<p>FYI, Wisconsin has been ranked in the top 10 since 1925…(i have copies of the assesments if anyone wants them), in fact, the average ranking for US schools from 1925-1995 is:</p>
<p>1) Berkeley
2) Harvard
3) Stanford
4) Wisconsin
5) Chicago
6) Michigan
7)MIT
8)Columbia
9)Yale
10)Princeton</p>
<p>Wisconsin will dropp out of the top 10 this year (in the NRC ranking) because of state cuts, but being #15 in the US is still pretty good. also when the NRC comes out with its rankings in a few months, it will mirror this rankings…you will see UCSD and UCLA ranked very high… and Duke, Northwestern, Washington Univ. ranked way below them. Nobody ever looks at the historical facts of these schools.
I am always surprised that people don’t know how good some of the state universities are…Univ of Washington was ranked #16 by the National Research Council in 1993 and it will be coming out with its lastest report…It is, along with the ARWU, the bible of college rankings…you people have been taking the US news rankings seriously, the problem with it is the methodology for calculating the “academic reputation” score in their report…Instead of asking heads of departments for their opinion of schools, they ask “deans of admission” who know nothing about a school’s quality.</p>