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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s about Pell grants. How important are Pell grants to you in terms of ranking a college or university?

Next year all these type of things are going away. So I guess the ranking will radically change again.[/quote]

Except for a few schools, the bigger impact was the stuff that got dropped, some of which made sense (alumni giving) and some of which didn’t (faculty with terminal degrees).[/quote]

If the College has less faculty with terminal degrees than my kids’ high school, he is not going there….How in the world this is not a part of the rankings is absurd….
And Class size….another ridiculous one….100 vs 12 in a class….give me a break[/quote]

Exactly!!! Class size and who teaches the courses matters and it should matter in the rankings.  
And graduation rates matter as well, but I'm smart enough to read the data and understand when there are Real issues and what's expected.  If there is an engineering school, odds are those kids might take more than 4 years---it's hard and many need an extra semester or two to get thru as it's often 18-19 credits versus 15 each semester.  Also, many engineering majors do a coop program (they are the original majors that have done it for decades).  So yeah, it's not unusual for there to be a 40-50% 4 year graduation rate, but as long as the 5 or 6 year year hits 85%+ That is awesome.  
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