| seriously???
what does history have to do with anything when it comes to the US News rankings?
and besides from its founding to 1900, UNC only had a few hundred students and was a virtual backwater in academia. it's not like UNC has always been the large research institution it is today since its founding. Almost all of the school was housed in the five buildings around the old well, until the school started expanding southward in the 1920-30s.
shouldn't those one hundred years of virtual inactivity be discounted? the UNC we know today is about 80 years old.
if the status of schools is determined by how old they are then several colleges would ranked in the top thirty that don't deserve to be. salem college, rutgers, university of delaware, college of charleston, hampden-sydney college just to name a few, were all founded before UNC. do they deserve to be ranked up there with UVA, and UMich too?
the point: how old a college is does not matter when it comes to their ranking |