the Julliard School (50 overall, college), the New England Conservatory of Music (96 overall, college), and Berklee College (99 overall, college).

• Top Online/For Profit University was the University of Phoenix, USA (37 overall, university).

• Top Christian was Wheaton College, IL (16 overall, college),

• Top Military Academies were the United States Naval Academy (20 overall, college), the United States Military Academy (48 overall, college) and the United States Air Force Academy (61 overall, college).

The 73-page guide is available for download from the Global Language Monitor site. The cost is $29.95.

About the Global Language Monitor

Austin-Texas-based Global Language Monitor analyzes and catalogues the latest trends in word usage and word choices, and their impact on the various aspects of culture, with a particular emphasis upon Global English.

English has become the first truly global language with some 1.53 billion speakers as a first, second or auxiliary language. Paul JJ Payack examines its impact on the world economy, culture and society in A Million Words and Counting (Citadel Press, New York, 2009).

The current estimate for the number of words in the English Language stands at 1,002,116.

For more information, call 1.925.367.7557, send email to info@LanguageMonitor.com, or visit www.LanguageMonitor.com.

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College Rankings Top 100 – Fall 2009

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Published: November 18th, 2009

Spring/Summer 2010 Rankings Announced Week of July 26th.

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	Top Colleges, Fall 2009
Rank
1	Wellesley College, MA
2	Williams College, MA
3	Colorado College, CO
4	Oberlin College, OH
5	Amherst College, MA
6	Pomona College, CA
7	Middlebury College, VT
8	Union College, NY
9	Eugene Lang College, NY
10	University of Richmond, VA
11	Vassar College, NY
12	Bowdoin College, ME
13	Bryn Mawr College, PA
14	Connecticut College, CT
15	Bucknell University, PA
16	Wheaton College IL
17	Hamilton College, NY
18	Barnard College, NY
19	Dickinson College, PA
20	United States Naval Academy, MD
21	Washington & Lee University, VA
22	Colgate University, NY
23	Carleton College, MN
24	Bates College, ME
25	Willamette University, OR
26	Lafayette College, PA
27	Rhode Island School of Design, RI
28	Pratt Institute, NY
29	Kenyon College, OH
30	University of Mary Washington, VA
31	Gettysburg College, PA
32	Swarthmore College, PA
33	Mount Holyoke College, MA
34	Haverford College, PA
35	Bard College, NY
36	Beloit College, WI
37	Mills , CA
38	Cooper Union, NY
39	Colby College, ME
40	Virginia Military Institute, VA
41	Davidson College, NC
42	St John’ University, MD, NM
43	Drew University, NJ
44	Denison University, OH
45	Occidental College, CA
46	Reed College, OR
47	School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
48	United States Military Academy, NY
49	Spelman College, GA
50	Julliard School, NY
51	Macalester College, MN
52	DePauw University, IN
53	Trinity College, CT
54	Furman University, SC
55	Smith College, MA
56	Wesleyan University, CT
57	Skidmore College, NY
58	College of Wooster, OH
59	Whitman College, WA
60	Grinnell College, IA
61	United States Air Force Academy, CO
62	Franklin and Marshall College, PA
63	Berea College, OH
64	Kalamazoo College, MI
65	Austin College, TX
66	Claremont McKenna College, CA
67	Babson College, MA
68	Sewanee—University of the South, TN
69	Elon University, NC
70	Trinity University, TX
71	St Olaf College, MN
72	Wabash College, IN
73	Centre College, KY
74	College of the Holy Cross, MA
75	St Lawrence University, NY
76	Southwestern University, TX
77	Muhlenberg College, PA
78	Coe College, IA
79	Illinois Wesleyan University, IL
80	Harvey Mudd College, CA
81	Earlham College
82	Gustavus Adolphus College, MN
83	Lake Forest College, IL
84	Birmingham Southern, AL
85	Wofford College, SC
86	Moravian College, PA
87	Stonehill College, MA
88	Goucher College, MD
89	Morehouse College, GA
90	Agnes Scott College, GA
91	Ursinus College, PA
92	Pitzer College, CA
93	Scripps College, CA
94	Hendrix College, AK
95	Millsaps College, MS
96	New England Conservatory of Music, MA
97	Sweet Briar, VA
98	Hobart and William Smith College, NY
99	Berklee College of Music, MA
100T	Wheaton College, MA
100T	Washington & Jefferson College, PA
100T	Lewis & Clark College, OR

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(Nov. 2009) Top 225 US Colleges Ranked by MediaBuzz

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Published: November 9th, 2009

For Current Edition Summer/Spring 2012 (April 2012), Click here

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Michigan and MIT displace Harvard atop Media Buzz Ranking

—Harvard declines 20%; endowment troubles cited

—Public Ivies and Technology-focused institutions thrive

Wellesley tops Colorado and Williams among colleges

—First Women’s College atop Liberal Arts Rankings

—Liberal Arts colleges hold their own on Media Buzz

First Rankings to Include Online/For Profit, Business, Technology, Art, Design and Music Schools

States Ranked by Number of Top Colleges (you might be surprized!)

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Read: Harvard Brand Takes a Hit in Tough Economic Times

Listen to: the article in English from China Daily

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Austin, Texas November 9, 2009. In an exclusive TrendTopper MediaBuzz™ analysis of the nation’s colleges and universities, the Global Language Monitor has ranked the nation’s Top 200 colleges and universities according their appearance in the global print and electronic media, on the Internet throughout the blogosphere, and including social media such as Twitter. The GLM rankings were also the first to include specialty schools, such as Art, Business, Music and Engineering schools, as well as online universities.

Read the Reaction from Michigan, Harvard, Yale and Wisconsin

In the University category, there appeared to be a ‘flight to quality’ with the consumer perception of quality being the price-sensitive ‘public ivies’ and technology-centered schools, epitomized by the University of Michigan moving up three places to the top spot. Harvard saw a decline in Media Buzz citations of some 20%, perhaps reflecting its endowment taking an $11 billion hit including some $1.8 billion from the general fund. Other major movers include MIT jumping from No. 16 to No. 2 affirmed the technology trend, North Carolina, another public ivy, moved into the Top Ten, with California—Berkeley moving from No.10 to No. 6.

In the College category, Wellesley overtook Colorado College, Williams and Amherst to claim the No. 1 position, a first for a women’s college. Pomona College, one of California’s Claremont Colleges re-emerged in the Top Ten, and Eugene Lang College of New School University debuted at a very strong No. 9. Overall the College Media Buzz was generally up in contrast to that of the private schools on the Universities list.

“This year we’ve witnessed the impact the Global Financial Restructuring has had upon the US higher education system. On the University level there has been a small but dramatic reordering of the hierarchy, which has remained virtually unshaken for many years,” said Paul JJ Payack, President and Chief Word Analyst at GLM. “However, Liberal arts colleges, the public ivies, and engineering-focused schools appear to have held onto, or actually increased their ‘brand equity’.”

Click here for States Ranked by Number of Top Colleges

This List just might surprise you!

Since TrendTopper MediaBuzz ranks overall media awareness and strength of a school’s ‘brand’ or reputation, the Global Language Monitor included specialty schools, such as Art, Business, Design, Music and Engineering schools, as well as online universities. All these were included in the College category with the exception of the online university, which was assigned to the University category.

The Top Specialty schools listed in their categories as well as overall rank are listed below.

• The Top Business school was Babson College was the Top Business (67 overall, college).

• The Top Art and Design schools were Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) (27 overall, college), Pratt Institute (28 overall, college), and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (47 overall, college).

• The Top Engineering school was The Cooper Union (38 overall, college).

• The Top Music Schools were the Julliard School (50 overall, college), the New England Conservatory of Music (96 overall, college), and Berklee College (99 overall, college).

• The Top Online University was the University of Phoenix, USA (37 overall, university).

• The Top Christian was Wheaton College, IL (16 overall, college),

• The Top Military Academies were the United States Naval Academy (20 overall, college), the United States Military Academy (48 overall, college) and the United States Air Force Academy (61 overall, college).

For the complete list of the top Specialty schools, go here.

The Top Twenty-five Universities are listed here.

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

For the full list of Universities, go here.

The Top Twenty-five Colleges are listed here.

1 Wellesley College, MA
2 Williams College, MA
3 Colorado College, CO
4 Oberlin College, OH
5 Amherst College, MA
6 Pomona College, CA
7 Middlebury College, VT
8 Union College, NY
9 Eugene Lang College, NY
10 University of Richmond, VA
11 Vassar College, NY
12 Bowdoin College, ME
13 Bryn Mawr College, PA
14 Connecticut College, CT
15 Bucknell University, PA
16 Wheaton College IL
17 Hamilton College, NY
18 Barnard College, NY
19 Dickinson College, PA
20 United States Naval Academy, MD
21 Washington & Lee University, VA
22 Colgate University, NY
23 Carleton College, MN
24 Bates College, ME
25 Willamette University, OR

For the full list of Colleges, go here.

The Top 200 Colleges and Universities were also ranked by Media Momentum, defined as largest change in Media Buzz from the end of 2008, and the largest change in media citations in the previous 90 days. The analysis was completed on November 1, 2009

GLM used its proprietary Predictive Quantities Indicator (PQI) software for the TrendTopper MediaBuzz Analysis. GLM used the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s classifications as the basis to distinguish between Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges. The schools were ranked in late October, with the last day of 2008 as the base, with two interim snapshots in 2009.

The Global Language Monitor also provides the TrendTopper Reputation Management Service that helps institutions differentiate themselves among their competitors. TTRMS does not influence the rankings in any way. For more information, go to www.TrendTopper.com or call 925.367.7557.

The complete report is available for download.

The 73-page report includes details on:

Click to buy and download the complete 73-page report

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College Rankings Top 225 in the U.S. – Fall 2009

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Published: November 9th, 2009

For Current Edition Summer/Spring 2012 (April 2012), Click here

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Michigan and MIT displace Harvard atop Media Buzz Ranking

—Harvard declines 20%; endowment troubles cited

—Public Ivies and Technology-focused institutions thrive

Wellesley tops Colorado and Williams among colleges

—First Women’s College atop Liberal Arts Rankings

—Liberal Arts colleges hold their own on Media Buzz

First Rankings to Include Online, Business, Tech Hybrid, Art, Design and Music Schools

Colleges Ranked by State