Previously, I pointed out the obvious: university rankings reflect the perceptions of what determines collegiate excellence, as decided by the rankers. One ranking organization might stress the positive perceived advantage to students of social mobility, the degree of economic diversity that there is between students. Others might emphasize job placement or the financial return on […]
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Colleges and universities are in the business of knowledge—creating and disseminating information, ideas, and facts. Some, such as community and small liberal arts colleges, almost exclusively disseminate ideas created by others, while larger universities aspire to be powerhouses in creating new knowledge. But virtually all of them work assiduously at preventing the general public from […]
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Shocking news: the new Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education college rankings say that Harvard is the best school in the United States. So does Forbes in its rankings, while US News ranks it second. Some eight schools (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, Penn, Duke and Cal Tech) are in the top 10 in all three […]
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National Universities (in order of rank or tie) Princeton University (NJ) Harvard University (MA) University of Chicago (IL) (tie) Yale University (CT) (tie) Columbia University (NY) (tie) Stanford University (CA) (tie) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Duke University (NC) (tie) University of Pennsylvania (tie) Johns Hopkins University (MD) National Liberal Arts Colleges Williams College (MA) Amherst College […]
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