Just had to chuckle when I came across this Minnesota blogger’s home-brewed set of university rankings. Comprehensive. Scientific. Unbiased. 1. St. Cloud State University; St. Cloud, Minnesota 2. University of North Dakota; Grand Forks, North Dakota 3. Harvard University; Cambridge, Massechusetts 4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge, Massechusetts 5. Northwestern University; Evanston, Illinois 6. Stanford Read more →
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Here’s a refreshing exchange between New York Times columnists David Brooks and Gail Collins, who stress the irrelevance of rankings and getting into big-name, elite colleges: David Brooks: I’ve learned that if you put me in an unmarked room with students from any of the top 100 colleges in the country, and let me have Read more →
Goldy may not have made the Associated Press’ list of 12 coolest football mascots, but it ranked #10 on NBC Sports’ Out-of-Bounds blog list of Top 10 Power Mascots, a ranking that considered “newsworthiness, style and general awesomeness.” NBC’s Rick Chandler on why Goldy made it: This is from last year, but Goldy’s body of Read more →
The College of St. Scholastica has been ranked 34th best college in the nation for military veterans by the Military Times Edge magazine — one of four Minnesota nonprofit and for-profit colleges. The magazine ranked colleges according to the financial assistance they give vets, academic flexibility, campus culture (such as ROTC programs and percentage of Read more →
This is not your usual popular-media college ranking. So those looking for a quick guide to graduate programs can move along. Today, the National Research Council released its assessment of U.S. doctoral programs covering more than 5,000 programs in 62 fields at 212 universities nationwide. It’s supposed to help universities evaluate and improve the quality Read more →
The Wall Street Journal has come out with its list of Top 25 Recruiters’ Picks for colleges, as part of its large “Paths to Professions” feature. By surveying corporate recruiters, it tried to find those schools most likely to land students jobs in solid professions that traditionally pay well and offer a bright future. Although Read more →
In what’s probably a no-duh moment for those who know of the institution, it turns out Concordia College of Moorhead should never have been on Washington Monthly‘s list of worst College Drop-Out Factories. I remember calling Concordia spokeswoman Amy Kelly at home the evening I saw the ranking, which erroneously stated that Concordia had a Read more →
I wonder whether it’s a sign that the major college rankings season is over when the economics nerds do their own version. The American Institute for Economic Research, one of the oldest economic research organizations in the country, has released its annual “College Destinations Index,” which ranks the 75 best towns and cities for college Read more →
Kit from Pittsburgh, USA via Wikimedia Commons Success at this has little to do with rankings Tired of college rankings? Zac Bissonnette sure is. The author of Debt-Free U: How I Paid for an Outstanding College Education Without Loans, Scholarships, or Mooching Off My Parents — called by a Washington Post writer the best and most Read more →