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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Alabama doesn’t play the USNWR game.  Their admission rates are high, and as a result retention low.  Scholarships are public and the same standards for everyone.  Professor to student ratio is less favorable because they let their professors focus on research and teach fewer classes than higher ranked schools (e.g., Yale requires profs teach 4 classes a semester, Alabama requires 1).  Professors can avoid teaching lower level classes.  The prestige of the faculty at Alabama way outweighs the general student body.  They pay professors very well and research funding is high.  Their research is excellent and their grad programs ranked high -  med and increasingly law.  It is undeniable the opportunities for motivated and academic kids at the school.  Upper level classes are fantastic and rigorous and small. Med, grad and job placement is notably high among the program kids. For people focused on “rankings” or social prestige, probably not a good fit. [/quote]

So Bama is becoming an institution that prioritizes research over undergraduate instruction?  Cal and UCLA are described this way and the conclusion is nearly always negative, better for grads than undergrads.[/quote]

Yet UCLA and Cal are the top ranked public schools in the country by USNWR.

I honestly don't understand how Alabama "doesn't play the game".  It's admission rates are actually lower than say Michigan State which is ranked #64.  They are paying a ton to bring in all these kids OOS that in theory make their student stats look much better than you would expect.
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