um, interesting to say the least. http://www.forbes.com/2008/08/13/best-colleges-ratings-oped-college08-cx_ha_mn_de_0813best_land.html?feed=rss_popstories -Doc vN
Wow… I knew we were over ranked but it just dropped my education 55 spots… well at least its still better than my sisters… dropped them 72 and 134 spots…
These lists are so dumb. It’s like ranking the best flavors of ice cream.
JoeyDVivre Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > These lists are so dumb. It’s like ranking the > best flavors of ice cream. agreed…it becomes such a pointless exercise when everyone already knows that mint chocolate chip is the best
What kind of forum is this? Whoever is in charge should delete stupid threads like this. What a waste of time and space!
On another note, this has to be one of the worst lists I’ve ever seen. What a joke. No way should Yale and Stanford be out of the top 5, or MIT and Penn be out of the top 10. I feel like such a Wabash grad for saying this, but I can get away with it because I’m still six ranks higher than University of Chicago.
I am curious what a school has to do to get in the bottom ten. Also, what does it take to get a Freshman class size of “N/A”, like University of Toledo? Rank Name State Cost Freshman Class Size 560 Howard University DC 24,346 1,450 561 Pace University NY 43,178 1,551 562 St. Cloud State University MN 15,217 2,381 563 Iowa State University IA 17,166 4,347 564 University of Toledo OH 20,700 NA 565 Stevens Institute of Technology NJ 47,500 521 566 Roger Williams University RI 39,334 1,045 567 Rochester Institute of Technology NY 37,460 2,514 568 Northeastern University MA 46,019 2,871 569 Milwaukee School of Engineering WI 39,121 575 http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/94/opinions_college08_Americas-Best-Colleges_Rank_23.html
Lol, Carnegie Mellon is 266. Apparently, top employers, Nobel Prizes, and high standardized scores don’t count for much these days. Who wrote this list?
Dartmouth is 127. lol
Cornell College (Iowa) is 71 Cornell University (New York) is 121…
wow, I can’t believe forbes published that. That is embarrassing.
I was just happy to see my school on the Newsweek “America’s 25 hottest schools”: http://www.newsweek.com/id/56504?tid=relatedcl Does anything else really matter?
They used an interesting methodology, albeit one that certainly doesn’t reveal anything about the quality of the colleges: To answer these questions, the staff at CCAP (mostly college students themselves) gathered data from a variety of sources. They based 25% of the rankings on 7 million student evaluations of courses and instructors, as recorded on the Web site RateMyProfessors.com. Another 25% depends on how many of the school’s alumni, adjusted for enrollment, are listed among the notable people in Who’s Who in America. The other half of the ranking is based equally on three factors: the average amount of student debt at graduation held by those who borrowed; the percentage of students graduating in four years; and the number of students or faculty, adjusted for enrollment, who have won nationally competitive awards like Rhodes Scholarships or Nobel Prizes.
wow seriously: 20 Pomona College CA 23 Stanford University CA Never knew Pomona was so great… Their acceptance rate is like 99%?
UPenn 61? c’mon My school came out 73.
Not saying I agree with all these rankings, but this methodology is better than the US News and World Report one. tobias Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > They used an interesting methodology, albeit one > that certainly doesn’t reveal anything about the > quality of the colleges: > > To answer these questions, the staff at CCAP > (mostly college students themselves) gathered data > from a variety of sources. They based 25% of the > rankings on 7 million student evaluations of > courses and instructors, as recorded on the Web > site RateMyProfessors.com. Another 25% depends on > how many of the school’s alumni, adjusted for > enrollment, are listed among the notable people in > Who’s Who in America. > > The other half of the ranking is based equally on > three factors: the average amount of student debt > at graduation held by those who borrowed; the > percentage of students graduating in four years; > and the number of students or faculty, adjusted > for enrollment, who have won nationally > competitive awards like Rhodes Scholarships or > Nobel Prizes.
76 for me. Georgetown just barely edged out by number 75, Mills College.
Actually, I love this Forbes list! It combats the ridiculous ranking and ranking methodology of the US News and World Report rankings with a ridiculous ranking and ranking methodology of its own. I hope more of these lists come out from more places, to dilute the influence of the idiots from the Aristocracy of old America.
It seems like the list was skewed for student/fac ratio. I think a study came out recently that said that figure had no bearing on the success of the students.
A rankings bubble bursting, is a great thing.