The Smartest Professors in the Nation

College Search & Lists
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<p><a href=“http://colleges.niche.com/rankings/academics/top-smartest-professors/”>http://colleges.niche.com/rankings/academics/top-smartest-professors/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>We all know that we should take these college ranking things with a grain of salt, but admittedly it is always interesting to read them. Interestingly enough, some of the names in the top 25 may surprise you. In fact, one marquee name is not even in the top 10 surprise me even more. For what it’s worth, I have not looked into their methodology, so caveat emptor.</p>

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<p>Yay, look at that! Smith, Mount Holyoke and Wellesley all rank higher than Harvard :slight_smile: </p>

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<p>“Methodology” is a very strong term to use in these circumstances. There is no methodology.</p>

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<p>^“This data is based on a factual statistic or student opinions.” (Scroll over the ? next to the “rating” heading.)</p>

<p>LOL!</p>

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<p>Yeah, there is no objective way to accurately measure this. Still interesting to see the places where people have the highest opinions of the intelligence of their professors.</p>

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<p>No methodology can be found; that’s not a good thing. </p>

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<p>Student surveys were the first bullet, LOL.</p>

<p>To me this does say something though: which schools have the most impressive teachers compared to their student quality. Not very accurate for that even still, but trying to find some value here.</p>

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<p>It’s quite obvious this ranking system is unscientific and unreliable.</p>