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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you people only knew how the sausage is made.

If you only knew.

It’s hilarious to see DCUM suckling at this teat, year after year. US News rankings are worthless. I know from 20 years of insider experience.[/quote]

Princeton?  MIT? Harvard? Stanford? Yale?   Seems like a pretty solid list for starters.[/quote]

OK, but what do you actually know about the education at these schools [b]compared to others[/b]? Or are you expecting to see them there because of the reputation they have for being there?[/quote]

I wonder this too. Are the professors better? A shame that you can get the same education but companies still look at brand vs. smarts and other qualities when hiring.[/quote]

there are faculty factors such as faculty compensation  
Higher the compensation tends to be better faculty

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Not reliable at all.

a) Salary is way too dependent on the strength of the local economy.

b) Almost no one makes their decision where to teach based primarily on salary. Probably the number one factor is the perceived seriousness of the students' interest in learning, along with geographic location, who else is on the faculty, research facilities, etc. Salary does play some role for some professors, but not a big one.[/quote]

USNWR uses a cost of living adjustment for faculty salaries, fwiw.

On a side note… if you’ve ever wondered why grads from schools in certain regions tend to show different salary averages than from other regions, it’s partly due to there not usually being a similar adjustment for alumni salaries.  That would of course be far harder than for faculty, all of whom are local.  Grads tend to spread out.  But there’s usually some regional overweight in where they originate from and end up.  So colleges pulling disproportionately from the Midwest will have that much lower average salary compared to grads with similar majors from similarly ranked schools based in and pulling disproportionately from the NE or California.  This is probably one reason why USNWR has resisted using alumni salary measures thus far. 
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