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re: 2 SEC Schools Rank in Forbes' 2015 Top 25 Best Public Colleges
Posted on 7/31/15 at 12:27 pm to Korin
Posted on 7/31/15 at 12:27 pm to Korin
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Aren't they a top 20 public school on the USNWR list?
As I mentioned before,
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Clemson official: School manipulated rankings
Among the steps reportedly alleged by Catherine Watt, who until 2006 headed Clemson's institutional research office: Clemson manipulated class sizes, artificially boosted faculty salary data and gave rival schools low grades in the rankings' peer reputation survey, which counts for 25% of the score.
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Watt said Thursday that reports on her remarks had missed the point of her presentation to a conference and that she regretted any suggestion of illegal activity. Meanwhile, the university denied several of the allegations, but acknowledged it aims to improve in the influential rankings. Clemson jumped from No. 38 among public universities in 2001 to No. 22 in 2008 — an unusually quick ascent considering the rankings typically change little from year to year.
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This post was edited on 7/31/15 at 12:29 pm
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Posted on 7/31/15 at 4:03 pm to theGarnetWay
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Watt said Thursday that reports on her remarks had missed the point of her presentation to a conference and that she regretted any suggestion of illegal activity. Meanwhile, the university denied several of the allegations, but acknowledged it aims to improve in the influential rankings. Clemson jumped from No. 38 among public universities in 2001 to No. 22 in 2008 — an unusually quick ascent considering the rankings typically change little from year to year.
So Clemson figured out how to manipulate the ranking system and no other college could figure out the same thing? lol Color me skeptical. All Clemson did is look at the critirea and adjust things at the college to help boost the ranking. The critiera is what it is.
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