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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Over night it’s become conspiracy theorists and unhinged super-aggro weirdos saying columbia is a diploma mill? Seriously? 
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Among the figures that go into these subscores, the most heavily weighted are graduation rates. U.S. News tells us that (a) 96% of Columbia undergraduates graduate in six years or less, and that (b) the same is true of 95% of undergraduates who held a Pell grant (a government subsidy for needy students) and (c) of 97% of those who did not. Fully 22.6% of the weight in the entire U.S. News ranking rests on these three figures alone. Clearly, U.S. News regards graduation rates as highly representative of the overall quality of a university.

[b]One might be tempted to infer that Columbia is structurally similar to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton and has succeeded in competing with them on their own terms. This is far from being true, however. Columbia is profoundly different from its rivals in that it enrolls an enormous number of transfer students, who are not included in the figures above.[/b]

Columbia reported to the government that in Fall 2020,[b] over 30% of its incoming undergraduates were transfer students. This is a larger proportion than at any other Tier I private university[/b] (see chart).33 Transfer students at Columbia are mostly enrolled in the School of General Studies, where more than 75% of all students arrive with some transfer credit, but the School of Engineering’s 3-2 Combined Plan may also contribute significant numbers of transfer students.
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[img]https://www.math.columbia.edu/~thaddeus/ranking/transferpercent.jpg[/img]

Link: 
 [list] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/16/columbia-whistleblower-us-news-rankings-michael-thaddeus [/list]
 [list] https://www.math.columbia.edu/~thaddeus/ranking/investigation.html [/list][/quote]

People also look down at Barnard which is an integral part of Columbia.
I can't understand why.  Just because it's a women's college?[/quote]

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