Based of my experience on college confidential and my research, looking at USNW rankings, job placement, and endowment, I have compiled my list of the top 25 colleges.
You, sir or madam, are poised to revolutionize the rankings landscape. Hear, hear.
^ I agree! This list changes everything!
Woah. Let’s not jump off the deep end, here!
Start publishing your own magazine!
Any comments, questions on the list?
You actually have ties in your own made up list? Couldn’t you have chosen something arbitrary, like # vowels, to have broken the ties? (I’m not scrolling back up to see if that would actually work)
Are you saying this is the order you would attend?
To me, it looks like a reasonable list. I would order them a bit differently, but almost everyone would have their preferences.
@Much2learn No, I am saying that this is my order of rankings by ‘prestige’
@FreaksAndGeeks you appear to be a new poster. Here’s a pro tip if you want to generate a lot of comments - post this on the Duke forum and explain Duke’s #7 ranking. You’ll get lots of fireworks from the Dukies
@Much2learn No, I am saying that this is my order of rankings by ‘prestige’
@FreaksAndGeeks Imo any list that does not include University of Michigan is not credible. It is more prestigious than several of the Universities/colleges on your list.
Follow up question: Is the use of “College” for the school at position #11 a microaggression?
@GnocchiB Haha no, no aggression
Notre Dame wustl ucb Emory too high.
Now add in the WASP schools for a complete list!
Depending on the weighting you gave to one of your few explicitly stated factors, endowment, schools with notably high endowments per student, such as Swarthmore and Grinnell, might be notably absent from your list. If this metric is important to you, and you fully factored it in, your rankings could differ more widely from those of USNWR, which do not weigh endowment.
Your standardized scoring range is fairly wide, extending to 74th in the nation. However, this is not one of your stated metrics.
These are simply technical observations.
@merc81 I made this list to reflect on only research universities. I kept LAC’s out.
Endowment per student is a surrogate marker for a lot of things, including spending per student which is something USNews very much measures.
@circuitrider: That’s true, of course, but it’s so commonly believed, or at least stated as if believed, that USNWR directly assigns a weight to endowment.