<p>Some top tier schools don’t carry as much weight abroad. Vanderbilt is the same case.</p>
<p>That’s not to say those universities aren’t premier.</p>
<p>Sam Lee, the “international rankings” are fun, but I don’t think too many folks put a lot of weight behind an “overall” listing that has UVA out of the top 100, but Minnesota at 29.</p>
<p>It shouldn’t be a surprise that the “big” football conferences do better than the average on academics, since they are made up of state Flagship universities and a few elite private schools. </p>
<p>These list are fun for bragging rights, which matter to those of us who are alumni from one of these schools!! Now, how do I get the Mississippi schools to up their game, or better yet, get the PAC 12 to add Ball State and the University of New Mexico?!</p>
<p>Agreed Gator. No one uses the “international rankings”. Research rankings are definitely interesting, but of course they measure research output, not education quality or prestige, the way US News is typically used. I think research rankings are important for those to whom it matters, like those in the academic profession, not the students.</p>
<p>^That’s overly simplistic. One can argue prestige matters mostly in investment banking or management consulting. In many other industries, the recruiting can correlate more or less with department rankings. Dow has a great relationship with Northwestern mainly because of the good chemE/chem departments, rather than its college ranking. UMinn has great recruiting from pharma and chemical companies, probably significantly better than UVA. Purdue/UIUC has great recruiting from technology and software companies despite their relatively low college ranking. I am sure more engineering firms go to Wisconsin/Penn State than UVA. These are just some examples that I am more familiar with as an engineering grad.</p>
<p>Where does USN college ranking reflect education quality? If the education at Purdue/UIUC is poor, why would hi-tech & software firms like hiring them? After all, they need to write codes, which is more technical than anything typical ibanking associates do. To me, college ranking is more like selectivity ranking than anything else.</p>
<p>So Auburn can expect a boost in applications.</p>
<p>(For those of you who don’t know, yes there is a systematic rise in college applications with the winning on the football field)</p>
<p>An even more interesting table:</p>
<p><a href=“Big Ten Conference - Wikipedia”>Big Ten Conference - Wikipedia;
<p>Umm mom, you do realize the data is for all students - not just the football team</p>
<p>What data are you referring to? Are you referring to the data for all students or the data for all athletes? </p>
<p>As for the football team. It has a very good graduation rate. This season Bama had 13 college graduates on the team with 12 more graduating this month…so when they play their bowl game in a month, they’ll have 25 graduates on the team (some will also have grad degrees). </p>
<p>Saban has no interest in recruiting the stereotypical “dumb jock”. He needs his players to be reasonably intelligent so that they can learn the plays, schemes, etc, while also doing well in the classroom. </p>
<p>When Bama played in the BCS title game, it had 22 college grads on the team…a BCS record.</p>
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Congrats to Alabama, but it was clear that Halcyon was referring to one of the charts she listed. Why should anyone not on the football team look to their graduation rates (which are aided by amazing amounts of tutoring, financial assistance, and other opportunities not available to the general student body) when trying to figure out how UIUC stacks up against Alabama? I’d rather see the school wide graduation rate, freshman retention rate, etc rather than the grad rate of a tiny, unrepresentative subset of the population.</p>
<p>^he*</p>
<p>I was surprised to see spending per student vs student-athlete comparison. I would’ve never thought UGA to be so low when it is clearly one of the best public schools in the South along side Clemson, Florida, Georgia Tech and UNC</p>
<p>I’m going to update the big 12 table to include an actual endowment chart rather than the string of endowments it has listed now. Also, Pac-12 needs its endowment table redrawn.</p>
<p>This is great. Thousands of people view these Wikipidea articles daily and many more on game day. It’s a nice way to reach the common ear. Not all parents/students are proactive enough to go on sites such as CC or view ranking publications during search processes. The media is garbage too with all these bogus “party school” rankings. </p>
<p>I hope these tables do great public “party” schools like UGA, Ohio State, Florida, Wisconsin and Illinois some national justice. They’re still good schools. Sure, they’d be better without the 100s of bars, but they’re still top notch.</p>
<p>World rankings have been added to all the tables</p>