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re: Forbes Best Colleges SEC Rank (Costs and Student Population)
Posted on 8/1/12 at 11:06 pm to Monticello
Posted on 8/1/12 at 11:06 pm to Monticello
Lists of this type are about the stupidest exercise available that involves higher education.
It's easy to rate small schools highly because they are able to concentrate resources in a single program or academic area. For instance, seriously... who would rate Beloit, Grove City, Hanover, Dayton, Bellarmine, George Fox, etc etc etc over SEC caliber schools? These small schools with only a couple thousand students are highly selective when state schools must serve a cross section of the general population. I'm sure that in many cases, they offer a fine education in specialty areas.
But the TRUTH is that Forbes, USN&WR, etc etc often rate schools on the basis of only a handful of opinions. Or maybe even the amount of research dollars - which isn't quite fair to schools who have a different educational mission.
The bottom line is that if you are in the position to hire someone who is a college graduate, do YOUR homework and hire on personality, team fit, experience, and worry less about where they earned a degree from. Heck, I bet that less than a quarter of the employed are actually DOING what they went and got an education for anyway.
It's easy to rate small schools highly because they are able to concentrate resources in a single program or academic area. For instance, seriously... who would rate Beloit, Grove City, Hanover, Dayton, Bellarmine, George Fox, etc etc etc over SEC caliber schools? These small schools with only a couple thousand students are highly selective when state schools must serve a cross section of the general population. I'm sure that in many cases, they offer a fine education in specialty areas.
But the TRUTH is that Forbes, USN&WR, etc etc often rate schools on the basis of only a handful of opinions. Or maybe even the amount of research dollars - which isn't quite fair to schools who have a different educational mission.
The bottom line is that if you are in the position to hire someone who is a college graduate, do YOUR homework and hire on personality, team fit, experience, and worry less about where they earned a degree from. Heck, I bet that less than a quarter of the employed are actually DOING what they went and got an education for anyway.
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Posted on 8/1/12 at 11:11 pm to iglass
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iglass
very well said
Posted on 8/1/12 at 11:14 pm to iglass
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The bottom line is that if you are in the position to hire someone who is a college graduate, do YOUR homework and hire on personality, team fit, experience, and worry less about where they earned a degree from. Heck, I bet that less than a quarter of the employed are actually DOING what they went and got an education for anyway.
Good luck telling that to the Aggies. The rest of live in reality.
Bold: Agreed.
Posted on 8/1/12 at 11:44 pm to iglass
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do YOUR homework and hire on personality, team fit, experience, and worry less about where they earned a degree from.
Agreed. I've hired a lot of people and interviewed a ton more. I don't put a lot of stock in to where a degree is from these days. One of my worst had a business degree from Harvard and one of my best had gotten her undergrad from MTSU and an MBA from Phoenix. The Harvard guy didn't last more than a couple of weeks before we had to let him go because he was worthless while the MTSU girl was a rockstar from day one.
Although I will say that every GT grad that I've ever interviewed was odd as hell.
This post was edited on 8/1/12 at 11:46 pm
Posted on 8/2/12 at 7:42 am to iglass
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iglass
Preach on Brotha, I agree.
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