<p>i know usnews' ranking shouldn't be taken too seriously, but why is it ranked only as high as ucla at 25??? i'm sure georgetown should be ranked higher than ucla, and i go to ucla. shouldn't a school of georgetown's stature be ranked somewhere in the teens?</p>
<p>cause its endowment sux</p>
<p>is that the only reason???</p>
<p>yeah, just about</p>
<p>doesn't give as much fin. aid as others, too</p>
<p>... due to the low endowment. So really, that's the only reason.</p>
<p>It ranks low because 1) many course are taught by part-timers, for example, Madeline Albright, rather than full-time professors. This lowers the academic score and also impacts the score for such things as faculty salary. Georgetown's ranking is artificially low. It may go up next year simply because it had a big jump in SAT scores. It is true that the endowment is low. It tends to give more loans than grant money.</p>
<p>it's weird, because gtown gave me substantially more than columbia and brown.</p>
<p>all my friends are going to schools of HYPSM caliber, so every time I'm feeling a little defensive about Georgetown's prestige, I go to this page: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_University#Notable_alumni%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_University#Notable_alumni</a></p>
<p>we're in good company.</p>
<p>As I had stated in a previous thread, the highest Georgetown has ever been in the last 15+ years was 1991...#23. I'm with you. Even as a child, I always viewed Georgetown as one of the most prestigious schools in the nation...certainly higher than Carnegie Mellon (sorry, CM) and other schools in the top 25. However, that's just my personal opinion.</p>
<p>If you want to compare how low the endowment is (which really hurts the school in the U.S. News rankings) look at this:
Georgetown University Endowment: $680 million
Harvard University Endowment: $22.6 billion
Those numbers are as of February 2005...pretty huge difference, no?
I mean look, if you are bothered by the rankings, don't be. Nobody who knows anything about colleges really thinks Georgetown should be as low as it is. The right people know it's a great school (and you should know too) and that's what matters.</p>
<p>I remember hearing speculation about a jump this year due to slightly more selective admissions. I've never really had a problem with the rankings because they don't give you a good picture of the school.</p>
<p>looking at US News, everything seems good except for the 'peer evaluation' score of 4.0 (out of 5).</p>
<p>Exactly, Georgetown's Peer Evaluation score is low which has nothing to do with endowment. The peer evaluation score is a sample score based on how highly those in academia rate Georgetown. This suggests that there may be some inherent weaknesses although I still feel Georgetown is far better than 25. In my opinion it should be in the top 15 or even the top 10.</p>
<p>Does anyone have the extended stats from the US NEWS and WORLD REPORT? I just need it for Georgetown, Penn and Hopkins. Please send me a PM if you have it...thanks!</p>
<p>i guess one could say that georgetown is "weak" in the liberal arts for a research university. Also, their grad schools (medical and law) are located away from the main campus. Their B-School, McDonough, isn't the most prestigous. SFS is one of a kind. Which Georgetown programs are ranked in the top 10 or 20. I thought Georgetown was known for Political Science, but even non-flagship state schools like UC San Diego and UC Irvine are ranked higher in surveys.</p>
<p>the location of grad schools really shouldn't make a difference. Many of Harvard's grad schools are also located away from the undergrad campus. Our med school is basically on the main campus. Penn is the only Ivy that has all schools on one campus.</p>
<p>Poli-Sci mght be ranked higher at UC, but where are they? G-town is in teh center of political activity, the speakers on campus are amazing, on Monday I went to a talk with Madeline Albright and Vaclav Havel (ex-pres. of Czechoslovakia, now Czech republic). That is an education... Havel spoke not about his life, but came to meet students, he came to encourage political activism an a ction on our world stage. Out of the whole year I have heard (to name a few), Powell, Aznar, Pres of Nigeria, Tenet, etc, etc. A few weeks, when the Prince of Jordan came, I remember going to his speech, and by the time I got back to the dorm I remember turning on CNN's live coverage of his conversation with teh President. That is truly amazing in my opinion. These are people on our world stage that come to Georgetown to speak and to inspire. I think that is as good as an education as any, if not significantly better.</p>
<p>"Penn is the only Ivy that has all schools on one campus."</p>
<p>w00t.</p>
<p>PS how does one ACTUALLY quote what people say in those little gray quote boxes?</p>
<p>type in "[ q u o t e ]" and then the text you want and then [ / q u o t e ] but without the spaces.</p>