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When I worked at LSU....

in the mid 2000's, they raised money to build a Student Athlete Academic Center. In it, they put a HUGE classroom for 1000+ students. Then, they held one or two first-year English classes in there and mandated that every other section of first-year English was capped at 19 students.

One of the metrics on the USN@WR rankings....percentage of class sections that are less than 20.

yep, schools go to great lengths to raise their profile in these rankings, and there if very little disincentive against it.

In response to this post by VaTechie

Posted: 09/15/2016 at 9:39PM

New USN&WR National University Rankings just came out. -- HOO86 09/13/2016 1:25PM

Big universities have a better profile based on earnings- -- KnoxHokie 09/17/2016 02:23AM

Completely bogus as long as UNC is in top 200. ** -- IB4TECH 09/16/2016 12:11PM

Whaaaat? That bastion of integrity and honesty? ** -- OBX 09/16/2016 2:44PM

From the TV Network perspective, who grows each network's money? -- Stech 09/15/2016 6:10PM

Most people in the know think these magazine rankings are stupid -- hokiego 09/15/2016 4:59PM

BS. Of course it's program dependent, but these things mean a bunch. -- chuckd4vt 09/16/2016 11:20PM

Funny, the professors I work with find them laughable -- Manbearpig 09/20/2016 01:01AM

They're remarkably accurate? At measuring what? -- marcbvtgm 09/19/2016 3:25PM

First chuck post I've liked. Somebody write that down ;) ** -- ren_hoek 09/17/2016 8:35PM

HR departments know they are actually predictive of success... -- lawhokie 09/16/2016 12:53PM

Agreed. Undergrad educations are fairly similar wherever you receive them. -- chuckd4vt 09/16/2016 11:47PM

Wall Street Journal created their own ranking based on HR recruiters -- BAMRising 09/16/2016 4:57PM

What about for HS student that have no clue what they want to major -- VTHokie2000 09/16/2016 09:42AM

Hopefully they will not major in a useless major and live in their parents -- hokiego 09/16/2016 10:02AM

My kid isn't college material. He's a mild Aspergers patient with a -- Hokie CPA 09/16/2016 11:59AM

Sometimes it is better to do something you love than do something that -- VTHokie2000 09/16/2016 10:19AM

Good points. In the past the type of degree was not as important -- hokiego 09/16/2016 11:49AM

I definitely don't envy today's college graduate with large -- VTHokie2000 09/16/2016 12:26PM

That's right IMO as well... -- Calamitous 09/16/2016 06:20AM

This USN&WR has been manipulated for years and that has been in the news -- VaTechie 09/15/2016 8:26PM

There's also a bias towards private schools as well. ** -- corvt2000 09/15/2016 10:17PM

When I worked at LSU.... -- Kansas Hokie 09/15/2016 9:39PM

Clemson as a prime example ** -- EDGEMAN 09/15/2016 9:08PM

#sourgrapes ;) ** -- ren_hoek 09/17/2016 8:37PM

Yep, they manipulated that system. Alabama may be doing it now. -- Old Line Hokie 09/16/2016 12:50PM

Yet those same people use them to market their schools. ** -- marcbvtgm 09/17/2016 2:14PM

I've always hated their ranking system. -- LowIQHOO 09/13/2016 9:29PM

Wrankings are inacurate, VT is always #1 :-) ** -- BigCrumpy 09/13/2016 2:50PM

More "rankings" from same website...... -- Old Line Hokie 09/13/2016 2:53PM

Seems like Tech's ranking has been dropping since we joined the ACC. -- Old Line Hokie 09/13/2016 1:39PM

I wouldn't expect the conference to make a difference -- Pylons 09/13/2016 3:54PM

I agree.... -- Old Line Hokie 09/13/2016 4:30PM

Very true. If anything, Tech makes the ACC's academic reputation better. ** -- Calamitous 09/13/2016 9:30PM

Even more so when we finally achieve AAU status. :) ** -- EDGEMAN 09/14/2016 10:55AM

When I worked at LSU....

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