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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where is UVA?[/quote]
Where are Northeastern and Bucknell?[/quote]
Northeastern is #220, just below Rice at #219. (There's a Northeastern University in China at #445.) I didn't see Bucknell -- though I stopped scrolling at #638.

For context, Dartmouth is tied for #326 with the University of Lagos.[/quote]

Really Northeastern (220), Rice (219) and UVA (137)! Go Cavaliers!!!!! Wahoo!!![/quote]

I don’t trust the Northeastern ranking…school probably fudged its submitted stats. [/quote]

You've got it completely backward.  Northeastern is one of the most trustworthy schools.
They have been straightforward, open, and transparent, and never accused of cheating like many many other schools.
You should be suspicious of schools like Emory, UCBerkeley, Columbia, etc.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/caught-cheating-colleges-falsify-admissions-data-higher-rankings-flna1c8964083

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/uc-berkeley-booted-from-u-s-news-best-college-list-misreporting/

https://www.wtvr.com/2012/08/19/emory-university-admits-to-12-years-of-falsifying-test-scores

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/16/columbia-whistleblower-us-news-rankings-michael-thaddeus

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It's really weird there have been many schools flat out cheated and got caught.
These people never mention that, but pick on Northeastern every single time.

Maybe it's just one or two hardcore trolls having a really hard feeling about the school for some reason??[/quote]

More because we can count on riling the Northeastern booster every time.  It’s like they have DCUM alerts sent to them.

Even though Northeastern to this day employs all kinds of tricks to juice their rankings.[/quote]

Yes, tactics such as having one of the best retention rates, great graduation rate, high quality student body, amazing outcomes, etc. etc.

Your kid at one of the cheater schools or something?[/quote]

It has a good retention rate. The other three things are middling for a “top” university.[/quote]

Depends on what you mean by "top", however

Outcome based on median earning is equal or better compared to many T25ish schools.
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?167358-Northeastern-University

#25 including LACs. It's just before the Pandemic when scores were mandatory
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-colleges-in-america-2016-10#25-northeastern-university-average-sat-1435-26

Most recent graduation rate is top 30 among national universities
https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/GraduationRate6Year

It's very under-ranked by the actually important relatively objective metrics.[/quote]
dp.. At the top, I don't think graduation rates are that meaningful.  What's more meaningful is whether the student was able to secure a good paying job.  Look at Zuckerburg, for example. Officially, he did not graduate, but no one can say he is not successful. [/quote]

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