<p>The E. J. Ourso College of Business is now ranked in the Top 50 of the internationally known “Top Business Schools” by Eduniversal. Two years ago it ranked in the top 1000.</p>
<p>More info, including the ranking criteria here:
E</a>. J. Ourso College of Business |</p>
<p>Scroll down for Top 50 international:
eduniversal</a>, the first Official Selection of business schools</p>
<p>Now I attend LSU, but this is deceitful and not true. I wrote a blog entry on it. I’ll paste it here.</p>
<p>This is the second edition of LSU manipulating statistics and rankings to make it seem much better than it is.</p>
<p>LSU public relations uses half truths to make LSU seem better than it i</p>
<p>The report on the LSU Website and “Facebook” page states the following:</p>
<p>The E. J. Ourso College of Business has been ranked in the Top 50 of the internationally known “Top Business Schools” by Eduniversal and was recognized during the first ever Eduniversal World Convention.</p>
<p>To me this sounds as if LSU was ranked as a top 50 business school out of all the business schools in the world. Sounds great does it not? So I decided to explore the topic further by actually checking out the Eduniversal website.</p>
<p>I clicked on the United States rankings. Seeing as LSU was a top 50 international university, it would surely be in the top 25 in the country. When I perused the top of the list, LSU was nowhere to be found. It was not in the first 30.</p>
<p>After the first 29 schools, a second tier was listed. The first 29 were under the classification “Business Schools with major international influence.” The next tier was listed as “Business Schools: internationally known.”</p>
<p>LSU was listed as number 49 in this list.</p>
<p>When I connected the facts to the original claim, I could not help but find it hysterical the way LSU public relations managed to twist the facts in its favor.</p>
<p>When in reality LSU is ranked 78 in the United States by this source, it managed to twist the stats to make it a top 50 “internationally known” school, obstensibly a top 50 world wide business school to the person who looks no further into the facts.</p>
<p>This is not the first time LSU has used statistics and rankings to twist some outrageous truth.</p>
<p>Earlier in the school year, LSU used a US News statistic of yield (percentage of applicants attending/applicants accepted) to claim it as one of the most “popular” universities in the country.</p>
<p>I offered explanations at an earlier date as to why this claim was unsupported by the facts.</p>
<p>What is with this fascination with rankings and being among the “best” in the country? This blind adherence to prestige and refusing to go against the status quo is what has driven our country into the shape its in. It’s not about what ranking the school has, it’s about whether the school is producing graduates capable of being productive members of society. College has turned into an individual experience rather than what its original intention was, to enhance public good through education by providing students with the tools to contribute to the benefit of society.</p>
<p>My advice to LSU is to stop pretending to be something it is not. It is a solid university, but it will never be ranked highly seeing as it is a public institution in a state without a luxurious budget. Accept the truth and do not try to deceive people. Getting caught up in rankings is counterproductive.</p>
<p>Thanks for sharing.</p>
<p>I will admit I was a little skeptical about the ranking myself. I don’t take rankings seriously myself. But all the universities misrepresent and exaggerate. If you read the article posted on Ourso’s sites it is in no way dishonest, just misleading. You just have to read it. What LSU is doing is no different than what any Fortune 500 company would do.</p>
<p>The fact that LSU rose so quickly in two years says something, however.</p>
<p>Very true LSU guy, very true. LSU is a good state university, not on on the same level as a state university like UC Berkley, UT Austin, Illinois, or Michigan, no, no where close, but it is a solid state school. It is like FSU, U Arkansas, U Alabama, and others of the likeness. I think the best LSU will ever be, if it ever gets there, which the governor is making the move to get it there in about 20 more years is the Univeristy of Florida. If we can get like UF, then that would be plenty. Getting in the top 50 in the nation on the US News like UF would be real accomplishment, but we have to add about twice as much endowment as we do now. If we ever want to get there, we need to sink all of our money into the basic sciences, engineering, and business, and build that up. No one cares about anything else, that is all state schools are good at anyway. Everything else is so-so. So individual programs are ranked decent though, like the Chemical Engineering, and Civil Engineering programs right outside the Top 50, which is alright, but nothing to brag about, this is however talking about graduate programs. I see a day where we will be that great state school, but we need a hell of a lot more money before we can get there.</p>