Thank you for the compliment, and I understand what you are saying. My main concern is why the graduation rate is so low for SUBR.

I think it provides a nourishing environment. It lacks the elitism of some schools, which is more of a plus for people who just want to learn and become marketable.

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Posted by volod

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Posted on 8/17/15 at 3:40 pm to mikelbr

Think about all the good that Southern has done. All the professionals it produces every year doing great things for the country as a whole.

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Posted by volod

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Posted on 8/17/15 at 4:00 pm to Upperdecker

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And upper tier and rankings are significantly affected by graduation rates. If one school graduates 65% and one school has 15%, clearly one is doing something right, and one is not. A school that supports it's students and promotes their efforts will have better graduation rates, and thus be "higher tier". They're not necessarily any harder, but they're more likely to graduate a successful student with all the skills necessary to move into the job market in their field.

I must confess that to some degree I agree with the naysayers. The upper tier do generally seem to be much more rigorous, especially in my opinion. However, they offer little benefits in being more difficult to graduate from. Unless you majored in something already very marketable, the difficulty level of upper tier seems mostly pointless.

The fact that graduation rates are used is honestly a bad sign for me.

So a school that graduates a large number of general studies people is better than a small graduate pool of people with more marketable skills? REALLY?

I left upper tier because I felt I would do better at a different academic environment (which is 100% accurate for me so far).

This post was edited on 8/17/15 at 4:02 pm

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