<p>The College of the Atlantic would NOT be evaluated by anyone from ASU… It is in a different peer group. </p>
<p>And how are the students evaluators for Forbes selected and verified? They are not. Anyone can sign up and post on RMP.com. It is about as scientific as the Payscale estimates of salaries. Or Students Review.</p>
<p>Kalamazoo is better than Hopkins? Really? </p>
<p>How can Centre college be better than MIT, when MIT has more resources, faculty, opportunities, and money? </p>
<p>These rankings are horrible, and they don’t even make sense.</p>
<p>Umm yeah, a good case could be made that USMA is better than Yale, look into it.</p>
<p>I think the only people (besides respectable military uni. cadets) who will like hte forbes rankings are LAC people. Since they mixed all those LACs in there and made a system deliberately made to give LAC’s higher rankings, LAC’s are just eating at those top spots, while every other top 100 USNEWS University has been shoved down into the 300s or 500s. </p>
<p>I think that at every top 100 USNEWs university there’s going to be a lot of book burning of forbes. yahoO! But the Rutgers and Princeton students still wont come together, cause in this only Rutgers got pwnt, not princeton.</p>
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<p>Thanks for the correction. I’m glad you guys are looking out for your school. I like Wesleyan, quite a lot, as does my D who has it near the top of her list.</p>
<p>Not that I care a hill of beans about the Forbes ranking, but at least it should be reported accurately.</p>
<p>I just wish someone would come up with a credible alternative ranking to break the US News stranglehold. This Forbes thing just won’t do it.</p>
<p>You just wonder if they even vetted their methodology with anyone in the higher ed field. The thing is naturally going to punish any school with a big engineering school, and that’s just one of several potential issues.</p>
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I agree. Does anyone know of any alternative ranking systems other than Forbes?</p>
<p>Here is some interesting information and history about ** Criticism of college and university rankings**
Quoted from: [Criticism</a> of college and university rankings (North America) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_college_and_university_rankings]Criticism”>Criticism of college and university rankings (North America) - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>You can find more information in the article. Would be interesting to find out what ultimately occurred.</p>
<p>[Our</a> Third Annual College Rankings](<a href=“http://www2.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2007/0709.rankings.html]Our”>http://www2.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2007/0709.rankings.html) </p>
<p>And see also, about one source Forbes used, </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>^ I’m familiar with the Washington Monthly ranking. It focuses on interesting data, very different from US News. Unfortunately, I think the categories it uses: social mobility, research, and service—just don’t resonate with that many prospective students as representing what they’re looking for in an undergraduate college. And as a parent of a prospective student, I have to say that while I personally value higher education’s role in promoting social mobility, research, and service, these factors represent only a small fraction of what I’m looking for as my D & I evaluate colleges.</p>
<p>these ranking really are a joke. how is penn in the eighties? nyu in the 300’s? they must’ve been smoking something when they made these. you don’t need to know much about these schools to know that their faculty put out on average a hundred times more research then some of these no-name, tiny colleges. and research, not professor popularity or student-faculty ratios, are the real measure of a school’s quality and prestige.</p>
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