Top Colleges Winter 2011
2011 TrendTopper MediaBuzz Internet “Brand Equity” Rankings
Wisconsin Tops Chicago and Harvard in Universities; Davidson over Occidental and Williams in Colleges
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Historic Re-alignment of what is considered an ‘elite’ school
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AUSTIN, Texas December 30, 2010 — The University of Wisconsin at Madison, one of the nation’s most storied land-grant institutions, leapt over Chicago, Harvard, MIT, Columbia and two-time defending No. 1 (and fellow Big Ten academic powerhouse) Michigan, as the Top University according to the TrendTopper MediaBuzz Internet analysis released by the Global Language Monitor.
There have now had three different schools taking the top spot for Universities in the last three years: Harvard, Michigan and now Wisconsin. As for Harvard, it slipped to No. 3, while the University of Chicago moved into the No. 2 spot. Cornell University and the University of California at Berkeley broke into the Top Ten, knocking out Stanford and Princeton. UCLA also fell out of the Top Ten. Other big movers included Georgetown, California-Davis and CalTech, each moving up ten or more spots.
“The ‘flight to quality’ continues unabated. The savvy consumer of the education marketplace appears centered on the price-sensitive ‘public ivies’ and technology-centered schools, as well as on-line alternatives. The solidly performing ‘little Ivies’ are now now fairly well distributed across the country– and are holding their own,” said Paul JJ Payack, President of the Global Language Monitor.” One aftermath of the recent recession is that consumers understand that it is smart not to accept ‘retail pricing’ and that colleges are no different in this regard from any other institution.”
The TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings are a way of seeing the schools through the eyes of the world at large. It is a democratic, self-generating ratings system, since it captures the brand equity associated with each of these fine institutions. GLM’s TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings actually removes all bias inherent in each of the other published rankings, since they actually reflect what is being said and stated on the billions of web pages that we measure.
The TrendTopper MediaBuzz Analysis uses the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s classifications as the basis to distinguish between Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges. The schools were ranked in the last week of December with a mid-year snapshot, and the last day of 2009 as the base.
TrendTopper MediaBuzz utilizes a mathematical model that ‘normalizes’ the data collected from the Internet, social media, and blogosphere as well as the top 75,000 print and electronic media. The end result is a non-biased analytical tool that provides a gauge of relative values among various institutions, as well as measures of how that value changes over time.
The Top Twenty Universities by the TrendTopper MediaBuzz Internet rankings follow.
- Univ. of Wisconsin—Madison
- University of Chicago
- Harvard University
- Mass. Institute of Technology
- Columbia University
- Univ. of Michigan—Ann Arbor
- Cornell University
- University of California–Berkeley
- Yale University
- University of Texas—Austin
- Stanford University
- Princeton University
- University of California — Davis
- Georgetown University
- Duke University
- University of California—Los Angeles
- University of Washington
- New York University
- California Institute of Technology
- Johns Hopkins University
The Top Ten Universities now include four Ivy League schools, four Public Ivy’s (two from the Big Ten), one technological institute and the always formidable University of Chicago.
We have now three different schools taking the top spot for Universities in the last three Years: Harvard, Michigan and now Wisconsin.
As for Harvard, it slipped to No. 3, while the University of Chicago moved into the No. 2 spot. Cornell University and the University of California at Berkeley broke into the Top Ten, knocking out Stanford and Princeton. UCLA also fell out of the Top Ten.
Other big movers included Georgetown, California-Davis and CalTech, all moving up ten or more spots.
The College category also produced a new No. 1, Davidson College of North Carolina. This is the fourth different college to take the top spot since these rankings began which now have been represented by the West (Colorado College), the East (Wellesley College) and the Midwest (Carleton College). Wellesley was also the only Women’s College to top a general college ranking.
Davidson, as well as L.A.’s Occidental College (where President Obama spent his first year in college) both leapt over the Little Three (Amherst, Williams and Wesleyan University) as well as all three previous No. 1’s: Carleton College, Wellesley College, and Colorado College.
The Top Twenty Colleges by the TrendTopper MediaBuzz Internet rankings follow.
- Davidson College
- Occidental College
- Williams College
- Wesleyan University
- Carleton College
- Amherst College
- Bucknell University
- Oberlin College
- United States Air Force Academy
- Pomona College
- Wellesley College
- Juilliard School of Music
- Vassar College
- Pratt Institute
- United States Military Academy
- Smith College
- Bowdoin College
- College of the Holy Cross
- Claremont McKenna College
- Bryn Mawr College
The Top Ten among colleges included Bucknell, Oberlin, Pomona and the US Air Force Academy. The Top Twenty included the Little Three, four of the former Seven Sisters (though Vassar is now co-ed), two Patriot League schools, two US Service Academies, the top Catholic College in the US (College of the Holy Cross), two of the Claremont Colleges, and two schools that are not included in the traditional college rankings: the Juilliard School and Pratt Institute, both in New York City.
The TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings are the only to include specialty schools, such as Art, Business, Design, Music, as well as Internet-based (and for-profit) All these were included in the College category with the exception of the online university, which was assigned to the University category.
In addition, the BOC notation signifies Best of Class; it is noted for those schools that are either first in the overall ranking, or first in a specific classification.
Top in the US/Best of Class (BOC) designation was awarded for:
- Top University: University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Top College: Davidson College
- Top Engineering Hybrid School: The Cooper Union
- Top Business: Babson College
- Top Art and Design School: Pratt Institute
- Top Art School: School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)
- Top Music School: The Juilliard School
- Top Online University: University of Phoenix
- Top Christian School: Wheaton College, Illinois
- Top Catholic College: College of the Holy Cross
- Top Catholic University: Georgetown University
- Top Service Academy: United States Air Force Academy
- Top Outré College (New Category): Oberlin
The rankings also include the Biggest Movers for both colleges and universities and the Top States for Top Colleges.
The Universities that gained the most ‘media momentum’ since our last analysis were:
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Miami University—Oxford
- Lehigh University
- Cal Poly—San Luis Obispo
- University of California—Irvine
- CUNY-Queens
- Georgetown University
- Mills College
- University of Denver
- Rice University
The Colleges that have gained the most ‘media momentum’ since our last analysis were:
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- Smith College
- Trinity College CT
- St. John’s College MD
- School of Visual Arts (NY)
- Fashion Institute of Technology
- St Lawrence University
- Swarthmore College
- Hampshire College
- Gettysburg College
- Oberlin College
In addition, each of the forty-two states with top colleges is listed with the combined rankings of colleges and universities within the state.
The top five states for top colleges, along with the number of top colleges within the states include:
- New York (45)
- California (30)
- Massachusetts (25)
- Pennsylvania (22)
- Illinois (12)
The 2011 TrendTopper MediaBuzz Internet Rankings contains all of the above information on the Top 300 US Colleges and Universities, with added detail.
About The TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings
GLM created the TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings to remove all bias that we saw as inherent in each of the other published rankings, be they peer assessments, the opinion of high school guidance counselors, the ratio of endowment to number of students, number of left-leaning professors, and all the rest.
The 53 page guide includes the following:
- Why another college guide; why TrendTopper MediaBuzz?
- Introduction – A New Reality
- Highlights for Winter/Spring 2011
- About TrendTopper MediaBuzz™
- Top Universities for Winter/Spring 2011
- Top Colleges for Winter/Spring 2011
- Universities with Greatest Change
- Biggest Movers – Universities
- Biggest Movers – Colleges
- Top States for Top Schools
- TrendTopper MediaBuzz Backgrounder
We found it highly interest that many institutions used our rankings as a validation of their recent reputation management decisions:
Harvard University: “Rankings highlight correlation between university prestige and media coverage … Indeed, the study seems to validate the Harvard Kennedy School’s recent decision to rebrand itself. Known as the Kennedy School of Government until last spring, the public policy and administration changed its shorthand so that it includes the word “Harvard”.
GLM’s College Reputation Management Services are part of our TrendTopper Branding Services.
Boston College: “University Spokesman Jack Dunn said, “Boston College’s ranking in this study serves as an affirmation of what we have long believed. Academic research and accomplishments along with media citations and this recent ranking are all affirmations of the growing steam of this university.” The major factors that contributed to BC’s high ranking were a well-published academic community, a strong public relations office, and a successful sports program in recent years.
Vanderbilt University: “… when prospective students, faculty, friends and neighbors hear ‘Vanderbilt’ they associate it with excellent academic programs, innovative research, world class health care, the best students, a gorgeous campus, a dynamic hometown, rockin’ athletics and more. And, by one measure at least, we’re succeeding.”
Chronicle of Higher Education: “[GLM’s TrendTopper analysis] is at least one measure of wealth, success and prestige,” Hoover said. “Even on campuses where presidents do not put too much stock into rankings themselves, it is something they must think about” because alums and top students pay attention to them. – Eric Hoover, marketing strategies, Chronicle of Higher Education, quoted in Harvard Crimson.
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For more information, call 1.512.801.6823
- Why another college guide; why TrendTopper MediaBuzz?
- Introduction – A New Reality
- Highlights for Winter/Spring 2011
- About TrendTopper MediaBuzz™
- Top Universities for Winter/Spring 2011
- Top Colleges for Winter/Spring 2011
- Universities with Greatest Change
- Biggest Movers – Universities
- Biggest Movers – Colleges
- Top States for Top Schools
- TrendTopper MediaBuzz Backgrounder
Why you need the TrendTopper MediaBuzz rankings
Simply put:
- The TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings are a way of seeing the schools through the eyes of the world at large. It is a democratic, self-generating ratings system, since it captures the brand equity associated with each of these fine institutions. GLM’s TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings actually removes all bias inherent in each of the other published rankings, since they actually reflect what is being said and stated on the billions of web pages that we measure.
- We are Up-to-date, as in, we are an on-going, longitudinal study. Our rankings are fresh, current and updated continually throughout the year. You will never need to wait until the first week in September to see how your schools are ranking.
- We Provide Brand Analysis. Schools are either hot, or they’re not. We tell you how your schools rank, as brands. Every school on our list has made the cut! Every school is considered a good school, if not a great school.
- We Measure Brand Equity; the perceived value of your school. Penn is a great (Ivy League) school, but Penn State (before the scandal) was nearly equivalent (No. 22 vs No. 24) in brand equity. After reading our report you can then ask yourself, is it worth the difference in price?
- The World vs. The Deans. Other rankings are inherently biased. You need to stop and think – does my future employer really care about how other deans rank my school? Get real. The only question he or she actually cares about is can you do the work?
- We continually update the Top 300 Colleges and Universities Guide throughout the year, so the information that you receive is always fresh and up-to-date.
We are Inclusive, listing Internet and Specialty Schools. It’s important to understand the rankings for Julliard and Cooper Union, as well as schools like the University of Phoenix, historical Black Colleges, and the notoriously underrepresented City University of New York. We even rank schools that opt-out of traditional rankings, such as Bard.
About The TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings
GLM created the TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings to remove all bias that we saw as inherent in each of the other published rankings, be they peer assessments, the opinion of high school guidance counselors, the ratio of endowment to number of students, number of left-leaning professors, and all the rest.
We found it highly interest that many institutions used our rankings as a validation of their recent reputation management decisions:
Harvard University: “Rankings highlight correlation between university prestige and media coverage … Indeed, the study seems to validate the Harvard Kennedy School’s recent decision to rebrand itself. Known as the Kennedy School of Government until last spring, the public policy and administration changed its shorthand so that it includes the word “Harvard”.
Boston College: “University Spokesman Jack Dunn said, “Boston College’s ranking in this study serves as an affirmation of what we have long believed. Academic research and accomplishments along with media citations and this recent ranking are all affirmations of the growing steam of this university.” The major factors that contributed to BC’s high ranking were a well-published academic community, a strong public relations office, and a successful sports program in recent years.
Vanderbilt University: “… when prospective students, faculty, friends and neighbors hear ‘Vanderbilt’ they associate it with excellent academic programs, innovative research, world class health care, the best students, a gorgeous campus, a dynamic hometown, rockin’ athletics and more. And, by one measure at least, we’re succeeding.”
Chronicle of Higher Education: “[GLM’s TrendTopper analysis] is at least one measure of wealth, success and prestige,” Hoover said. “Even on campuses where presidents do not put too much stock into rankings themselves, it is something they must think about” because alums and top students pay attention to them. – Eric Hoover, marketing strategies, Chronicle of Higher Education, quoted in Harvard Crimson.
How TrendTopper enhances college reputation by differentiating ‘brand’ among peers
The Global Language Monitor today announced TrendTopper MediaBuzz Reputation Management (TMRM) solution for higher education. Using TrendTopper, colleges and universities can enhance their standings among peers by assessing their strengths and weaknesses in any number of areas. TrendTopper measures what is important to colleges’ and their various constituencies on the Internet, in social media, the blogosphere, as well as the global print and electronic media. TrendTopper can help colleges and universities distinguish themselves among peers – as well as helping ensure that key messages are getting though the clutter.
“At a time when a few students more or less can change an institution’s revenue stream from positive to negative, or mean an even bigger bite out of the endowment, brand equity moves from an interesting concept to an imperative,” said Paul JJ Payack, president of TrendTopper Technologies. “Movement within a Peer Group, expanding an institution’s Peer Group, or, even, moving from one Peer Group to another can spell ultimate success, or failure, for that particular institution.”
Colleges and universities have one more element that is critical to their ultimate success — the fact that they are linked to other colleges by reputation (Peer Groups or Cohorts), which extend in many ways beyond and across conferences and leagues. These include geographic proximity, religious affiliation, similar test scores, political outlook, or long-time sports rivalries,
Institutions can use TrendTopper methodologies to determine strengths and weaknesses vs. their peer group or any other criteria they find relevant, answering questions, such as:
- We have little knowledge of how we are perceived in Social Media. What we don’t know can’t be shaped. Can you help us there?
- How is our institution perceived by the public at large? We have a strong reputation among high school guidance counselors and peer assessments, but parents (and students) want to know about potential employers?
- We are known for our excellent liberal arts programs, but we feel our information technology offering lags in recognition. Our competitors annually enroll about 20% more students for what we see an equal (or even lesser) curriculum. What can we do?
- We know that we receive a large share of voice with our monthly survey from the econ department, what can we do to replicate this success?
- We don’t have a football [or lacrosse or dance or bioengineering] program. Everyone else in our peer group has one. Does it make a difference?
- Most students now go first to Wikipedia to find an answer. This applies Colleges and Universities, as well. We don’t agree with our Wikipedia assessment. What do we do here?
College and University Rankings
Global Language Monitor’s TrendTopper College and University Internet Rankings is published twice a year. The next Internet Rankings will be announced in April, 2009
The TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings is a way of seeing the schools through the eyes of the world at large. As with any brand, prospective students, alumni, employers, and the world at large believe that students who are graduated from such institutions will carry on the all the hallmarks of that particular school.
TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings remove all bias that we saw as inherent in each of the other published rankings, be they peer assessments, the opinion of high school guidance counselors, the ratio of endowment to number of students, number of left-leaning professors, and all the rest.
Many institutions of higher education, including Harvard, Boston College, and Vanderbilt have used the rankings as a validation of their recent reputation management decisions.
About The Global Language Monitor
Austin-Texas-based Global Language Monitor analyzes and catalogues the latest trends in word usage and word choices, and their impact on the various aspects of culture, with a particular emphasis upon Global English. For more information, call 1.512.801.6823, email pauljjpayack@gmail.com, or visit www.LanguageMonitor.com.
Top 10 States for Top Colleges Spring 2010
Spring 2010 Edition
Key: State Rank, School Rank (c0llege or university), Name of School
Rankings:
No. 1 New York (44)
7 Vassar College
8 Union College
9 Cooper Union
10 Columbia University
10 Hamilton College
11 United States Military Academy
12 Colgate University
12 Cornell University
13 Sarah Lawrence University
16 Pratt Institute
17 Bard College
21 New York University
24 Skidmore College
25 University of Rochester
30 Barnard College
35 SUNY—Purchase
39 Juilliard School
44 Alfred University
47 Ithaca College
52 Siena College
61 Syracuse University
87 Fordham University
101 Hobart College
104 Hartwick College
104 Rochester Inst. of Technology
105 Manhattanville College
109 Hofstra University
112 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
113 Yeshiva University
116 SUNY—Stony Brook
118 United States Merchant Marine Academy
122 Fashion Institute of Technology
123 Kaplan University
126 CUNY-City College
129 SUNY—Geneseo
130 Binghamton University
132 University at Buffalo—SUNY
135 CUNY-Brooklyn
137 School of Visual Arts
143 Clarkson University
143 St Lawrence University
144 Eugene Lang College of New School U.
150 CUNY-Baruch
162 CUNY-Hunter College
164 CUNY-Queens
No. 2 California (29)
3 Pomona College
4 University of California—Los Angeles
5 Stanford University
13 University of California—San Diego
14 University of California–Berkeley
21 Harvey Mudd College
23 Occidental College
25 Claremont McKenna College
27 University of California — Davis
35 California Institute of Technology
40 University of California—Santa Cruz
43 University of Southern California
58 University of California—Santa Barbara
61 Pitzer College
64 Scripps College
70 California Institution of the Arts
72 University of California—Irvine
95 University of California—Riverside
98 Chapman University
102 Santa Clara University
106 University of Redlands
107 University of San Diego
108 California College of the arts
114 Pepperdine University
125 University of the Pacific
144 Mills College
146 Westmont College
156 Cal Poly—San Luis Obispo
158 University of San Francisco
161 Loyola Marymount University
No. 3 Massachusetts (25)
2 Harvard University
2 Williams College
6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6 Wellesley College
15 College of the Holy Cross
28 Boston University
36 Mount Holyoke College
37 Babson College
49 Boston College
50 Amherst College
52 Tufts University
54 Emerson College
69 Bentley College
80 Simmons College
81 Northeastern University
86 Berklee College of Music
86 University of Massachusetts—Amherst
94 Hampshire College
100 Brandeis University
130 New England Conservatory of Music
133 Smith College
135 Olin College
142 Wheaton College MA
146 Clark University
149 Worcester Polytechnic Institute
No. 4 Pennsylvania (22)
16 Pennsylvania State University
18 Bucknell University
19 University of Pennsylvania
40 Lafayette College
42 Carnegie Mellon University
43 Haverford College
45 Juniata College
53 University of Pittsburgh
57 Dickinson College
65 Bryn Mawr College
71 Ursinus College
84 Drexel University
90 Villanova University
95 Swarthmore College
97 Muhlenberg College
98 Franklin and Marshall College
107 Curtis Institute of Music
110 Lehigh University
115 Allegheny College
124 Elizabethtown College
131 Gettysburg College
145 Susquehanna University
No. 5 Illinois (13)
3 University of Chicago
28 Wheaton College IL
29 Augustana College
39 Northwestern University
48 University of Illinois—Urbana – Champaign
59 Knox College
66 School of the Art Institute of Chicago
75 Augustana College
75 Loyola University Chicago
89 Depaul University
90 Illinois Wesleyan University
105 Lake Forest College
120 Illinois Institute of Technology
No. 6 Ohio (11)
33 Ohio State University—Columbus
60 Kenyon College
67 Oberlin College
79 Case Western Reserve University
89 Denison University
100 Wittenberg University
108 University of Dayton
109 Cleveland Institute of Music
114 College of Wooster
126 Baldwin – Wallace College
152 Miami University—Oxford
No. 7 Virginia (10)
5 University of Richmond
22 Virginia Tech
23 University of Virginia
41 Virginia Military Institute
42 Washington and Lee University
82 Sweet Briar College
119 College of William and Mary
120 University of Mary Washington
121 Hampden – Sydney College
121 James Madison University
No. 8 Texas (10)
7 University of Texas—Austin
59 Texas A&M University
63 Austin College
85 Baylor University
91 Rice University
105 Southern Methodist University
127 Texas Christian University
140 Southwestern University
154 University of Dallas
165 Trinity University
No. 9 North Carolina (8)
18 Duke University
22 Davidson College
32 University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill
68 Presbyterian College
78 North Carolina State University—Raleigh
88 Wake Forest University
133 Elon University
136 Guilford College
No. 10 Minnesota (8)
1 Carleton College
24 University of Minnesota
34 Macalester College
55 St Olaf College
92 Minneapolis College of Art and Design
129 Gustavus Aldolphus
139 Capella University
148 University of Minnesota Morris
Top 10 States for Top Colleges Spring 2010
For Current Edition Summer/Spring 2012 (April 2012), Click here
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Key: State Rank, School Rank (c0llege or university), Name of School
Rankings:
No. 1 New York (44)
7 Vassar College
8 Union College
9 Cooper Union
10 Columbia University
10 Hamilton College
11 United States Military Academy
12 Colgate University
12 Cornell University
13 Sarah Lawrence University
16 Pratt Institute
17 Bard College
21 New York University
24 Skidmore College
25 University of Rochester
30 Barnard College
35 SUNY—Purchase
39 Juilliard School
44 Alfred University
47 Ithaca College
52 Siena College
61 Syracuse University
87 Fordham University
101 Hobart College
104 Hartwick College
104 Rochester Inst. of Technology
105 Manhattanville College
109 Hofstra University
112 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
113 Yeshiva University
116 SUNY—Stony Brook
118 United States Merchant Marine Academy
122 Fashion Institute of Technology
123 Kaplan University
126 CUNY-City College
129 SUNY—Geneseo
130 Binghamton University
132 University at Buffalo—SUNY
135 CUNY-Brooklyn
137 School of Visual Arts
143 Clarkson University
143 St Lawrence University
144 Eugene Lang College of New School U.
150 CUNY-Baruch
162 CUNY-Hunter College
164 CUNY-Queens
No. 2 California (29)
3 Pomona College
4 University of California—Los Angeles
5 Stanford University
13 University of California—San Diego
14 University of California–Berkeley
21 Harvey Mudd College
23 Occidental College
25 Claremont McKenna College
27 University of California — Davis
35 California Institute of Technology
40 University of California—Santa Cruz
43 University of Southern California
58 University of California—Santa Barbara
61 Pitzer College
64 Scripps College
70 California Institution of the Arts
72 University of California—Irvine
95 University of California—Riverside
98 Chapman University
102 Santa Clara University
106 University of Redlands
107 University of San Diego
108 California College of the arts
114 Pepperdine University
125 University of the Pacific
144 Mills College
146 Westmont College
156 Cal Poly—San Luis Obispo
158 University of San Francisco
161 Loyola Marymount University
No. 3 Massachusetts (25)
2 Harvard University
2 Williams College
6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6 Wellesley College
15 College of the Holy Cross
28 Boston University
36 Mount Holyoke College
37 Babson College
49 Boston College
50 Amherst College
52 Tufts University
54 Emerson College
69 Bentley College
80 Simmons College
81 Northeastern University
86 Berklee College of Music
86 University of Massachusetts—Amherst
94 Hampshire College
100 Brandeis University
130 New England Conservatory of Music
133 Smith College
135 Olin College
142 Wheaton College MA
146 Clark University
149 Worcester Polytechnic Institute
No. 4 Pennsylvania (22)
16 Pennsylvania State University
18 Bucknell University
19 University of Pennsylvania
40 Lafayette College
42 Carnegie Mellon University
43 Haverford College
45 Juniata College
53 University of Pittsburgh
57 Dickinson College
65 Bryn Mawr College
71 Ursinus College
84 Drexel University
90 Villanova University
95 Swarthmore College
97 Muhlenberg College
98 Franklin and Marshall College
107 Curtis Institute of Music
110 Lehigh University
115 Allegheny College
124 Elizabethtown College
131 Gettysburg College
145 Susquehanna University
No. 5 Illinois (13)
3 University of Chicago
28 Wheaton College IL
29 Augustana College
39 Northwestern University
48 University of Illinois—Urbana – Champaign
59 Knox College
66 School of the Art Institute of Chicago
75 Augustana College
75 Loyola University Chicago
89 Depaul University
90 Illinois Wesleyan University
105 Lake Forest College
120 Illinois Institute of Technology
No. 6 Ohio (11)
33 Ohio State University—Columbus
60 Kenyon College
67 Oberlin College
79 Case Western Reserve University
89 Denison University
100 Wittenberg University
108 University of Dayton
109 Cleveland Institute of Music
114 College of Wooster
126 Baldwin – Wallace College
152 Miami University—Oxford
No. 7 Virginia (10)
5 University of Richmond
22 Virginia Tech
23 University of Virginia
41 Virginia Military Institute
42 Washington and Lee University
82 Sweet Briar College
119 College of William and Mary
120 University of Mary Washington
121 Hampden – Sydney College
121 James Madison University
No. 8 Texas (10)
7 University of Texas—Austin
59 Texas A&M University
63 Austin College
85 Baylor University
91 Rice University
105 Southern Methodist University
127 Texas Christian University
140 Southwestern University
154 University of Dallas
165 Trinity University
No. 9 North Carolina (8)
18 Duke University
22 Davidson College
32 University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill
68 Presbyterian College
78 North Carolina State University—Raleigh
88 Wake Forest University
133 Elon University
136 Guilford College
No. 10 Minnesota (8)
1 Carleton College
24 University of Minnesota
34 Macalester College
55 St Olaf College
92 Minneapolis College of Art and Design
129 Gustavus Aldolphus
139 Capella University
148 University of Minnesota Morris
NY Named Top State for Top Colleges for 2010
Calif, Mass, Pa, Ill, Ohio, Va, Texas, NC and Minn follow
AUSTIN, Texas. (August 26, 2010) — New York state has been named the Top State for Top Colleges followed by California, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Illinois. Ohio, Virginia, Texas, North Carolina and Minnesota rounded out the Top Ten. The list was assembled by the Global Language Monitor in its twice yearly TrendTopper Media Buzz analysis of the nation’s Top 300 Colleges and Universities.
“The TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings is a democratic, self-generating ratings system, since it captures the brand equity associated with each of these fine institutions. We survey social media such as Twitter, as well as the Internet, blogosphere, and the global print and electronic media.” said Paul JJ Payack, the president of Global Language Monitor. “As such, we remove the biases inherently built into each of the other published rankings. For example, US News recently announced that it has changed a key component to their rankings thereby lowering the value of year-by-year comparisons.”
The Top Ten States with the Most Top Colleges are listed below. Listings include Ranking, the number of top schools in parentheses, the Top University and College, National Best of Class Institutions and Top Surprises for each state.
Asterisks (*) indicate National Best-in-Class
| State Rank | |
| No. 1 | New York (44) |
| Top College | Vassar College |
| Top University | Columbia University |
| Top Academy | United States Military Academy * |
| Top Music School | Juilliard School * |
| Top Design School | Pratt Institute * |
| Top Surprise | NY as the No. 1 State |
No. 2 |
California (29) |
| Top College | Pomona College |
| Top University | University of California—Los Angeles |
| Top Surprise | Stanford & UC San Diego top Berkeley |
No. 3 |
Massachusetts (25) |
| Top University | Harvard University |
| Top College | Williams College |
| Top Business College | Babson College * |
| Top Engineering School | Massachusetts Institute of Technology * |
| Top Catholic School | College of the Holy Cross * |
| Top Surprise | Amherst falls out of Top 10 |
No. 4 |
Pennsylvania (22) |
| Top University | Pennsylvania State University |
| Top College | Bucknell University |
| Top Surprise | Penn State over U of Pennsylvania |
No. 5 |
Illinois (13) |
| Top University | University of Chicago |
| Top College | Wheaton College |
| Top Christian College | Wheaton College * |
| Top Surprise | Northwestern University at No. 39 |
No. 6 |
Ohio (11) |
| Top University | Ohio State University—Columbus |
| Top College | Kenyon College |
| Top Surprise | Oberlin College Slips |
No. 7 |
Virginia (10) |
| Top College | University of Richmond |
| Top University | Virginia Tech |
| Top Surprise | VT over UVA |
No. 8 |
Texas (10) |
| Top University | University of Texas—Austin |
| Top College | Austin College |
| Top Surprise | UT breaks into the Top Ten |
No. 9 |
North Carolina (8) |
| Top University | Duke University |
| Top College | Davidson College |
| Top Surprise | UNC falls out of Top Ten |
No. 10 |
Minnesota (8) |
| Top College | Carleton College * |
| Top University | University of Minnesota |
| Top Surprise | Capella now No. 2 Internet School |
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The complete listings of all the states can be found here.
The Global Language Monitor publishes the TrendTopper Media Buzz College and University Rankings. twice a year, with spring and fall editions. Many institutions of higher education, including Harvard, Boston College, and Vanderbilt have used the rankings as a validation of their recent reputation management decisions.
College Rankings Top 150 – Summer/Spring 2010
The TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings are a way of seeing the schools through the eyes of the world at large. It is a democratic, self-generating ratings system, since it captures the brand equity associated with each of these fine institutions,” said Paul JJ Payack, the president of Global Language Monitor. “GLM’s TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings actually removes all bias inherent in each of the other published rankings, since they actually reflect what is being said and stated on the billions of web pages that we measure.
Summer/Spring 2010
Top 150 Colleges
Rank
1 Carleton College
2 Williams College
3 Pomona College
4 Middlebury College
5 University of Richmond
6 Wellesley College
7 Vassar College
8 Union College
9 Cooper Union
10 Hamilton College
11 United States Military Academy
12 Colgate University
13 Sarah Lawrence University
14 Colorado College
15 College of the Holy Cross
16 Pratt Institute
17 Bard College
18 Bucknell University
19 Reed College
20 Drew University
21 Harvey Mudd College
22 Davidson College
23 Occidental College
24 Skidmore College
25 Claremont McKenna College
26 United States Naval Academy
27 DePauw University
28 Wheaton College IL
29 Augustana College
30 Barnard College
31 United States Air Force Academy
32 Furman University
33 Morehouse College
34 Macalester College
35 SUNY—Purchase
36 Mount Holyoke College
37 Babson College
38 Colby College
39 Juilliard School
40 Lafayette College
41 Virginia Military Institute
42 Washington and Lee University
43 Haverford College
44 Alfred University
45 Juniata College
46 Calvin College
47 Ithaca College
48 University of Puget Sound
49 Spelman College (GA)
50 Amherst College
51 Rhode Island School of Design
52 Siena College
53 Wesleyan University
54 Emerson College
55 St Olaf College
56 Bates College
57 Dickinson College
58 University of Northern Iowa
59 Knox College
60 Kenyon College
61 Pitzer College
62 Grinnell College
63 Austin College
64 Scripps College
65 Bryn Mawr College
66 School of the Art Institute of Chicago
67 Oberlin College
68 Presbyterian College
69 Bentley College
70 California Institution of the Arts
71 Ursinus College
72 Bowdoin College
73 College of Charleston
74 Kalamazoo College
75 Augustana College
76 Connecticut College
77 Willamette University
78 Agnes Scott College
79 Rollins College
80 Simmons College
81 Fisk University
82 Sweet Briar College
83 Rowan University
84 Centre College
85 Coe College
86 Earlham College
87 Berklee College of Music
88 Wofford College
89 Denison University
90 Illinois Wesleyan University
91 Beloit College
92 Minneapolis College of Art and Design
93 Goucher College
94 Hampshire College
95 Swarthmore College
96 Berry College
97 Muhlenberg College
98 Franklin and Marshall College
99 Rhodes College
100 Wittenberg University
101 Hobart College
102 Lewis and Clark
103 Berea College
104 Hartwick College
105 Manhattanville College
106 Lake Forest College
107 Curtis Institute of Music
108 California College of the Arts
109 Cleveland Institute of Music
110 New College of South FL
111 Sewanee—University of the South
112 Birmingham Southern college
113 Linfield College
114 College of Wooster
115 Allegheny College
116 Wabash College
117 United States Coast Guard Academy
118 United States Merchant Marine Academy
119 Corcoran College of Art and Design
120 University of Mary Washington
121 Hampden – Sydney College
122 Fashion Institute of Technology
123 Hood College
124 Elizabethtown College
125 Millsaps College
126 Baldwin – Wallace College
127 St Michael’s College
128 Gustavus Aldolphus
129 SUNY—Geneseo
130 New England Conservatory of Music
131 Gettysburg College
132 Hendrix College
133 Smith College
134 Whitman College
135 Olin College
136 Guilford College
137 School of Visual Arts
138 Trinity College
139 Southwestern University
140 St. John’s College
141 College of New Jersey
142 Wheaton College MA
143 St Lawrence University
144 Eugene Lang College of New School U.
145 Susquehanna University
146 Westmont College
147 Lawrence University
148 University of Minnesota Morris
149 Hillsdale College
150 Bennington College
The Global Language Monitor publishes the TrendTopper Media Buzz College and University Rankings. twice a year, with spring and fall editions. Many institutions of higher education, including Harvard, Boston College, and Vanderbilt have used the rankings as a validation of their recent reputation management decisions.
The complete report, including short term and long term change, rankings by state, and complete PQI index is available for $998. For more information, call 1.925.367.7557 or email pjjp@post.harvard.edu
University Rankings Top 150 in the U.S.– Spring/Summer 2010
The TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings are a way of seeing the schools through the eyes of the world at large. It is a democratic, self-generating ratings system, since it captures the brand equity associated with each of these fine institutions,” said Paul JJ Payack, the president of Global Language Monitor. “GLM’s TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings actually removes all bias inherent in each of the other published rankings, since they actually reflect what is being said and stated on the billions of web pages that we measure.
Summer/Spring 2010
Top 150 Universities
Rank
1 University of Michigan—Ann Arbor
2 Harvard University
3 University of Chicago
4 University of California—Los Angeles
5 Stanford University
6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
7 University of Texas—Austin
8 Princeton University
9 Yale University
10 Columbia University
11 Washington University in St. Louis
12 Cornell University
13 University of California—San Diego
14 University of California–Berkeley
15 University of Wisconsin—Madison
16 Pennsylvania State University
17 University of Washington
18 Duke University
19 University of Pennsylvania
20 Johns Hopkins University
21 New York University
22 Virginia Tech
23 University of Virginia
24 University of Minnesota
25 University of Rochester
26 Michigan State University
27 University of California — Davis
28 Boston University
29 Purdue University
30 University of Connecticut
31 University of Florida
32 University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill
33 Ohio State University—Columbus
34 University of Kentucky
35 California Institute of Technology
36 Indiana University—Bloomington
37 University of Arizona
38 Rutgers, the State University of NJ
39 Northwestern University
40 University of California—Santa Cruz
41 Arizona State University
42 Carnegie Mellon University
43 University of Southern California
44 University of Colorado—Boulder
45 University of Georgia
46 University of Iowa
47 Georgia Institute of Technology
48 University of Illinois—Urbana – Champaign
49 Boston College
50 Georgetown University
51 University of Notre Dame
52 Tufts University
53 University of Pittsburgh
54 Emory University
55 University of South Carolina—Columbia
56 Vanderbilt University
57 University of Delaware
58 University of California—Santa Barbara
59 Texas A&M University
60 Dartmouth College
61 Syracuse University
62 University of Phoenix
63 Brown University
64 American University
65 Iowa State University
66 University of Missouri—Columbia
67 University of Miami
68 University of New Hampshire
69 George Washington University
70 University of Kansas
71 University of Oregon
72 University of California—Irvine
73 University of Oklahoma
74 University of Maryland—College Park
75 Loyola University Chicago
76 Tulane University
77 Washington State University
78 North Carolina State University—Raleigh
79 Case Western Reserve University
80 Kansas State University
81 Northeastern University
82 Auburn University
83 University of Alabama
84 Drexel University
85 Baylor University
86 University of Massachusetts—Amherst
87 Fordham University
88 Wake Forest University
89 DePaul University
90 Villanova University
91 Rice University
92 Brigham Young University—Provo
93 University of Vermont
94 Howard University
95 University of California—Riverside
96 Clemson University
97 Colorado State University
98 Chapman University
99 University of Tennessee
100 Brandeis University
101 University of Arkansas
102 Santa Clara University
103 Marquette University
104 Rochester Inst. of Technology
105 Southern Methodist University
106 University of Redlands
107 University of San Diego
108 University of Dayton
109 Hofstra University
110 Lehigh University
111 St Louis University
112 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
113 Yeshiva University
114 Pepperdine University
115 Gonzaga University
116 SUNY—Stony Brook
117 Tuskegee University
118 University of Denver
119 College of William and Mary
120 Illinois Institute of Technology
121 James Madison University
122 Howard University (DC)
123 Kaplan University
124 Stetson University
125 University of the Pacific
126 CUNY-City College
127 Texas Christian University
128 Fairfield University
129 Loyola University New Orleans
130 Binghamton University
131 Catholic University of America
132 University at Buffalo—SUNY
133 Elon University
134 Seattle University
135 CUNY-Brooklyn
136 New Jersey Institute of Technology
137 Stevens Institute of Technology
138 Colorado School of Mines
139 Capella University
140 Morgan State University
141 Truman State University
142 Evergreen State
143 Clarkson University
144 Mills College
145 University of Tulsa
146 Clark University
147 Rose-Hulman
148 Quinnipiac University
149 Worcester Polytechnic Institute
150 CUNY-Baruch
152 Miami University—Oxford
153 Michigan Technological University
154 University of Dallas
155 University of Missouri—Rolla
156 Cal Poly—San Luis Obispo
157 Dillard University (LA)
158 University of San Francisco
159 Florida A&M University
160 Xavier University of Louisiana
161 Loyola Marymount University
162 CUNY-Hunter College
163 The Citadel
164 CUNY-Queens
165 University of Utah
The Global Language Monitor publishes the TrendTopper Media Buzz College and University Rankings. twice a year, with spring and fall editions. Many institutions of higher education, including Harvard, Boston College, and Vanderbilt have used the rankings as a validation of their recent reputation management decisions.
The complete report, including short term and long term change, rankings by state, and complete PQI index is available. For more information, call 1.925.367.7557 or email pjjp@post.harvard.edu
Pomona College Ranked Sixth in Media Awareness
Pomona College is currently ranked sixth out of all colleges on The Global Language Monitor’s TrendTopper MediaBuzz College and University Rankings.
The report, released biannually, ranks colleges and universities in terms of their presence in international print and electronic media. The report is meant to assess schools’ media awareness and global reputations.
Pomona rose from its position of 21 in the spring 2009 college rankings to sixth this previous fall. The top-ranked college was Wellesley College, while the University of Michigan topped the university rankings.
“During 2008-09, Pomona College was mentioned more than 2,800 times in print, broadcast, and on online news sites, a record for the nine years we’ve been tracking,” said Cynthia Peters, Director of Media Relations at Pomona College. (Read More.)
GLM’s Top 300 Colleges and Universities Spring 2010 Edition will be released Week of May 24th.
First Internet-based College Guide Now Available
For Immediate Release
Top 225 Colleges and Universities Ranked
by TrendTopper MediaBuzz™
Austin, TX December 8, 2009 – The Global Language Monitor today announced the immediate availability of the TrendTopper MediaBuzz College and University Rankings. Unlike other college guides, it is published twice a year, with spring and fall editions. This means that readers can make crucial decisions using information from near real time rankings. The data for the current edition is accurate as of November 1, 2009. The 73-page guide is available for download from the Global Language Monitor site.
The guide uses exclusive TrendTopper MediaBuzz™ analyses of the nation’s colleges and universities according their appearance in the global print and electronic media, on the Internet throughout the blogosphere, and including social media such as Twitter. The GLM rankings are also the first to include specialty schools, such as Art, Business, Music and Engineering schools, as well as online universities.
“TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings remove all bias that we saw as inherent in each of the other published rankings, be they peer assessments, the opinion of high school guidance counselors, the ratio of endowment to number of students, number of left or right-leaning professors, and all the rest,” said Paul JJ Payack, the president of Global Language Monitor.“The TrendTopper MediaBuzz Rankings are a way of seeing the schools through the eyes of the world at large. As with any brand, prospective students, alumni, employers, and the world at large believe that students who are graduated from such institutions will carry on the all the hallmarks of that particular school.”
Institutions are ranked by overall presence, and how quickly they are moving over the short and long-term. In addition, the study reveals the actual scores that separate the Top 225 Colleges and Universities from one another. In addition, the schools are ranked by their position in their state.
Many institutions of higher education, including Harvard, Boston College, and Vanderbilt have used the rankings as a validation of their recent reputation management decisions.
Since TrendTopper MediaBuzz ranks overall media awareness and strength of a school’s ‘brand’ or reputation, the Global Language Monitor included specialty schools, which were included in the College category with the exception of the online universities, which was assigned to the University category.
In the University category, the University of Michigan moved up three places to the top spot, while Harvard saw a decline in Media Buzz citations of some 20%. Other major movers include MIT jumping from No. 16 to No. 2 and North Carolina, another public ivy, movinginto the Top Ten, with California—Berkeley moving from No.10 to No. 6.
In the College category, Wellesley overtook Colorado College, Williams and Amherst to claim the No. 1 position, a first for a women’s college. Pomona College, one of California’s Claremont Colleges re-emerged in the Top Ten, and Eugene Lang College of New School University debuted at a very strong No. 9.
The Top Specialty schools listed in their categories as well as overall rank are listed below.
- Top Business school was Babson College was the Top Business (67 overall, college).
- Top Art and Design schools were Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) (27 overall, college), Pratt Institute (28 overall, college), and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (47 overall, college).
- Top Engineering school was The Cooper Union (38 overall, college).
- Top Music Schools were the Julliard School (50 overall, college), the New England Conservatory of Music (96 overall, college), and Berklee College (99 overall, college).
- Top Online/For Profit University was the University of Phoenix, USA (37 overall, university).
- Top Christian was Wheaton College, IL (16 overall, college),
- Top Military Academies were the United States Naval Academy (20 overall, college), the United States Military Academy (48 overall, college) and the United States Air Force Academy (61 overall, college).
The 73-page guide is available for download from the Global Language Monitor site. The cost is $29.95.
About the Global Language Monitor
Austin-Texas-based Global Language Monitor analyzes and catalogues the latest trends in word usage and word choices, and their impact on the various aspects of culture, with a particular emphasis upon Global English.
English has become the first truly global language with some 1.53 billion speakers as a first, second or auxiliary language. Paul JJ Payack examines its impact on the world economy, culture and society in A Million Words and Counting (Citadel Press, New York, 2009).
The current estimate for the number of words in the English Language stands at 1,002,116.
For more information, call 1.512.801.6823, send email to info@LanguageMonitor.com, or visit www.LanguageMonitor.com.
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University Rankings Top 125 – Fall 2009
The Top 125 Universities ranked by TrendTopper MediaBuzz.
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| Universities | |
| Rank | |
| 1 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, MI |
| 2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA |
| 3 | Harvard University, MA |
| 4 | Columbia University, NY |
| 5 | University of Chicago, IL |
| 6 | University of California-Berkeley, CA |
| 7 | University of Wisconsin-Madison , WI |
| 8 | Stanford University, CA |
| 9 | University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NC |
| 10 | Cornell University, NY |
| 11 | Yale University, CT |
| 12 | Princeton University, NJ |
| 13 | University of Pennsylvania, PA |
| 14 | University of California-Los Angeles, CA |
| 15 | University of Washington, WA |
| 16 | University of Minnesota, MN |
| 17 | New York University, NY |
| 18 | University of California-San Diego, CA |
| 19 | Johns Hopkins University, MD |
| 20 | Ohio State University-Columbus, OH |
| 21 | University of Virginia, VA |
| 22 | U. of California, Davis, CA |
| 23 | Georgia Institute of Technology, GA |
| 24 | Duke University, NC |
| 25 | Boston University, MA |
| 26 | University of Texas-Austin, TX |
| 27 | University of Florida, FL |
| 28 | University of California-Santa Barbara, CA |
| 29 | University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, IL |
| 30 | Boston College, MA |
| 31 | U. of California, Irvine, CA |
| 32 | University of Georgia, GA |
| 33 | Northwestern University, IL |
| 34 | Pennsylvania State University, PA |
| 35 | Rutgers University, NJ |
| 36 | Purdue University, IN |
| 37 | University of Phoenix, AZ |
| 38 | University of Southern California, CA |
| 39 | University of Pittsburgh, PA |
| 40 | SUNY Stony Brook, NY |
| 41 | University of Indiana–Bloomington, IN |
| 42 | University of Iowa, IA |
| 43 | California Institute of Technology, CA |
| 44 | Georgetown University, DC |
| 45 | Brown University, RI |
| 46 | Washington University in St. Louis, MO |
| 47 | Syracuse University, NY |
| 48 | George Washington University, DC |
| 49 | University of Connecticut, CT |
| 50 | Texas A&M University, TX |
| 51 | Emory University, GA |
| 52 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY |
| 53 | Vanderbilt University,TN |
| 54 | The Citadel, SC |
| 55 | University of Notre Dame, IN |
| 56 | Case Western Reserve, OH |
| 57 | University of Colorado–Boulder, CO |
| 58 | Carnegie Mellon University, PA |
| 59 | University of Arizona, AZ |
| 60 | University of Nebraska–Lincoln, NB |
| 61 | Dartmouth College, NH |
| 62 | University of Miami, FL |
| 63 | University of Rochester, NY |
| 64 | University of Maryland-College Park, MD |
| 65 | Tufts University, MA |
| 66 | American University, DC |
| 67 | Michigan State University |
| 68 | Clemson University, SC |
| 69 | Brigham Young University, UT |
| 70 | Auburn University, AL |
| 71 | Rice University, TX |
| 72 | Tulane University, LA |
| 73 | University of Delaware, DE |
| 74 | University of Kansas |
| 75 | Fordham University, NY |
| 76 | Baylor University, TX |
| 77 | Lehigh University , PA |
| 78 | SUNY Buffalo, NY |
| 79 | Virginia Tech, VA |
| 80 | Southern Methodist University, TX |
| 81 | University of Oklahoma, OK |
| 82 | Miami University, OH |
| 83 | New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ |
| 84 | Wake Forest University, NC |
| 85 | University of Missouri–Columbia, MO |
| 86 | Brandeis University, MA |
| 87 | Marquette University, WI |
| 88 | Santa Clara University, CA |
| 89 | North Carolina State University, NC |
| 90 | Loyola Marymount, CA |
| 91 | Northeastern University, MA |
| 92 | Florida State University, FL |
| 93 | College of William and Mary, VA |
| 94 | University of San Diego. CA |
| 95 | Providence College, RI |
| 96 | CUNY Queens College, NY |
| 97 | College of New Jersey, NJ |
| 98 | Iowa State University, IA |
| 99 | Villanova University, PA |
| 100 | Rochester Institute of Technology, NY |
| 101 | CUNY Brooklyn College, NY |
| 101 | James Madison, VA |
| 102 | SUNY Purchase, NY |
| 103 | Creighton University, NE |
| 104 | Texas Christian University, TX |
| 105 | Yeshiva University, NY |
| 106 | Drexel University, PA |
| 107 | Pepperdine University, CA |
| 108 | Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ |
| 109 | SUNY Binghamton, NY |
| 110 | SUNY Albany, NY |
| 111 | Drake University, IA |
| 112 | University of Vermont, VT |
| 113 | CUNY Baruch College, NY |
| 114 | SUNY Albany, NY |
| 115 | University of Redlands, CA |
| 116 | University of Tulsa, OK |
| 117 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA |
| 118 | Butler University, IN |
| 119 | Gonzaga University, WA |
| 120 | Valpariso University, IN |
| 121 | Bradley University, IL |
| 122 | Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, CA |
| 123 | CUNY City College, NY |
| 124 | Xavier University, LA |
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