What are some of the best academic D1 schools?

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Accounting: BYU (D1)

Univ of Texas Austin

Bentley College (D2)

Univ of Illinois Urbana (D1)

Cooking/Hotel Management:

Cornell (D1- Ivy)

Johnson & Wales (D3)

also,

dont go by acceptance rate/admission standards..

for Exercise Science specialty - Ball State University (D1) or Louisville (D1)

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also school such as University of Wisconsin has a relatively high acceptance rate and is OUTSTANDING in many areas. I knew someone who went to Brown University and then took courses at Wisconsin over the summer and he said the teaching and facilities were much better at Wisconsin. Brown was a POS he said.

University of Oregon is still awesome school academically with solid areas. But because the acceptance rate at Oregon is 86%, there are a lot of morons yet to prove themselves. e.g. Prefontaine was an immature moron but a tough mofo.

Schools like CalTech (D3) are elite and kids stay up all night and have 800 Math SATs but blow at sports. Lots of 35 minute 5-mile joggers. Don't go there.

As one of the first posters mentioned, the best academic Division-I school for undergrads that isn't Duke, Stanford, or an Ivy League institution is Davidson College. All of Davidson peer institutions (highly selective, small liberal arts schools) are Division-III: Williams, Haverford, etc. Their men's and women's cross country programs are decently competitive, recently finishing 12th and 17th in the Southeast Regional, respectively.

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As one of the first posters mentioned, the best academic Division-I school for undergrads that isn't Duke, Stanford, or an Ivy League institution is Davidson College. All of Davidson peer institutions (highly selective, small liberal arts schools) are Division-III: Williams, Haverford, etc. Their men's and women's cross country programs are decently competitive, recently finishing 12th and 17th in the Southeast Regional, respectively.

liberal arts means no money = no bling = you aint BALLIN

never heard of Davidson but maybe that's because im a proud moron. im willing to admit that.

Tulane University

FWIW, top schools for DOE, NIH, DOD, NASA, NSF employment

any University of California

Cal Tech

Stanford

MIT

USC

CMU