The top three universities, as represented by plotting U.S. News & World Report statistics using high-dimensional mathematics. According to 50.3 percent of those rankings, Harvard is number 1, Princeton is 2, and Yale is 3. But according to 30.5 percent of the rankings, MIT squeezes Yale out for number 3.
Credit: Pachter, L. and Huggins, P.
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