UGA has passed Miami, in the US News and World Report rankings, the most useless rankings in existence. We've seen numerous times how those ranks can and do get gamed, mostly because the criteria has little to do with academic relevance or rigor. In other words, you are in the middle of a huge fundraising drive? You get bumped up. You play games with your admissions department to fudge your yield numbers? That's fine, here, have some rank points. I got curious and pulled up the Wall Street Journal rankings, you know, the ones formulated to do more than sell overpriced magazines and....
The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings, based on 15 performance indicators, is designed to answer the questions that matter most to students and their families: How likely am I to graduate, pay off my loans and get a good job? Does the college have plenty of resources to...
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53: University of Miami
149th: University of Georgia
401-500: University of Alabama
By the way, of course a Bama centric rag would hype this up, they don't want to admit that their single minded emphasis on football actively screws over the 99% of the school that doesn't play, nor truly benefit from that program winning outside of having some fun fall Saturdays. Athletic departments love to push this narrative, because they need an excuse to justify their existence, although it's been shown time and time again that the elite schools are mostly out of the major college sports business. Think about it, outside of us, Southern Cal and Notre Dame, think of another top 100 private institution that has had consistent, championship level success in the sport in the last 40 years. Even when you look at the state schools that are well thought of in the top 100 of the rankings, they are few and far between. For every Michigan, for every Florida, there are bottom feeders like Clemson. Schools like Purdue and Georgia Tech are **** good, they are also rans in regards to sports. Ever notice that the top 100 institutions, look nothing like the AP Top 25? There's a reason why.