<p>How did Cornell end up at #207??? D:</p>
<p>Cornell: #207</a> Cornell University - Forbes.com</p>
<p>Full list: America's</a> Best Colleges - Forbes.com</p>
<p>Usually I don't care much about these rankings, but this really surprised me...</p>
<p>Ivy league is over, no one cares anymore.</p>
<p>It’s not about being in the Ivy League or not, it’s about the quality of education that you’re getting.</p>
<p>still, i didn’t know cornell education was thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat bad lol</p>
<p>Exactly! lol.</p>
<p>forbes ranking: write all the college names on pieces of paper, put them in a hat, and pick them out. whatever order comes out is the forbes ranking!!</p>
<p>lol who actually takes forbes magazine seriously? What if playstation magazine came out with college rankings, would people believe that too?</p>
<p>^ lawls. but i do believe they gave categories for how they rank schools.</p>
<p>i also was really shocked by how low the score was.</p>
<p>25 percent of a schools score was taken by ratemyprofessor.com rankings, and another 12.5 percent was taken by the percentage of students in the “who’s who in america” publication…lmao</p>
<p>^LOL!!!</p>
<p>ratemyprofessor? hahaha</p>
<p>Playstation magazine ranks colleges…now there’s an idea.</p>
<p>Yeah, these rankings are a joke because of the screwy methodology. Ratemyprofessor reviews are ridiculously biased.</p>
<p>One of the comments:
I think the editor may have switched Cornell College and Cornell University. In the article, they write:</p>
<p>"…Boston College (No. 16) far outperforms Dartmouth (No. 98), Duke (No. 104) and Cornell (No. 105).</p>
<p>Given the other schools mentioned, I’m pretty sure #105 refers to Cornell University. But if you look at the rankings, they have Cornell COLLEGE at #105. #105 still seems low - but at least it near Duke/Dartmouth which makes a lot more sense (on Forbes’ relative scale).</p>
<p>forbes rankings are a joke. not only because they put cornell so low. many respected schools, such as johns hopkins (173), carnegie mellon (280ish) are very low. And Drexel, a very fine institution, is 594 out of 600? are you serious?</p>
<p>Wow I thought you were ■■■■■■■■ when you first listed the methodology. Wow.</p>
<p>If you’ll notice, with a few exceptions, the first 5 or so pages are inundated with small, liberal arts colleges, and mostly devoid of large research universities.</p>
<p>20% was based on debt after school, lol.
For everyone who takes these ranks seriously, I and Mr. T pities you. The fact that you need a number to validate yourself means that you need a serious reality check.</p>
<p>[America’s</a> Best Colleges 2009 - Forbes.com](<a href=“http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/02/colleges-university-ratings-opinions-colleges-09-intro.html]America’s”>America's Best Colleges 2009)
To answer these questions, the staff at CCAP gathered data from a variety of sources. They based 25% of the rankings on 4 million student evaluations of courses and instructors, as recorded on the Web site RateMyProfessors.com. Another 25% is based on post-graduate success, equally determined by enrollment-adjusted entries in Who’s Who in America, and by a new metric, the average salaries of graduates reported by Payscale.com. An additional 20% is based on the estimated average student debt after four years. One-sixth of the rankings are based on four-year college graduation rates–half of that is the actual graduation rate, the other half the gap between the average rate and a predicted rate based on characteristics of the school. The last component is based on the number of students or faculty, adjusted for enrollment, who have won nationally competitive awards like Rhodes Scholarships or Nobel Prizes.</p>
<p>is says Cornell College at like 107? What the hell is that?</p>
<p>Cornell “College” is not Cornell University. It’s a little school, I think, in Idaho or Ohio. Forgot.</p>
<p>It is ranked higher most likely because it was a state school which after all is cheaper meaning people didn’t come out with serious debt like other schools. That would account for the 20% we lagged behind. And besides, no one know how close the scores was since they didn’t post them!!!</p>
<p>its actually in iowa, and i believe rileyjohn is saying that they are too high, not too low.</p>
<p>and i believe cornell college is also a private school, not a state school.</p>