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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Should USNWR rank the service academies like they do? They must very loosely fit into USNWR's definition of a liberal arts college based on their degree granting but it is a big stretch to compare the Naval Academy with Amherst or Swarthmore. I'm surprised the service academies award at least half of their degrees in the liberal arts fields of study. Otherwise they'd be in the USNWR Regional Colleges category, where schools focus on undergraduate education but grant fewer than half their degrees in liberal arts disciplines.

I glanced at WSJ and Forbes and it didn't look like they rank the military academies in their combined rankings.

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Is it fair to compare CalTech with Yale? Or Dartmouth with UCLA?

Schools are different. Most academy grads do their four years of service and that's it. Employers seem to like them and regard them as well educated as people that went to Amherst and Swarthmore. [/quote]

CalTech, Yale, Dartmouth and UCLA are all highly competitive academic schools as reflected by the intellectual caliber of their respective undergrad student cohorts. The service academies are outliers in this respect.[/quote]

CalTech, Yale, Dartmouth and UCLA are also all elite R1 universities, which essentially means they stress their research and PhD programs. 
Also, if you go to a service academy, you have to serve a minimum of 5 years. I'm not sure where you get your data on their grades doing their "four years and that's it."[/quote]

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