USNWR Rankings in 2050

College Search & Selection
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<p>Reading all of the posts speculating about this year's USNWR rankings, I thought that it would be <em>more</em> interesting to speculate about the rankings in 40 years from now, assuming that they're still around then.</p>

<p>*What will the rankings be? (liberal arts and national universities)
*How will the metrics change?
*What will the rankings for best education be?</p>

<p>Also, with more students choosing to go abroad to college, will other international rankings gain more significance compared to USNWR?</p>

<p>Oh, and anyone wondering why this is my first post--I used to have an account, but I changed the entry data so I couldn't get on it anymore. I was hoping to beat the addiction. Failed.</p>

<p>I may add a list later, I'm curious what other people think though.</p>

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<p>The apocalypse is happening in 2012 so I really don’t see there being a ranking in 2050. :p</p>

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<p>Columbia is removed from the list by 2050 as NYC is at some point destroyed by terrorists with nukes.</p>

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<p>I really hope this godawful practice of ranking colleges will cease to exist by then.</p>

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<p>Everybody goes to Harvard (either on-campus or on-line), so what does it matter.</p>

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<p>Virtual Professors from HPYM go to each one’s home on Mars to lecture. There is no need of ranking, since colleges have been dismentaled.</p>

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<p>^^^^Dismentaled? As in they’ve lost their minds?</p>

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<p>^Sounds like it to me. If all the professors are on mars, the colleges have literally lost their minds, therefore being dismentaled.</p>

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Or it will be flooded as the ice caps melt. Good point.</p>

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Elitism will be dead by 2050? I can’t imagine Harvard opening it’s gates for the masses…</p>

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Wait, why are we going to Mars?</p>

<p>What profound speculation *<|=^]</p>

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<p>“Literally lost their minds” LOL, that was pretty good.</p>

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<p>Ehh. I don’t think they’ll be much different. USNews rankings are a self-fulfilling prophecy: selective schools are highly ranked, students want to go to highly ranked schools, the same schools become even more selective and therefore remain on top. </p>

<p>On the other hand, who knows if students will even want to go to all of those poor, dismentaled colleges now that they’ve lost their minds…</p>

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<p>Because of the global warming and the rising sea level, all the elite East Coast and West Coast schools, including Ivies, Stanford, MIT, will be submerged underwater. Northwestern, U. Chicago, U. Michigan will reign supreme, except that they are now called Google University campus #1, #2 and #3. (Also, Kansas declares independence and what’s left of California joins Mexico. Potatoes become the de facto currency.)</p>

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<p>Yes, I would say it will be a competition between the Google Universities and the iUniversities.</p>

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<p>^^ You guys all misunderstood me when I said " Vertual Professor" and Mars.</p>

<p>My predictions are:

  1. Dooms day will come as prophecy in 2012
  2. Human race will severly be elimated by the flood, quake and other desasters. A small group of survivors will be emerging in Boulder Co. UOCB will be the leading U on this desolated earth.
  3. Earth will no longer be a viable planet to live, advanced transportation vehicle will be developed in UOCB. to transpoft humans to Mars as refuge.
  4. 1 TB (as oppose to GB) internet will be the defacto standard.
  5. Virtual Image of Professors like the princess Leia in the Star Wars will appear in the homes on Mars to lecture college level courses and beyond.
  6. Earth will be abandoned afterwards.</p>
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<p>Also, a mysterious virus wipes out 99.9% of the male population on the planet, making all universities more or less all women’s schools by that point.</p>

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<p>Bemidji State University will be in the Top 20 Regional Universities (Midwest).</p>

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<p>UCSB, UCI, and UCD will all surpass UCLA and UC Berkley. lol</p>

<p>With their current trend they may be the best universities in the galaxy.
2011 - UCSB: 39, UC Davis: 39, UC Irvine: 41
2010 - UCSB: 42, UC Davis: 42, UC Irvine: 46
2009 - UCSB: 44, UC Davis: 44, UC Irvine: 44</p>

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<p>huh???

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<p>what are you dreaming? California will be gone after dooms day, nothing will be left this side of Sierra, Nothing. </p>

<p>:)</p>

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<p>Harvard is the next terrorist bombing target. Just sayin what will happen in 2016’s 9/11 day. :)</p>

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<p>^ uh, you have special insight on that?</p>