<p>Feel like ranking (or ranting about) the rankings? Here's how: State the category (schools, libraries, majors, partying, etc.), name the source (U.S. News, PR, etc.), then rank them (1, 2, 3 . . .) Give some brief rationale. Feel free to be objectively critical (civility, please). Have fun.</p>
<p>These aren't rankings per say but they are some interesting lists that the college obsessed might want to look at.</p>
<p>mental_floss</a> Blog 10 Cool College Landmarks</p>
<p>mental_floss</a> Blog 12 College Classes We Wish Our Schools Had Offered</p>
<p>^^ I cant believe Princeton offers a class that teaches their students how to "get dressed".......... (Freshman only though)</p>
<p>And on the OTHER side of the spectrum:
[url=<a href="http://www.cracked.com/article_16558_smash-bros-theory-6-absurd-classes-taught-at-actual-colleges.html%5DSmash">http://www.cracked.com/article_16558_smash-bros-theory-6-absurd-classes-taught-at-actual-colleges.html]Smash</a> Bros Theory: 6 Absurd Classes Taught at Actual Colleges | Cracked.com<a href="WARNING:%20Language">/url</a></p>
<p>lol, the topic if weird classes was on 104.1 KRBE's morning show today.
I heard TAMU had a wine tasting class o_o</p>
<p>Cornell has a wine testing class as well. New York State actually allows 18 year olds to take the class.</p>
<p>Biggest and Best Engineering Schools</p>
<p>source: IPEDS peer analysis website</p>
<p>method: ranking based on SATs of university and on the number of bachelors graduates in engineering (SATs are given twice as much weight as size). High SATs can offset small size in my formula.</p>
<p>rationale: When it comes to engineering, larger programs offer advantages. And, of course, the quality of students (SATs) makes a big difference too. Student quality is associated with overall academic quality.</p>
<p>school, SAT midpoint (CR+math), number of bachelors awarded in engineering last year</p>
<p>Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus 1330 1475
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1470 434
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 1320 988
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1300 1039
Cornell University 1395 642
California Institute of Technology 1525 53
University of California-Berkeley 1325 836
Princeton University 1485 170
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering 1505 71
Columbia University in the City of New York 1435 316
Harvey Mudd College 1495 74
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1335 685
Washington University in St Louis 1450 221
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 1180 1289
Yale University 1485 63
Stanford University 1445 207
Duke University 1435 211
University of Pennsylvania 1425 244
Northwestern University 1410 297
Carnegie Mellon University 1390 369
Dartmouth College 1450 56
University of Southern California 1365 391
University of Florida 1250 847
Vanderbilt University 1390 284
The University of Texas at Austin 1220 957
University of Notre Dame 1405 208
North Carolina State University at Raleigh 1180 1095
Tufts University 1415 151
Johns Hopkins University 1385 255
Brown University 1430 69
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1200 981
Rice University 1410 128
University of Wisconsin-Madison 1270 679
Purdue University-Main Campus 1145 1140
Texas A & M University 1190 941
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 1250 685
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo 1185 930
University of California-San Diego 1250 665
University of Maryland-College Park 1275 546
Ohio State University-Main Campus 1230 714
University of Virginia-Main Campus 1310 388
University of California-Los Angeles 1290 464
Missouri University of Science and Technology 1255 593
Lehigh University 1315 322
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art 1360 114
Iowa State University 1190 794
Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1285 383
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 1290 356
Case Western Reserve University 1305 291
United States Air Force Academy 1269.5 357
University of Washington-Seattle Campus 1200 611</p>
<p>^ Dont the benefits of a large engineering school come with more professors, not more students?</p>
<p>I notice the schools ranked #9 and #11 are not at all large. In fact they're very small.</p>
<p>High SATs can offset small size in my formula. Biggest AND Best.</p>
<p>More students means more professors, Seiken. Larger size is also associated with resources, diverse course offerings, courses offered more frequently, diverse opportunities for research, recruiting, alumni network, diverse faculty interests.</p>
<p>Colleges enrolling the most international students (2006-07)</p>
<ol>
<li>USC , 7,115</li>
<li>Columbia , 5,937</li>
<li>NYU , 5,827</li>
<li>Illinois , 5,685</li>
<li>Purdue , 5,581</li>
<li>Michigan , 5,429</li>
<li>Texas , 5,303</li>
<li>UCLA , 4,704</li>
<li>Harvard , 4,514</li>
<li>Boston University , 4,484</li>
</ol>
<p>Total expenditures on library materials (2006-07; does not include salaries)</p>
<ol>
<li>Yale , $33,942,469</li>
<li>Harvard , $29,677,074</li>
<li>Columbia , $22,247,648</li>
<li>Michigan , $20,521,937</li>
<li>Berkeley , $19,715,862</li>
<li>Princeton , $18,428,119</li>
<li>Penn State , $18,306,551</li>
<li>Texas , $17,847,024</li>
<li>Duke , $16,736,707</li>
<li>NYU , $16,402,378</li>
</ol>
<p>States with the highest percent of population with BA degree</p>
<p>22.0% , Colorado
21.4% , Massachusetts
21.0% , New Jersey
20.8% , Minnesota
20.7% , New Hampshire
19.9% , Connecticut
19.9% , Hawaii
19.8% , Washington
19.7% , Vermont
19.5% , Virginia</p>
<p>Source: 2008-09 almanac issue of Chronicle of Higher Education</p>
<p>Best Law Schools UK
1. Cambridge University
2. University of Edinburgh
3. Oxford University
4. University of Aberdeen
5. (Tie)
a. University College, London;
b. University of Glasgow;
c. London School of Economics
d. University of Manchester
9. University of Strathclyde
10. (Tie)
a. Durham University
b. Kings College, London
c. University of Bristol
d. University of Birmingham
e. University of Leeds
f. University of Nottingham
g. University of Warwick</p>
<p>Best Business Schools UK
1. Oxford University
2. University of Edinburgh
3. London School of Economics
4. University of Warwick
5. University of Glasgow
6. University of Bath
7. University of St. Andrews
8. Heriot-Watt University
9. (Tie)
a. University of Bristol
b. University of Leeds
c. Newcastle University
d. University of Southhampton
e. University of Strathclyde</p>
<p>Note: Cambridge University has no business school</p>
<p>Source: UCAS, based upon schools with highest average UCAS points in these fields</p>
<p>More students means more professors, Seiken.</p>
<p>True, but not in a fixed ratio shared by all colleges. Its that whole student:faculty ratio those kids keep talkin about these days.</p>
<p>anhtimmy, MIT also has a wine-tasting class. And a beer-tasting class.</p>
<p>Schools Increasing (or Decreasing) in Popularity</p>
<p>Top 100 universities and top 100 LACs (US News).</p>
<p>Percent change in the number of applications 2001-2007.</p>
<p>Source: IPEDS Peer Analysis website</p>
<p>Rationale: The more applications the school gets, the more popular it is. I don't think the changes from 2001-2007 are attributable to common applications or internet applications. Those things were there by 2001, I would think.</p>
<p>Baylor University 232.0%
Ursinus College 229.1%
Wells College 174.6%
Kenyon College 131.2%
Agnes Scott College 125.0%
Mills College 120.5%
Birmingham Southern College 118.0%
Fordham University 106.6%
Reed College 94.4%
Marquette University 91.6%
Drew University 91.6%
Union College 84.1%
Cornell University 83.7%
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 83.4%
Willamette University 82.6%
Randolph-Macon College 82.2%
Johns Hopkins University 80.8%
Thomas Aquinas College 80.5%
Worcester Polytechnic Institute 77.2%
Allegheny College 72.1%
St Mary's College of Maryland 71.9%
Ohio Wesleyan University 71.3%
Austin College 70.1%
Albion College 69.9%
St Lawrence University 69.2%
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 69.1%
Goucher College 68.1%
Bard College 67.7%
Gettysburg College 67.1%
Saint Louis University-Main Campus 65.2%
St. Olaf College 64.8%
University of Connecticut 64.5%
Pitzer College 64.2%
Scripps College 64.1%
Lawrence University 64.0%
Yale University 63.7%
Harvey Mudd College 63.6%
Hanover College 61.7%
Bennington College 61.1%
Centre College 60.4%
Pomona College 59.2%
Knox College 57.8%
Kalamazoo College 57.8%
Grinnell College 56.8%
Case Western Reserve University 56.5%
Tulane University of Louisiana 56.2%
Denison University 55.8%
Rhodes College 55.3%
Southern Methodist University 55.1%
University of Notre Dame 54.5%
American University 53.0%
Dickinson College 53.0%
The University of Tennessee 52.6%
Earlham College 51.6%
Gustavus Adolphus College 51.6%
Boston College 51.4%
Lehigh University 51.2%
Emory University 50.6%
University of California-Santa Cruz 50.1%
Sewanee: The University of the South 49.6%
Swarthmore College 49.6%
Spelman College 48.8%
College of the Holy Cross 48.7%
Syracuse University 46.2%
Macalester College 45.7%
University of Georgia 45.4%
Occidental College 45.2%
Wofford College 45.2%
Colgate University 44.6%
Indiana University-Bloomington 43.7%
SUNY at Binghamton 43.4%
Colorado College 43.0%
Claremont McKenna College 42.9%
Hobart William Smith Colleges 42.7%
Whitman College 42.2%
Beloit College 41.1%
Clark University 40.6%
Sweet Briar College 40.4%
Juniata College 39.7%
Princeton University 38.7%
Bryn Mawr College 38.4%
Dartmouth College 36.8%
Wake Forest University 36.2%
Haverford College 35.7%
Franklin and Marshall College 35.5%
University of Miami 34.5%
The College of Wooster 34.5%
University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus 34.1%
Carnegie Mellon University 33.9%
Wellesley College 33.6%
Rice University 33.1%
Vanderbilt University 32.7%
University of California-Irvine 31.7%
Millsaps College 31.6%
Bowdoin College 31.4%
Hope College 30.2%
The University of Texas at Austin 30.0%
Duke University 29.9%
New College of Florida 29.8%
Auburn University Main Campus 29.6%
University of Florida 29.5%
University of California-Davis 29.2%
Amherst College 29.1%
Williams College 28.8%
University of Southern California 28.1%
University of Chicago 28.0%
Miami University-Oxford 27.4%
Stevens Institute of Technology 27.0%
University of California-Berkeley 26.8%
Washington and Lee University 26.5%
Oberlin College 26.4%
Virginia Military Institute 26.3%
College of William and Mary 26.1%
Stanford University 25.8%
Saint Johns University 25.6%
Wabash College 25.2%
Northwestern University 24.9%
University of Iowa 24.0%
Union College 23.7%
University of California-Riverside 23.4%
Hendrix College 23.3%
University of Maryland-College Park 23.0%
Columbia University in the City of New York 22.8%
Southwestern University 22.7%
Yeshiva University 22.7%
Lafayette College 22.5%
George Washington University 21.7%
University of Washington-Seattle Campus 21.4%
Davidson College 21.3%
University of Wisconsin-Madison 21.1%
University of Missouri-Columbia 21.1%
Muhlenberg College 20.8%
Harvard University 20.8%
University of Virginia-Main Campus 20.8%
DePauw University 20.6%
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 20.6%
University of Puget Sound 20.5%
Colby College 19.7%
Presbyterian College 19.7%
Carleton College 19.5%
Purdue University-Main Campus 19.2%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 19.1%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 18.6%
University of Denver 18.4%
University of Richmond 18.3%
University of Pennsylvania 18.2%
Skidmore College 18.1%
Augustana College 17.5%
University of California-Santa Barbara 17.2%
University of Rochester 16.8%
University of California-Los Angeles 16.1%
Smith College 16.0%
Boston University 15.6%
Wheaton College 15.5%
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 15.1%
Brown University 15.0%
Brandeis University 14.8%
Middlebury College 14.7%
University of California-San Diego 14.2%
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 13.8%
Hollins University 13.2%
University of Delaware 13.0%
New York University 12.6%
Texas A & M University 12.6%
Tufts University 12.3%
Barnard College 12.3%
Clemson University 11.8%
Wheaton College 11.2%
Bucknell University 11.2%
Furman University 11.1%
Mount Holyoke College 10.9%
Trinity College 8.9%
Pepperdine University 8.4%
College of Saint Benedict 7.9%
Hamilton College 7.8%
Ohio State University-Main Campus 7.7%
Washington University in St Louis 7.7%
University of Colorado at Boulder 7.4%
California Institute of Technology 6.9%
Vassar College 6.8%
Illinois Wesleyan University 6.0%
Georgetown University 5.5%
Principia College 5.3%
Rutgers University-New Brunswick 4.2%
Bates College 4.0%
Wesleyan University 3.3%
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 3.1%
Sarah Lawrence College 0.7%
Michigan State University 0.2%
Connecticut College -0.9%
Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus -2.3%
Brigham Young University -3.1%
Iowa State University -9.6%</p>
<p>I wonder if the percentage changes correlate with the number of increased "priority" (i.e., free) applications the schools are sending out these days.</p>
<p>"Note: Cambridge University has no business school"</p>
<p>So what does that mean for Cambridge's Judge Business School?</p>
<p>Schools with the smartest math students.</p>
<p>SAT math 75th percentile</p>
<p>Source: IPEDS</p>
<p>California Institute of Technology 800
Harvey Mudd College 800
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 800
Yale University 790
Harvard University 790
Princeton University 790
Stanford University 790
Cornell Endowed Colleges 780
Washington University in St Louis 780
Dartmouth College 780
Columbia University in the City of New York 780
Duke University 780
Carnegie Mellon University 780
Rice University 780
Cornell University 770
University of Pennsylvania 770
Brown University 770
Pomona College 760
University of Chicago 760
Northwestern University 760
University of Notre Dame 760
Johns Hopkins University 760
Amherst College 760
Williams College 760
Swarthmore College 760
Claremont McKenna College 750
University of California-Berkeley 740
University of Southern California 740
Georgetown University 740
Emory University 740
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 740
Tufts University 740
Carleton College 740
Haverford College 740
Vanderbilt University 740
Middlebury College 740
Wesleyan University 730
Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus 730
Bowdoin College 730
Brandeis University 730
Wellesley College 730
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 730
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 730
University of California-Los Angeles 720
Grinnell College 720
Colby College 720
Boston College 720
New York University 720
University of Rochester 720
Case Western Reserve University 720
University of Virginia-Main Campus 720
Washington and Lee University 720
Davidson College 713
Worcester Polytechnic Institute 710
Macalester College 710
Stevens Institute of Technology 710
Colgate University 710
Vassar College 710
Wake Forest University 710
Oberlin College 710
Reed College 710
Bucknell University 710
Lafayette College 710
Lehigh University 710
College of William and Mary 710
University of Wisconsin-Madison 710
University of California-San Diego 700
Scripps College 700
Connecticut College 700
Wheaton College 700
University of Maryland-College Park 700
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 700
St. Olaf College 700
Barnard College 700
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 700
Whitman College 700</p>
<p>collegehelp, SAT math is geometry and algrebra stuff. theres gotta be a better way to measure "smartest" math students</p>
<p>CWalker,
Thanks for pointing out my lack of clarification:
Let me be more clear--Cambridge University has no UNDERGRADUATE business school. The rankings I provided from UCAS are for graduating high school students wishing to attend a university in the UK. (and note that it is common in the UK for students to go directly into law school and business school right out of high school).</p>
<p>Cambridge Judge offers only MBA, MS, and PhD degrees.</p>
<p>Here are the colleges at Cambridge that you can go into as a graduating high-school student:
The</a> Colleges at Cambridge</p>
<p>and here is the link for Cambridge Judge:
Judge</a> Business School, University of Cambridge</p>
<p>and note that this is similar to the situation in the US--Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Dartmouth have no undergraduate business schools, but all have graduate business programs.</p>
<p>In the UK, however, the 2nd highest and 3rd highest ranked schools overall (Oxford and the University of Edinburgh) do provide undergraduate business programs.</p>