Forbes Rankings

Whistle_Pig
Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:56:18 +0000

Vedder’s notions are more grounded than many of these silly rankings. Until looking at it from a holistic POV. Then it looks just as nonsensical as the rest, especially in not only ranking institutions, but then putting a # on that ranking, suggesting some qualitative difference between 139 and 148 …or 12 and 512.

However, there is a very simple decisioin tree tool in this piece that offers students/parents a tool to ID GROUPS of institutions using variables like relative …cost, selectivity, cost, size, location, ratios, etc.

It’s no magic bullet, but it may be useful in developing an early list.