How much does a new facility improve the ranking for the school?

<p>I will be attending Temple University because I was offered alot of aid there. I am going as a business major, who has been accepted into the Fox School Of Business. The school has a pretty low ranking of mid 60’s or so. They will be opening a new facility in the spring semester and I was just curious on whether the ranking would improve alot.</p>

<p>Umm this is going to be the new building.</p>

<p>[The</a> Building – Alter Hall Campaign at Temple University’s Fox School of Business](<a href=“http://www.fox.temple.edu/alter/flash-tour.html]The”>http://www.fox.temple.edu/alter/flash-tour.html)</p>

<p>Just curious because if the ranking improves a decent amount I might not transfer, but if it stays at its current rank I dont want to go there anymore. My parents were also asking me about this so I am just asking some experts here.</p>

<p>It probably wouldn’t improve the ranking but it would certainly be a selling point for prospective students. It is always nice to attend classes in a new building.</p>

<p>Pretty much every good B school has new buildings. Business grads have $$$ and donate. They need it just to stay where they are.</p>

<p>jack, despite what anyone says, the new building is going to help the school tremendously. It’s extremely, extremely exciting.</p>

<p>EDIT: Oh, and if you don’t want to go here, please dont. Take a year off, go to community college or something. We don’t need people who don’t want to be here.</p>

<p>well i dont mean to insult temple because I will be attending there. They blessed me with great aid, so I feel like they want me and I dont want to leave because of that. I was just asking, but I have visited the campus and liked it. If I like it I might as well stay.</p>

<p>A new building is extremely exciting? Talk about a boring college town…</p>

<p>I think Philadelphia is a bit more than a ‘town’.
jack, it seems to me like you’re making rankings out to be more important than they are.</p>

<p>jackfitz-
Where would you consider applying if you transfer from Temple? How did you do on the SATs? You may decide you love Temple once you get there.</p>

<p>well I was accepted into a special program for usc which says that if I maintain around a 3.4 I will be admitted because my relative works there. I went over this with the main admissions counselor there. Also they said that my sats wouldn’t count.</p>

<p>Well it certainly didn’t hurt Minnesota’s chances when I discovered they would be moving out of the Metrodome and into TCF Bank Stadium for the 2009 season. Too bad I got into UMich and I’m in-state.</p>

<p>I really like Michigan’s new baseball complex. Add that with the current success of the program and hopefully it will draw better recruits then were use to.</p>

<p>UNLV has had a pretty boring campus in years past I have been told. They are undergoing a major renovation, building over a dozen new facilities over a 5 years period, and redoing the entire landscaping of the campus (called ‘UNLV Midtown’. They are about half way through and it looks very good. The new student center is pretty amazing; 200,000 sq ft for student recreation, wellness, and fitness.
I figure with all the renovations, and hopefully a couple final fours, my MBA will look a lot better.
[Home</a> | Campus Master Plan | Facilities Management and Planning | UNLV](<a href=“http://masterplan.unlv.edu/]Home”>http://masterplan.unlv.edu/)</p>

<p>I don’t know about improving rankings, but, I do know that in the case of Wesleyan’s new university center, a new building can hava huge impact on quality of life. </p>

<p>When “The Uz” (named after Suzanne Lemberg Usdan) first opened in the Fall of 2007, people complained at first that the new dining halls, located on the second floor, were small and confusing compared to the Coliseum-like ambience of the old dining hall.</p>

<p>Others argued that squeezing so many activities (food service, post office, tech shop, faculty club, meeting and practice rooms) into one central location was expensive and unnecessary.</p>

<p>But, then the day arrived when Sen. Barack Obama would be the main Commencement speaker and, suddenly, Usdan Center came into its own. It’s ground floor served as the central hub for snacks, registration, and respite for nearly 10,000 invited guests, many of whom had made up their minds to attend at the last minute. Without it, the security arrangements for Sen. Obama would have been immensely more complicated. No one argues Usdan’s utility anymore.
[Wesleyan</a> University](<a href=“http://www.wesleyan.edu/usdan/]Wesleyan”>Welcome, Usdan - Wesleyan University)</p>