Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  Passage: I roto i tana whakaputanga 2019, I tohua e te US News & World Report a Colgate ko te 16th-ko te kaareti toi toi pai rawa atu i te whenua (i honoa ki te Whare Wananga o Hamilton tata). Ko te whare wananga o te whare wananga i tohua ko te tino ataahua na The Princeton Review i roto i ta raatau whakaputanga 2010. I te Hōngongoi 2008, i whakaingoatia a Colgate hei tuarima i runga i te raarangi a Forbes o nga Whare Wananga Nui mo te Whakapaipai, ko te whare wananga anake ehara i te Ivy League i roto i te top 5. Ko Colgate tetahi o nga 25 o Amerika "New Ivies" na te maheni Newsweek. Kei runga ano hoki i te raarangi o nga "100 whare wananga pai rawa atu mo nga akonga LGBT". Kua tohua a Colgate hei tuatoru e te Journal of Blacks in Higher Education mo tona angitu ki te whakauru i nga akonga Awherika-Amerika. I te 2014, i tohua a Colgate hei whare wananga nui rawa atu i te United States e Payscale me te CollegeNet's Social Mobility Index ranking. Kei te whakarārangitia ano hoki hei tetahi o nga 30 Ivies Huna, me tetahi o nga "Ivies Hou" o Newsweek. I te tau 2014, i whakatauhia e te Princeton Review a Colgate hei Whare Wananga Tino Ataahua i Amerika.  Pātai: Ko te whare wānanga tuatahi o Princeton i te tau 2014 ko tēhea whare wānanga?
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