<p>How is FSU’s academic reputation outside of the state of Florida? Is it hard to land a job in other parts of the country with a FSU degree? </p>
<p>Thanks for any help.</p>
<p>it’s not really about where you come from that matters…its more about what you do with your time at fsu. fsu has a lot to offer so take advantage of their resources.</p>
<p>Like any large state school, FSU has areas it excels in and others that are average - according to third-party rating services. Note that these are national rankings. </p>
<p>Here is a list of these historic rankings from the major ratings services:</p>
<p>(This data is from the FSU website. This data is also (recently) historic, and will vary from more recent ratings. Only “Top 50” programs are listed)</p>
<p>FSU has 73 Doctoral, 107 Masters and 94 Undergraduate programs, in addition to 28 Advanced Masters/Specialists programs plus fully accredited professional programs in Medicine and Law.</p>
<p>Notes:
- G = Graduate; UG = Undergraduate
- Where the rank per the FSU website is “Top 13”, for example, I will show the conservative rating of 13, when in fact the rating could be higher.</p>
<p>College of Arts and Sciences:</p>
<p>G - Anthropological Constellation 13
G - Biological Science 49
G - Bio-Ecology, Evolution and Behavior 25
G - Chemistry 31
G - Classical Constellation 14
G - Creative Writing 25
G - History 45
G - Mathematics 47
G - Meteorology 42
G - Neuroscience 33
G - Oceanography 7
G - Philosophy 29
G - Physics 22
G - Physics - Condensed Matter/Solid State 11
G - Physics - Nuclear 7
G - Psychology 42
G - Spanish 35
G - Statistics 16
UG - American Studies 14
UG - Chemistry 28
UG - Child Psychology 9
UG - Statistics 14</p>
<p>College of Business:</p>
<p>UG - Business 29
UG - Hotel and Restaurant Management 11</p>
<p>School of Communication:</p>
<p>G - Communication Disorders 33
UG - Communication 5
UG - Communication - Radio/TV Studies 4
UG - Communication - Speech Pathology 18</p>
<p>School of Criminology:</p>
<p>G - Criminal Justice Policy 3</p>
<p>College of Education:</p>
<p>G - Education 22
G - Education - Secondary Education 14
G - Education - Counseling 16
G - Education - Curriculum and Instruction 22
G - Education - Elementary Education 16
G - Education - Post Secondary Education 12</p>
<p>College of Human Sciences:</p>
<p>G - Nutrition 25
UG - Dietetics 12
UG - Home Economics (Human Sciences) 7
UG - Nutrition 17</p>
<p>Information Studies:</p>
<p>G - Information Studies 10
G - Law 28</p>
<p>Motion Picture:</p>
<p>G - Film 3
UG - Film 5</p>
<p>School of Music:</p>
<p>G - Music 5
G - Music - Composition 6
G - Music - Conducting 4
G - Music - Jazz 5
G - Music - Opera/Voice 3
G - Music - Orchestra/Symphony 4
G - Music - Piano/Organ/Keyboard 5
UG - Music 14</p>
<p>Theatre:</p>
<p>G - Theatre 6
G - Theatre - Drama 10</p>
<p>Visual Arts:</p>
<p>G - Art Education 3
G - Art History 20
G - Dance 10
UG - Art 23
UG - Art History 22</p>
<p>Social Sciences:</p>
<p>G - Economics 34
G - Political Science 21
G - Public Administration 11
G - Sociology 23</p>
<p>School of Social Work:</p>
<p>G - Social Work 12
UG - Social Work 8</p>
<p>Posted by TourGuide446:</p>
<p>It’s not a case of students going there “BECAUSE of sports.” It’s more like the sports HELP generate an upward spiral of positive factors on ALL fronts, and they feed off one another, lifting the entire college: they give the university a stronger coherent identity, they make it more famous, they bring in money (which can be spent on academic projects and buildings), they give it free publicity (televised games), they eliminate the “Tufts? Never heard of it!” syndrome, they make alumni more proud and more likely to donate money and send their kids there, they give students and alumni intimate bonding experiences (tailgating, watching games together on TV in bars, etc.), they eliminate the I’m-not-paying-$40k-to-send-you-to-a-school-nobody’s-heard-of syndrome. And if they get in a prominent athletic conference, they feed off the prestige of the other colleges they are linked to in the public’s imagination (see: Brown and Cornell). </p>
<p>Duke, Miami, Stanford, BC, Florida State, Georgetown, and Virginia Tech are just a few of the schools that have reaped great rewards on all fronts from improvements in their athletic programs.</p>
<p>30 years ago, BC, Miami, VTech, and FSU were regional schools that nobody was dying to get into. I recall going to a BC-FSU football game in the 1970’s in front of about 25,000 bored fans. The only thing anybody knew about Miami was Rick Barry went there, and VTech was unknown except that it came out of obscurity to win an NIT title.</p>
<p>Now nearly everybody in the country knows them, and they all get an additional boost by being associated with Duke, UVa, etc. in the ACC. Also, just a few decades ago, Duke was not well known outside the south–now it’s one of the hardest colleges in the country to get into, Duke jerseys and sweatshirts are sold in every mall in the country, and it’s not because of its med school. Stanford has had an excellent rep for a long time, but its football success in the 1960’s and 1970’s are what made it a household name, not its engineering school.</p>
<p>Thanks for the posts parent2noles. Since you seem like an abundant source for FSU info, do you know where I can find a list of companies that recruit at FSU? I’ve searched their site but can’t seem to find any info on it.</p>
<p>I’m just an alumnus who cares about his alma mater and with a couple of kids at FSU now.</p>
<p>Here’s what I’ve found so far:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.directemployers.org/memberemployers.asp[/url]”>http://www.directemployers.org/memberemployers.asp</a></p>
<p>This comes from the FSU Career Center - <a href=“http://www.career.fsu.edu/[/url]”>http://www.career.fsu.edu/</a> </p>
<p>When I attended FSU in the 1970s what later became the Career Center was extremely helpful in finding out about post-graduate opportunities. Remember that FSU has about 40,000 students, so there will be many, many companies who visit, including local, state and the Federal government.</p>
<p>The statement from TourGuide is spot on. Georgetown’s undergraduate applications increased substantially during the rise of its basketball team in the 1980s. As for FSU, I remember loving to watch them on TV in the 1970s and early 1980s when no football fan gave them a second thought. I liked the 50-yard pass plays they threw on every down back then. If you remember, FSU played road games all the time at better known opponents. Back then, no top team offered to come to Tallahassee. And on TV broadcasts the commentators regularly referred to FSU as "a former girls’ college.’ For colleges with a smart administration, sports success can go a long way to promote academic advances.</p>
<p>Some interesting information.</p>