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World University Rankings (MEGAMERGE)

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ORD_Buckeye;1519788; said:
Xavier's rank is a little misleading. It ranks third in the midwest "regional universities" catagory rather than being the third best national university in the midwest. It's kind of like being the 3rd best team in AAA baseball.
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They separate out schools that don't offer PHD's and then rank them regionally. So Xavier is the 3rd best college in the Midwest that doesn't offer a PHD program. Like you were saying, 3rd best in AAA.
 
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Top Producing Schools of Fortune 500 CEOs

Institution Total degrees Undergraduate degrees M.B.A.s Other graduate degrees U.S. News undergraduate rank U.S. News business school rank U.S. News law school rank
Harvard University 58 11 33 14 1 1 2
Columbia University 21 3 9 9 4 9 4
University of Pennsylvania 20 6 9 5 5 5 7
University of Wisconsin--Madison 17 11 3 3 45 27 28
Dartmouth College 16 12 4 0 9 7 N/A*
Stanford University 16 7 6 3 5 1 3
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor 14 5 7 2 29 12 9
University of Notre Dame 11 9 0 2 19 31 22
University of Texas--Austin 11 8 3 0 45 16 15
Cornell University 10 7 3 0 15 18 13
Northwestern University 10 2 6 2 12 4 11
Ohio State University 10 5 2 3 56 21 34
University of California--Los Angeles 10 4 3 3 25 15 15
University of Virginia 10 4 4 2 25 13 10
Indiana University--Bloomington 9 3 5 1 75 23 27
Princeton University 9 9 0 0 2 N/A N/A

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2011/01/03/where-the-fortune-500-ceos-went-to-college.html
 
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Since expansion talk is heating up again and whether people like it or not academics will play a factor in any future B1G expansion plans I've updated my composite academic rankings.

Sources used Forbes, USN&WR, Washington Monthly, ARWU, QS, THE, MUP.

I normalized each ranking to a 100pt scale & gave a 10 point bonus to AAU institutions.

660 represents a perfect score.


1 Stanford 644.9718
2 Chicago 637.9541
3 Cal 629.6928
4 UCLA 619.6380
5 Duke 609.4417
6 TSUN 609.1078
7 Northwestern 595.2968
8 North Carolina 585.3390
9 UCSD 581.6346
10 Washington 581.1780
11 Illinois 566.6974
12 Texas 560.0489
13 Wisconsin 552.9067
14 Rice 551.6233
15 Vanderbilt 541.6027
16 USC 540.7770
17 Penn St. 537.9911
18 Minnesota 517.9393
19 Virginia 509.0343
20 Ohio State 507.5572
21 Florida 503.2785
22 Georgia Tech 493.5634
23 Maryland 490.7992
24 Notre Dame 488.9040
25 Texas A&M 485.2595
26 Purdue 479.9918
27 Pittsburgh 477.2445
28 Rutgers 468.2967
29 Colorado 463.4359
30 Sparty 460.8084
31 Indiana 437.3861
32 Wake Forest 421.6585
33 Arizona 401.1058
34 U Mass 400.7124
35 Iowa 388.7683
36 Miami (FL) 386.4387
37 Virginia Tech 381.8363
38 Tulane 381.1673
39 Georgia 378.0197
40 Utah 375.2940
41 Arizona St. 352.6479
42 Missouri 349.7750
43 Iowa St. 347.1913
44 Boston College 346.0569
45 Delaware 338.2241
46 NC St. 333.5689
47 Connecticut 307.7880
48 Buffalo 301.7439
49 Florida St. 294.9305
50 USAFA 289.4487
51 Colorado St. 283.6974
52 Kansas 280.5306
53 Oregon 277.5638
54 Annapolis 272.5385
55 Alabama 270.6637
56 West Point 269.6923
57 Syracuse 265.2689
58 Washington St. 259.0067
59 Clemson 248.6021
60 Cincinnati 247.3566
61 Hawaii 234.7698
62 South Carolina 234.0549
63 Kentucky 229.5953
64 Nebraska 225.2522
65 Tennessee 218.6133
66 Oregon St. 212.8232
67 BYU 211.3545
68 LSU 208.6849
69 Baylor 205.2388
70 Miami (OH) 200.5862
71 Oklahoma 193.8685
72 Auburn 193.5142
73 New Mexico 180.4565
74 SMU 171.2036
75 South Florida 169.6892
76 Mississippi St. 163.4758
77 Utah St. 160.4657
78 TCU 159.2594
79 Temple 153.2338
80 Ole Miss 153.1872
81 Idaho 146.3424
82 Wyoming 142.1832
83 Houston 137.5592
84 Tulsa 137.0176
85 Oklahoma St. 137.0066
86 Kansas St. 136.2536
87 Louisville 135.5420
88 Ohio 133.9159
89 San Diego St. 129.2296
90 Montana 125.7931
91 Central Florida 123.7305
92 Georgia St. 122.3821
93 Arkansas 121.7976
94 West Virginia 119.3631
95 Bowling Green 105.0841
96 Texas Tech 103.7979
97 Florida international 100.9499
98 New Mexico St. 100.8664
99 East Carolina 99.2654
100 Kent St. 98.5711
101 Southern Miss 96.3333
102 Northern Illinois 86.3775
103 UAB 82.7603
104 Villanova 81.8462
105 UTEP 80.8819
106 Louisiana Tech. 78.9756
107 Ball St. 68.7287
108 CMU 65.0787
109 Nevada 64.9177
110 UNLV 63.2874
111 WMU 59.9076
112 Memphis 57.6601
113 North Texas 50.0244
114 UTSA 48.8397
115 Florida Atlantic 48.2862
116 Toledo 35.7072
117 Louisiana-Lafayette 34.9195
118 Akron 34.6023
119 Appalachian St 32.7692
120 Fresno St 28.9231
121 Troy 27.2308
122 Western Kentucky 9.2308
123 BSU 5.6923
124 EMU 1.5385
125 Arkansas St. 0.0000
126 Louisiana-Monroe 0.0000
127 Marshall 0.0000
128 Middle Tennessee 0.0000
129 San Jose St. 0.0000
130 South Alabama 0.0000
131 Texas St. 0.0000



Obviously I left off non FBS schools (with a couple of exceptions). On the MUP top research university rankings I only used the the combined Top 50. I might go back and do the Top 50 private & public lists separately which will help smooth out the transition for some schools that missed the cut-off for the combined top 50 list.

The Big 12 has really taken a beating academically...losing it's #2, #3 & #4 schools to the Pac & SEC. Nebraska would currently rank #5 in Big 12-2.
 
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MililaniBuckeye;2154907; said:
Does Chicago even have a football team? I think they disbanded football in 1950s...
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Last season in Big Ten was 1939. They didn't field another team until 1963. From 1963 to 1972, they played as an independent with no classification. Since 1973, they have played Division III.
 
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Re: Peace Corp Rank

I fail to see why a higher % of students going into the Peace Corp makes the school better than another school. Sounds like it should be the opposite; I'm joining the Peace Corp because I can't get a decent paying job, i.e. my degree from the school is worthless.
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ScriptOhio;2155060; said:
Re: Peace Corp Rank

I fail to see why a higher % of students going into the Peace Corp makes the school better than another school. Sounds like it should be the opposite; I'm joining the Peace Corp because I can't get a decent paying job, i.e. my degree from the school is worthless.
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Questioning the importance of the Peace Corp placement rate is fine, but your assumption of why people go into it is off-base. For example, I work directly with students who have degrees in the biological sciences and engineering, who are purposefully delaying their application and matriculation to medical and other professional schools in order work in the Peace Corp, America Corp, Teach for America, and other similar type programs.
 
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ScriptOhio;2155060; said:
Re: Peace Corp Rank

I fail to see why a higher % of students going into the Peace Corp makes the school better than another school. Sounds like it should be the opposite; I'm joining the Peace Corp because I can't get a decent paying job, i.e. my degree from the school is worthless.
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Actually, the people I knew who went into the Peace Corps had pretty strong academic records and ended up in top grad schools, the foreign service or the CIA when they came out of it.

As for why it's included in that particular ranking, I think it's for the same reason that ROTC enrollment is included: as a measurement of a university's commitment and success at turning out students who go into fields that provide some form of greater good to the country/world.
 
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Updated the spreadsheet. Added all FBS schools, updated with newer data from one source & removed the non-US schools from the QS list (reducing the number from 600+ to under 200).

The academies are lower than they should be due to several of the datasets not including them due to their unique nature.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
Does Chicago even have a football team? I think they disbanded football in 1950s...
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buck1973;2154917; said:
Last season in Big Ten was 1939. They didn't field another team until 1963. From 1963 to 1972, they played as an independent with no classification. Since 1973, they have played Division III.
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Chicago is currently a member of the University Athletic Association, which for football consists of only four schools--Chicago, Carnegie Mellon, Case Western Reserve, and Washington U. of St. Louis.

In other sports, these four are joined with Brandeis, NYU, Rochester, and Emory.
 
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