<p>Anyone know why NYU is ranked 290 places lower on Forbes new college list vs. US News and World Report?</p>
<p>Such rankings don't do any individual any good; they don't know what you value in a college.</p>
<p>^^^ I agree...But I was just curious about how the criteria could be so drastically different. I was wondering what would cause such a huge difference.</p>
<p>you should read the comments people posted, then you wouldn't feel too bad about the whole ranking thing. I mean, Dartmouth and Cornell aren't even included on the top 25? C'mon</p>
<p>Darthmouth and Cornell are actually ranked like 130-something. :P Forbes is weird, the value the small colleges above the big research facilities. Maybe they're just jealous or something, who cares.</p>
<p>We all know that NYU is the ****. :D</p>
<p>Forbes seems to have all the liberal arts colleges up top, and the larger universities ranked wayyy lower, including Ivies! The whole thing was probably made up by a bunch of Vassar/Bowdoin graduates who couldn't handle going to a big diverse college so they chose a little boarding school type college in the middle of nowhere so they could be in high school for 4 more years :)</p>
<p>Ok, that was kind of mean. But sometimes the truth hurts!</p>
<p>Yeah, the list values small liberal arts colleges, so obviously NYU wouldn't rank high.</p>
<p>Forbes is probably giving greater weighting to class size, % of classes taught by full professors, teaching effectiveness, and grad school outcomes, areas where LACs shine, and less weighting to selectivity, endowments, variety of programs, grad school research facilities, and job placement, areas where big schools shine.</p>