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

Chicago, ND and Northwestern also solid

I’m surprised that no one has mentioned UGA. One of the more difficult schools now, and 20 years ago it was pretty much aligned with Ole Miss and Tennessee.

UNC has always been a good one, but it is now impossible to get into out of state. More difficult than Duke and the Ivies.

I say this as a Dad with kids at the college-application age in the Mid Atlantic area.

Also, Florida Man is a troll. Stop feeding him.

THE Huntington University.

The ranking systems changed slightly to prioritize equity more, but in 2013 MIT was #7 and now it’s #2 on US News. I wouldn’t really count that as rising in prestige the most though since it already was there. Brown also went from #14 to #9 but similar logic applies.

Florida went from #49 to #28.

There is a list of schools that have always had a good reputation, large state universities, Ivy's, Stanford, etc.

If you look at the past 30 years, perhaps one would be the University of Central Florida. Both athletically and in degree recognition.

if we're just talking about running then NAU is the clearly the answer.

but if we're talking overall profiles being raised I have to go with Grand Canyon. The way that school has built themselves up is truly remarkable. it went from being a glorified community college to a real university with D1 sports, grants, and a huge modern campus in a little under a decade.

Grand Canyon Univ

Univ of Central Florida (UCF) one of the biggest schools in the country

Univ of South Florida

Basically all of the Univ of California campuses (Irvine, Davis, San Diego, Santa Barbara)

Liberty Univ

Southern New Hampshire Univ. (online enrollment increased 800% in last 10 years)

Most large community colleges (4yr school are expensive for prerequisite courses)

Same experience here which is why we didn't even apply for their business programs.

Notre Dame, Boston College, and Villanova. Their low acceptance rates are impressive considering the schools are still overwhelmingly one demographic group. (This presumes the student body reflects the applicant pool.)

Florida International University and the University of South Florida are the fastest risers in the US News rankings, according to a google search.

I’m going to go with Adams State. They will continue to outclass Mines, even though the Mines team is a bunch of failure to launch 8th year seniors who have sacrificed their engineering careers for a D2 glory. Plus Golden somehow has total garbage places to run despite being in the CO foothills.

Arizona State. ASU was mainly a party school 20 years ago, and now they have a bunch of highly rated academic programs, Fulbright scholars, and research institutes, and they’re seen as leaders in innovation.

UF is the #1 public school according to Wall Street Journal. It helps that the in-state tuition is less than $7K annually. It’s very hard to get into. Plus, it is home to Valbymania!

news.ufl.edu

UF ranked No. 1 Public Institution by Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal named the University of Florida the No. 1 public university in the country in its “2024 Best Colleges in the U.S.” report.

Link:news.ufl.edu/2023/09/wsj-ranking

As a result it has lifted the other public Florida universities, including FSU, USF and UCF due to the rejects from UF. Granted, FSU has been a solid school for decades, but it is now also very tough to get accepted. Of course, as rivals, many kids apply directly to FSU as they do not want to go to UF (and vice versa).

I was accepted to UF in 1996, and while I was top 10 in my class, I didn’t even bother to apply anywhere else I was that sure I’d get in. Today, top 10 kids are getting rejected left and right.

The University of Chicago and UIC (the University of Illinois-Chicago) are two completely different schools. And it's mindboggling if you hadn't heard of any of these midwestern schools ten years ago.

Anyway, the answer to this question is certainly the large state schools that were previously ranked in the 35-100 range that are now 15-50 -- so UCLA, Florida, Wisconsin, UGA, FSU, etc.

UC Davis

Most every college is for-profit.

Other way around, most universities are nonprofit. In fact GCU is the only for profit university in the NCAA.

Boston University

UF has nothing like the faculty of the real top public universities, the University of California, the University of Michigan, UCLA, UC-Several Others, and even UVA and UNC.

Real ranking systems put UF down around #6, which is higher than it deserves because it doesn't have the research faculty and research money and national reputation of the others.

All the big Florida universities, however, have benefited from basically capping admissions while the population has grown a great deal, so that they are all a lot more competitive. Nationally, the immense increase in applications (but not students) has meant that admissions are highly competitive at all sorts of surprising places, Miami, Maryland, UNC, etc. So, it will be interesting to see how many kids get off of waitlists because they're applying to more than 20 schools each.