Forbes releases it's "Best Colleges" Rankings

[msubullie4life]

Has anyone seen this list?

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/08/13/best-colleges-ratings-oped-college08-cx_ha_mn_de_0813best_land.html

MSU - # 227

Our SEC brethren:

Bama - # 283
Auburn - # 392
Arkansas - # 368
Florida - # 167
Georgia - # 177
UK - # 468
LSU - # 341
Ole Miss - # 197
USC - #344
UT - # 328
Vandy - # 105

Other Mississippi Schools:

Millsaps - # 124
Miss. College - # 129
USM - # 262

The overall list looks like BS to me. It loses credibility when they used ratemyprofessors.com for 25% of their calculations.

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[Shmuley]

That's pure ********.

 

[msubullie4life]

you'll fall out of your chair when you see some...like Ga Tech.

And of course, when you don't find La Tech in the list too <sarcasm>

 

[jakldawg]

an anonymous website that even lets you give professors chilies for "hotness" is not the pinnacle of bias-free objectivity?

BONUS FUN, Cripple fight edition:
Forbes.com, meet Eggbowl.com. Check out the comments on State's section and Ole Misses.

 

[TR.sixpack]

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[TR.sixpack]

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[Shmuley]

while Ole Miss University (Bowen) and Jerrell Powe sit at 197????? Who the F are they trying to kid?

 

[DriverDawg]

the SEC. We are the first to point out how good a ranking is when we are higher than them but when they are higher than us it is a crappy bogus ranking. So freakin what. MSU is higher in other rankings. That is the only reason yall are slamming it is because of their ranking not because of Vandy and Ga.Tech rank. Grow up.

 

[DriverDawg]

shall I go on. I think not.

 

[Shmuley]

dear old state should be ranked ahead of the Teasips.

 

[newsdog]

I hope my sarcasm meter is off. These rankings are ridiculous. To prove they suck, look no further than the state of Georgia: by any objective measure, Georgia Tech (one of the top engineering schools in the South) and Morehouse (one of the top HBCUs in the country) are certainly not the two worst universities in the state. I guess the Kennessaw State faculty got good ratings on ratemyprofessors.com.

 

[RebelBruiser]

Arguing school rankings is about as good as arguing recruiting rankings.

 

[eckie1]

...is that UK is consistently a bottom feeder on these things. It seems unusual to me when I see them ranked anything but last place in our conference, actually.

And, I have no idea why that is. I don't keep up with things in the Commonwealth too frequently.