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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think Notre Dame will continue to fall over the next decade. Its strict catholic teachings and practice of single sex dorms with curfews is behind the times and will soon be an unappealing aspect to a school in the middle of nowhere. [/quote]

LOL
It has not been falling.  In fact, it's the opposite.
The biggest factor in this business is $$$ as in any other business.

ND is #7 in Endowment ranking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_the_United_States_by_endowment

Only Harvard, MIT, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, and UPenn are better than ND.
You can see the huge correlation between the endowment ranking and USN&WR college ranking.
It'll only go up.  People are clueless LOL

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Endowment has nothing to do with rankings or desirability [/quote]

I don't know.  I just looked at the USNWR ranking factors and 10% is based on "financial resources per student" and 3% on "average alumni giving rate."  Endowments provide a cushion for universities that enable them to use their cash more freely to benefit the student experience.  If a university has a very small endowment, they are, unfortunately, using cash to attend to things for which endowments might have been beneficial.  It could be why ND is consistently ranked higher than Georgetown year after year.  I am not saying it is a huge impact, but there is definitely something there.

There is actually a paper out there that specifically says large endowments impact rankings on USNWR. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w30404/w30404.pdf

The paper also indicates that endowments are not benefiting admissions of underserved populations, which is a separate issue altogether.  But the bottom line is that endowments do impact rankings.

From the paper:

[img]https://i.imgur.com/masXj0d.png[/img][/quote]

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