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2026

1 UC Berkeley
2 UCLA
3 U Michigan
4 U North Carolina
4 U Virginia
6 UC San Diego
7 U Texas–Austin
7 U Florida
9 Georgia Tech
9 UC Davis
9 UC Irvine
12 U Illinois, Urbana-Champagne
12 U Wisconsin–Madison
14 UC Santa Barbara
15 Ohio State
16 U Washington
16 Rutgers–New Brunswick
16 U Maryland–College Park
19 Purdue
19 Georgia
21 Florida State
21 Texas A&M
21 Virginia Tech
21 William & Mary
25 UC Merced
26 Penn State
26 U Minnesota
26 SUNY Stony Brook
29 Michigan State
29 North Carolina State
29 U Massachusetts–Amherst
32 U Connecticut
32 U Pittsburgh
34 U Indiana–Bloomington
34 SUNY Binghamton
36 Clemson
36 Rutgers–Newark
36 SUNY Buffalo
36 UC Riverside
40 Colorado School of Mines
40 NJ Institute of Technology
42 U lllinois–Chicago
43 UC Santa Cruz
43 U Delaware
43 U South Florida
46 Florida International
46 Rutgers–Camden
46 U Colorado–Boulder
49 Auburn
49 Temple
49 U Iowa
49 U Missouri
49 U Tennessee–Knoxville

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No wonder the SEC presidents want Virginia and North Carolina

(09-25-2025 04:46 PM)murrdcu Wrote:  No wonder the SEC presidents want Virginia and North Carolina

And Duke is ranked even higher than those.