The New Ivies: A Guide to Emerging Academic Powerhouses

Table of Contents

• Prologue

• The call for New Ivies

• Insights on New Ivies

• List of the New Ivies

  
  

Forbes reached out to almost 300 subscribers, three-fourths of which held direct hiring authority at the time of the survey.

• 33% of the recruiters are less likely to hire Ivy League graduates.

• 20% of hiring managers said the Ivy League colleges were doing worse than five years ago in preparing job candidates.

• 42% of hiring managers are more likely to hire public university graduates than they were five years ago.

  
  

List of the New Ivies

The lesson is that the Ivy League is no longer the golden ticket to success, as students would think. Here is a comprehensive list of new public and private Ivies, along with their acceptance rate and QS ranking:

Public Ivies:

University	Acceptance Rate	QS World Ranking
Binghamton University, New York	38%	1001-1200
Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia	13.75%	114
University of Florida, Florida	24%	215
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Illinois	43.7%	69
University of Maryland, College Park	44.95%	218
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	18%	44
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hills	17%	155
University of Texas, Austin	31%	66
University of Virginia, Virginia	19%	297
University of Wisconsin, Madison	49%	116

Private Ivies:

University	Acceptance Rate	QS World Ranking
Boston College, Massachusetts	17%	631-640
Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania	11%	58
Emory University,  Georgia	11%	196
Georgetown University, District of Columbia	12%	301
John Hopkins University, Maryland	7%	32
Northwestern University, Illinois	7%	50
Rice University, Texas	9%	141
University of Notre Dame, Indiana	13%	316
University of Southern California, California	12%	125
Vanderbilt University, Tennessee	7%	248

Note: Please refer to US News for queries related to acceptance rate and QS world ranking website for their rankings.