The U.S. News college rankings were released Tuesday, and guess what: The top is Harvard again. Also, Princeton is second. On a podium bearing a distinct Ivy League bias, Yale is number 3. National college rankings come from that: Since money is a major part of the list, those in academia tend to criticize it. However, the U.S. News Best Colleges 2011 offers a useful matrix that students and parents can use to help decide which school is best for them, even though some higher education pundits would disagree.
How the World Report works vs. the U.S. News
To rank colleges, the U.S. News report uses a variety of categories schools are put into. Best Colleges 2011 groups American colleges and universities by factors like the highest level of degrees conferred by discipline. You will find more than 1,400 schools in this while they’re divided into categories including National Liberal Arts Colleges, Regional Universities, Regional Colleges and National Universities. The schools in the Regional Universities and Regional Colleges categories are placed into four geographic regions: North, South, Midwest and West. Each school had data on 16 indicators of academic quality gathered. Colleges are ranked based on the score they get total.
Gm in the black yet again
The U.S. News and World Report college rankings are just one of many such compendiums of higher education. Princeton Review offers a comprehensive evaluation of U.S. schools, but the only thing about the Princeton Review list that gets any attention are the Princeton top party schools. The U.S. News Best Colleges 2011 is typically taken more seriously than that. But Lynn O’Shaughnessy at CBS MoneyWatch said the rankings are a joke. The U.S. News doesn’t evaluate at all what type of learning is being done in these schools. Instead U.S. News and World Report is simply conducting a high-stakes beauty contest, where 25 percent of each school’s score is based upon solely on its reputation.
It is most essential to focus on value
U.S. News college rankings have put either Harvard or Princeton within the number 1 spot for 10 years. Most individuals don’t care if they’re on top in college rankings reports David Gura of NPR. Enrollment has been capped at colleges with budget cuts. There are more people eager to apply for school. Getting accepted into college is difficult for many. U.S. News college rankings evaluate schools by academic reputation, graduation, freshman retention, faculty resources, alumni giving and financial resources. Value continues to be one of probably the most significant things considered by somebody about to fork out a lifetime of savings and more for a college education
Further reading
U.S. News and World Report
colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges
CBS Money Watch
moneywatch.bnet.com/saving-money/blog/college-solution/why-us-news-college-rankings-are-a-joke/703/
NPR
npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/08/17/129248940/what-do-best-college-rankings-tell-us?ft=1 and amp;f=103943429 and amp;sc=tw and amp;utm_source=twitterfeed and amp;utm_medium=twitter
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