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<p>You can argue ad infinitum all you want, but this thread was tagged “Georgia Tech” which gave me a hit on my browser and brought me in. I get that you don’t like to recognize some of the facts, but that doesn’t change the situation.</p>
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<p>It’s not student size that caused this, it’s faculty size. When you have a massive school like ASU, you’re going to need a massive faculty population, and that population is going to publish like crazy. This leads to a large number of well known faculty at ASU with high h-indexes. Faculty prestige is a ranking used my many systems.</p>
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How you define a narrow focus is subjective. With undergraduate degrees in radiology, nursing, therapy, administration, dental hygiene, and lab science, I would argue that it has a pretty broad offering. If it offered only nursing, for example, I would argue it has a narrow scope.</p>
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<p>Ranking systems aren’t subjective. The inclusion of criteria might be, but the actual rankings are not. And regardless of your opinion, people use these ranking systems to determine where to hire. These rankings (notably THE) is extremely important if you ever leave the US for employment. Unless the school is well known, employers will pull the school’s ranking.</p>