Forbes 2025 ranking is out

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Anonymous wrote:UF ahead of Michigan, UNC, and UVA. Go Gators!

University of Florida at 26! Go Gators!

And #4 for top public!

Fourth among public's is a bit suspect. It is legitimately the second best school in the SEC. Zero chance it reaches #1 there.

Texas is better than Florida in almost every area of study.

True. And I hate Texas.

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Anonymous wrote:Forbes punishing the top catholic colleges

Georgetown, ND, BC - ouch
These schools are not ranked this poorly in any other list

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University of Florida!!!! Go Gators!!!

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This seems like a list without payoffs and manipulation.

Ummm really?
Duke at 20 way too low
UC San Diego at 21 way too high
Cal Tech at 22 way too low
Georgetown and Emory at 32 and 33 also too low.
BYU at 36 too High
Pomona at 37 too low
It's a strange list after the top 10.

Please. If Dook didn't have basketball, it would basically be Davidson.

I'm stealing this. So damn true.

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Anonymous wrote:UF ahead of Michigan, UNC, and UVA. Go Gators!

Yeah!

Chomp, chomp!

Hilarious. My kids are all off to college and are doing well (so far) so I can laugh at this insanity. You want your kids to go to the best schools with less than 10-15 percent acceptance rates, with name recognition (not necessarily Ivy, esp now!), and good job outcomes in your kids’ chosen fields. Stick to the coasts, with a few exceptions, and avoid anywhere not near a city (and job pipelines).

Oh, and somewhere FUN. Where you don’t have to walk through protests to get to class. University of Chicago and Princeton, we’re all looking at you. There is a reason that smart kids are turning down Cornell for Clemson and the University of Georgia.

You'll probably get sniped by the woke, lib Karens but this is so incredibly true with my DD's class (ACHS '24). There has been a huge pushback from what this generation now calls the 'cringe'.

Turns out, being mainstream is the norm.

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Anonymous wrote:UF ahead of Michigan, UNC, and UVA. Go Gators!

University of Florida at 26! Go Gators!

And #4 for top public!

Fourth among public's is a bit suspect. It is legitimately the second best school in the SEC. Zero chance it reaches #1 there.

The best school in the SEC is private, so it’s kind of apples to oranges.

I went to the best school in the SEC. It isn't apples to oranges. It's apples to turds.

Get over yourself. I worked in Nashville for a decade. Vandy grads aren't all they're cracked up to be. Most were on par with UTK alums. FWIW, the brightest and most intellectually curious people I met in Tennessee went to schools like Sewanee and Rhodes.

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I went to a well known DC private in the late 90s and all the Vanderbilt kids were rich, fratty, sports sluts. Not intellects at all. Think Pharma sales.

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Anonymous wrote:UF ahead of Michigan, UNC, and UVA. Go Gators!

University of Florida at 26! Go Gators!

And #4 for top public!

False. USNWR has UF down at 6 or 7 for public universities. Way below Michigan,UNC and UVA. USNWR is the gold standard for rankings. No one in college admissions care about trash that "College Simply" or other "publications" put out to attract attention and make money

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Anonymous wrote:UF ahead of Michigan, UNC, and UVA. Go Gators!

University of Florida at 26! Go Gators!

And #4 for top public!

False. USNWR has UF down at 6 or 7 for public universities. Way below Michigan,UNC and UVA. USNWR is the gold standard for rankings. No one in college admissions care about trash that "College Simply" or other "publications" put out to attract attention and make money

+1. USNWR is the first and the best ranking service. It made money so everyone else piled on. But USNWR has breakdowns that no one else offers because it devotes the resources to research. There's less comparison of apples to oranges. public universities are compared to public. Universities and slacs are separate. Even strengths of comparative physiology departments are compared and evaluated. No other ranking service does that.

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Anonymous wrote:UF ahead of Michigan, UNC, and UVA. Go Gators!

University of Florida at 26! Go Gators!

And #4 for top public!

False. USNWR has UF down at 6 or 7 for public universities. Way below Michigan,UNC and UVA. USNWR is the gold standard for rankings. No one in college admissions care about trash that "College Simply" or other "publications" put out to attract attention and make money

+1. USNWR is the first and the best ranking service. It made money so everyone else piled on. But USNWR has breakdowns that no one else offers because it devotes the resources to research. There's less comparison of apples to oranges. public universities are compared to public. Universities and slacs are separate. Even strengths of comparative physiology departments are compared and evaluated. No other ranking service does that.

Geez. You are making USNWR sound like a benevolent charity that found a cure for cancer.

It is a defunct news magazine that found one trick to keep it afloat and has probably cost consumers many billions in the cost of the pursuit of higher rankings.

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Forbes has smarter management than USNWR. It’s actually still a magazine

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Nevertheless, online classes (UF undergraduate business school) and large, crowded lecture halls for intro courses do dilute the educational experience.

DC's best friend is a freshman and this is what she's reporting. Overcrowded in every space and two online courses (pre-med/health related major).

Agree, DC's friend is a freshman at UF this year and has 3/5 online courses. It seems to be the norm there.

I've heard some overcrowding in the beginning, but it only lasts for the first couple weeks. Afterwards, many kids prefer taking the classes online (for personal convenience) so the actual classrooms become significantly less crowded. Despite some overcrowding issues and online classes, every kid that I know that goes there loves the school. This past year's yield was fairly substantial. Typically each entering class is around 6500, but his past (class of 28) year it had 7300. I'm not sure why so many kids chose UF this past year compared to previous years. However, due to the over enrollment, UF admissions will most likely be even more competitive this coming year (where they will need to admit less kids).

I would have a difficult time paying full tuition for what is essentially an online degree because my teenager didn't want to inconvenience themselves with showing up to in-person lectures.

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Nevertheless, online classes (UF undergraduate business school) and large, crowded lecture halls for intro courses do dilute the educational experience.

DC's best friend is a freshman and this is what she's reporting. Overcrowded in every space and two online courses (pre-med/health related major).

Agree, DC's friend is a freshman at UF this year and has 3/5 online courses. It seems to be the norm there.

I've heard some overcrowding in the beginning, but it only lasts for the first couple weeks. Afterwards, many kids prefer taking the classes online (for personal convenience) so the actual classrooms become significantly less crowded. Despite some overcrowding issues and online classes, every kid that I know that goes there loves the school. This past year's yield was fairly substantial. Typically each entering class is around 6500, but his past (class of 28) year it had 7300. I'm not sure why so many kids chose UF this past year compared to previous years. However, due to the over enrollment, UF admissions will most likely be even more competitive this coming year (where they will need to admit less kids).

I would have a difficult time paying full tuition for what is essentially an online degree because my teenager didn't want to inconvenience themselves with showing up to in-person lectures.

The out of state cost at UF is still comparable to in state at UVA.

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This is the only ranking I trust. Lots of cognitive dissonance going on here.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the only ranking I trust. Lots of cognitive dissonance going on here.

I only trust my own ranking.
These rankings are all references.

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Anonymous wrote:UF ahead of Michigan, UNC, and UVA. Go Gators!

University of Florida at 26! Go Gators!

And #4 for top public!

Fourth among public's is a bit suspect. It is legitimately the second best school in the SEC. Zero chance it reaches #1 there.

The best school in the SEC is private, so it’s kind of apples to oranges.

I went to the best school in the SEC. It isn't apples to oranges. It's apples to turds.

Get over yourself. I worked in Nashville for a decade. Vandy grads aren't all they're cracked up to be. Most were on par with UTK alums. FWIW, the brightest and most intellectually curious people I met in Tennessee went to schools like Sewanee and Rhodes.

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I went to a well known DC private in the late 90s and all the Vanderbilt kids were rich, fratty, sports sluts. Not intellects at all. Think Pharma sales.

Your anecdoate about your experience with students from 25 YEARS AGO is not really all that relevant.