A python algorithm to rank US 4-year colleges for display on http://mattleibold.com/colleges
College data from http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/
Current rankings:
1 Stanford University 4761.40
2 Harvard University 4575.89
3 Yale University 4467.32
4 University of Virginia-Main Campus 4403.26
5 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 4251.32
6 Princeton University 4244.29
7 Columbia University in the City of New York 4190.82
8 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4151.11
9 California Institute of Technology 4046.82
10 United States Military Academy 4001.02
11 University of Chicago 3978.10
12 Brown University 3909.06
13 University of Pennsylvania 3746.67
14 Texas A & M University-College Station 3732.38
15 University of California-Berkeley 3699.19
16 Virginia Military Institute 3695.43
17 College of the Ozarks 3671.65
18 United States Air Force Academy 3641.55
19 Duke University 3636.76
20 Dartmouth College 3631.07
21 Claremont McKenna College 3627.96
22 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 3619.48
23 Pomona College 3605.42
24 Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus 3596.30
25 College of William and Mary 3593.30