The Gipper Posted October 1, 2015 Report Share Posted October 1, 2015 Per US News and World Reports Academic 2015 Rankings of all "National Universities" here is where each of the schools in the Power 5 football conferences (plus Notre Dame and BYU) rate. The number next to the name is their rank on that list (#s 1,2,3= Princeton, Harvard, Yale): 4. Stanford 8. Duke 12. Northwestern 15. Vanderbilt 18. Notre Dame 20. Cal-Berkely t23. UCLA t23. USC 26. Virginia 27. Wake Forest 29. Michigan t30. Boston College t30. North Carolina 36. Georgia Tech t41. Illinois t41. Wisconsin t47. Penn St. t47. Florida 51. Miami, Fla. t52. Ohio St. t52. Texas t52. Washington t57. Connecticut t57. Maryland t61. Clemson t61. Syracuse t61. Purdue t61. Georgia t66. BYU t66. Pitt 69. Minnesota t70. Texas A&M t70. Va. Tech t72. Rutgers t72. Baylor t75. Indiana t75. Michigan St. t82. TCU t82. Iowa t89. NC St. t89. Colorado t96. Florida St. t96. Alabama 102. Auburn t103. Missouri t103. Nebraska t103 Oregon t103. Tennessee t108. Iowa St. t108. Oklahoma t108. South Carolina t115. Kansas t115. Utah 121. Arizona t129. Arizona St. t129. Arkansas t129. Kentucky 135. Oregon St. t140. Ole Miss t140. Washington St. t140. Kansas St. 149. Oklahoma St. 161. Mississippi St. t168. Texas Tech t168. Louisville 175. West Virginia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted October 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2015 Just a note: Of the Top 10, 4 are Pac12, 3 or 4 are ACC (if you count ND as ACC). 1 is Big Ten. 1 is ACC. None for Big 12 Of the bottom ten plus ties you have: 3 Pac12, 4 SEC, 4 Big 12, 1 ACC, none for Big Ten. It is all or nothing for Pac 12. 4 in Top 10, 3 in bottom 10. (and if we did bottom dozen...it would be 5 in bottom 12). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted October 1, 2015 Report Share Posted October 1, 2015 And WVU bringing up the rear. And to be fair, the US News ratings are pretty damn flawed. Not that any ranking is perfect though. These rankings are just manipulated by some schools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted October 1, 2015 Report Share Posted October 1, 2015 These are pretty new. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2016/world-ranking#!/page/0/length/25 I'm sure something is sketchy here too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted October 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2015 And WVU bringing up the rear. And to be fair, the US News ratings are pretty damn flawed. Not that any ranking is perfect though. These rankings are just manipulated by some schools. To be sure, you are correct about college rankings. It is by no means an exact science. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted October 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2015 These are pretty new. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2016/world-ranking#!/page/0/length/25 I'm sure something is sketchy here too Certainly could be. Where US News has Stanford #4 in the US....this has them #3 in the world. And I think it must be a British publication....as it seems that there are a lot of English schools given much higher rankings than most other polls of this sort have given them. Cambridge, Oxford, sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted October 1, 2015 Report Share Posted October 1, 2015 Certainly could be. Where US News has Stanford #4 in the US....this has them #3 in the world. And I think it must be a British publication....as it seems that there are a lot of English schools given much higher rankings than most other polls of this sort have given them. Cambridge, Oxford, sure.The very top British schools are always highly ranked. I believe this ranking has ND and Dartmouth around 105 too, which doesn't seem right Also, in that ranking Big Ten Rankings 21. Michigan 25. Northwestern 36. Illinois 50. Wisconsin 65. Minnesota 75. PSU 90. OSU 99. MSU 113. Purdue 117. Maryland 123. Rutgers 201-250. Iowa, Indiana 301-350. Nebraska . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted October 1, 2015 Report Share Posted October 1, 2015 To be sure, you are correct about college rankings. It is by no means an exact science. It can give you a good idea at breaking schools into tiers, but it isn't perfect. One of the main knocks on the US News rankings is the emphasis on acceptance rate. There are ways in which schools can drive their acceptance rate artificially low to move up in the rankings. As an example, some schools send flyers to tons of high school kids. Even those with no chance of getting in. So that they can turn them away. Similarly, it is very easy to apply to all UC schools at once, even if you had no business going to Cal, UCLA, etc. These applications help them drive scores lower. Michigan had a pretty high acceptance rate overall because if the high ratio of in state kids. Additionally, there was a lot of self selection among applicants. Recently though, we've moved to the common app. This has been consistently driving our acceptance rates down over the past few years as more kids apply. The in state to out of state ratio is shifting too. I have noticed Michigan seems consistently higher ranked in World Rankings than it does in the US news rankings. I've seen them as high as #15 in the world before. Then, if you break it down by subject, they're all very high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted October 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 It can give you a good idea at breaking schools into tiers, but it isn't perfect. One of the main knocks on the US News rankings is the emphasis on acceptance rate. There are ways in which schools can drive their acceptance rate artificially low to move up in the rankings. As an example, some schools send flyers to tons of high school kids. Even those with no chance of getting in. So that they can turn them away. Similarly, it is very easy to apply to all UC schools at once, even if you had no business going to Cal, UCLA, etc. These applications help them drive scores lower. Michigan had a pretty high acceptance rate overall because if the high ratio of in state kids. Additionally, there was a lot of self selection among applicants. Recently though, we've moved to the common app. This has been consistently driving our acceptance rates down over the past few years as more kids apply. The in state to out of state ratio is shifting too. I have noticed Michigan seems consistently higher ranked in World Rankings than it does in the US news rankings. I've seen them as high as #15 in the world before. Then, if you break it down by subject, they're all very high. All Well and Good....but just remember: Michigan sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted October 7, 2015 Report Share Posted October 7, 2015 Another http://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/rankings?int=a27a09 Michigan #17 Northwestern #25 Wisconsin #26 Minnesota #29 Ohio State #34 Maryland #41 Illinois #43 Penn St. #57 Rutgers #60 Purdue #72 MSU #82 Indiana #109 Iowa #128 (ND #173) Nebraska #244 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieHardBrownsFan Posted October 7, 2015 Report Share Posted October 7, 2015 My University, Tijuana Tech should be rated No. 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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