I don’t rankings really have any meaning. If I were going into a school and trying measure things....I’d be more concerned about where the 100 kids who graduated in the summer of 2016 are today, and if they are either working, or in some education continuation program. If you got 25-percent unemployed, or just delivering pizzas....then I’d consider that school a negative experience.
Here in NJ you’d probably find the best students have left the state after graduation, for job opportunities and economic freedom/to escape our enormous tax burdens (which result in high rents for those who wisely avowing buying homes here - they know they’re only renting them from the teachers’ unions). We have a serious brain drain, and colleges have begun offering scholarships to residents (even white males!) to get them to stay.
NY has sunk so low that they’ve incorporated indentured servitude into a “free tuition” program statewide; the catch is you have to remain in the state one year for each year of free tuition you receive, and the “servitude” comes into play because there is no way in Hell you can stay there without working - even if it is by working three pizza delivery jobs simultaneously.
This is total BS. Massachusettes #1 and Connecticut #3? And I suppose the authors support the Ivey League school myth also. This is societal indoctrination!