Alabama moves up in US News college rankings

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Alabama
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<p>Now up to #79</p>

<p>[National</a> Universities Rankings - Best College - Education - US News](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/national-universities-rankings/page+4]National”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/national-universities-rankings/page+4)</p>

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<p>Yea!!!</p>

<p>Bama is at #79</p>

<p>Auburn is at #85</p>

<p>Roll Tide!</p>

<p>Bama is tied with…</p>

<p>American U
Baylor
Miami U
Mich St U</p>

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<p>It’s a huge jump in the rankings for Bama. Seems like they were around 98 last year (cant remember the exact number). It’s one of the biggest improvements for any university this year.</p>

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<p>Hey, just to fun, I made lists for the big 5 BCS conferences since most of the big research universities are affiliated with one of those conferences. (Sorry Big East, I don’t even know who all your members are!)</p>

<p>I made this rather quickly, so there may be mistakes!</p>

<p>ACC
duke 9
wake 25
virginia 25
unc 30
boston college 31
georgia tech 35
miami 47
maryland 56
clemson 64
virginia tech 69
florida state 104
nc state 111</p>

<p>big ten
northwestern 12
michigan 29
wisconsin 45
penn state 47
illinois 47
ohio state 56
purdue 56
minnesota 64
iowa 72
indiana 75
michigan state 79
nebraska 104</p>

<p>big 12<br>
texas 45
texas am 63
baylor 79
missouri 94
iowa state 94
kansas 104
oklahoma 111
oklahoma state 132
kansas state 132
texas tech 159</p>

<p>pac 10<br>
stanford 5
berkeley 22
usc 23
ucla 25
washington 41
colorado 86
washington st 111
oregon 111
arizona 120
utah 129
oregon st 139
arizona st 143</p>

<p>SEC
vanderbilt 17
florida 53
georiga 56
alabama 79
auburn 85
tennessee 104
south carolina 111
lsu 124
kentucky 129
arkansas 132
ole miss 143
miss st 151</p>

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<p>Looks like US News has moved the bar for being a Tier 1 school.</p>

<p>It used to be either 120 or 130…now it’s well past that. Miss St & WVU (176) are now listed as Tier 1</p>

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<p>UA-Birmingham (151) and UA-Hunstville (179) are now Tier 1.</p>

<p>I’ll see if there is a story behind this change to the Tier system.</p>

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<p>Happy to see us move up and outrank that school across the state. But I think it is strange that schools like FSU are ranked so poorly compared with UA and AU. VERY few get into FSU with an ACT
below 24. Auburn’s website usually has a breakdown off where ethe various Southern schools rank on each US News criteria, so will be intreating to see why UA jumped up in the rankings so much. S</p>

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<p>FSU folk are not at all happy with this at all, I assure you.</p>

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<p>FSU’s ranking didn’t change much from last year. Wasn’t it about 104 last year?</p>

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<p>It was 102 overall and 48th public last year. This year FSU is 47th public and 104 overall. Not much change, really.</p>

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<p>Bama is #34 for public universities.</p>

<p>That’s pretty good when you consider Calif has all those UCs that take a bunch of spots.</p>

<p>Also, both UA-Huntsville and UA-B’ham made it into the top 100 public U’s.</p>

<p><a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/national-top-public[/url]”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/national-top-public&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>And, no SUNY ranks above Bama… SUNY College of Env Sci and Forestry ties with Bama</p>

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<p>Tier 1 used to be the top quartile, Tier 2 was the second quartile, and so forth. The, US News began combining the top 2 quartiles and calling it Tier 1 - the third and fourth tiers were still the third and fourth quartiles. Staring this year, they’re ranking the top 75% and calling it Tier 1. The fourth quartile remains unranked.</p>

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<p>*Staring this year, they’re ranking the top 75% and calling it Tier 1. The fourth quartile remains unranked. *</p>

<p>I wonder why?</p>

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<p>[University</a> of Alabama climbs 17 spots in U.S. News & World Report rankings | TuscaloosaNews.com](<a href=“http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20100817/NEWS/100819667/1007?p=2&tc=pg]University”>http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20100817/NEWS/100819667/1007?p=2&tc=pg)</p>

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<p>I’ve never heard of any university climbing 17 spots in a single year. Is this unprecedented?</p>

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<p>Don’t know if this is unprecedented or not.</p>

<p>I think part of the problem was that Bama was improperly ranked last year. I have to admit that I have been counting the months since last August’s ridiculous ranking.</p>

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<p>[Magazine</a> ranks UA 79th best | TuscaloosaNews.com](<a href=“http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20100818/NEWS/100819630/1007?Title=Magazine-ranks-UA-79th-best]Magazine”>http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20100818/NEWS/100819630/1007?Title=Magazine-ranks-UA-79th-best) for a longer and more detailed article than the one I posted last night.</p>

<p>Seems UA benefited from a change in the weighting of certain criteria. Plus, they added input from high school counselors, which greatly benefited UA. </p>

<p>I think US News tweeks the rankings criteria a bit every year to prevent schools from manipulating their place in the rankings.</p>

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<p>It’s great to hear that Alabama has jumped so far in the rankings! Definitely helpful as something to use when I have to defend Bama to my parents.</p>

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<p><a href=“https://oira.auburn.edu/about/publications/usnews2011_FINAL.pdf[/url]”>https://oira.auburn.edu/about/publications/usnews2011_FINAL.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>for analysis of the US rankings for 2011</p>

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<p>Interesting. Big selectivity difference between UA & AU.</p>