Alex FriedrichThe Gustavus Adolphus has lined up Gustavus Adolphus College’s “awards” among this year’s college rankings results in its recent article, What do rankings really mean? Pretty nifty. But how much do students and others pay attention to them? Apparently, not too many who are familiar with American higher education. Robert Morse, director of data resources Read more →
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First-year graduate student and Public Insight Network member Ian Yue explains why he thinks why schools affiliated with a religion might suffer a disadvantage in college rankings: “For example, the undergraduate academic reputation (22.5% of the ranking) of a school may be looked down upon if those providing a judgment have negative opinions of faith-based Read more →
Coming off of last week’s release of U.S. News & World Report’s college rankings and my post on some caveats to consider, I’ve asked a number of parents, students and educators in our Public Insight Network what they think. How useful are they? How accurate? What could be improved? I’m sorting through the responses now, Read more →
It’s time again for U.S. News & World Report, which today released its 2012 college rankings — the heavyweight in the rankings game. Rankings are a controversial business, with critics grumbling over methodology, the volatility of some listings — After all, how much can really change in a year? — and the lengths some colleges Read more →
Sandy Baum and Michael McPherson in the Chronicle of Higher Education take issue with U.S. News & World Report’s recent list of schools with the best four-year graduation rates. (By the way, in that one Carleton College tied for 5th place.) Might the facts that 91% of the students were in the top 10% of Read more →
We’re bombarded by rankings — and reports saying how faulty they are — so I’m just putting this out: U.S. News & World Report released its annual business school rankings today, and the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management placed 21st. That’s up from 24th last year, Carlson spokesman Steve Rudolph said. Programs that Read more →
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 →
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 →