WSJ/Times Higher Education: College Rankings for 2021
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Anonymous
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71 GA Tech 71 W&L 73 W&M 74 UCSB 74 Lafayette 76 F&M 77 Bucknell 77 Macalester 77 UMD 80 UC Irvine 80 Pitzer 82 Mich State 83 Santa Clara 83 Texas A&M 83 Naval Academy 86 Northeastern 86 Reed 88 SMU 89 Illinois-Chicago 89 Loyola Marymount 91 Minnesota 92 Trinity (CT) 93 Dickinson 94 Kenyon 94 RPI 96 Pacific 97 Pitt 98 Skidmore 98 Whitman 100 Occidental 100 Ohio St |
Anonymous
I was the poster who mentioned GT as a notable omission. Funny that it was the next school on the list. |
Anonymous
| The WSJ rankings also let you reweight the factors you care more about. So for example I put 70% on outcomes and 10% on resources, engagement, and environment. If you do this, Cornell jumps to 7, Columbia falls a few places, Virginia jumps up to the 30s and Maryland jumps to the 40s. |
Anonymous
| To me this is much more valuable than US News rankings. |
Anonymous
| I think they are good in combination. |
Anonymous
And UMD is nowhere to be found. |
Anonymous
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none of these is valuable, some programs at universities and colleges in 50-100 are top 10-20, e.g., umd cs all these rankings are just to justify the prices at these 'top' universities/colleges never heard of 1/3 of these institutions in the top 50, never read any scientific paper coming from those; do the professors there do research? |
Anonymous
Look at 77 |
Anonymous
what's your point? |
Anonymous
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I speak on good authority:
nobody chooses Northwestern over Ivies nobody chooses Brown over Princeton nobody chooses Chicago over Columbia and Georgetown is 10 spots too low |
Anonymous
Meh, Harvey Mudd didn’t even make the cut so whoever came up with this list took things personally. |
Anonymous
What? How did they manage to overlook Harvey Mudd? It's a top engineering school in the country. They ranked the other Claremont Colleges. Pomona College is #24. Claremont McKenna is #35. Scripps College is #66. Pitzer College is #80. That's one hell of a miss. Somewhat undermines these rankings. |
Anonymous
They didn’t miss. It was intentional, meaning somethings wrong with the methodology. Also, 82 Mich State 83 Santa Clara 83 Texas A&M 83 Naval Academy Who would place Mich State, Santa Claus, and Texas A &M above the US Naval Academy? |
Anonymous
| Regarding Harvey Mudd, for whatever reason, I believe they exclude schools with fewer than 1,000 students. That would include Cooper Union, St Johns (Md) |
Anonymous
| I think some people are looking at this all wrong. Rankings are based on OUTCOMES. Not prestige, acceptance rate or test scores |