Archive for the ‘ College rankings ’ Category

US News & World Report 2008 College Rankings

U.S. News & World Report came out with their annual “Best College” rankings edition online today, the magazine will be on the newsstands on August 20th. Any changes? This group of schools looks strikingly similar to the 2007 rankings despite the magazine’s vows to make “substantial changes in methodology.” The top ten is still dominated [ READ MORE ]

25 “Hottest” Universities According to Newsweek

Numerical rankings of colleges are out. Hot lists are in. Newsweek created a list of “today’s most interesting schools” that they call the “hottest” universities in the U.S. In light of the spanking that U.S. News and World Report received, Newsweek took pains to point out that this list is subjective. What’s wrong with good [ READ MORE ]

Acceptance

I accept none of this. I’ve been doing a lot of ranting and raving, bitching and moaning about the college admissions insanity in this country. If I could laugh about it I’d feel better. Maybe this book will help. I love that someone wrote a book satirizing the bizarreness that is the college admissions process [ READ MORE ]

Media Frenzy Around High Pressure College Admissions

Please make it stop. The high-pressure college admission insanity is verging on ridiculous. The parents are rabid. The kids are somewhere between highly-trained seals who can perform on command but may not be able to think for themselves, and freaked out lumps of carbon, hoping the extreme parental pressure will turn them into diamonds. Private [ READ MORE ]

Top 10 MBA Programs for 2007

The Financial Times released its 2007 business school rankings on January 29th. Categories include Top Global MBA Programs, Top European Schools, Top American Schools, Top Asia-Pacific Schools, Top Canadian Schools and Top Salaries. Top 10 Business Schools – Worldwide 1. University of Pennsylvania: Wharton 2. Columbia Business School 3. Harvard Business School 3. Stanford Graduate [ READ MORE ]

Private College Counselors

Are colleges today more selective than ever? According to the National Association for College Admission Counseling , over the last 20 years the college admissions selectivity rate hasn’t changed; 4-year colleges on average still accept 75% of their applicants. But Harvard and Princeton are just as selective as they’ve always been with acceptance rates under [ READ MORE ]

Nine Worst Colleges in America

Yes, it’s another college ranking list, but this snarky / cheeky one really stands out. Radar Magazine Online recently put together a “semi-scientific guide to the most substandard schools in America.” Using a wide variety of sources, Radar took up the challenge of choosing which accredited 4-year colleges with physical campuses made the “dishonor roll.” [ READ MORE ]

2006 World University Rankings

The Times Higher Education Supplement has published the 2006 world university rankings. American and British universities made up nearly half of the top 100 universities. The rankings were compiled by asking 3,703 academics worldwide to name the 30 best universities for research in their field of expertise, and also considering responses from 736 graduate employers [ READ MORE ]