| I think as others have implied that "rankings" are insulting to students who are in programs, considering programs and people who are running the programs.
Rankings are a markete'rs way to sell books. The one and only reason there are so many ranking books out there is because people like us buy them. And we all know that the efforts by many schools to "improve" their rankings -- not because they want to be better schools, but they want a better ranking on the list -- has been in so many cases not good for students.
Recently I was at a school where the theater head kept saying rankings were subjective, but wanted to let you know that his school is considered the 5th best or the 10th best. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't.
So please all of us: this forum is most useful when we talk about the fit of a school for a particular person, how difficult it might be to get in, philosophy,etc.
Please, let's not get into: these are first tier schools, these are second, etc. |