I would say that University of Alabama is underrated. Good scholarships, amazing athletics/school spirit (if that’s your thing), strong academics.
I would also add Texas A&M to the underrated list. They’re very strong for engineering and it’s a great value for in-state students
@katliamom but a university that is undergoing such a “stunning transformation” shouldn’t NEED to game the rankings. That’s the issue.
@GreenTeaFanatic not sure if I agree with you there. It’s not a bad school, but not strong either. It’s decent. Would be rated higher if it were in a different state.
Oh yea. It should ignore rankings. RIIIIGGGGHHHHHTTTT.
@LBad96 you accuse students at highly elite schools of being “snobby” and “full of themselves”, yet you yourself refused to attend Rutgers because you felt it was “beneath you” (which I find laughable given your high school academic record). Seems hypocritical if you ask me.
Honestly everything you say is laughable because it’s obvious you have a vendetta against highly selective schools that you would not have been able to get into…
A school that’s secure in itself and how good it is shouldn’t need to game the rankings. No university that wants to be respected should ignore rankings - in fact it should take a look at them and make improvements wherever necessary. However, it shouldn’t play the rankings to the point of near-cheating.
@LBad96 Which school? Alabama or Texas A&M?
@LBad96 We get that you went to UNCG. Stop hating on Duke simply because you couldn’t make the cut. It’s in poor taste.
What academic level are we talking about for Overrated/Underrated?
Are we talking about schools for
A+ Students?
A Students?
A- Students?
B+ Students?
B Students?
B- Students?
C+ Students?
We need to set guidelines & ground rules to make overrated & underrated completely clear
You’d have a point, LBad96, if that’s all that NEU did. But it isn’t.
Like I said, in a short period of time, it’s hired hundreds of faculty, recruiting many of them from top schools, including Ivies. It’s added PhD programs, created an impressive network of co-op opportunities worldwide (my daughter’s roommate did her co-ops in Paris and Shanghai) it’s set up satellite campuses in Sillicon Valley, Austin, Minneapolis and Seattle, and it’s opening an international graduate campus in Toronto. Plenty going on that school besides gaming rankings. Much to the disappointment of those who still think it’s overrated.
Actually, @katliamom, many schools do not game the rankings as hard as NEU (or USC). The problem with schools that do everything to rise up the rankings is that I can’t trust the numbers that they put out (because the easy way to rise up is to simply lie about numbers–see that USC article I linked to).
In any case, ASU added over 600 faculty from 2003-2013 (400+ from 2005-2013): https://uoia.asu.edu/sites/default/files/2013_ten_year_review.pdf
@ZBlue17 lol. Just lol at everything you just said. Lolol. If you bothered to read the explanation behind it, you wouldn’t dare talk about my high school record. And you saw my SAT score. I wouldn’t have been rejected from Alabama or Rutgers or quite a few of the other schools I mentioned.
I never ONCE claimed I was perfect by any means. But I grew up disgruntled with the people I attend school with and needed a change. Sometimes, spending your entire life in the same place gets old and you’re gonna want a change of scenery. It’s as simple as that. If you say I’m hypocritical for not wanting to stay in-state, then YOU are also hypocritical for laughing at me based on my now-irrelevant past. Your personal attacks are needless and you have shown your petulance. Congratulations on making a great impression.
@GreenTeaFanatic not the latter.
@NerdyChica it’s hilarious how you got the name of my school wrong. UNCG couldn’t compare to UNCW.
Aren’t most of the Arizona additions mostly part-timers and adjuncts? ASU doesn’t have a good reputation in this arena; unlike NEU, it’s having budget issues and cutbacks. (As part of NEU’s expansion it doubled its research funds.)
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/politics/2015/05/13/midnight-arizona-tops-nation-college-cuts-tuition-hikes/27221021/
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/12/16/arizona-state-tells-non-tenure-track-writing-instructors-teach-extra-course-each
Yeah, there should be a more clear guideline of what makes a college underrated or overrated. It seems fairly obvious that certain individuals are going to say a college is overrated, only because the college rejected them.
@londondad NYU is not a middle of the road state flagship. It’s not a state flagship at all. NYU is a private university. New York does not have a true public state flagship.
What exactly makes for a good school?
@katliamom, those would be full-time faculty at ASU that I was referring to.
BTW, UCincy also has an international co-op program (has had it since 1990): https://www.uc.edu/propractice/uccoop/current_students/current_icp.html
@GreenTeaFanatic what about people who grow weary of constantly having to remind people that the rejection bears no fruit on whether the school is underrated or overrated? If people really said a school was overrated with the sole reason being they didn’t get in, then they would use the same logic for every school that denied them, and vice versa for schools that accepted them being underrated.
Re: 113
What would the flagship SUNY be? Another way to ask that is, which is the best SUNY?
@prezbucky University at Buffalo. Best combination of strong academics, good athletics, and friendly/happy students
Purple, if Cincy is your alma mater, my sincere condolences for it being so underrated. They should hire some NEU admins to raise the school’s profie.
As for ASU, it’s so strapped for cash right now it’s making national news – and it has a really pathetic student/faculty ratio, one of the worst in the country. Not a system I would want anyone to hold up as an example.