academic strength of departments

College Search & Selection
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<p>take a look ppl, basically, what i am learning, those peer assessment rankings on US News are full of *****, b/c if you take a look at these departmental rankings, you will see that many schools that score high on that ranking such as Duke and JHU do not have many top 10 departments and dartmouth has practically none, but a school like Wisconsin has many more...go figure.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.stat.tamu.edu/%7Ejnewton/n...ings/nrc41.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/n...ings/nrc41.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I think your an idiot and full of *****</p>

<p>"summarizes the results of a survey performed in 1993" --NRC</p>

<p>welcome to the new millenium</p>

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<p>well, where is the new info??????????????????</p>

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<p>the NRC will come out with a "new" study sometime soon. Duke and JHU have a high peer assesment ranking because of the reputation and strength of their faculty, students, etc.--</p>

<p>MIT doesnt do too well in Arts & Humanities but does that mean it should have a low peer assessment ranking?</p>

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<p>i think you misunderstood my comment, but i was mostly referring to the fact that a school like wisconsin has many strong programs but only a 4.2. Northwestern has a 4.4 as well as Dart, but has much stronger programs than dartmouth. That is what i was referring to.</p>

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<p>Right, because the academics giving the peer assessment score know that the undergrad academic experience is not perfectly congruent with strength of departments. The strength of those departments is relevant, because it tells you whether the faculty are well-respected in their fields, but it is not counteracted by problems like the much less accomplished student body and many more take-a-number intro courses at a place like Wisconsin as compared to Dartmouth. The people giving the peer assessment score know that your fellow students matter, and so does the structure of the undergrad program. There's nothing full of **** about that.</p>

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<p>collegekid,</p>

<p>It is a paradox; that's why no ranking is perfect. I actually wrote on Duke's board about how Northwestern is comparable to Duke in terms of departmental rankings and that's not even considering the fact that many of Northwestern's strongest specialties (film, music, journalism, communication, and drama..etc) have no published ranking. I did that after I saw some of the guys there making statements like "Duke is 'way better'"...etc.</p>