Which university has enhanced its prestige most rapidly in the last 10 yrs?

Tulane

Apparently An Arbor is the good one

yes for all of those states i am referring to the “flagship” institution

ex penn state state college is penn state, penn state altoona is not “penn state”

Ohio State. Used to basically be a community college with a football team. Now legitimately in "public Ivy" territory.

Nova Southeastern University

Almost no university produces more medical doctors since they added an MD to go with the DO degree.

College of Business earned AACSB last year.

Consistently raising admission standards and attracting top students to special programs in Entrepreneurship, dual admit into medical fields, and a leading producer of nurses.
Among the top 15 most diverse campuses in America, per U.S. News.

12 National Championships, all since 2009 and four in the last twelve months, and they are spread across six sports. Titles in men’s (3) and women’s (4) golf, rowing (1), men’s basketball (1), baseball (1), and women’s swimming (2), and runner-up in women’s tennis and a Final Four in men’s soccer and softball went to the College Championship.

Men’s basketball is 97-3 over the last three seasons (36-0 last year) and they are into the Elite Eight this week.

Most of the time that's satellite schools just are for the first 2 years and then the student goes to the main campus. The other campuses give very few degrees by themselves.

CU by a mile. Switches to PAC12, gets Coach Prime, both XC teams won nationals in the past 10 years.

While the Penn Relay Carnival held the national relay championships, Amos Stagg organized the first attempt at a national championship just before the turn of the 20th century. This national championship meet for high schoolers lasted from 1898 to 1932.

Other major interscholastic meets in the Chicago Loop: Lake Forest, Northwestern, Beloit, Champaign.

So to say no one had heard of the Midwest or specifically the University of Chicago is ignorant. Amos Stagg was a catalyst for competitive high school track & field over a hundred years ago. The University's of Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois have been renwoned for a long, long time. Some think Iowa is the best kept secret.

Idk what any of that is lol. I don't think track is a good standard for prestige. Maybe if it was football (I heard of Notre Dame) but running is just soemthing most ppl do to stay kind of healthy and fit, not something they like or care about.

Cal State Bakersfield used to be a joke. Brand new homes nearby sell for $250,000. It gets 108 degrees in the Summer. Even Bakersfield residents amusingly called CSUB "Buck Owens Institute of Technology". Now it's a STEM school with dozens if not hundreds of affiliated DoE, DoD, and CIA top secret projects and labs in the Kern County area. Urban legend says there underground weapons factories and tunnels to naval facilities at China Lake, Fallbrook, Seal Beach, etc.

Not in movies? The Big Chill, When Harry Met Sally quickly come to mind.

Northwestern Kellogg was already rated #1 business school in 1988. Partner school Chicago Booth had some dude named Friedman teaching there.

If you find a rankings list from 1981, all those schools are already in the top 20. Wisconsin has actually slipped a bit, and you forgot to add your small school studs, Carleton, Grinnell, McAlester and Oberlin.

I'm from NY, an older parent, and recently went through this with my son and his friends. Most of those schools were safety schools when I was young (not Michigan or Wisconsin). Now they're sought after by good students who want D1 schools.

That's why I'll disagree with the above. 30 years ago you absolutely went to Michigan, now although it's still the most prestigious of the above list the others are good enough that you'll spend $30,000 less to attend one if them.

As another poster stated Ohio State can be added. That was even more of a party school for NYers with 80 averages and sub 1100 on the SATs. Now it's ranks pretty high, whatever that means.

Not mentioned in this thread is the prestige of programs within a school, another reason to choose Illinois' or UMd's computer programming major for less money than Michigan or some excellent private schools.

GCU is still a for-profit Christian shiitshow. I don't care if its men's ringball team is in the NCAA tournament. If you advertise on TV during "Judge Judy" and "Maury," there's a serious problem with your educational product. If I saw GCU on a resume, it would be Eye Roll City.

What? Colorado has always been a romantic safety school for the Northeast to ski, hike, party and study. It won a national football championship in 1990, and Wetmore started winning Natty's in 2000.

Granted they had a 1 yr bump in 2024 with Prime, but they have actually been in decline for years. Wetmore has been passed by NAU as the cult altitude destination, and overall acceptance rate at CU is now 80%! Boulder is also overbuilt now, so not very romantic anymore.

Hustlers University.

Yea the last 4 are household names and UM and ND among the most recognizable in the world.

I know one thing, when I was in HS, the application for Ohio State was basically "have you ever been convicted of a felony". Safety school. My understanding is it is very very selective now. Their graduates still look and act like felons, but good school.

Benefit of the doubt, I don't think we know what you are saying? Everyone on the planet has heard of UM and ND and almost as many have heard of NW, and in the academic arena Wash U and esp U of Chicago are well know for >100 yrs. Are you comparing these schools to Ivies? That's a bit better argument.

Sorry, Florida man got us off track. Last 10years? Prestige meaning academic or athletic? It seems to me UCLA as the #1 public school in the us is a crazy ascent. Not sure if it was 10+ yrs though. Athletically, was oregon always this good in football and basketball ? I dont recall growing up seeing OU in march madness and football 'chip every year. They suddenly appeared on the Capitol One Cup in standings in 2015.

Can we talk D2? GVSU was unheard of, and in 2003 (not sure what happened in 2003) they started winning every directors cup (all sports trophy) since.