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Posted on 8/1/14 at 9:45 am
Posted on 8/1/14 at 9:45 am
Just to show that everything is relative...
This ranking was just released hours ago and takes into account career earning potential, mix of majors, and ROI rather than depending on reputation of school.
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SEC rankings:
24. Texas A&M
28. Florida
50. Vanderbilt
62. Georgia
95. LSU
183. Auburn
189. Missouri
194. Mississippi State
202. Tennessee
248. Arkansas
261. South Carolina
339. Ole Miss
389. Kentucky
409. Alabama
This ranking was just released hours ago and takes into account career earning potential, mix of majors, and ROI rather than depending on reputation of school.
LINK /
SEC rankings:
24. Texas A&M
28. Florida
50. Vanderbilt
62. Georgia
95. LSU
183. Auburn
189. Missouri
194. Mississippi State
202. Tennessee
248. Arkansas
261. South Carolina
339. Ole Miss
389. Kentucky
409. Alabama
This post was edited on 8/1/14 at 9:53 am
Posted on 8/1/14 at 9:46 am to mboromaroon
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24. Texas A&M
28. Florida
50. Vanderbilt
62. Georgia
95. LSU
183. Auburn
Big 6
Posted on 8/1/14 at 9:48 am to craigbiggio
huh
well I'm happy with my degree and the money I'm making
well I'm happy with my degree and the money I'm making
Posted on 8/1/14 at 9:48 am to craigbiggio
Dang, even I think that is too low for Bama.
Posted on 8/1/14 at 9:48 am to mboromaroon
Oh, hey offseason. Enjoy your stay, its almost over
Posted on 8/1/14 at 9:49 am to mboromaroon
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409. Alabama
Sidewalking hurts the rep of the whole university. Y'all need to keep those guys in line.
Posted on 8/1/14 at 9:49 am to mboromaroon
The most widely recognized and accepted undergrad ranking list is US News.
This post was edited on 8/1/14 at 9:50 am
Posted on 8/1/14 at 9:50 am to mboromaroon
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Just to show that everything is relative...
It's all bullshite.
Unless you're discussing elitist schools with wealthy or very intelligent students, a state school is a state school, imo. Yes, some are great, but in the end it's just undergrad.
Posted on 8/1/14 at 9:51 am to mboromaroon
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409. Alabama
:kige:
Posted on 8/1/14 at 9:55 am to Duckie
At any state school it's mostly what you make of it. If you're in the honors program at one of them you can get a fantastic education at a low cost. Certain programs will stick out (Petroleum Engineering at A&M, International Business at Carolina, etc) and the overall reputations might give you a head start coming out of college for jobs and grad school over others, but when you're 30-35 and have relevant work experience nobody is really gonna give a shite where you went.
This post was edited on 8/1/14 at 9:56 am
Posted on 8/1/14 at 9:57 am to mboromaroon
nb4 another bama response thread cuz mad
Posted on 8/1/14 at 9:58 am to Phat Phil
To continue paying attention to our rivals, the following scores are in
Money, AU 183,,,,,Bama 409
Forbes, AU 204.....Bama 335
USNEWS Bama 86, AU 91..
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The rankings are flawed, but they sell magazines.
1. The college rankings fuel higher college costs. U.S. News' methodology rewards schools that spend more cash. Schools get brownie points for sinking money into new buildings, posh student unions, athletic facilities and higher teacher salaries. And guess who is paying for all that? The rankings don't encourage schools to keep their tuition lower, and the rankings mavens don't care if all this spending ends up forcing students into greater debt. Schools aren't penalized for graduating students with onerous student loans.
2. The rankings don't measure academic quality. U.S. News also doesn't care about what type of learning -- if any -- is happening at the colleges and universities it ranks. Seriously, I'm not making this up! By contrast, the rankings methodology, however, does care about what percentage of students that a school rejects. Go figure.
3. Schools cheat. No one knows how many colleges and universities fib when they complete their college rankings surveys. But some pretty big players have been caught falsifying or manipulating numbers to bump themselves up in the standings, including Clemson University, Claremont McKenna College, U.S. Naval Academy, Baylor University and Emory University (I wrote about such questionable behavior by Ivy League institutions in a previous post.)
4. The ranks are based on beauty contest. The biggest factor in the college rankings is a school's reputation and, more specifically, what institutions think of each other. All the schools in a specific category, such as the national university category, are asked to rate all of their peers on a one-to-five scale. For example, administrators at UCLA rate their peers, including such different institutions as Dartmouth, Ball State, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, San Diego State and Georgetown. Of course, this practice is ludicrous.
Bottom Line
At the very least, you should understand that the U.S. News college rankings are deeply flawed. You shouldn't make any decisions on what school to visit or attend based on what these faulty numbers appear to be telling you.
Money, AU 183,,,,,Bama 409
Forbes, AU 204.....Bama 335
USNEWS Bama 86, AU 91..
LINK /
The rankings are flawed, but they sell magazines.
1. The college rankings fuel higher college costs. U.S. News' methodology rewards schools that spend more cash. Schools get brownie points for sinking money into new buildings, posh student unions, athletic facilities and higher teacher salaries. And guess who is paying for all that? The rankings don't encourage schools to keep their tuition lower, and the rankings mavens don't care if all this spending ends up forcing students into greater debt. Schools aren't penalized for graduating students with onerous student loans.
2. The rankings don't measure academic quality. U.S. News also doesn't care about what type of learning -- if any -- is happening at the colleges and universities it ranks. Seriously, I'm not making this up! By contrast, the rankings methodology, however, does care about what percentage of students that a school rejects. Go figure.
3. Schools cheat. No one knows how many colleges and universities fib when they complete their college rankings surveys. But some pretty big players have been caught falsifying or manipulating numbers to bump themselves up in the standings, including Clemson University, Claremont McKenna College, U.S. Naval Academy, Baylor University and Emory University (I wrote about such questionable behavior by Ivy League institutions in a previous post.)
4. The ranks are based on beauty contest. The biggest factor in the college rankings is a school's reputation and, more specifically, what institutions think of each other. All the schools in a specific category, such as the national university category, are asked to rate all of their peers on a one-to-five scale. For example, administrators at UCLA rate their peers, including such different institutions as Dartmouth, Ball State, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, San Diego State and Georgetown. Of course, this practice is ludicrous.
Bottom Line
At the very least, you should understand that the U.S. News college rankings are deeply flawed. You shouldn't make any decisions on what school to visit or attend based on what these faulty numbers appear to be telling you.
This post was edited on 8/1/14 at 10:01 am
Posted on 8/1/14 at 10:01 am to allin2010
No matter what list of rankings UF is near the top.
Posted on 8/1/14 at 10:06 am to BAMAisDIESEL09
USNWR is the only academic ranking service that I've seen Alabama high at all. Most other SEC schools fall [respectively] along the same curve
Posted on 8/1/14 at 10:08 am to mboromaroon
All of this is bull shite. So. Yea. Carry on.
Posted on 8/1/14 at 10:09 am to GeorgeReymond
Makes you wonder what Alabama is being dinged for in the other 2 rankings, unless you actually believe UA is the +400th ranked school in the country.
Posted on 8/1/14 at 10:11 am to allin2010
Alabama is ranked way too low
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