This is a list of the greatest dream colleges and universities in the world. These aren't necessarily the best colleges - they're the places everyone wishes they'd attended to get their college education. From the best college campuses to the greatest party schools, this list is ranked by the wisdom of the crowd, so anyone can add their own dream colleges or vote on the schools below.
Whether you're looking for the best colleges or looking back with nostalgia on your college experience, you can vote for your dream schools here with this college ranker list. These are the schools you would have attended if money (and maybe academic requirements) weren't something to worry about or consider. Everyone has that reach school that they always dreamed of attending but knew in reality wasn't an option. So live vicariously through this list and upvote the colleges and universities you would have gone to if you could have!...more
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2,1181,558Stanford University
Stanford, California2
2,2321,918Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts3
1,8551,572Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut4
1,4741,337Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey5
1,1721,143University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom6
1,5941,608Columbia University
Upper Manhattan, New York City7
1,3731,422Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts8
869917University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom9
1,9132,125Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire10
681678Georgetown University
Washington, D.C.11
1,0121,146University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania12
507570University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan13
682779Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois14
9131,069Duke University
Durham, North Carolina15
616709University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana16
8781,025University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California17
9941,173Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island18
1,0981,325Cornell University
Ithaca, New York19
1,1991,482University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California20
641786Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland21
733927University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois22
281317University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina23
373177Best University24
504593University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California25
631746University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia