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.

Summer/Spring 2010

Top 150 Universities

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

26 Michigan State University

27 University of California — Davis

28 Boston University

29 Purdue University

30 University of Connecticut

31 University of Florida

32 University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill

33 Ohio State University—Columbus

34 University of Kentucky

35 California Institute of Technology

36 Indiana University—Bloomington

37 University of Arizona

38 Rutgers, the State University of NJ

39 Northwestern University

40 University of California—Santa Cruz

41 Arizona State University

42 Carnegie Mellon University

43 University of Southern California

44 University of Colorado—Boulder

45 University of Georgia

46 University of Iowa

47 Georgia Institute of Technology

48 University of Illinois—Urbana – Champaign

49 Boston College

50 Georgetown University

51 University of Notre Dame

52 Tufts University

53 University of Pittsburgh

54 Emory University

55 University of South Carolina—Columbia

56 Vanderbilt University

57 University of Delaware

58 University of California—Santa Barbara

59 Texas A&M University

60 Dartmouth College

61 Syracuse University

62 University of Phoenix

63 Brown University

64 American University

65 Iowa State University

66 University of Missouri—Columbia

67 University of Miami

68 University of New Hampshire

69 George Washington University

70 University of Kansas

71 University of Oregon

72 University of California—Irvine

73 University of Oklahoma

74 University of Maryland—College Park

75 Loyola University Chicago

76 Tulane University

77 Washington State University

78 North Carolina State University—Raleigh

79 Case Western Reserve University

80 Kansas State University

81 Northeastern University

82 Auburn University

83 University of Alabama

84 Drexel University

85 Baylor University

86 University of Massachusetts—Amherst

87 Fordham University

88 Wake Forest University

89 DePaul University

90 Villanova University

91 Rice University

92 Brigham Young University—Provo

93 University of Vermont

94 Howard University

95 University of California—Riverside

96 Clemson University

97 Colorado State University

98 Chapman University

99 University of Tennessee

100 Brandeis University

101 University of Arkansas

102 Santa Clara University

103 Marquette University

104 Rochester Inst. of Technology

105 Southern Methodist University

106 University of Redlands

107 University of San Diego

108 University of Dayton

109 Hofstra University

110 Lehigh University

111 St Louis University

112 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

113 Yeshiva University

114 Pepperdine University

115 Gonzaga University

116 SUNY—Stony Brook

117 Tuskegee University

118 University of Denver

119 College of William and Mary

120 Illinois Institute of Technology

121 James Madison University

122 Howard University (DC)

123 Kaplan University

124 Stetson University

125 University of the Pacific

126 CUNY-City College

127 Texas Christian University

128 Fairfield University

129 Loyola University New Orleans

130 Binghamton University

131 Catholic University of America

132 University at Buffalo—SUNY

133 Elon University

134 Seattle University

135 CUNY-Brooklyn

136 New Jersey Institute of Technology

137 Stevens Institute of Technology

138 Colorado School of Mines

139 Capella University

140 Morgan State University

141 Truman State University

142 Evergreen State

143 Clarkson University

144 Mills College

145 University of Tulsa

146 Clark University

147 Rose-Hulman

148 Quinnipiac University

149 Worcester Polytechnic Institute

150 CUNY-Baruch

152 Miami University—Oxford

153 Michigan Technological University

154 University of Dallas

155 University of Missouri—Rolla

156 Cal Poly—San Luis Obispo

157 Dillard University (LA)

158 University of San Francisco

159 Florida A&M University

160 Xavier University of Louisiana

161 Loyola Marymount University

162 CUNY-Hunter College

163 The Citadel

164 CUNY-Queens

165 University of Utah

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 more information, call 1.925.367.7557 or email pjjp@post.harvard.edu