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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Campus experience” seems really subjective.  “Campus safety” is going to ding otherwise great schools like UChicago, Penn and Columbia. Is “Career outcomes” basically how many grads are making the big bucks in investment banking?

These are not not the measures my kids looked for in a school.

Schools in plush suburban neighborhoods are going to come out much better, for reasons having little to do with, for example, whether the school is a great research institution or whether TAs teach all the intro courses or whether the school has multiple strong departments.[/quote]

These are measures that should be included in a college ranking. They should not be considered just by themselves but it makes sense to think of them in conjunction with other metrics that the ranking includes (teaching, research prowess are included).

Penn, Columbia, Yale and JHU got high positions so campus safety can't count for too much. Chicago probably gets hit by outcomes and campus culture. Actually if you notice no other ranking places UChicago very high anyway. (WSJ/THE, College Factual, Forbes etc). it is just USNews because UChicago has deliberately been gaming the system to perform high on the USnews metrics.

Btw kids do not just make big bucks in investment banking. Some top schools are better at preparing students for the job market.

This ranking makes way more sense than most others out there, seems they have put in the effort. [/quote]

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