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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe, just maybe, there is a difference between some college ranked 150 and one ranked 50, but there is no significant difference between these two.[/quote]

I am still blown away that William & Mary is not ranked higher.  [/quote]

When you look at the new configuration of ranking factors it explains a lot. The school didn’t drop in quality. Unless you value the number of Pell grant attendees above all else…[/quote]

USNWRS now doesn't factor many of W&M's strong points.  In the overall ranking, it does not include its own ranking of undergraduate teaching teaching quality, where W&M ranks 6th.  It also doesn't factor, like it used to, student to faculty ratios and alumni giving rate.  W&M ranked tops among publics in both of those categories.

For resources, USNWR uses data from the Federal IPEDS database.  This data is OK for looking at overall resources a university has (per student), but not for discerning how much of those resources are actually committed to undergraduate programs (vs. research and graduate).  W&M does not have a medical school or engineering school, which often factor in schools with higher overall resources.  Although W&M ranks low for resources, but there appears to be a disconnect with measures of undergraduate experience, where, as mentioned, W&M ranks high for teaching quality, student faculty ration, alumni giving rates, etc.  The USNWR rankings are more or less stacked against W&M (and similar schools) at present.[/quote]

This is a helpful summary. I feel like I should bookmark this response and just copy and paste every time someone cites the USNWR ranking of W&M as gospel. [/quote]

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