Are the best universities and colleges a tier 1?

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Pittsburgh

In Britain, I'd say Cambridge and Oxford. University College of London, Warwick and St Andrews are also up there.

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probably Adelphi, Dowling College, Stony BrookI think the colleges in Manhattan are better but harder to get into such as:NYU ColumbiaBut PACE university is awesome and less hard to get into