<p>Within the US News Rank 50-75 range, what school is going to grow the fastest and why do you think that is?</p>
<p>Clemson University was rated as the #2 up-and-coming school by US News
It’s president’s goal is to make Clemson a top 50-60 college by the year 2011 and it’s on pace for that, I expect it to make another leap in the rankings this year.</p>
<p>I’m guessing George Mason will make it to tier one, but I doubt 50-75. I also think that Northeastern is bound to go way up one of these days, it’s pretty underrated on US News IMO. Oh, and Reed will sky rocket if it ever gives in to US News’s demands</p>
<p>Tulane probably.
Drexel jumped like 30 spots from 2007 to 2008.</p>
<p>i hear elon is moving up…many kids for my area applying this year</p>
<p>Pitt, Drexel, Northeastern, Clemson, and Tulane I think are the schools with the most potential to improve the next couple of years in that order.</p>
<p>How you people think about UConn and Delaware? These are schools that I’m interested in. I know UConn is spending billions of dollars for improvement though.</p>
<p>Delaware is a great school that flies under the radar, UConn is a good school too but you gotta realize that many schools are spending lots of money too</p>
<p>Ohio State, Clemson, Tulane, and Northeastern</p>
<p>Northeastern I love their campus!</p>
<p>a big problem that I see with Northeastern is that they seem to be content with where they are right now. I got accepted to Northeastern and the only thing the school has to offer is its cooperative education. Even though I think Northeastern is the best place to get a job after college, I don’t think that this will help them move up in the US News rankings which uses other ratings such as alumni giving, faculty resources, retention rate etc…</p>
<p>NEU hired a new president a dean from USC. Im pretty sure he wants to push them up in the ranks. I’d say Maryland, Tulane, and Northeastern…Tulane will probably break the top 50.</p>
<p>I’d have to agree with most of these postings. </p>
<p>Tulane will break the top 50 this year I’m positive. The GPA/Acceptance Rate etc was much more competitive than last year. And that would only need to be 1 spot to get into the 50th position.</p>
<p>Clemson I don’t know about but I’ve heard that it is on the rise considerably, as well as NEU. </p>
<p>Pitt is getting more popular imo as well.</p>
<p>Drexel would probably be higher if it wasn’t so ugly so the good kids don’t want to go there lol.</p>
<p>Tulane would be in the top 50 if Yeshiva University (that college which nearly nobody has ever heard about) was not taking that spot</p>
<p>northeasterns problem going forward is that it cant raise any money. total giving in the last 11 years (combined) comes in at around $280 million inflation-adjusted dollars. boston university, which is only slightly larger, raised around $910 million over the same time frame, but even that number isnt very good (for a private school) on a per student basis.</p>
<p>"Drexel would probably be higher if it wasn’t so ugly so the good kids don’t want to go there lol. "</p>
<p>Yeah, and they’re doing a lot of construction on campus. It will look better and better by the year. By 2015 I think, they’ll be done and contemporary architecture will be everywhere.</p>
<p>Ericaatbucknell: do you have a source for the NU v BU figure, its an interesting number. Based on the past 5 years i know NU has had about double the alumni participation rate that NU has had (6% v 12%) and I believe NU still has the largest alumni base out of any private school (from back when it was a commuter college). It may have to do with the capital campaign that starts next year so maybe there hasnt been one since the last master plan unveiling. I think it will be interesting for colleges coming out with master plans over the next 0-3 years to see what their fundraising goals will be in a not great philanthropic environment. I know BC isnt doing great with their 1.5B drive. I believe BU finished their 500M drive at the end of last year (im sure that helped a lot when everyone lost 25% of their endownments).</p>
<p>I think Oregon and Arizona State are underrated. I also think UNLV has a lot of potential as their endowment is growing and it is overtaking Nevada-Reno as the main campus in Nevada. </p>
<p>To specifically answer your 50-75 range question. I think Colorado-Boulder could be ranked higher along with Minnesota, UC Santa Cruz and Rutgers.</p>
<p>On a side note I think Wisconsin should be ranked right after Michigan. </p>
<p>Overrated, USC is severly overrated as is Florida, NYU, Tufts and Wake Forest.</p>
<p>“Reed will sky rocket if it ever gives in to US News’s demands”</p>
<p>It’ll never happen, and they don’t care a whit. The tide is turning the other way, with more and more abandoning USNWR’s nonsense.</p>
<p>The number of high school grads will decline now for a number of years, though not steeply on a national basis. Where the number WILL decline steeply is in the Northeast and Midwest, and the graduates there will be less white and poorer.
As such, I think that schools like Northeastern and Drexel have hit their peak. Neither has an endowment to speak of, and they are high priced private schools. Student graduate debt levels at Drexel already average over $35,000, and I haven’t located where Northeastern even publishes its students’ debt levels.
Schools like Pitt and UConn will suffer a bit less because the taxpayer subsidy means lower costs. Top 50 schools with a national reputation, like Boston College, will be fine.
Tulane is still in bounce back mode from the hurricane.
I would look for schools in population growth areas to have the best chance of moving up the rankings.</p>