[blagie]

For your reference, tiers are traditionally defined by Carnegie. There are around 5000 schools in the US. A couple hundred are in the top two tiers, R1 and R2. Here is a list:

https://cehd.gmu.edu/assets/docs/faculty/tenurepromotion/ins...

MIT, ASU, and WPI are all on this list. MIT and ASU are both R1, while WPI is R2.

As a footnote, elitism isn't a good look either, at least in 2022. I had that look when I was affiliated with the elites, and I believed it too.

[cardiology-fat]

You started out talking about '#1 university brand', and now you want to pretend you mean the Carnegie categories? Come off it. Not only are they much too coarse-grained, but they're also (by design) US-centric.

I'm at somewhere way less prominent than either, but even I can see that there are way more than 1 prestige tiers between MIT and ASU.

But of far greater concern is your bizarre condescending tone. You even told me to do my research. Are you an antivaxxer?