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re: Best Colleges - once more
Posted on 9/9/14 at 6:21 am to LaFlyer
Posted on 9/9/14 at 6:21 am to LaFlyer
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7.5% graduation rate
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22.5% retention
Complete BS. It assumes 100% is optimal. If I see a school with 100% (or even high 90s), that tells me the school is a diploma factory.
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5% alumni giving
Should be given more weight IMO. It's a good measure of the value alumni feel they received for their education. If you don't even feel they're worth $25 or $50 a year in donations, that says you don't think they're worthwhile. Only thing I'd change is giving recent alumni more weight than old alumni, so you don't have this metric dominated by what the school was like decades ago.
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22.5 % undergrad reputation
Shouldn't be a factor at all. Purely subjective, and it's an evaluation of the brand name instead of the quality of education.
Should add in faculty to student ratio and percentage of classes taught by PhDs.
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Posted on 9/9/14 at 7:28 am to Bestbank Tiger
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5% alumni giving
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Should be given more weight IMO.
I agree. That has to be the #1 factor for a university's future success. That's why LSU has me nervous. It has the second smallest endowment for a national research university in the US.
Posted on 9/9/14 at 9:14 am to Bestbank Tiger
quote:Unless it equates to jobs, employment-pay, grad school admission . . . which categories BTW should be the largest deciding criterion.
22.5 % undergrad reputation
Shouldn't be a factor at all. Purely subjective, and it's an evaluation of the brand name instead of the quality of education.
Posted on 9/9/14 at 9:51 am to Bestbank Tiger
quote:All good schools have high 90+% rates. Good students graduate.
If I see a school with 100% (or even high 90s), that tells me the school is a diploma factory.
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