# School  #Svys Score 1 Vassar College   21 82.1% 2 Brown University   90 79.8% 3 Reed College   22 79.6% 4 Bates College   23 78.1% 5 University of Chicago   46 78.0% 6 Dartmouth College   29 77.9% 7 Simon's Rock College of Bard   23 76.8% 8 Mount Holyoke College   30 76.4% 9 Yale University   28 76.3% 10 Colgate University   44 75.5% 11 Southwestern Assemblies of God University   106 74.9% 12 Hobart and William Smith Colleges   20 74.5% 13 Fordham University   42 74.3% 14 Bryn Mawr College   27 74.1% 15 Emory University   26 74.0% 16 Kalamazoo College   41 73.9% 17 Texas A&M University at College Station   67 73.8% 18 Ohio University   25 73.5% 19 Harvey Mudd College   34 72.8% 20 Sam Houston State University   22 72.8% 21 Massachusetts Institute of Technology   87 72.7% 22 Carnegie Mellon University   38 72.7% 23 Quinnipiac University   21 72.2% 24 Vanderbilt University   45 72.2% 25 Rice University   21 72.1% 26 Furman University   26 72.1% 27 Princeton University   30 72.1% 28 American University   24 72.0% 29 Brandeis University   39 71.9% 30 Bucknell University   26 71.7% 31 LeTourneau University   49 71.5% 32 Purdue University   31 71.5% 33 University of Notre Dame   34 71.1% 34 Georgetown University   42 71.0% 35 University of California -- Santa Barbara   33 70.6% 36 Northwestern University   56 70.5% 37 University of Virginia   57 70.4% 38 Southwestern University   24 70.3% 39 University of Washington   26 70.0% 40 Stanford University   36 70.0% 41 Ohio State University Columbus   29 70.0% 42 Temple University   28 69.8% 43 University of Texas -- Austin   61 69.6% 44 College of William and Mary   85 69.6% 45 Western Michigan University   29 69.6% 46 University of California -- Berkeley   80 69.6% 47 Columbia University in the City of New York   32 69.5% 48 William Jewell College   23 69.5% 49 University of California -- Los Angeles   48 69.5% 50 Duke University   24 69.4%

About StudentsReview's Criteria for the Top Creative Schools is: 75% - Creativity 10% - Competition & Collaboration 5% - Academic Success is based upon 'understanding' 5% - Schoolwork is Useful 5% - Would Return again Creative people are those who naturally see worlds of possibilities, and who value their individualism as a source of their creativity. For creative schools, we highly emphasized creativity, but we also included collaboration/competitiveness. While creative students may all have their own ideas about how to do things, we felt it was important for them to learn to work WITH other students, rather than against each other, which is why we included competition & collaboration in the rankings. Finally because creative students often don't accommodate well to specific directions, we felt that it to be very important that the schoolwork be both useful and that their success be dependent upon understanding. Creativity is something that is highly valuable — from personalization of the home to new business & product ideas. Creativity changes our society and our world. Creative/Innovation  Innovation is the conversion of educational knowledge into new opportunities, and new ways of doing things.  Pure education can become outdated, but teaching a student how and encouraging their creativity and innovation will provide them with returns for the rest of their lives. Course Competitiveness  While a certain amount of competition is a good thing, this metric measures the amount of “bad competition” — the kind that results in cheating, hoarding knowledge, looking over the shoulder, and the general kind that is counterproductive to the working relationships at highly profitable companies, or in effective management. Effective companies and employees — and “people” in general are those that work together openly.  Cut-throat competition teaches a work ethic & mentality that is actually counter to success. Academic Success is based upon 'understanding'  This is fundamentally important. In a world obsessed with grades, it is imperative that any educational institution insure that the grades it gives, the metrics, and evaluations are clear and appropriate to the student's mastery. Many schools stake their reputation on grades, and their abilities to make qualified, educated, and ambitious people either fail out, or do poorly — because then it artificially seems as though the education is difficult.  Schoolwork is Useful & Instructive  Many schools give coursework for the purpose of delivering grades rather than the purpose of educating students.  Students have evaluated to say what proportion of their coursework is useful and instructive.  In the context of a good education, busywork does not assist (for the most part) understanding and competency in the workforce, and provides a mechanism by which grades do not match competency, harming students post-graduation opportunities.  The purpose of universities is to educate, not to babysit, nor to leverage customers for reputation. Would Return (Overall Experience)  All things stated, would the students choose to return?  This blanket captures things that all of our ratings did not, or could not capture. Is there some unknown factor affecting why students would not return?  Filtering and Analysis To find out how the data analysis was performed for the 2005 New Years Day OFFICIAL Rankings, including filtering, invalidity, weighting, distribution matching, and inherent biases, please go to 2005 NYD Rankings Explained.