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Posted on 1/2/14 at 6:26 pm to skrayper
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Because AAU status isn't really all that big of a deal.
Disagree with you, btw, AAU is about academic research which goes on at graduate level. These rankings are based on undergraduate studies,
Also most rankings are a crock of cow pie...and often have to do with money crossing hands.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 6:28 pm to TulaneTigerFan
Were ranked wayyy too low. Easily 300 or so.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 6:35 pm to Bogie00
Big enough deal that the AAU tossed Nebraska out a few years back.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 6:42 pm to Emory78
Not many "football" schools in the top couple of pages.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 7:00 pm to TulaneTigerFan
US News rankings are BS FWIW. 1/4 of the ranking score is based on academic reputation which is a survey to all deans asking them to rate every university. One story of how BS it is
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Some years ago, similarly, a former chief justice of the Michigan supreme court, Thomas Brennan, sent a questionnaire to a hundred or so of his fellow-lawyers, asking them to rank a list of ten law schools in order of quality. “They included a good sample of the big names. Harvard. Yale. University of Michigan. And some lesser-known schools. John Marshall. Thomas Cooley,” Brennan wrote. “As I recall, they ranked Penn State’s law school right about in the middle of the pack. Maybe fifth among the ten schools listed. Of course, Penn State doesn’t have a law school.”
Posted on 1/2/14 at 7:13 pm to NEMizzou
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You can be a Top 100 school, be a Tier 1 research facility and get just about any grant out there. A&M would qualify, as would Mizzou.
I am a tenure-track professor and PI on multiple grants; and I can promise you that procuring grants from various funding agencies requires a much more robust proposal than simply listing "Tier I Research Institution" in the application.
Oh, but if it were that simple.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 7:50 pm to EKG
This is probably a better ranking system.
World University Rankings
Ranking Criteria
Quality of Education Alumni of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals Alumni 10%
Quality of Faculty Staff of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals Award 20%
Highly cited researchers in 21 broad subject categories HiCi 20%
Research Output Papers published in Nature and Science* N&S 20%
Papers indexed in Science Citation Index-expanded and Social Science Citation Index PUB 20%
Per Capita Performance Per capita academic performance of an institution PCP 10%
Total 100%
World University Rankings
Ranking Criteria
Quality of Education Alumni of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals Alumni 10%
Quality of Faculty Staff of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals Award 20%
Highly cited researchers in 21 broad subject categories HiCi 20%
Research Output Papers published in Nature and Science* N&S 20%
Papers indexed in Science Citation Index-expanded and Social Science Citation Index PUB 20%
Per Capita Performance Per capita academic performance of an institution PCP 10%
Total 100%
Posted on 1/2/14 at 10:07 pm to Big12fan
Honestly, I'm a bottom line kind of guy, especially since the cost of going to college has risen so dramatically and faster than the inflation rate for the past upteen years. So the ranking that really catches my eye is the Payscale.com return on investment ranking. College is an investment, right? Who cares what the Richy Richs of the world talk about at the country club about which college is more prestigious. I want to know where a college ranks in terms of what a person can earn vs. what he has to pay for his education. In the real world in 2014, that is the only ranking that counts IMHO.
Below you'll find this highly important ranking:
LINK
Below you'll find this highly important ranking:
LINK
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Posted on 1/3/14 at 7:22 am to Big12fan
SIAP but here is another key list. Based on a study done by the Daily Beast, they rank universities according to which students are the happiest. LINK
Glad to see the SEC landed four schools out of the top 20 on this all important list, including TAMU at #1 ! Shout out to the Gators, Dawgs and Tide for also ranking high in this area among the 1000+ universities in America,
Glad to see the SEC landed four schools out of the top 20 on this all important list, including TAMU at #1 ! Shout out to the Gators, Dawgs and Tide for also ranking high in this area among the 1000+ universities in America,
This post was edited on 1/3/14 at 7:23 am
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