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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a classification. This is where you find it:

[url]https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/[/url][/quote]

I think we just need to keep interjecting the correct answer periodically until people get that it has [b]nothing to do with geography or the word regional[/b].[/quote]

Except it does. From USNWR ranking definitions:

"The 604 total Regional Universities (239 public, 350 private and 15 for-profit) are [b]ranked within four geographic areas: North, South, Midwest and West[/b]."

Regional universities are ranked within four geographic regions.[/quote]

They are classified as regional per Carnegie and then USNWR ranks them within regions. The latter provides bragging rights for programs, schools, and colleges/universities, and probably helps sell to parents and students. But the designation of regional comes from Carnegie. [b]Wikipedia will tell you all this.[/b]

- Professor with a PhD from what used to be called a Research 1 university

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Classification_of_Institutions_of_Higher_Education

I don't see anything about regional in this wiki article. It doesn't even define what a national university is.[/quote]

Ok. Perhaps you could look up “Carnegie classification” :) The classifications have changed over the the years, but academics still talk about “Research 1” as the gold standard in terms of jobs. Parents may not understand what that means in terms of teaching, but many parents may be more interested in the prestige value of an institution than in the teaching quality of an institution. [/quote]

Hey, someone said go find it on wiki, and I'm just pointing out that it's not on wiki.

Nor can I find the definition of regional or national university on the Carnegie site.

So perhaps you could point me to exactly where Carnegie defines them because I only see the definitions on USNWR.[/quote]

Carnegie doesn't use the National or Regional terms. Those are USNWR's designations, based off their grouping of Carnegie's doctoral/masters/baccalaureate classifications.[/quote]

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