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Most people in the know think these magazine rankings are stupid


You need to pick a college based on the rankings in the field you want to study. Ranked by piers or people in the field. In engineering VA TECH has very high rankings. Many Private liberal arts schools are ranked higher than many of the top research universities on the list. I am sure Louisville is much better than many of the schools listed ahead of them. It is also very difficult to move up on this list because no one ever falls.
Tech will have trouble ever moving up due to a low endowment and high acceptance rate. With the plan to add 5,000 more under grads the acceptance rate will not get lower.
The point is this is fun reading, but truly has no merit. It is impossible to rank colleges unless every student takes a similar test for their major once they graduate. That would measure results.

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Posted: 09/15/2016 at 4:59PM



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