"A New Way to Evaluate College Performance" (Center for College Affordability)

College Search & Selection
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<p><a href=“http://collegeaffordability.blogspot.com/[/url]”>http://collegeaffordability.blogspot.com/</a> </p>

<p>There are more rankings, but here are the top few: </p>

<p>NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES </p>

<li>Harvard </li>
<li>Yale </li>
<li>Princeton </li>
<li>Columbia </li>
<li>Stanford </li>
<li>Brown </li>
<li>U. of Wisconsin </li>
<li>Caltech </li>
</ol>

<p>LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES </p>

<li>Williams </li>
<li>Hillsdale </li>
<li>Amherst </li>
<li>Haverford </li>
<li>Washington and Lee </li>
<li>Wellesley </li>
<li>Swarthmore </li>
<li>Reed </li>
</ol>

<p>As always for a college ranking, the methodology is debatable, and debate is welcomed here.</p>

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<p>Hillsdale will have to rework its yield model! :)</p>

<p>No matter what the criteria, it's still a one-size-doesn't-fit-all ranking.</p>

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<p>AHHH, the ranking Hawkette has been always looking for.</p>

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<p>The ratings from ratemyprofessor.com account for half of the score. This is a problem for Carleton because most Carleton students don't use that site - they have a prof rating folder on the Carleton internal network.</p>

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<p>Hey, barrons, I especially showed the U of Wisconsin's place in the rankings just to establish some context for you.</p>

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<p>I was trying not to look that needy of validation. ;-)</p>

<p>Especially after the BBall and hockey results this weekend. Yikes.</p>

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<p>Hmmm...since it's from the "Center of College Affordability", you would think overall cost or average debt would have some factor in their rankings.</p>

<p>Go Wisconsin! Looks like an outlier, though...LOL. Maybe during the long winter, students were busy posting to Ratemyprofessor.com to pass the time...:p UW does, however, claim to have the most CEOs.</p>

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<p>"Go Wisconsin! Looks like an outlier, though...LOL. Maybe during the long winter, students were busy posting to Ratemyprofessor.com to pass the time..."</p>

<p>IIRC, we found other things to pass the time indoors, until it was warm enough to do it outdoors.</p>

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<p>What's this? A survey using input from students to help make up the rankings????? What an innovative idea and glad to see it now being accepted by all of those who excoriated me in the past for suggesting that student input should be a legitimate and welcome measuring metric for ranking faculty quality. Welcome aboard, follks. :) (Too bad they had to screw it up with that bit about using Who's Who in America to measure graduate success).</p>

<p>Also, if you look a little further down the link, you will find the following quote:</p>

<p>"Prestigious wealthy southern liberal arts colleges are not supposed to make it into the NCAA basketball's Sweet Sixteen, but Davidson College has (as well as Stanford), which is kind of neat. It is nice, once in a while, to find a school that really excels academically also succeed athletically, despite competing in a true amateur way all year in a world of increasingly semi-pro jock wannabes that make up Division I sports."</p>

<p>Could not have said it better myself.</p>

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<p>It's still not warm enough to do anything outdoors here.</p>

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<p>It was snowing in Seattle this weekend too. And the Nascar race from southern VA indicated it was in the low 40's and drizzling.
The end is near now. And you thought last winter was tough. Now you have had a real winter.</p>

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<p>I don't think many CCers will agree with a list that doesn't put MIT in the top 10.</p>

<p>I'm also sad not to see my school (Berkeley) on the list. Of course i'm probably biased, but I think US News drastically under-rates the school.</p>

<p>Additionally, I believe they ranked Reed a bit too high. While Reed is in my opinion really under-rated by US news, it should be in the 20s for LACs, not ranked 8th.</p>

<p>Yeah the methodology is weird, but i suppose it's mostly accurate.</p>