These are different types of schools. Umd and Psu Gmu are research and hard science schools. The others are humanities and general education. Umd, Psu, Actually have higher rated business and journalism, medical and law schools than the others. Umd is the highest rated hard science school by far ARWU rated 25th in the US and 38th in the entire world. The Umd cp/Balt is 950 million dollars a year in research 3rd in the U. S.
Umd has 3 Nobel alumni , 8 Pulitzer alumni , 3 fields medal winners , 3 academy award alumni . And far more Nobel and Pulitzer faculty than any of the others.
Umd has 46 national championships . Additionally, alumni created/founded/invented the following:
Google
Underarmour
The muppets
Seinfeld
Nautica
Outback Steakhouse
Launched Sirius satellite
Pulse Dopplar radar
The universal price code
The octane system
Wrote Apollo 13
Diary of a wimpy kid
Boondocks
Liberty meadows
The wire
The automatic parachute
The hybrid engine
Automatic landing gear
Linear programming
Frequent flyer systems
Coronary stents
Miniaturized insulin pumps
Large screen stadium television
And numerous others...

It's just no contest .

UMD
GW
PSU
AU
DEL
GMU

Penn state is the only school where you come out of the shower dirtier than than you went in.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Say the words "penn state"

90 percent of the country thinks first about 20 years of boy rape and institutional enabling.

I hear you.
But USNWR disagrees. PSU jumped more places in rank than any other college.

This is why USNWR is irrelevant. The year Penn State has all these publicity troubles, Penn State somehow has the biggest jump ever on the rankings. What has gone up about the school, nothing. There must be some alumni working at USNWR or Penn State went begging for rankings.

I don't think "irrelevant" is the word you're looking for there. Though we may wish it to be true, USNWR is definitely not irrelevant.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Say the words "penn state"

90 percent of the country thinks first about 20 years of boy rape and institutional enabling.

I hear you.
But USNWR disagrees. PSU jumped more places in rank than any other college.

This is why USNWR is irrelevant. The year Penn State has all these publicity troubles, Penn State somehow has the biggest jump ever on the rankings. What has gone up about the school, nothing. There must be some alumni working at USNWR or Penn State went begging for rankings.

Maybe USNWR is has some pedophiles running it? Stranger things have happened.

AU is sooo overpriced for what it is.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Say the words "penn state"

90 percent of the country thinks first about 20 years of boy rape and institutional enabling.

I hear you.
But USNWR disagrees. PSU jumped more places in rank than any other college.

This is why USNWR is irrelevant. The year Penn State has all these publicity troubles, Penn State somehow has the biggest jump ever on the rankings. What has gone up about the school, nothing. There must be some alumni working at USNWR or Penn State went begging for rankings.

I heard that the Penn State film students are working on combining two Schwarzenegger films into one.

It's going to be called "Kindergarten Predator".

Oh no. Not the notorious Va TECH booster trashing penn state again. Penn State is a much better school and has had far fewer homocides.

Q. What does "NITTANY" mean

A. Naturally . Inclined. To. Touch. Any. Nude. Youngster.

Q. Why does penn state like 29 year olds?


A. There's 20 of them.

They haven't factored in that the resumes go in the trash is entered school after the institutional atrocity. Maybe us news is run by pedophiles. Wouldn't be surprised.

Anonymous wrote:Say the words "penn state"

90 percent of the country thinks first about 20 years of boy rape and institutional enabling.

I hear you.
But USNWR disagrees. PSU jumped more places in rank than any other college.

Say the words "penn state"

90 percent of the country thinks first about 20 years of boy rape and institutional enabling .

Sorry.

GMU is ranked no. 1 as "up and coming university" in U.S. News & World Report. Have you ever visited? It's amazing. Engineering (all types), robotics, game design, computer science are all top notch and new facilities. The school is well-linked in with the Dulles tech corridor. The kids get internships and some are even paid to work on projects while still students. They get good jobs in the Dulles corridor.