US College Lists and Rankings Trivia Quiz

Answer: Williams, Amherst, and Swarthmore

Liberal arts colleges are four year colleges which generally have few if any graduate programs or professional degree programs. Princeton, Harvard, Yale, MIT, Stanford, and the University of California - Berkeley are in the National University category in U.S. News and World Report's college rankings. Reed, Oberlin, and Sarah Lawrence are all excellent liberal arts colleges with politically liberal student bodies but did not rank among the top three.

Answer: Princeton University

Princeton University does not have a law school but offers outstanding programs in many other disciplines.

Answer: University of Pennsylvania, MIT, and University of California - Berkeley

None of the other schools listed offer an undergraduate degree in business although Harvard has one of the nations's best Master's program in business administration.

Answer: Princeton, Harvard, and Yale

Seven U.S. presidents studied at Harvard: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Rutherford Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, and George W. Bush ( MBA from Harvard Business School ).

Answer: University of Florida

The ten colleges with the highest number of new National Merit scholars enrolled in the fall of 2004 were as follows: ( note that the public colleges on the list offered large scholarships to National Merit finalists while the Ivy League schools generally only give need based aid ).

Harvard - 312
U. of Florida - 259
U. oF Texas - 242
Yale - 224
Stanford - 217
U. of Chicago - 198
Washington U. St. Louis 197
Princeton - 192
USC - 183
U. of Oklahoma - 170

Answer: University of Tulsa

The University of Tulsa was included on the list of twenty colleges with the happiest students.

Answer: University of Texas - Austin

All four schools were in the top 12 "party schools" so you can be proud if you attend or have attended any of them as well as Penn State, West Virginia University,l U. of U. of Wisconsin - Madison, U. of Mississippi, U. of Massachusetts - Amherst, Louisian State, or U. of California - Santa Barbara

Answer: Reed College

Reed College, which Steve Jobs briefly attended before founding Apple Computes, is considered by many to be among the most politically and socially liberal colleges in the United States.

Answer: Wheaton College (Illinois)

Wheaton College in Illinois is considered by many to be the "Harvard of Conservative Christian Colleges" based on its academic rigor and test scores of incoming freshman. In 2003 Wheaton lifted its 143 year old ban on student dancing, although the following year it fired a philosophy professor for converting to Roman Catholicism. Two of the most well-known graduates of Wheaton College are Billy Graham and Wes Craven, the horror film director. Prospective undergraduate students must sign an agreement which says they will not use of alcohol and tobacco or engage in extra-marital sexual activity.

Answer: Harvey Mudd, Rose-Hulman, and Cooper Union

The Massachusetts Institure of Technology, Stanford University, and the University of California - Berkeley were cited as the three top engineering programs at universities that offered doctoral degrees.