The True Top 15 US Colleges

phantasmagoric
Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:22:00 +0000

1 is wrong because its sampling is inaccurate and it’s heavily in favor of Northeast universities; 2 is wrong because it includes a very limited number of professional schools that it considers “prestigious”; 3 is wrong for reasons widely debated; 4 is completely wrong because it uses many statistical measures that are just wrong or stupid, like membership in Who’s Who. And how did you measure “general prestige in common conversation”?

In other words, this is a bunch of junk rankings consolidated into one junk ranking.