<p>Well, you can’t do much without money, that’s for sure! A financially well-managed / sound campus opens the door for all those opportunities, both in and out of the classroom.</p>
<p>That’s the one thing that strikes me from visiting Grinnell (which is at the top of the bond ratings, I think it was #2 or #3 if I remember correctly). Yes, it is in the cornfields of Iowa, a million miles away from anything. But MAN, when you get on that campus, it is apparent that there is tons of money there (thank you, Warren Buffett). And that enables it to “punch above its weight class.” </p>
<p>USNWR seems to be the best of the rankings as far as I’m concerned. The other ones seem to be all about silly things (what do people in other countries think? like, who cares? they don’t know what they’re talking about) or weighted towards STEM fields. The problem isn’t USNWR; it’s the kind of stupid people who can’t think in bands and instead obsess over the difference between #8 and #14 or whatever. So it’s no surprise to me that these rankings were pretty close to USNWR. </p>