Archive for the ‘ College rankings ’ Category

The 10 Most Expensive Public Medical Schools For In-State Students

If you’ve read this blog for more than a few months, then you know where I come down on the College Rankings issue. It’s crap, and I don’t like it. You can read the full, venomous fury in the Previous Posts list below. For now, here’s one rankings list that is based on tuition costs [ READ MORE ]

This Is Why College Costs So Much

What has risen 400% in 25 years? Not housing prices in San Francisco, but that’s an excellent guess. Nope, it’s college tuition. That one-liner factoid takes me out at the knees and makes me want to hurl. [ READ MORE ]

Mormons, Trojans, and Sex

Let’s all watch me try to navigate this post. It’s about sex and Trojans and Mormons and how well 141 universities assist their undergrads in traversing the seas of collegiate sex. The odds of me crashing and burning into a twisted pile of political incorrectness and offending everyone on my way down are as excellent as a bloated road-kill raccoon is to finally pop in July--one hard wave of heat moving up from the asphalt and nothing will smell good ever again[ READ MORE ]

Get Smart About Choosing A College

It turns out parents and students are less than rational when it comes to choosing institutions of higher learning for the prospective college student’s matriculation. Paying for the education venture twists everyone’s grey matter into knots as well. Let’s keep our heads in the game, people![ READ MORE ]

Ohio University Ranked Top Party School

Ohio University was just named Top Party School in the Princeton Review. Sweet! Shockingly, school officials aren’t well pleased with their school’s new ranking…[ READ MORE ]

Tightly Wound Parental Units

The parents who will be driving their offspring to insanity as soon as the kids can spell S-A-T start in on the psychotic haranguing early[ READ MORE ]

Hone Your Inner B.S. Detector

I think we all know how I feel about college rankings lists: unreliable. (That’s me being restrained and polite. Enjoy it now. It won’t last.)[ READ MORE ]

High Licensing Exam Pass Rates for NMSU Nursing School Grads

One of the simpler ways to research possible schools is to check out the scores their graduates earn on required exams. [ READ MORE ]

Guide to 286 Green Colleges

This guide may have some merit as it has, at the very least, aggregated planet-saving information and[italics] it’s free. Also: downloadable (saves the trees and whatnot)[ READ MORE ]

Why It Takes So Long To Earn a Bachelor’s Degree

I really don’t think it has only to do with a few more students per classroom and whether or not a student hits the higher education jackpot and manages to attend a top-tier school. [ READ MORE ]