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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I compared the US News profiles of Wake Forest and Michigan. The sole reason Wake Forest is ranked higher is because it has a lower student/faculty ratio (10:1 vs 15:1) and only 1% of its classes are over 50 students, whereas at Michigan that number is 17%.

Otherwise, the US News indicators are identical.

So if the US News ranking of the undergrad programs are almost identical and Michigan is ranked better on the global stage (Times Higher Education ranking) and has better grad departments, then Michigan comes out on top when you consider the universities as a whole. [/quote]

well you're wrong about that because the USNWR rankings are of national "universities," not just their undergraduate programs.  Indeed UVA is only ranked as high as it is because of its business and Law School.[/quote]

They call them university rankings because they are rankings of research universities, but the indicators they use are for the undergrad programs. You should probably actually read their methodology before making specious claims. [/quote]

Also, if these were overall university rankings, why would they not include the USNWR rankings of grad departments as part of the computation? Answer: because they are separate sets of rankings. [/quote]

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