<p>lol they put yale’s percent applicants accepted as 97%</p>
<p>Forbes rankings is a joke. Just get a good lol @ it and throw it in the garbage, and listen to some real rankings like USNEWs or Newsweek.</p>
<p>At least some of those crap colleges can feel cool saying that they were ranked better than a better college on their brochures.</p>
<p>I had a good laugh… thanks. That made my day. Who’s who. :)</p>
<p>lol, Northeastern is ranked #568, below even Pace University (and if anyone knows that school it is one pathetic place). I bet NE is going to have a fun forbes book-burning very soon.</p>
<p>Edit: Wow, RIT, SIT, WPI, and NJIT all are ranked at the very bottom as well. Whoever made this must hate technical/engineering schools, considering the bottom 20 schools are almost all engineering schools.</p>
<p>“To answer these questions, the staff at CCAP (mostly college students themselves) gathered data from a variety of sources. They based 25% of the rankings on 7 million student evaluations of courses and instructors, as recorded on the Web site RateMyProfessors.com. Another 25% depends on how many of the school’s alumni, adjusted for enrollment, are listed among the notable people in Who’s Who in America.”</p>
<p>Wow. ;</p>
<p>lmao!!! guys, i usually do not bash rankings as it is subjective but these rankings are the biggest joke ever!! I just read their methodology and 50 % is worthless and the other 50% is OK… The Rankings speak for themselves. There are obviously always surprises in rankings but the top 50 or so consists of many colleges i have never heard of in my life… Usually good colleges are famous… usually not always… Anyway, any rankings that places Hopkins(i mean comon!!) at like 80 something has got a problem. Some Ivy leagues did not make the top 100!!! I am sorry but i can just name colleges in random order and come up with better rankings…and what is centre college… it came 13th… never heard of it</p>
<p>lol their data is complete bs! the acceptance rates are outdated, the costs of attendance don’t match the colleges’ own declared figures, and even the simplest information like application deadlines aren’t always correct! lol forbes, this is pathetic; if you’re going to make college rankings, realize that the audience that reads them is very well-informed.</p>
<p>i also loled at yale’s acceptance rate: 97%. is that supposed to be a dis? ahahah, forbes probably made these rankings as a joke.</p>
<p>[America’s</a> Best Colleges sorted by Rank - Forbes.com](<a href=“Forbes List Directory”>Forbes List Directory)</p>
<p>GO HAVE A LAUGH GUYS!!</p>
<p>EDIT:lol georgie Tech is ranked 501… while it is like 30 40 ish in US NEWS i think… something should not change 450 spots no matter what/</p>
<p>For those of you wondering why Dartmouth, in particular, was quite screwed is because of the ratemyprofessor thing. Dartmouth students don’t really use that because we have our own in-house course rating system. Students wouldn’t use an outside website unless they really, really hated a professor and felt that they needed to bash them publicly.</p>
<p>We can officially call Forbes the ■■■■■ of College Rankings.</p>
<p>It’s even funnier considering that Forbes announced Dartmouth grads as the top earning of any school in the country not two weeks ago.</p>
<p>Dartmouth=130th=this is a crap list.</p>
<p>at NY_Democrat: I’m sure Forbes doesn’t hate engineering schools. After all, it put Caltech at #2, just a spot above Harvard, lol.</p>
<p>and Dartmoose: that ratemyprofessor thing you mentioned applies for all other schools. 99% of other schools have their own professor rating systems. So that’s no excuse for Dartmouth. (Not that I dislike Dartmouth in anyone. it definitely deserves be one of the top ten.)</p>
<p>I’m waiting for the thread “Forbes magazine announced that you’ve just been punked.”</p>
<p>@S2530S2 </p>
<p>Well, I was just suprised that all the lowest-ranked schools were mid-level/prestigious engineering schools, and you can’t really rank MIT and CIT below #500 and still have anyone take you remotely seriously</p>
<p>We should make a facebook Anti-Forbes College Rankings group. lol.</p>
<p>Screw NYU, I’m headed off to Ouachita Baptist University!!</p>
<p>Why slum it at Northwestern when you can make it at Appalachian State?!?!</p>
<p>But they’re not from the US News. </p>
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<p>[America’s</a> Best Colleges 2008 - Forbes.com](<a href=“http://www.forbes.com/2008/08/13/college-university-rankings-oped-college08-cx_rv_mn_0813intro.html]America’s”>America's Best Colleges 2008)</p>
<p>Something to consider when evaluating the Forbes ranking… and hopefully taking them with a grain of salt. The primary force behind these rankings is an embittered, retired economics professor from Ohio University (not to be confused with Ohio State).</p>
<p>His “think-tank” advocates the complete abolition of all state and federal funding for higher education–including student aid. In particular, he has a raging bitterness for state “flagship” universities…probably because none of them ever rescued him from the academic wilderness of Athens, Ohio. In his dream world, there would be elite private universities for the rich and for-profit trade schools and in-house corporate training centers for the rest of us.</p>
<p>Not surprisingly, this hack has come up with a ranking system that completely marginalizes public universities.</p>
<p>Don’t forget that even Forbes magazine says one of the data sources is bogus: </p>
<p>[The</a> Hall of Lame - Forbes.com](<a href=“http://www.forbes.com/fyi/1999/0308/063.html]The”>The Hall of Lame)</p>
<p>So which of the two CCAP lists published within 3 months of each other, does Forbes stand by?</p>
<p>[How</a> to Choose a College - Forbes.com](<a href=“http://www.forbes.com/opinions/forbes/2008/0519/030.html]How”>http://www.forbes.com/opinions/forbes/2008/0519/030.html) or</p>
<p>[America’s</a> Best Colleges 2008 - Forbes.com](<a href=“http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/08/13/college-university-rankings-oped-college08-cx_rv_mn_0813intro.html]America’s”>http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/08/13/college-university-rankings-oped-college08-cx_rv_mn_0813intro.html)</p>
<p>It is clear that there are some serious issues concerning the methodology used in creating this ranking system. I will point out just a few of the glaring ones.</p>
<p>First – look at St. John’s College. As St. John’s describes it, they are “One College, Two Campuses.” They allow students to transfer back and forth and they have the identical curriculum. Yet, in this ranking, St. John’s Maryland Campus is ranked at 55, while St. John’s New Mexico is ranked at 125 – a full 70 places lower than its Maryland counterpart. Now really, can anyone with a straight face really say that the quality of education at the two campuses differ that significantly? While there are differences as to the feeling one gets at the campuses, I have never heard anyone indicated that there is any real qualitative difference in the education received at one campus versus the other campus.</p>
<p>Second, look at the ranking of Huntington University in Huntington, Indiana – #65 overall, right between Reed College and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Now, most of CC will have never heard of Huntington in Indiana (and for good reason). The general reputation in Indiana is that Huntington is one of those places where if you have a pulse, they will accept you. Even among evangelical religious schools in Indiana, Taylor, Goshen, Manchester, and Anderson would generally be considered better bets, educationally speaking. So, while Wabash may seem high to most people, at least they offer a quality product, in my opinion. The Huntington ranking just seems laughable to me.</p>