Ohio State Now "Other Ohio Team"

[cincibuck]

FYI, OSU's med school is ranked 30th in research and 31st in primary care.
UC's ranks 40th and 62nd, respectively.

2008 U.S. News & World Report rankings.

Search - Medical - Best Graduate Schools - Education - US News and World Report

I noted that my rankings were from 2005 and that OSU Med was ranked higher in 07 and 08.

What is not shown is that OSU Med School's rise in the ranking in the last 15 years is nothing short of miraculous. As Ord correctly points out, the school has undergone a top to bottom revitalization.

Probably ought to move this out of here and into a different thread.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

That being said I also recognized that there were other fine schools in the state as there still are today. That includes athletics.

My problem has never been with the quality that does or doesn't exist at The Other State Universities or any of their flagship programs. My problem is with a strain of thinking in Ohio that wants to see all state universities as equals and led to an overpriced, redundant mess of a university system. There are and there should be other high quality public universities in Ohio. There, however, should be only one flagship state university. One need only compare what Rhodes and Millet created with what Pat Brown and Clark Kerr were creating in California at the same time.

My hostility towards the Other State Universities stems precisely from their support for policies which benefited their own campuses at the expense of the state as a whole and Ohio State in particular. In the case of the administrations at the two older (i.e. Fredo) schools those actions crossed over from supporting policies benfiting themselves at Ohio State's expense into flat out political manipulations and lobbying to fundamentally weaken and damage Ohio State.

All smack talking aside, I really don't have a thing against anyone who went to one of those schools. At the end of the day, I really don't care about their athletic departments either. I do care what John Millet and Vern Alden attempted to do and in large part if only for awhile succeeded in doing to Ohio State. I do care that you don't have to scratch the administrations at those schools too deeply to see that they'd try and do it again in a heartbeat if the right conditions in state government were to ever exist again--see Louis Proenza at Akron and his public comments about Ohio State or Miami of Ohio's constant negative recruiting of Ohio State for top in-state students.

An awareness of the history between Ohio State University and the Other State Universities and the tensions that still exist between them today does not, on my part, amount to a complete dismissal of their relevance or role nor any hostility towards their alumni--o.k. the jackoffs on their circle jerk message boards excepted.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

BTW, here's the most serious academic ranking done. It's conducted by the National Research Council and done once every 10-15 years. It's highly respected and thorough and is not done to sell magazines. The last one was done in '95. Seeing as the data was collected for several years prior to its release, Gee would have had very little influence on the outcome. In fact, Ohio State's rankings would still, to a degree, be influenced by its nadir in reputation under Rhodes, yet the across the board gap between Ohio State University and the Other State Universities might come as a surprise to some.

http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc1.html#RANKBYAREA

http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc41.html

http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc1.html#TOP60

 

[Bleed S & G]

UC has a football team?? Holy crap.