Alex FriedrichIn a news release, U officials say the campus is ranked ninth among U.S. public institutions, and third among public institutions in the Big Ten. Read more →
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Forbes magazine comments on why the University of Minnesota is a “rising star” — and thus a school to watch — having risen the most since the magazine began ranking schools in 2009: For University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, which ranked 543rd in 2009 and now ranks 108th, it is the production of high-quality graduates Read more →
Remember the National Council on Teacher Quality and the teacher-prep ratings that riled up the education world last year? Those assessments are back — this time in the form of a rankings system. The 2014 Teacher Prep Review fully evaluated 39 Minnesota programs on 21 campuses, and gives national “Top Ranked” status to the University Read more →
On the heels of the list of the coldest colleges in the U.S. comes this ranking — using Accuweather data — that places the University of Minnesota – Duluth in fifth place among colleges that receive the most snow. The campus gets almost 86 inches of snow each year. According to The Post Standard in Read more →
It looks like the University of Minnesota needs to show us news hacks a little more love. The Center for Public Anthropology recently issued a ranking that put the U 83rd overall out of 94 universities in how much its faculty in the social sciences communicates with the public through the news media. It scanned Read more →
It’s that time of year again, and here’s where Minnesota colleges and universities place in this year’s U.S. News & World Report college rankings. As I’ve mentioned in years past, those rankings — as unfair, incomplete and possibly inaccurate as they are — are what a lot of colleges and higher-ed experts love to hate. Read more →
With the usual rankings-related caveats in mind, I was drawn to this little article in U.S. News & World Report on which schools are ranked higher by high-school counselors than their peers. St. Mary’s University of Minnesota topped the list of colleges with a greater repuation among counselors than of peer colleges. It had the Read more →
The University of St. Thomas is apologizing on its Web site for giving incorrect grad-employment data to U.S. News and World Report, which released its rankings earlier this week. It says it caught the error itself: It has come to our attention that U.S. News published an inaccurate employment at graduation statistic for the UST Read more →
This week U.S. News & World Report released its first rankings of online programs — both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The magazine ranked schools overall and in three areas: faculty credentials and training; student engagement and assessment; and student services and technology. You can read more about the methodology here. As usual, take Read more →
“We seem to be looking at the beginning of the decline of the great American public universities. … It’s the first sign of a worrying trend,” he said. — Phil Baty, editor of the prestigious Times Higher Education World University Rankings, on how America’s highest-ranked public institutions have been losing ground in the ratings. This year’s Read more →