A chart of US News Rankings for every relevant school

[615dawg]

 

[M R DAWGS]

Thanks for the uplifting message. I’ve got a masters from LSU in my back pocket. Even that doesn’t look very promising.

 

[ZombieKissinger]

It’s encouraging that we’re next to Stanford

 

[was21]

Not that I'll read any lenghty stuff but what criteria was used to determine ranking, in a nutshell?

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

Unless it is a very specific degree PE, EE, Accounting, Architecture, etc… a college degree is a poor investment nowadays.

 

[The Cooterpoot]

This warranted a second thread? Why not put it in the original post, it's says the say damn thing

 

[Maroon Eagle]

This warranted a second thread? Why not put it in the original post, it's says the say damn thing

This is the TLDR thread about how horrible State is academically.

 

[ckDOG]

The big bars mean we are gooder, right?

 

[Dawg84]

Be careful…Scottfield1 takes offense if you claim State is at the bottom of a ranking. He might start calling you names. Lol!

 

[mstateglfr]

Unless it is a very specific degree PE, EE, Accounting, Architecture, etc… a college degree is a poor investment nowadays.

That is objectively incorrect. Even the typical business degrees from state schools pay off exponentially, compared to the mean and median incomes for not getting a degree. This was true in the early 00's, was true after the recession in the '10s, and data post-pandemic still shows it.


So besides degrees in education, all types of engineering, nursing, medical doctor, lawyer, accounting, veterinarian, counseling, pharmacy, economics, HR, and more all being required in order to even work in those fields, there is the reality that just typical business degrees(marketing and management, I believe) pay off bigly.
I mean, thats if you are statistically looking at the issue. If you emotionally look at the issue and ignore studies, then yes you are correct.

 

[mstateglfr]

Funny enough, this was pushed to me today...

College Rankings Mislead Students. Universities Should Abandon Them.

A recent report supported by Vanderbilt University and conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago finds U.S. News & World Report's rankings have potential to mislead.

www.forbes.com

A recent report that was financially supported by Vanderbilt University and conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago—a highly respected independent and nonpartisan nonprofit research organization—shows that the ranking’s methodologies have the potential to mislead and misinform the students who rely on it.

Last year, I wrote a piece for Inside Higher Ed about why the ranking is problematic. From flawed methodologies to low-quality data to subjective standards, college rankings make it harder for students to find the right school. Complicating things further, U.S. News & World Report has changed the methodologies for most of its rankings over the past several years, including the Best Colleges rankings.

What we need is not a rankings system but a ratings system: a way to quantify key measures of academic quality and accessibility that is stable, data-driven, and transparent. And we need to be able to apply this ratings system to every institution, public and private, in the country.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

This warranted a second thread? Why not put it in the original post, it's says the say damn thing

Because somebody is trying to make sure everyone knows about this.**. Rabble rabble rabble