The reality is that these lower UC schools are getting excellent students so maybe they really belong in T30. |
Whoa! |
I believe there are a lot of very smart kids in CA. And a lot of UMC parents in things like tech who already live in a high COL area and rare priced out of privates. And the UC publics benefit from the talent. Much as much of the DMV wants UVA or UMD or WM or VT or whatever because a $350,000 to $400,000 price tag on prices is unmanageable. |
They aren’t expensive at all for in state students. Did you see the tuitions listed? $6,000 yearly in Florida, 13,000 in a lot of the state schools. I was surprised the state schools pretty much dominated the list. |
No we don't. |
| I don't understand why peer assessment is a factor and why it's weighted so heavily (20%!). It's the most subjective variable. |
I wouldn't call it fraudulent. All that really matters is Teaching Quality, First Year Experience, Student-Teacher Ratio, and ROI. The rest of it is just BS to appease certain special interests. |
I believe they have T30 caliber students. The prestige isn’t T30. But that’s a lagging indicator. It will be in 10 years. |
And they educate them like cattle, and with the exception of UCLA, provide no housing. |
Social mobility dragging them down. That metric is a joke. |
yeah, their peers will look at them as we look at Cal grads. prestigious in retrospect |
I could be wrong but I believe USNWR includes “value” in its criteria. With USC and other SLACs breaching $92k a year, I think it it time to reward the publics for doing the fine job that they are doing at a “reasonable” (depending upon your view) cost. (and for the record I went private and Ivy for undergrad and law school) My SLAC is not worth $86k a year. No university is worth $90k+ |
Wait. UCLA has had serious housing issues. Google it |
Those aren’t the kids driving the rankings improvement , it’s the opposite, percent of pell grant recipients. |
They did, but they built more. |