Don't Blame US News for the College Ranking Game

[ORD_Buckeye]

Found this on a higher education website this evening. Ohio was well represented. Just one question. Where are the Fredos; Fredo of Ohio and FredOU? After all, reading their boards would lead one to think that Ohio State's superiority is supposed to be a recent development.

This is the earliest college ranking I have found. From So You're Going to College by Clarence Lovejoy, 1940. Colleges were ranked based on a study of how often their graduates had appeared in Who's Who in America.

Institution Name, average number of alumni in Who's Who editions 1937-1940, Rank
HARVARD UNIVERSITY 1433 1
YALE UNIVERSITY 1006 2
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 515 3
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK 461 4
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN-ANN ARBOR 454 5
CORNELL UNIVERSITY-ENDOWED COLLEGES 413 6
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON 342 7
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY 290 8
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 288 9
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 279 10
AMHERST COLLEGE 267 11
BROWN UNIVERSITY 246 12
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 231 13
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 229 14
US MILITARY ACADEMY 221 15
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA 201 16
STANFORD UNIVERSITY 201 17
WILLIAMS COLLEGE 190 18
US NAVAL ACADEMY 189 19
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN 186 20
INDIANA UNIVERSITY 181 21
JOHNS HOPKINS 172 22
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY 169 23
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA 162 24
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 161 25
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI 155 26
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS 146 27
STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA 139 28
OBERLIN COLLEGE 137 29
CUNY COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK 129 30
OHIO WESLEYAN 120 31
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA-MAIN CAMPUS 120 32
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL 116 33
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY 116 34
DE PAUW UNIVERSITY 115 35
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 113 36
BOWDOIN COLLEGE 110 37
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY 101 38
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN 92 39
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY 95 40

 

[PlanetFrnd]

Princeton has been first or tied for first for years now... where the hell has PrincetonBuckeye been?


I hate that cheesy "...in the city of new york" that Columbia insists on adding...

 

[BuckeyeInTheBoro]

[quote='BusNative;106928;5]...
I hate that cheesy "...in the city of new york" that Columbia insists on adding...[/quote]Hey.. who took our THE ?

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

[quote='BusNative;106928;5]I hate that cheesy "...in the city of new york" that Columbia insists on adding...[/quote]

It's "..in THE city of new york"/

:p

 

[BuckeyeInTheBoro]

It's "..in THE city of new york"/

:p

Are you saying Columbia stole our "The..."?

Based on this: Office of Legal Affairs - The Ohio State University

...
B. Contracting Parties:
The contracting party for all University contracts is ?The Ohio State University on behalf of _______________ (insert department)?. For example, a contract for the School of Architecture would read ?The Ohio State University on behalf of its School of Architecture?.
...

It seems the "The" is part of our legal name and I want it back... we should file some kind of action against Columbia and/or US News... perhaps "taste infringement".

 

[Ttown]

Wonder how many ladies from Oberlin, where the first ever "burn your Bra" march was held, are on that Who's who list.

 

[buckeyegrad]

Strange that Case Western Reserve University is ranked 40th on that list from 1940, when such an institution did not exist until 1967.

I assume the web site has taken it upon itself to add the scores of the Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University from that time period.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Strange that Case Western Reserve University is ranked 40th on that list from 1940, when such an institution did not exist until 1967.

I assume the web site has taken it upon itself to add the scores of the Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University from that time period.

Do not know. I cut and pasted directly from College Confidential. It might have been just Case at 40, and they typed CWRU out of habit.