<p>Really, I was just looking for how the NSF came to their conclusions. I find a lot of the rankings out there to be a load of political BS, and generally don’t care about them. </p>
<p>I was just looking to see how exactly FSU’s environmental sciences programs ranked #2 in the state, considering the entire program is just now 3 years old, still in a period where the powers that be with the program are trying to figure out what will work best, and honestly hasn’t had a lot of research funding come in from what I could tell.
All I could come up with is that for some reason the Environmental Studies program, which is unrelated, was lumped together, and helped the ranking. Either that or the rest of the schools in the ranking have environmental science programs that are in worse shape than FSU’s almost still new program. </p>
<p>But thank you for the links; they’ve been really helpful. I wish a lot of the data that is used for these rankings (and the rankings themselves, in some cases) were easier to find and use. I know that with the way a lot of the rankings groups pride themselves on their secret formulas you’d think it was the secret Coca-Cola recipe or something…</p>