W&M peer reviewed #6 in Undergraduate Teaching

Colleges and Universities A-Z College of William and Mary
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<p>further confirmation that W&M provides one of the best undergraduate educations in the country</p>

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For the first time, in the spring of 2009, U.S. News asked top academics as part of the regular U.S. News peer assessment survey to name the schools that they think have faculty with an unusually strong "commitment to undergraduate teaching." These new rankings are the schools whose faculty and administrators are committed to teaching undergraduate students in a high-quality manner. College presidents, provosts, and admissions deans were asked to nominate up to 10 colleges in their U.S. News America's Best Colleges ranking category with a "commitment to undergraduate teaching."</p>

<p>This item on the peer survey enabled college officials to pick schools within their U.S. News America's Best Colleges ranking category that have a strength in undergraduate teaching that the public should be aware of and that is not always noticeable in a college's regular peer assessment survey results and its overall U.S. News America's Best Colleges ranking.

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<p>Top 10 (link has top 20):
1. Dartmouth
2. Princeton
3. Yale
4. Stanford
4. UMBC
6. Brown
6. William and Mary
8. Duke
8. Miami (OH)
8. Notre Dame</p>

<p>Best</a> Colleges - Education - US News and World Report</p>

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<p>Yeah, I was really excited to see that!</p>

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<p>Its about time they began to talk about the obvious. For undergrads its the Number 1 public by far. And easily top 20 overall. USNWR is such a joke.</p>

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<p>Haha…that was USNWR.</p>

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<p>doc is right. W&M is so under rated. easily the best public school in America; esp for undergrads. Should be top 25 at a minimum.</p>

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<p>Honestly, I really can’t understand how University of Michigan could ever be ranked above us for undergrad. How about UCLA and its 39,000 students… it gets to a point where quality of undergraduate teaching is sacrificed. UNC Chapel Hill… nice school but not a WM. And Wake Forest… we certainly aren’t below Wake Forest. At the very least should be tied. Well I’m for sure not going to lose sleep over it, but the u.s. news rankings are obviously not getting it right. And really it is rare that any school ever makes a significant adjustment up or down. Every year the rankings just reaffirm the U.S. News’s way of handing out numbers to all the schools. It’s good to see we finally got some credit ranked 6th for commitment to undergrad teaching.</p>

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<p>W&M should prob be ranked somewhere from 18-25 range. Easily ahead of the other huge State U’s. Tufts is also greatly underrated as well.</p>