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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a consolation prize for universities that aren't very good. They get to be on a "list" even if it's not the "real" list. You're not a top national university or a top LAC but you [i]are [/i]a top regional university. Yay![/quote]

No, it's not that. There are excellent schools on regional lists.[/quote]

Seems like the main difference is the Carnegie classification they get based on the volume of research activities of faculty, so[b] it really isn't about the quality of undergraduate teaching at all[/b].[/quote]

https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-moved-up-and-down-in-the-new-carnegie-classifications

[quote]The final release of the classifications revealed that the trio of universities that were to be bumped to R2 instead remained among Research 1 institutions. In addition, six more universities joined the R1 group, which now numbers 146: the Colorado School of Mines, Ohio University, the University of Alabama at Huntsville, the University of Maine, the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, and the University of Montana.

The doctoral classification also includes “Doctoral/Professional” institutions, a group that had added 68 colleges when the revisions were finalized. Most of them were formerly classified as master’s institutions. In 2018 there were 407 doctoral institutions of all types, compared with 469 in the update finalized in February.

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Explore the table below to see the colleges that moved into — or out of — the three categories of doctoral institutions:[/quote][/quote]

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