WSJ & Forbes Rankings

Nomorelurker
Thu, 13 Sep 2018 12:41:47 +0000

@Greymeer, thanks for taking the time to do that analysis on the three variables (measures of efficiency) on the WSJ ranking. Your analysis provides another important aspect of context of rankings. Your posts #34 and #35 on page 3 of this thread are fascinating. To see how a school such as UGA ranked at 240 by WSJ (which seems an anomaly) comes out in the top 25 for real world outcome and resources available to students, is telling. Many other public universities, in addition to Georgia, which you identified as “most efficient” were in the top 25 of universities hitting the mark, such as UVA, UCSB, UT, Michigan, and UF. By contrast, some small private universities like Tulane which have historically done very well with USNWR, FORBES, and others, came out in the bottom 100 out of 500 universities, on your 3 variable analysis. Very interesting.