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World University Rankings (MEGAMERGE)

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Schools boycotting USNews rankings

College presidents plan 'U.S. News' rankings boycott
Deriding the ratings system as a 'beauty contest,' dozens of schools have refused to fill out surveys from the newsweekly.
By Ben Arnoldy | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor


OAKLAND, CALIF. - A revolt is brewing among college presidents against the influential college rankings put out each year by U.S. News & World Report.

Dozens of schools have recently refused to fill out surveys used to calculate ranks, and efforts are now afoot for a collective boycott.

Colleges have complained in the past about the rankings. But recent events have rallied opposition, including the tying of presidential pay to ranking at Arizona State University and accusations by the president of Sarah Lawrence College that the magazine threatened to use hocus-pocus data to stand in for average SAT scores at the school.

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buckeyeboy;811146; said:
I wonder how much of this is sour grapes on the part of presidents of colleges that simply aren't as impressive as the presidents believe they are.
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Probably less than the part that these rankings are horseshit and people are tired of it.
The "reputational survey," as it's called, asks college administrators to rank the quality of hundreds of schools on a one to five scale.
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That could never go wrong. :(
 
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What losers. Why do people even care? :shake:

Everybody knows the only lists that matter are Playboy's top-10 "party school" rankings and the football team's place in the final BCS Standings.
 
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A better way to rank Universities?

On the Colbert Report recently he had the editor of Washinton Monthly on the show. The interview focused on the college rankings that the magazine put out. After the show I looked up the list and this is what I found:

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2007/0709.natlrankings.pdf

Ohio State is at 12 out of all universities in the nation.

We all know that US News ranks colleges based mostly on admission standards, but this new ranking ranks colleges based on what they do with the students once they are at the college.

What do you guys think about this sort of ranking as opposed to the usual US News rankings?
 
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Buckeye Maniac;966215; said:
We all know that US News ranks colleges based mostly on admission standards, but this new ranking ranks colleges based on what they do with the students once they are at the college.

What do you guys think about this sort of ranking as opposed to the usual US News rankings?
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Here's how I see it: Would you rather get the highest-ranked recruiting class, or win the national championship? Having high-admissions standards may be nice (assuming you can actually get students to still go to your college), but that doesn't mean anything if those students don't DO anything with their educations.
 
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Ok, you go to aTm. I'll stick with Princeton or Harvard or Yale or Stanford

Zurp;966933; said:
Here's how I see it: Would you rather get the highest-ranked recruiting class, or win the national championship? Having high-admissions standards may be nice (assuming you can actually get students to still go to your college), but that doesn't mean anything if those students don't DO anything with their educations.
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Except that this poll rewards the Boise State and USFs of the world by penalizing schools for having good recruiting classes (see social mobility factor).
 
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