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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Florida is a curious case of having an overall US News ranking that is higher than the rankings of almost all of its majors. Sure, the two are determined using completely different formulas, but one would think that a school's overall ranking is more or less sandwiched between its highest and lowest major rankings. Not the case with UF, as very few of its majors is top 30 and almost none is top 20. And yet its overall ranking is 30.[/quote]

Florida is a beneficiary of the US News current bias towards large public schools.  It does a good job of providing a cheap education to lots of kids, [b]but not a great education[/b].[/quote]

How are you arriving at that conclusion? What are the metrics you use? Graduates have jobs? They go to grad school? How exactly can you tell whether or not they got a "great education"?

For a lot of people, it means "I think this school is prestigious". But you can definitely get a great education at a school that isn't prestigious.[/quote]

Reliance on online education, very liberal acceptance of AP and community college credits, and high student faculty ratio (16:1).  Florida doesn’t even guarantee housing for freshman so there’s no real sense of community.[/quote]

"very liberal acceptance of AP and community college credits" does not indicate the school does not provide a good education. Those are about what happens before you get there, not what they do for you after you get there.

As for the student to faculty ratio, it's comparable to or better than the ratio at public universities that are widely regarded as better than Florida.
UCLA 19
Berkeley 18
UVA 14
Michigan 15
San Diego 19

That really just leaves the online classes. I'm not a big fan of them myself but for "big lecture hall" type classes it may not make a lot of difference.[/quote]

Very liberal acceptance of classes from lower institutions means the university doesn’t care about the quality of the education, just checking off boxes.  Same is reflected by reliance on online classes.   [/quote]

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