Highly rated by whom? The usual pack of liberal termites? Is Yale highly rated? I spent most of my life living in its shadow and knowing its undergraduates and hearing the horror stories. Purely on the basis of academic substance, Yale has long since given up the ghost. Marxists running the philosophy department have been running out of the department anyone who does not share their commitment to the revolution. Read Bill Buckley's God and Man at Yale, written when he was editor of the Yale Daily News as an undergraduate (cless of 1951). Buckley's Yale of 1951 looks like a medieval monastery in both scholarship and intellectual achievement compared to the charnel house that Yale has become.
For our own good and that of our children and that of our nation and society, can we now kill off the cult of the publicly recognized (by academic credentials) "expert", the mindless stupidity of employers who hire by academic "credentials", etc.
From what engineering school did Thomas Edison graduate?
Let us start our own internet universities, as Ralph McInerney, a rare Notre Dame faculty Catholic has, save the cost of brick and mortar, re-emphasize education steeped in the truth of our culture, recognize that theology, philosphy and history are more important than football.
The President of the Board of the local very conservative Catholic private school is a graduate of Yale. The headmaster counseled students at Princeton. Both those schools are on my "over my dead body" list. Nevertheless, there are people measuring the performance of students (I'm assuming it's workplace performance, I'll ask). Certain graduates are in high demand the world over (in the technical fields probably in others).
While I agree about the internet universities, there is something good to be said about classroom and lab instruction. History, theology, and philosophy are wonderful subjects but there is more to the world than those and I don't see the point of conceding other fields of inquiry to the secularists. As a parent it's my responsiblity to prepare my child to defend his faith in the world. It's also my responsiblity to see that he develops his talents.