Rankings by "StateUniversity.com"?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I just stumbled upon these rankings and am curious what you guys think of them:</p>

<p>Top</a> 2000 Ranked Universities for Highest Overall School Score</p>

<p>It seems ridiculous to put Cornell 20 spots above Harvard, but some of the other rankings seem spot-on to me (LACs that I've always thought were over- or under-ranked by US News seem to be ranked fairly here).</p>

<p>The site says it comes up with its rankings based on objective statistics alone, and that it uses the numbers that schools give to the government, which legally <em>must</em> be correct and not stretched in any way. It says it uses 75th percentile SAT scores, faculty-student ratios, student retention, etc. as important factors. I applaud them for making an effort to not use "reputation" as a factor like a certain other ranking system does...</p>

<p>Anyway, thoughts?</p>

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<p>Bumping this, but I’ll stop if it becomes clear that no one cares.</p>

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<p>not bad at all IMO.</p>

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<p>i think these rankings do make a lot of sense in many aspects.</p>

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<p>The ranking clearly favors small universities, if not… already well known private and public ivy leagues.</p>

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<p>I was also kind of impressed, cool.</p>

<p>Generally, well-known schools are well-known for a reason, but the list did include places like Furman University at #33, which isn’t really well-known, and Santa Clara University at #45. And it gets major props for having the guts to put Harvard at #24, IMO. Seems like it favors the prestigious places much less than US-News does.</p>

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<p>It’s still based on the US News info. When the Naval Academy and and West Point show up but no the Air Force Academy, it’s obvious. For some reason US News treats USAFA differently from USMA and USNA, even though they are the same type of institution with similar faculties, etc.</p>

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<p>I know nothing about any of the military academies, but I don’t think that that shows that the rankings are based off of US News ones – it’s probably because USAFA doesn’t provide data, and the site says it doesn’t rank schools that don’t provide data. Seems like the only explanation for why they wouldn’t be listed at all.</p>

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<p>They use vague terms in describing their methodology, and the results just don’t seem accurate.</p>

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<p>Harvard is in the top three in SAT, ACT, and Faculty Salary, the three areas that this site rank individually. From USNews data, they are also very good in student/faculty ratio and retention. I think that this site is giving contrarian rankings intentionally.</p>

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<p>Hm, true. Weird. But then why put Stanford, MIT, and Princeton as the top three? Wouldn’t they want to be consistent in their contrarianism? Haha</p>

<p>Not defending them or anything, just trying to figure them out.</p>

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<p>No way LSU is 286.</p>

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<p>So it gets a “no” from CC?
Or maybe a “no” on ivies/universities but a “yes” on LACs?</p>

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<p>I think it is pretty good… Schools only differ by 0.2 points…</p>

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<p>I don’t see Pomona???</p>

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<p>Pomona isn’t there at all, meaning it probably didn’t provide data.</p>