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[quote=Anonymous]William and Mary is caught in no man's land in USNWR rankings.  It is more or less somewhere between a National University and a National Liberal Arts College, but it is ranked with National Universities due to its Carnegie Classification.  It is kind of like if a compact car was ranked with large SUVs in Consumer Reports using large SUV criteria.

There are now 21 public national universities ranked higher in USNWR and the differences are enormous.  Compared to those 21 schools, W&M   is far, far smaller.  The 21 schools average about 32,000 undergraduates vs. 6,700 at W&M, and the next smallest (UVA) is still 2.7X larger.  USNWR now has ranking metrics based on research (publications, citations, etc.) and W&M certainly ranks well behind all these schools in research expenditures (W&M does not have a medical school or an engineering school).  Research also impacts financial resources, which are another USNWR metric.

On the flip side, W&M ranks ahead of all 21 of these schools in USNWR's undergraduate teaching rating, it has the best student to teaching faculty ratio.  (How is this possible if W&M really has fewer resources related to education?) and it has the highest percentage of students living on campus.  It is just a very different type of school.

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