University of Florida President ranks LSU as "adequate"

President Bernard Machen filled out a US News & World Report survey, asking him to rank all the major universities in the USA according to a 5-point scale: (1) distinguished, (2) strong, (3) good, (4) adequate, or (5) marginal. Here are his rankings of the SEC schools:

Distinguished: University of Florida

Strong: Vanderbilt (also Tulane, fyi)

Good: Auburn, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Ole Miss, South Carolina

Adequate: Arkansas, LSU, Mississippi State, Tennessee

Marginal: no SEC schools

In ranking the University of Florida as "distinguished," he has it ranked ahead of the University of Chicago (strong), Georgetown University (good), Notre Dame (good), Johns Hopkins (strong), Dartmouth (good), Cornell (strong), Duke (strong), Penn (strong), Brown (good), and the University of Virginia (strong).

With LSU in his "adequate" category are others like Samford (not Stanford), University of Alaska, University of Colorado, American University, Howard University, Central Florida, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, Ball State, Indiana State, Wichita State, Louisville, Louisiana Tech, UNO, Louisiana-Lafayette, Central Michigan, Wayne State, Jackson State, Montana State, UNLV, Seton Hall, New Mexico State, St. John's, East Carolina, North Dakota State, Bowling Green, Cleveland State, Kent State, Oklahoma State, Clemson, Baylor, SMU, Texas Tech, Houston, BYU, Old Dominion, VCU, West Virginia, and Marquette.

With his own school, Florida, in the "distinguished" category are Stanford, California-Berkeley, Yale, Harvard, MIT, University of Michigan, Princeton, and Columbia.

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