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US NEWS College Rankings 2018

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USF up to 140 from 159! UCF dropped 5 spots from 171 to 176...

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Nice jump. It's still a pile of garbage. I mean, they have Mercer above us????????

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We're top 50 in research expenditures, top 10 in patents, and on even footing with UF and FSU as far as the state is concerned (preeminent).

Yet, US News has us in a separate league essentially? GTFO of here with that trash, guys.

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7 hours ago, HPbull said:

USF up to 140 from 159! UCF dropped 5 spots from 171 to 176...

UCF is even below FIT (#151).

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8 hours ago, The Great 8 said:

We're top 50 in research expenditures, top 10 in patents, and on even footing with UF and FSU as far as the state is concerned (preeminent).

Yet, US News has us in a separate league essentially? GTFO of here with that trash, guys.

Good article on Politico about how the rankings are determined. Basically the system rewards inefficiency. The schools that waste the most money get the highest ranking, and the schools that can do it better and cheaper get penalized.

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/top-college-rankings-list-2017-us-news-investigation/

 

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12 minutes ago, charsibb said:

Good article on Politico about how the rankings are determined. Basically the system rewards inefficiency. The schools that waste the most money get the highest ranking, and the schools that can do it better and cheaper get penalized.

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/top-college-rankings-list-2017-us-news-investigation/

 

That's a good point, but USF is offsetting that with getting veterans and African Americans through school efficiently and on time. USF is still a great value and will remain so long term. 

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10 hours ago, bullsbucsfan426 said:

That's a good point, but USF is offsetting that with getting veterans and African Americans through school efficiently and on time. USF is still a great value and will remain so long term. 

You just said a mouthful.

For US News, being a great value actually moves you DOWN the list, significantly so.

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3 hours ago, smazza said:

usf did me right

They also did me right

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22 hours ago, charsibb said:

Good article on Politico about how the rankings are determined. Basically the system rewards inefficiency. The schools that waste the most money get the highest ranking, and the schools that can do it better and cheaper get penalized.

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/top-college-rankings-list-2017-us-news-investigation/

 

I worked for an organization that partnered with US News and their college rankings program.  We basically would import their data and repackage it for monetization purposes.  

I had a peripheral look at how they compiled their data.  They were changing rankings up until the last minute and we got many iterations leading up to the official release.  We always felt that there was a lot of lobbying going on behind the scenes and the rankings would change arbitrarily and at the whim of this director or that until the very end.

 

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