How Does The Top 20 Differ From Top 10-20?

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As we review the data, we might ask ourselves how the top 10 differ from the top 20 and how the top 10 differ from the top 50. To review this, while looking at the university ranking, for the most part, the top 10-20 universities are similar. There is not a significant gap between the top 10 and 20. Clearly, all of these universities are well known and have a good reputation. Although one might say that location plays a role in the good a university, however, the ranking demonstrates that these universities that are ranked on the top 10-20 are located not only in small towns but also big cities. These schools are also diversed in terms of location. What is also intriguing is the tuition of the top 10-20 universities fluctuates. For example, the Brown University which was ranked number 16, has one of the highest tuition rate of 47,434 while the top 1 university, Princeton University has a tuition rate …show more content…

However, the higher up the ranking you explore, there is an increase in enrollment size. However, there isn’t much of a gap because even some schools in the top 40 and top 50 have a good reputation and the price of the universities is relatively similar in both the top 10 and 20 and the top 40 and 50. There is however a slight gap in the the university's’ freshmen retention rate. In the top 10 and 20, the retention rate was around 97-99% while in the top 40 and 50 they drop to only as low as 91%. We can also review the #1 university (Princeton) to the #53 university (University of Texas). The number one school is a small private university while the number 53 is a state school which is a lot bigger. There isn’t much a gap that exists between the top 10 and 20, however, there is a gap in freshmen retention rate, size between the top 10 and the top 40-50. However, the tuition rate of a university in the top 10-20 or top 10-50 fluctuates in this