<p>Since Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, Tulane has rebuilt its campus and enacted a Renewal Plan whose goal is to continue to build Tulane into a world-class educational and research institution and ensure its financial stability. The university is well on its way to achieving both goals. Since the Renewal Plan was adopted, the university's endowment reached $1 billion for the first time in its history and its freshmen class increased by a record 50 percent this year; the largest one-year increase in first-time freshmen in the history of Tulane. The school also recently enrolled the largest medical school class in its 173-year history. </p>
<p>"Our 'Hottest' list recognizes the growing reputation that your school and other outstanding schools have achieved, in light of growing popularity among top students within a booming college bound population," the guide's publishers wrote to Tulane administrators. </p>
<p>The guide will be available on newsstands on August 20. Tulane was also named one of the guides hottest schools in 2002.</p>
<p>Congratulations Tulane, President Cowan and the rest of the student and faculty. </p>
<p>I just picked up USNEWS and World report. It’s on Newstands in NYC. You are ranked #50. This is an amazing accomplishment based on the class of 2006-2007 and everyone else attending after Katrina and all the naysayers that said Tulane would drop tremendously and that the quality of education is down. I think we went from 44 or 46 to 50. Actually tied with Syracuse, ahead of Miami, Yeshiva and George Washington. Just merely surviving after Katrina would have been a miracle! (Based on the Newsweek Report on the Hot 25, I’ll bet we make it back to the mid-40’s next year!)</p>
<p>can u post all the rankings so i can see them? im kind of sad that they went down to 50, but theres no doubt thats the lowest tulane will get considering they were once ranked 11th in the country</p>
<p>We were ranked 34 had an undeated football team and an engineering school to boot when Scott Cowen showed up on campus and took the reins. We have been going in the wrong direction since then. </p>
<p>Hearing this described as “good” news reminds me of the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.</p>
<p>King Arthur: [after Arthur’s cut off both of the Black Knight’s arms] Look, you stupid ■■■■■■■. You’ve got no arms left.
Black Knight: Yes I have.
King Arthur: <em>Look</em>!
Black Knight: It’s just a flesh wound.</p>
<p>Ten more years of this knuckleheaded leadership and we will have to beg the state of Louisiana to take the school back.</p>
<p>The drop wasn’t bad at all considering exactly what happened to the city and the school during Katrina. I also fully expect us to be back in the low to mid-40’s next year. The enrollment for 2007-2008 is way up, the entering classes’ test scores and grades seem to be nearly the same, the acceptance rate has lowered due to increased apps, and the endowment is growing. 2007-2008 will be a much better year for Newsweek’s little survey and the methodology that they employ to rank the universities.</p>
<p>“haha what do you mean for LA to take the school back?”</p>
<p>Tulane was originally a state school. It started as the University of Louisiana. The civil war closed it for a few years and the state funding was sporadic at best. Eventually Paul Tulane endowed a trust and the state of Louisiana turned the school over to the board that administered the Tulane endowment with a couple of strings attached. It is the only public school in the country that has been privatized.</p>
<p>BTW enrollment wasn’t up this year. The entering class is a good 10% smaller than the pre-katrina entering classes. It is only a jump when compared to last years class which was way below even the reduced post-katrina expectations.</p>
<p>If you didn’t get it already, it’s
(there are a bunch of ties)</p>
<p>1-10
Princeton
Harvard
Yale
Stanford
Cal Inst. of Tech
U of Penn
MIT
Duke
Columbia
U of Chicago</p>
<p>11-20
Dartmouth
Cornell
Washington U (St. Louis)
Brown
J. hopkins
Northwestern
Emory
rice
Notre Dame
Vanderbilt</p>
<p>21-30
UC - Berkeley
Carnegie Mellon
Georgetown
U of Virginia
UCLA
Michigan
USC
Tufts
UNC
Wake Forest</p>
<p>31-40
Brandeis
Lehigh
William and Mary
NYU
Boston College
Georgia Tech
Rochester
UC - SD
U of Illinois
U of Wisconsin</p>
<p>41-50
Case Western
UC - Davis
U of Washington
Rennsellaer
UC-Irvine
UC- Santa Barbara
U Texas - Austin
Penn State
U Florida
Syracuse (tie)
Tulane (tie)</p>
<p>Idiotic leadership. Get the biggest gift in school history from two engineering alums then close the engineering school. Get yourself sued by the Newcomb alumni for no good reason. Go to war with your faculty and deans, eliminate tenure, and get yourself blacklisted by the AAUP. Cut dozens of graduate programs. Divert your time, energy, and attention away from things central to the university and focus instead on peripheral issues like running the terminally decrepit New Orleans Public Schools. That is particularly senseless when you consider we have no school of education nor any particular expertise in K-12 education. Have a marketing plan that cannot decide if it wants to sell the school as party central or as the hot place to spend $45K a year to do community service.</p>
<p>I don’t want to put TulaneJeff on the spot but what is the discount rate up to now? How are you going to sell Tulane for $45K a year when it is ranked even with Florida at $10K a year? Anybody can gin up thousands of free online half completed applications to make themselves appear more selective than they are. The truth is in the yield and the discount rate.</p>
<p>The question isn’t why did we only fall six slots post-katrina but why did we fall 10 slots before katrina? The answer is because we don’t have the right guy in charge.</p>
<p>i think it should be top 35, and if it really jumped a lot top 30…it wont get any lower than it is right now, its at rock bottom with being ranked number 50</p>