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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Drexel peers would be schools like RIT and NJIT, maybe WPI.

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RIT and NJIT are peers.

WPI is definately a step above them.

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I thought so, even WPI is very questionable. 
Delexel people are very overconfident.

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What is questionable about WPI?  Curious to know
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WPI is 82 and climbing, while Northeastern is 58 and dropping.   Give it a couple years for them to cross in rankings. [/quote]

It's going to happen faster than you think.   WPI earnings are 100k, while Northeastern is 87k.  And WPI more than triples Northeastern on endowment per student  (easy to accomplish as Northeastern has a tiny endowment).[/quote]

Wow. I just looked up Northeastern endowment and PP is right. It has 30,000 students,  but with an endowment of only 1.5 billion.  That means it generates enough to cover about 2500 per student annually.   Truly nothing. [/quote]

Agreed that endowment is an important factor but it's a part of the equation just like location is an important factor but it's one of them.
Otherwise ND would be a top 5 school.

Including LACs, there are fewer than 60 private schools that have larger endowment than Northeastern.
One thing to note is that for many other schools, hospital and medical facilities are counted toward their endowment which have nothing to do with education quality other than for the medical school students. For example VCU has big endowment thanks to that and it's medical school is good, but it's a mediocre school overall.[/quote]

#361 is Northeastern's ranking for endowment per student,  just ahead of Canisius College.    Northeastern had a good run of playing and milking the USNWR rankings game. But now back to reality.   It mostly lives a hand to mouth existence.[/quote]

Numbers are numbers, but where and how it's spent effectively is more important. 
Again, all those medical endowments have nothing to do with undergraduate education.

Where and how it's spent comes down to student service and satisfaction which is the ultimate goal.
It's directly reflected in the retention rate.

Northeastern is #3 after MIT and UChicago. This is truly amazing.
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/freshmen-least-most-likely-return
How do you game this? Threaten students to stay? :wink:

For Drexel, more than 1 out of 10 students choose to not come back. Why? and you just blindly wishfully think that it'll catch up somehow.

These are the important questions to ask.

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