*Colleges on the Rise*

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Since you haven’t proven that those jobs are better or more valuable, I’m not going to assume it and absolve you of the responsibility.

Since you care so much about CEOs:
<a href=“http://content.spencerstuart.com/sswebsite/pdf/lib/2005_CEO_Study_JS.pdf#nameddest=edu[/url]”>http://content.spencerstuart.com/sswebsite/pdf/lib/2005_CEO_Study_JS.pdf#nameddest=edu](<a href=“http://consider.k-state.edu/scholars/index.htm]scholars[/url”>http://consider.k-state.edu/scholars/index.htm)</a></p>

<p>Top firms certainly seem to like engineers, accountants, and business grads for their CEO jobs.</p>

<p>@topic: I agree with all of Sparkeye’s picks on page 1. Go Big Red! I would add U Minnesota, UT Dallas, USC, UMBC, and possibly Purdue.</p>

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<p>^^^That was part of the central/medical campus Sparkeye and not the north campus. LOL. I’ll stop teasing you now since you are one of my favorite posters here on CC. I didn’t know you were in medical school. Ohio State does have a pretty good one. :-)</p>

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<p>^^ Thank You! I am honored!! ^o^v</p>

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<p>What about UNC Asheville? It’s the LAC in the UNC system, and it seems to be attracting more qualified applicants all the time. From DS’s perspective, it’s a strong alternative to UNC Chapel Hill: smaller, more intimate, with more faculty-student interaction. Its History dep’t is not as broad as Chapel Hill’s (only one medievalist, IIRC), but it’s very strong in U.S. History, which is where DS’s interests lie, anyway. And it has a fantastic Classics dep’t (his proposed minor).</p>

<p>I know of students who have turned down Chapel Hill for Asheville. DS may be among them (if he gets into Chapel Hill; will find out 1/21). I think it is up and coming, for sure.</p>

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<p>UNDERGRADUATE RETENTION AND GRADUATION - UNC ASHEVILLE </p>

<p>First-Year Students Returning 82.0%
Students Graduating Within 4 Years 28.8%
Students Graduating Within 5 Years 55.1%
Students Graduating Within 6 Years 59.0% </p>

<p>I think that “up & coming” is also based upon graduation rates, as previously discussed about Tulane in this thread.</p>

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<p>Interesting thread. Some additional schools not mentioned as “up and coming”:
Northeastern University,Bentley University,UMass Dartmouth
Agree with previous posts about College of New Jersey</p>

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<p>RiversChoice—some UNC Asheville students are non-traditional (part-timers, working their way through, etc.), which affects graduation timeframes.</p>

<p>UNCA is #8 on US News’ list of “top public LACs,” so I’m not too worried whether CCers agree that it’s up and coming. :)</p>

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<p>Also–NC kids have a tendency to switch around from one UNC-system campus to another. E.g.: My boss’s daughter started out at NC State, transferred to ECU, and is now considering UNCG. Neighbor’s daughter started out at UNCG and now attends NC State. It’s a North Carolina Thing. ;-)</p>

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<p>SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory…</p>

<p>[MSU:</a> Cutting-edge accelerator project lures top minds, creates jobs | freep.com | Detroit Free Press](<a href=“http://www.freep.com/article/20110118/NEWS05/101180401/1007/MSU-creating-a-haven-for-nuclear-physics-research]MSU:”>http://www.freep.com/article/20110118/NEWS05/101180401/1007/MSU-creating-a-haven-for-nuclear-physics-research)</p>

<p>hmm… We are recruiting the best of the best away from Stanford. </p>

<p>MSU is certainly on the rise!! :)</p>

<p>P.S. Michigan State’s FRIB reminds me of Ron Howard’s “Angels and Demons,” which was based on CERN’s LHC.</p>

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<p>^ SLAC is only Stanford, Sparkeye. You can steal them. ;)</p>

<p>In the meantime, Berkeley’s Livermore National Lab is working on nuclear fusion.</p>

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<p>^^ Yea, I stand corrected!! lol</p>

<p>[YouTube</a> - Concerning the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams](<a href=“Concerning the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams - YouTube”>Concerning the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams - YouTube)</p>

<p>In fact, Cal is helping MSU in building FRIB!!! After all, Berkeley (Ernest Lawrence) was the birthplace of Cyclotron!!! :)</p>

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<p>On the rise means “rising” up the rankings. So unless you can post a specific increase in a schools ranking, it is not on the “rise.”</p>

<p>Rind the US News Rakings from an earlier date, say 2000 or 2005, and compare them to the current rankings. You’ll be able to track trends and which schools are actually rising. It is hard to filter out all the people on here saying their alma mater or their kids school is on the rise without providing any specific increase in rankings.</p>

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<p>^^ "On the rise means “rising” up the rankings. So unless you can post a specific increase in a schools ranking, it is not on the “rise.”</p>

<p>urh… Perhaps it would be best that you start a new thread under your own definition since that was NOT what OP had in mind. </p>

<p>P.S. USNWR is not the Bible, and in many incidences contradicted itself; Otherwise, Ohio State would have advanced in ranking instead of dropping 3 spots last year (FWIW, TOSU has been listed on the magazine’s short list of ‘Up-and-Coming’ annually along with USC since it’s debut years back).</p>

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<p>“USNWR’s Rankings are the definitive source for undergraduate rankings. There are a lot of rankings out there, but few people use anything other than US News.” </p>

<p>LOL, Sparkeye7, this is one of Informative’s posts, so you can see where he is coming from.</p>

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<p>Pretty sure the OP was looking for specifics. This is why he/she said that the previous post turned into people flaming their own schools or their kids schools. You have to provide a quantifiable factor to say a university is “on the rise”. What does that mean? Most would take it to mean a rise in academic ranking, which is essentially a proxy for “academic rigor, professor ratings, and overall prestige”. </p>

<p>A university like USC jumping significantly in the rankings in the last few years is a good example of a school on the “rise.” Or Northeastern University’s jumping 120 spots in US News in the last four or five years. These are quantifiable jumps that, by definition, make them “colleges on the rise.”</p>

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<p>For schools on the rise I would look for colleges located in subduction zones.</p>

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<p>[Queens</a> University expands goals in quest to reach top ranks - CharlotteObserver.com](<a href=“http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/01/21/1996250/queens-expands-goals-in-quest.html]Queens”>http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/01/21/1996250/queens-expands-goals-in-quest.html)</p>

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<p>UT Dallas. Would clearly be on the rise</p>