WSJ 2022 College Ranking
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Anonymous
| USC is too high. |
Anonymous
How do they measure that? I thought Brown grads have the lowest ROI of the Ivy League. Obviously that is just one way of looking at it, and it could have as much to do with majors chosen by students as anything else. https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/collegeroi/ |
Anonymous
| UVA #55 |
Anonymous
Sounds about right! |
Anonymous
How much does rank really matter after a certain point? Someone was posting lists of students at law schools earlier, I assume for the purpose of saying that these law schools are taking kids from the most prestigious universities they can get. That misses the point. They generally take kids with the highest stats, all other things being equal. Law school rankings are dependent on stats, and the schools know it. They aren't going to take a Yale kid with low LSAT and GPA over an Ohio State kid with a stellar LSAT and GPA. Of course, Yale kids tend to get high LSATs and GPAs because they were smart enough to be accepted to Yale, but they would have done the same if they had gone somewhere else. |
Anonymous
There’s another kind of pothead? |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
| Just jealousy about Brown—smart kids going on to great things and are having fun. |
Anonymous
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It's all made up. For example 20% of a school's score is from something called "student engagement," which is based a survey given to college students. But many schools didn't have enough students surveyed so their ranking on this metric is given as >400. In the top 10, both Cal Tech and Princeton fall into this category -- so where did 20% of their total come from? They say that when data is missing, "where possible we will impute missing values." https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/wall-street-journal-times-higher-education-college-rankings-2022
So take it with a grain of salt, because that's what it's worth. |
Anonymous
| Ha .... I remember sitting at a table at my friends house and she and her ds were discussing his college options. He was being recruited by Dartmouth for a sport and he asked her if that's the school "so and so's" mother graduated from? She said yes, he said no way in hell he was attending a school that turned out "bat shit" crazy B's like her. I remember my friend yelling him for his language but I found this hilarious. |
Anonymous
| At the end of the day it's nice to see a ranking have different methodology but similar results, it solidifies which schools are really the top schools. |
Anonymous
| It’s funny that this whole discussion is based on the top 20. Why not a top 25 like everyone uses at USNWR? Oh I know, that way publics are eliminated in the elite discussion. |
Anonymous
Interesting how T20 on USNWR is basically the same as WSJ. |
Anonymous
Brown should be ranked more like #13 |
Anonymous
All rankings are subjective, even if they use some objective inputs. |