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re: Ranking the Power 4 Schools for Academics

Posted on 9/5/25 at 10:52 am to
Posted by West Seattle Dude
West Sesttle
Member since Aug 2023
450 posts
Posted on 9/5/25 at 10:52 am to
USC, L.A. version, has made huge gains in their academic rankings over the years. SC is no longer a haven for rich kids with mediocre grades.
Posted by Rabern57
Alabama
Member since Jan 2010
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Posted on 9/5/25 at 10:53 am to
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Impressive, Vandy. How stupid can Bama be? Are they even trying?
They have to make the football players' grades seem real.
Posted by Gatorbait2008
Member since Aug 2015
26750 posts
Posted on 9/5/25 at 10:56 am to
UNC..basketball is top tier

Vtech..marketplace

Makes sense
Posted by GatorNation4Lyfe
Houston
Member since Oct 2008
7627 posts
Posted on 9/5/25 at 12:05 pm to
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Stanford is too low
I once interviewed a Stanford undergrad, Harvard law candidate. After that interview, I wanted my money back from UF, and I was on schollie.
Posted by TailbackU
ATL
Member since Oct 2005
12889 posts
Posted on 9/5/25 at 12:09 pm to
This thread is off-season as frick
Posted by GTnerd
ATL Jawja baby
Member since Sep 2023
662 posts
Posted on 9/5/25 at 3:09 pm to
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Ga Tech is in a weird spot. They receive like 1.2 B in research funding form the feds. So they could careless about SEC/B10 payouts. They will limp along in whatever the ACC ends up being and never care about football, unless their funding is cut.


You are/were right, supposedly when the BIG took Maryland, they also offered Tech and our idiotic and shortsighted AD and president at the time turned them down, but now we actually have a president who is very invested in athletics, so this isn’t currently true.
Posted by GTnerd
ATL Jawja baby
Member since Sep 2023
662 posts
Posted on 9/5/25 at 3:11 pm to
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This thread is off-season as frick


The slate of cfb games this weekend are almost worse than the offseason
Posted by CaliHorn
Los Angeles
Member since Apr 2025
658 posts
Posted on 9/5/25 at 3:21 pm to
Probably downstream of the selectivity of UC schools, and not just UCLA/Berkeley, either. Tight admissions throws off a lot of quality students.
Posted by Beau Fontenot
Member since Oct 2018
422 posts
Posted on 9/5/25 at 4:14 pm to
A bunch of bunk. Schools like Vanderbilt get those rankings for being super selective, for spending a lot of money on research and for having top faculty. The problem is for years 1-2, you probably won't get the best faculty. You are being taught by GA's and Assistant Professors. If you're a History major at a school like Yale, you might get a professor the caliber of Timothy Snyder in year 4. But you can read all the Snyder you want without paying the Yale price.

But they teach the same Organic chemistry at Tennessee, LSU and Michigan. You can get into a good medical or law school with a degree from an average SEC school and pay a lot less. What Vanderbilt does is give you some name recognition that makes it easier to get into Georgetown Law or Harvard Medical School.

Posted by ColoradoElkHerd
USA
Member since May 2014
4204 posts
Posted on 9/5/25 at 4:50 pm to
Throw USN out. It is a rag and laughed at by academics.

Now do the polls that really matter. Rank by starting salary, and rank by number of Fortune 500 CEO's.

I attended multiple schools on your list and your list is not accurate.
This post was edited on 9/5/25 at 6:35 pm
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