<p>Shortly before midnight tonight (as early as 11 PM or so), here:</p>
<p>[Best</a> Colleges - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges]Best”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges)</p>
<p>Think you guys can wait that long? :)</p>
<p>RML, will you just admit once and for all that for Emory is a better choice for Non-californian students who perfer small/mid sized universities rather than huge ones?</p>
<p>^doubtful, and he doesn’t need to. No one should be forced to confess something that’s an opinion</p>
<p>Emory>U Toronto. I love Toronto however.</p>
<p>USNWR 2011 RANKING METHODOLOGY:</p>
<p>Methodology: Ranking Category Definitions </p>
<p>[Methodology:</a> Ranking Category Definitions - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2010/08/09/methodology-ranking-category-definitions-2011.html]Methodology:”>http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2010/08/09/methodology-ranking-category-definitions-2011.html)</p>
<p>Methodology: A+ Schools for B Students </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2010/8/17/methodology-a-plus-schools-for-b-students-[/url]”>http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2010/8/17/methodology-a-plus-schools-for-b-students-</a></p>
<p>Methodology: The Best Values </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2010/8/17/methodology-the-best-values[/url]”>http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2010/8/17/methodology-the-best-values</a></p>
<p>Methodology: Campus Ethnic Diversity </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2010/8/17/methodology-campus-ethnic-diversity-2011[/url]”>http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2010/8/17/methodology-campus-ethnic-diversity-2011</a></p>
<p>Methodology: The Up-and-Coming Schools </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2010/8/17/methodology-the-up-and-coming-schools[/url]”>http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2010/8/17/methodology-the-up-and-coming-schools</a></p>
<p>Methodology: Undergraduate Ranking Criteria and Weights </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2010/8/17/methodology-undergraduate-ranking-criteria-and-weights-2011[/url]”>http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2010/8/17/methodology-undergraduate-ranking-criteria-and-weights-2011</a></p>
<p>PS. Some of the methodology article links are in the process of uploading as we speak, they should be up momentarily!! Please be patient & Enjoy!~ :)</p>
<p>Methodology Changes for Best Colleges Rankings</p>
<p>August 16, 2010 10:43 AM ET | Robert Morse</p>
<p>U.S. News has made some significant changes this year to the presentation and ranking methodology for our Best Colleges rankings. The full rankings will be available at [Best</a> Colleges - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/college]Best”>http://www.usnews.com/college) as of August 17. Here is a brief summary of the changes:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>To make the rankings more understandable and to reduce confusion, we changed many of the ranking category names for Best Colleges 2011. This year, schools are designated National Universities, National Liberal Arts Colleges, Regional Universities, and Regional Colleges. For a more detailed explanation of the category changes and categories, see Methodology: Ranking Category Definitions.</p></li>
<li><p>In response to a strong interest from readers in knowing precisely where all schools on their lists stand, we’ve opted to display the rank of the top 75 percent of schools in each category, up from 50 percent. This top ranked group will be called the First Tier. The schools in the bottom 25 percent of each ranking category are listed alphabetically as the Second Tier (previously called the Fourth Tier). This means we have eliminated the Third Tier from the rankings and we are now numerically ranking 75 percent of the schools in the National Universities, National Liberal Arts Colleges, Regional Universities, and Regional Colleges categories. The same number of schools appear in the ranking tables as last year.</p></li>
<li><p>Graduation rate performance is more heavily weighted. This measure now accounts for 7.5 percent of the final score (compared to 5 percent previously) for the National Universities and National Liberal Arts Colleges categories only.</p></li>
<li><p>For the first time, the opinions of high school counselorsa font of firsthand information about the schools their graduates attendare factored into the ranking calculations for National Universities and National Liberal Arts Colleges. In those two categories, the weight assigned to the peer ratings collected in a survey of college presidents, provosts, and deans goes down to 15 percent of the overall score from 25 percent; ratings by the high school counselors surveyed get a weight of 7.5 percent. As a result, in the National Universities and National Liberal Arts Colleges categories, the combined weight undergraduate academic reputation drops to 22.5 percent from 25 percent previously.</p></li>
<li><p>U.S. News is publishing our second separate public high school counselor rankings of colleges in our National Universities and National Liberal Arts Colleges ranking categories.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>A more detailed version of these changes to the rankings and complete methodologies will be available as of August 17 at [About</a> the Rankings and Methodology - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/collegemeth]About”>http://www.usnews.com/collegemeth).</p>
<p>Source: [Methodology</a> Changes for Best Colleges Rankings - Morse Code: Inside the College Rankings (usnews.com)](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2010/8/16/methodology-changes-for-best-colleges-rankings]Methodology”>http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2010/8/16/methodology-changes-for-best-colleges-rankings)</p>
<p>Peer review nerf and graduation rate buff, oh oh.</p>
<p>Elite privates like Michigan/Cal is gonna get shafted.</p>
<p>edit: I meant publics</p>
<p>^^ “Elite privates like Michigan/Cal is gonna get nerfed.”</p>
<p>Typo?!.. I think you mean the ‘Elite publics’…, hence, my beloved buckeye must also got nerfed!! T-T</p>
<p>That’s wonderful, because I don’t think USN&WR was skewed quite enough towards privates. Seriously, why don’t they just start calling it the Best Private Colleges in America.</p>
<p>The Top Ten State Universities by Graduation Rate</p>
<ol>
<li>University of Virginia: 93%</li>
<li>University of California, Los Angeles: 90%</li>
<li>(tie) University of California, Berkeley: 88%</li>
<li>(tie) University of Michigan: 88%</li>
<li>(tie) Penn State 84%</li>
<li>(tie) University of California, San Diego: 84%</li>
<li>University of North Carolina 83%</li>
<li>University of Illinois: 82%</li>
<li>University of Florida: 81%</li>
<li>(tie) University of California, Irvine: 80%</li>
<li>(tie) University of Maryland: 80% </li>
</ol>
<p>Source: [The</a> Ten Highest Graduation Rates Among State Universities | The Digital Student Blog](<a href=“http://blog.gocollege.com/2010/05/23/the-ten-highest-graduation-rates-among-state-universities/]The”>The Ten Highest Graduation Rates Among State Universities | The Digital Student Blog @ The Digital Student Blog)</p>
<p>[Best</a> Colleges - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/highest-grad-rate]Best”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/highest-grad-rate)</p>
<p>I don’t see one public school on the list (beside from service academies).</p>
<p>I strongly disagree with their methodology change this year.</p>
<p>wait, UVA has been privatized? How did McConnel pull THAT off?</p>
<p>edit: and W&M too?</p>
<p>gj on finding UVA on that list…qq</p>
<p>Even though I strongly disagree with the methodology changes this year and believe the idiocy of the rankings will reflect that, can someone still get the magazine and post the list here?</p>
<p>Based on the Preview Top 25 already announced, I think there will be some downward movement for Hopkins, Cornell, Wash U, Chicago and Cal Tech. Brown will go up. Predicted graduation rate has been higher for Brown than for those other schools which last year were ranked higher. Brown will also benefit from the decreased weight PA , percentage, having a higher PA than Wash U.</p>
<p>This so … unfair!!! TOSU is one if not the largest (2nd behind ASU in terms of # of student body) public research institutions in the nation!!! School’s motto is ‘Disciplina in Civitatem’ = Education for Citizenship in English, the school is obliged to provide education and needs, especially to those 1st-gen college students (many with low household income & has to work 2+ part-time jobs while in school) as part of its core mission. The school was destined to crack the Top-50 ranking this year under the old metrics… 
Right now, I really have no clue what would happen… I feel … >o<"</p>
<p>“Of the public universities [in Ohio], Miami tops the list with an 81 percent graduation rate within six years, followed by Ohio State at 73 percent and Ohio University at 70 percent.”</p>
<p>Source: [Ohio</a> aims to boost college graduation rate | The Columbus Dispatch](<a href=“http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/03/03/ohio-aims-to-boost-college-graduation-rate.html]Ohio”>http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/03/03/ohio-aims-to-boost-college-graduation-rate.html)</p>
<p>Well, if we even needed more proof of the uselessness of these rankings, these changes are it. If it were not so pathetic it would be funny. I mean, these guys must sit there and say “what completely arbitrary changes can we make this year that have absolutely nothing to do with how good a school is in educating undergraduates?”</p>
<p>Guidance counselors? Really?? This forum is going to be deluged with anecdotes about how useless and clueless their GC was. Sure there are a lot of good ones, but really, give me a break. This is the dumbest thing yet. Well, maybe tied with 2 or 3 others.</p>
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<p>The magazine is not out yet. They will release the online edition tonite.</p>
<p>haha high school counselors. what next? High school kids?</p>
<p>Even an employer review would have been welcome if not for the problem of deciding which employers</p>
<p>I don’t know when they put that graduation rate list together but Wisconsin has been over 80% for the last three years and was 82.1% for the last year reported which was the 2004 entering class.(2010 data)</p>