Yale University

Unlike its brothers-in-arms Harvard and Princeton, Yale proffers no eating clubs, no finals clubs—instead, the campus boasts an engaging environment that is decidedly unpretentious. There’s not much of a party scene, and the only thing “new” about New Haven is the case of Schlitz at the liquor store down the street. But each year Yale cranks out an impressively diverse array of graduates—including the likes of Bill Clinton, Gerald Ford, Paul Newman, Gene Siskel, and Tom Wolfe among countless others.