Interesting link, but I hope the rankings get some critical analysis. Within five minutes of browsing, I found a major mistake. The number of Colby graduates for 2012-13 is listed as 654, a figure off by roughly 50%.
I’m not even sure I like the way the Colgate paper has reported the story, with their handy comparison to Harvard, Princeton and Yale – schools that did not make the top thirty. Why not mention the colleges that Colgate did finish directly in front of? And for a school that finished second overall, Colgate grads are not doing a great job of paying off their loans (77th percentile.)
I wish colleges and college newspapers would accept their academic role and make more of an effort to substatively analyze reports like this. That is what would actually impress me.