Don’t Believe College Rankings
US News & World Report produces the most widely-read college rankings, but Forbes, The Princeton Review, and several other publications have produced their own rankings. The problem is that every single one of these rankings is just absolutely, completely, and totally full of crap.
These rankings have always been suspect yet are one of the top used criteria when students are choosing colleges that may well guide how the rest of their life turns out to be; especially for graduate school. Always talk directly to alumni, students and professors. See if the university and your department does or supports research that you are interested in. And yes, offers funding to do what you love to do.
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“Don’t Believe College Rankings” [Short URL: http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=3618] was published Friday, August 20th, 2010 at 1:00 pm by Patrix, filed under 9rules, Asides, Education, and tagged as ranking, university. Both comments and linkbacks are closed.
