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<li><p>I didn’t know that the NRC did any work at all on undergraduate education, which is what is at issue here. These are undergrad evaluations? Do you have a link?</p></li>
<li><p>I’ve continue to maintain that ranking systems are useful but ONLY in the context of the methods used to do the ranking. Without at least a working understanding of those methods, the rankings are meaningless.</p></li>
<li><p>I don’t believe, at the undergraduate level especially, that the quality of the student body or the size of the classroom is irrelevant. In fact, if I were forced at gunpoint to pick three factors that best predict undergrad education quality (absent any other data), I would pick the quality of the faculty, quality of the student, and size of the classroom.</p></li>
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