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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this might be a good thing. If a college is outside the t75 I question why it exists/why people attend. Even Penn State level places are sort of questionable... Bottom line is no one will be missing much.[/quote]

Penn State does a billion dollars a year in research.  It is not questionable that it will exist and people will attend.  Penn State makes considerable more contributions to academia than Tulane.  No slight on Tulane intended, but they just aren’t comparable.[/quote]
No connection to Tulane, no connection to Penn State.

Tulane has higher standards than Penn State in terms of academics/intelligence. Tulane's reputation as a selective university is far superior to Penn State's. It's the difference between Rutgers and Wake Forest. If you want a massive state school that doesn't have strict standards, go to Rutgers. If you want a smaller more selective university, go to Wake.[/quote]

Penn State is a global university and ranks in the top 100 in both the QS and THE rankings.  Tulane is in to 600s for QS and 400s for THE.   Penn State has a better reputation globally.  [/quote]
The same rankings that rank Dartmouth, and Vanderbilt below Arizona State? No one gives a flying f--- about the global rankings. [/quote]
The global rankings are about research, something Dartmouth is trash at and depriving its students from taking advantage of.[/quote]

Undergraduate research is meaningless. [/quote]
That’s a hilariously dumb statement.[/quote]

It’s spot on at an R1. Undergraduates do not do meaningful research.[/quote]

PP thinks half the R1 research universities shouldn’t exist.[/quote]
Not the PP.
I also think half (probably more than half) of R1 universities shouldn't exist. Same with R2 and below.[/quote]

Why? There aren't that many R1 universities. [/quote]
ASU, Baylor, Auburn, Clemson, Colorado State, Drexel, Florida International, George Mason, Georgia State, IU Bloomington, Iowa State, Kansas State, Kent State, LSU, MSU, Mississippi State, Montana State, NJ Institute of Tech, North Dakota State, Ohio University, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Old Dominion, Syracuse, Temple, Texas Tech, Buffalo, Albany, Alabama, U of Arizona, U of Arkansas, UC Riverside, U of Central Florida, U of Cincinnati, Colorado Denver, U of Denver, Illinois Chicago, U of Kansas, U of Kentucky, U of Louisiana, U of Louisville, UMBC, Memphis, U of Mississippi, U of Missouri, U of Montana, U of Nebraska, Nevada Las Vegas, Nevada Reno, U of New Hampshire, U of New Mexico, U of North Texas, U of Oklahoma, U of Oregon, U of South Carolina, U of South Florida, U of Southern Mississippi, U of Tennessee, Texas Arlington, Texas El Paso, Texas San Antonio, U of Utah, Utah State, VCU, Washington Tech, Washington State, Wayne State, and West Virginia U should all be slated for dissolution. [/quote]
I would remove Syracuse from this list but otherwise agree.[/quote]

Why Syracuse over the AAU schools listed?[/quote]
What is AAU? Syracuse seems salvageable to me. That's why.[/quote]

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