That Number Keeps Getting Smaller

Colleges & Universities Northeastern University
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<p><a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/northeastern-university-2199”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/northeastern-university-2199&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>BU may have mixed feelings though…</p>

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<p>Were you refreshing the page at midnight to find out what the number was?</p>

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<p>Tied for #42 - down from what # last year?</p>

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<p>Another year, another bump</p>

<p>Northeastern up to 42 from 49
Damore-Mckim undergrad up to 62 from 72</p>

<p>colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/northeastern-university-167358/overall-rankings</p>

<p>if you have compass premium:
premium.usnews.com/best-colleges/northeastern-university-167358/overall-rankings</p>

<p>I know rankings are not everything, but glad my daughter went to Northeastern for a Business degree.</p>

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<p>Rankings overview for all colleges last four years</p>

<p><a href=“http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/local/us-news-college-ranking-trends/1292/”>http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/local/us-news-college-ranking-trends/1292/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Northeastern shouldn’t feel that great knowing that EVERYONE knows how they have blatantly gamed the Ranking system</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/article/2014/08/26/how-northeastern-gamed-the-college-rankings/”>http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/article/2014/08/26/how-northeastern-gamed-the-college-rankings/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>@petreavolubilis‌ </p>

<p>I think the CC thread on the subject covers it well. Gamed or not, the school and its students benefit greatly from all of the new faculty, buildings, and resources.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1681335-how-northeastern-gamed-the-college-rankings.html”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1681335-how-northeastern-gamed-the-college-rankings.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Gaming does not equal cheating, despite the Boston Magazine author’s attempt to imply that it does. </p>

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<p>^^^ (Bitter?) Boston College student/alum hearing footsteps! :smiley: :smiley: </p>

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<p>All this is just Jealousy.</p>

<p>nice website to see trends:
<a href=“http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/local/us-news-college-ranking-trends/1292/”>http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/local/us-news-college-ranking-trends/1292/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>List of schools that can be passed in the near future(ranked 33-42):</p>

<p>College of William and Mary*
University of Rochester
Brandeis University*
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of California-San Diego
Case Western University
University of California-Davis
Lehigh University*
University of California-Santa Barbara
Boston University</p>

<p>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
University of California-Irvine
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign</p>

<p>*=colleges on a downward trend</p>

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<p>NEU needs to be careful: gaming can easily lead to manipulating stats to artificially improve outcomes. It then stats to do what other schools have done when they have gamed and misrepresented data. At some point USN&WR will start to lose its credibility due to gaming and false reporting and the big jumps seen by NEU will be looked upon with great suspicion; TomSrofBoston is wrong: at what point will it’s blatant gaming be seen as cheating? It is a very thin line that separates them.</p>

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<p>I believe that was the purpose of the Boston Magazine article; to plant suspicion in readers’ minds. There has never been an accusation that NU is submitting false data. </p>