Posted on 09/10/2013 7:07:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Princeton University and Williams College are the best schools in America, according to U.S. News & World Report's 2014 rankings.
U.S. News divides schools into two major national lists — universities and liberal arts colleges — based on the degrees and research opportunities they offer.
U.S. News made significant changes to their methodology this year, decreasing the importance of students' high school standings and increasing the amount of weight given to graduation rate performance.
According to U.S. News' website, incorporating graduation rate performance data for all schools "improves the Best Colleges ranking methodology as it's an important outcome measure that focuses on the difference between each school's predicted graduation rate ... and its actual graduation rate. The indicator gives credit to schools that have higher-than-expected graduation rates."
Earlier this summer, Forbes released a college ranking that placed California schools Stanford University and Pomona College at the number one and two spots nationally, while Princeton and Williams were numbers three and nine, respectively.
Princeton was tied with Harvard University for the top spot in last year's U.S. News rankings, while Williams held the number one ranking in liberal arts colleges from the 2013 list.
Here are the national universities that U.S. News rated in the top 10 for 2014:
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USN&WR was an impact in the 80s. It jumped the shark long ago....
.....as did Big Education in general....
USN&WR is severely biased towards old, established universities. It uses many factors completely irrelevant to the quality of education, but which newer schools, whether state schools such as George Mason U., or religious schools, such as Ave Maria U. simply can’t compete in.
After The School Of The Americas closed.
Also: it ranks universities principly on graduate school criteria. Many very high-ranking universities simply shovel all their undergraduates into enourmous lecture centers, taught by “teaching assistants” who don’t speak a word of English.
Anyone who doesn’t think Princeton is top notch ought to read the Mooch’s senior thesis. You don’t get degrees just anywhere for that sort of work.
I do remember that she wrote a thesis entitled “Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community.”
What I don’t know is this — What was she trying to drive at with the piece of work?
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