<p>The Most Underrated Colleges in America</p>
<p>Read more.. The</a> Most Underrated Colleges in America - Yahoo! Finance</p>
<p>Or the best majors to make good money no matter where you go.</p>
<p>^ The truth.</p>
<p>Yes, it is mainly schools heavy with engineering majors.</p>
<p>Good find. It also emphasizes just how sought after STEM degrees are in the market today.</p>
<p>very good list, thanks. Makes me think we should stop turning up our noses at
UMass-Lowell!</p>
<p>When I was working in Lowell in the mid-late '70s we had a lot of tech companies in that region and they filled the need. My only contact with it was taking a non-credit course on hang gliding and they had a small glider with white sails with “Univ of Lowell” printed on it. Don’t remember if that was their name then, or they just happened to phrase it that way.</p>
<p>I’m not surprised their alums do well.</p>
<p>I would add TCNJ to this list</p>
<p>University of Massachusetts - Lowell used to be called University of Lowell.</p>
<p>Business Insider is comparing US News rankings with salary performance as reported by payscale.com. It calls a college underrated if its payscale salary performance is much better than its US News ranking seems to predict. The problem with this comparison is that the USNWR rankings aren’t set up to predict that in the first place. </p>
<p>Imagine a college with consistently excellent undergraduate teaching, great facilities, generous FA, small classes, and high on-time graduation rates. Chances are, such a college will have a high US News rank. If, however, many of its graduates choose to enter low-paying public service jobs, its payscale ranking will suffer. Would we consider such school overrated?</p>
<p>The Forbes college ranking, unlike USNWR, does try to measure post-graduate outcomes. Interestingly enough, its ranking for UMBC is even lower (at 476) than the US News ranking (at 160). Forbes ranks Clarkson at 283 compared to USNWR’s 115. UMass Lowell gets 486 from Forbes, 170 from US News.</p>
<p>The lower Forbes rankings may be in part because they include LACs and universities in a single count. So UMBC, Clarkson, and UMass-Lowell are competing against more schools. But another reason is that the Forbes criteria aren’t limited to salary outcomes. Forbes also tries to measure “prominence”, debt, and competitive awards (among other things). Presumably, UMBC etc. aren’t excelling as much on all those other criteria.</p>