<p>@leanid Not really, college should prepare you for your future jobs and the real world but my second paragraph highlights on the importance of broad student interests and great professors, which has nothing to do with vocational training, but pure intellectual learning, which is another huge part of the college experience (something USMA lacks apparently compared to other schools).</p>
<p>lolz @ cornell college being placed 100 spots ahead of Cornell university</p>
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<p>Really?</p>
<p>What is your criteria for “pure acadamia?” What metric can we measure?</p>
<p>I’ve got an idea, let’s use “Number of Rhodes Scholarships Awarded” shall we?</p>
<p>Being #4, as West Point is (behind Harvard, Yale, and Princeton - ahead of Dartmough, MIT, U of Chicago, and Stanford) would seem to refute your theory, wouldn’t it?</p>
<p>I, too, think the ratings are flawed, but no one can question the academics at the US service academies.</p>
<p>@Luigi59, I think epicwinguy meant faculty quality and research proficiency.</p>
<p>Get over it, people. The methodology may be ridiculous, but no more ridiculous than the one used by US News. Arguments could be made that Forbes criteria are as valid as the US News criteria which emphasize reputation “you’re great because everyone we asked thinks you’re great” and yield, which can be and is gamed. Using Rate my Professor may be silly, but it begins to get at the truth that a lot of professors at highly regarded research institutions don’t care about teaching undergraduates and aren’t very good at it. Or, teaching is pawned off onto TA’s at those schools. And why shouldn’t ratings look at outcomes (salaries or graduates in Who’s Who) as opposed to ranking colleges highly because of their selectivity. Of course these ratings are silly–they all are! But maybe Williams is better for undergrad education than Harvard. I know plenty of people who went to both, and the Williams grads I’ve met were far more satisfied with their experience that those who were at Harvard as undergrads.</p>
<p>Which is worst. </p>
<p>West Point teaches you the art of war, i.e, rape, plunder and destruction of life and earth resources. Case in point, Iraq.</p>
<p>Harvard teaches you the art of greed, i.e. rape, plunder and destruction of someone else wealth for your own greed and maintain ones opulent lifestye. Case in point, Wall Street.</p>
<p>"Add in the fact that apparently a substantial amount of professors at West Point don’t have PhDs "</p>
<p>In my mind, a more important detail is that the are no TA’s at West Point.</p>
<p>Thanks for the link. :D</p>
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<p>Are you an idiot? West point teaches war strategy those things you are discussing occur because of the reckless actions of those soldiers typically in a non-officer capacity. I bet you don’t know anyone who has gone to west point and probably know nothing of war. The things that you are saying are stupid and are completely ridiculous. </p>
<p>Maligning the brave men and women who serve our country makes you look stupid.</p>
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<p>Don’t feed the ■■■■■. There is no point in correcting someone who claims that investment bankers and military officers are rapists without citing any evidence.</p>
<p>Princeton is still #2!</p>
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Oh so many misconceptions out there…
The fact is West Point has 46 majors. They do cater to students in a wide variety of career and interest ranges.</p>
<p>The most fun on this website is the online tool </p>
<p>[What’s</a> The Best College For You? - Forbes.com](<a href=“http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/05/best-colleges-ranking-screener-opinions-colleges-09-tool.html]What’s”>What's The Best College For You?) </p>
<p>that lets you weight your own criteria, among those represented in the Forbes data set, to produce a ranking list that fits what you are looking for most. That was interesting to me, and more plausible than the published Forbes rankings.</p>
<h1>14 Centre College</h1>
<p>I’ve never heard of this school. Ahead of places like Northwestern, UChicago, Wash U, and all the other Ivies listed in the 100s. Right.</p>
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<p>I know someone who went there and is currently in his fourth year at Johns Hopkins Medical School.</p>
<p>On topic:
Certainly a unique list.</p>
<p>this list makes me facepalm.</p>
<p>and the fact that ratemyprofessor.com is the most influential factor in their methodology, makes me want to rip my face off.</p>
<p>This is totally biased. Brown and Berkeley both in the 70’s…and both…liberal.</p>
<p>Oh how I wish, wish, wish that Williams or Amherst could one day be named the best school in the country. </p>
<p>Sincerely,
Not a Williams or Amherst grad</p>
<p>^ Well, they both alternate the spot for best liberal arts college in the nation every year by U.S. News… good enough?</p>
<p>I’m looking at this list and there’s so many random small liberal arts schools in the middle of nowhere ranked between 50-100, above a couple Ivies :/.</p>
<p>^ Yea but they always play second fiddle to HYPSM…</p>