Top Universities

Miami Dade
University of Maryland Baltimore County
University of Texas-Dallas
Duke University

From a purely ivy-league USA perspective, which of these colleges is the "best"? (Like is one or more an "Oxford" or a "Cambridge" ?)

Oh, Duke University ... by a country mile. The University of Texas is a well respected university, but it mostly applies to the Austin campus, not Dallas. The same for the University of Maryland. The main campus is in College Station, not the satellite location in Baltimore County. Miami Dade is, from what I understand, a community college.

I've not paid much attention to which schools are the best in the U.S., but I'm going to guess the following are on everyone's top 10 somewhere:

• Harvard
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  
• Stanford
• University of Pennsylvania

Duke is usually there as well, as is Princeton and the University of Chicago. Northwestern University (just north of Chicago). My school, Michigan State University, ranks high in agricultural stuff and veterinary medicine ... but not generally that good overall. Oh well.