# School  #Svys Score 1 Vassar College   24 84.1% 2 Brown University   92 81.0% 3 Bates College   25 80.9% 4 Reed College   23 80.6% 5 Yale University   30 79.6% 6 Dartmouth College   30 79.5% 7 University of Chicago   47 79.3% 8 Simon's Rock College of Bard   25 78.4% 9 Mount Holyoke College   32 77.8% 10 Bryn Mawr College   29 77.1% 11 Colgate University   46 76.0% 12 Hobart and William Smith Colleges   23 75.7% 13 Emory University   28 75.2% 14 Kalamazoo College   42 74.9% 15 Fordham University   43 74.5% 16 Southwestern Assemblies of God University   108 74.4% 17 Princeton University   31 74.4% 18 Harvey Mudd College   36 74.3% 19 American University   26 73.8% 20 Texas A&M University at College Station   70 73.7% 21 Ohio University   26 73.5% 22 Purdue University   33 73.2% 23 Carnegie Mellon University   42 73.2% 24 Vanderbilt University   47 73.2% 25 Stanford University   38 73.2% 26 Rice University   22 73.1% 27 Quinnipiac University   22 72.7% 28 Bucknell University   29 72.7% 29 Massachusetts Institute of Technology   89 72.6% 30 Sam Houston State University   25 72.5% 31 Furman University   27 72.5% 32 Georgetown University   45 72.1% 33 Ohio State University Columbus   32 71.8% 34 University of Notre Dame   35 71.8% 35 Brandeis University   40 71.7% 36 Pace University   22 71.3% 37 Northwestern University   59 71.2% 38 University of Washington   28 71.0% 39 University of Virginia   58 70.8% 40 Temple University   30 70.8% 41 Michigan State University   59 70.6% 42 LeTourneau University   50 70.5% 43 University of California -- Santa Barbara   35 70.5% 44 William Jewell College   25 70.5% 45 Savannah College of Art and Design   23 70.4% 46 Tulane University   38 70.3% 47 Duke University   25 70.3% 48 University of California -- Los Angeles   49 70.3% 49 College of William and Mary   86 70.2% 50 Southwestern University   26 70.0%

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.