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Originally Posted by breathesgelatin
What exactly is Forbes' metric???
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I have NO idea! The list shocked me as well, but I don't know much about a lot of those schools (like the private ones)
Ok, this is what I found about their "methodology":
1. Listing of Alumni in the 2008 Who's Who in America (25%)
2. Student Evaluations of Professors from Ratemyprofessors.com (25%)
3. Four- Year Graduation Rates (16 2/3%)
4. Enrollment-adjusted numbers of students and faculty receiving nationally competitive awards (16 2/3%)
5. Average four year accumulated student debt of those borrowing money (16 2/3%)
And this is what they said about how they chose the colleges:
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We chose to rank 569 schools, covering a variety of institutional types and classifications. We began with the first three tiers of the national doctoral universities ranked by U.S. News and World Report (USNWR), a total of 195 schools. In addition, we selected 186 schools, the top three tiers from the USNWR liberal arts college rankings. To take care of regional universities and colleges, we selected the top 20 master's level universities ranked from each region, North, South, Midwest , and West, a total of 84 schools. We also selected the top 10 baccalaureate colleges from each region, amounting to 41 total. We further added the 50 institutions with highest enrollments that were not already included in the rankings.
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Originally Posted by lawgal
We already have a thread on the forbes list in the general chat forum for academics. http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ad.php?t=98776
Not sure if I linked it correctly. This disucssion of tiers academically probably ought to be in that forum rather than sorority recruitment. |
Well that's good, but I don't feel like transferring my discussion about
Texas to the GL forum, when we've been talking about it for a while now here.
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