UNITED STATES - JULY 21: The Collaborative Innovation Center at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where high tech companies like Apple, Intel and Google are operating, is seen on Friday, July 21, 2006. Pittsburgh colleges are b …
PITTSBURGH, Pa. - There are some "New Ivies" in town, and one Pennsylvania university made the cut!
Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg is the only school in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware to be named in Forbes' new list of the top schools beyond those with the once-coveted distinction.
Classified as a "New Private Ivy," Forbes says schools like Carnegie Mellon "are attracting the smartest students and plaudits from employers."
The Pennsylvania university has an undergrad enrollment of 6,816, an acceptance rate of 11%, and average scores of 1540 for the SAT and 35 for the ACT.
Forbes declared that "something feels distinctly off on Ivy League campuses" and has for years, noting the traditional elite institutions are seeing their reputations increasingly tarnished by anti-Israel agitators.
After disqualifying the eight original Ivy League schools – Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Penn, Columbia, Dartmouth and Cornell – along with "Ivy-plus" schools Stanford, MIT, Duke and the University of Chicago, Forbes said it used several data points like standardized test scores and surveys of hiring managers to determine the top public and private institutions in the country to replace the legacies.
Here are the "New Ivies," 10 public and 10 private listed in alphabetical order, according to Forbes.
Public Ivies:
- Binghamton University
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- University of Florida
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- University of Maryland - College Park
- University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
- University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
- University of Texas - Austin
- University of Virginia
- University of Wisconsin - Madison
Private Ivies:
- Boston College
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Emory University
- Georgetown University
- Johns Hopkins University
- Northwestern University
- Rice University
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Southern California
- Vanderbilt University
Forbes noted that it excluded military academies in its analysis, and California colleges were excluded because they do not consider standardized test scores.