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	College Rankings. ERIC Digest.
		College rankings garnered mass appeal in 1983, when U.S. News and World Report's college issue, based on a survey of college presidents, was the first to judge or rank colleges (McDonough, Antonio, Walpole, and Perez, 1998, p.
		College and university officials have responded to the unfavorable or undesirable rankings placement of their institutions in a variety of ways.
		Since many published rankings have been perceived as biased, uninformative, or flawed, a number of higher education practitioners encourage parents and prospective students to do their own research on colleges, to view alternative college prep publications, and to view the rankings publications with a critical eye.
	www.ericdigests.org /2003-3/rankings.htm (1331 words)

	US News College Rankings
		His assumption was that specific, measurable, college-selected outcomes of a college degree ought to be the focus of a ranking instead of relatively arbitrary criteria picked by a magazine publisher.
		The overall impact of newsmagazine rankings on college choice is among the lowest of all major sources of information and choice.
		College admissions, financial aid, college search - College Confidential.com is the best web source for information on college-related topics, from Ivy League admissions to evaluating college rankings, from college books and book reviews to college counseling and paying for a university education.
	www.collegeconfidential.com /college_rankings/USNews.htm (835 words)

	Applications, Admissions & College Rankings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The college ranking issue is "the envy of the magazine industry," says Michael Brannick, president and CEO of Peterson's, the largest publisher of college guides in this country.
		To improve their standings in the rankings, more colleges are accepting a higher percentage of their incoming freshman classes by early decision (ED).
		But 38 percent of responding colleges, including Stanford and Cornell, have refused to submit this data because they either didn't know about a particular school or they didn't feel that subjective data was helpful.
	blast.mbhs.edu /college/Rankings.html (1731 words)

	College Rankings: General and Undergraduate
		Because the school descriptions are compiled from general college guides, many make only passing mention of Hispanic academic or social life on the campuses, but most specify where the college ranks in total numbers of graduating Hispanic students.
		Factors such as diversity, specialty schools/programs (ranked and non-ranked), and state-by-state results are ranked separately.
		Methodology: The rankings are described in the article "The Other College Rankings".
	www.library.uiuc.edu /edx/rankgen.htm (1570 words)

	College Rankings
		If a school is ranked lower (say only in the first tear), they aren’t likely to get applicants with as high of reputations and more admitted students are likely to choose other places.
		Not realizing just how much students looked at rankings, they admitted roughly the same number of students as the year before with the assumption that roughly the same percentage would choose another school and would go elsewhere, leaving them their ideal size class.
		The rankings are based on so many factors that don’t directly relate to a student’s education, that you can’t really even look at these as giving "the best schools." Take the case of No. 7 University of Pennsylvania vs. No.
	www.nutzworld.com /college/college_rankings.htm (797 words)

	USATODAY.com - College rankings get failing grade in measuring quality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		But if potential students use rankings to determine the best place to get a good education, such as the quality of life on a college campus or their satisfaction with post-graduation job placement, they will be disappointed.
		Rankings are often determined by a survey completed by college presidents or graduate-school deans, who are asked to rank a list of peer institutions.
		Switches in rankings of colleges usually occur because of the changes publications make in the weight of a category or the addition of a new one.
	www.usatoday.com /news/opinion/editorials/2004-05-19-gallagher_x.htm (756 words)

	Postsecondary Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The 2001 Colleges, Universities and Scholarships Page is designed to offer college-bound students, parents, and counselors easy access to information on colleges and universities throughout the United States, free scholarship and financial aid searches, SAT and ACT test preparation tips, and more.
		It was authorized by Congress in 1998 to help college students, future students, and their parents understand the differences between colleges and how much it costs to attend college.
		The Colleges, College Scholarships and Financial Aid Page is designed to offer college bound students, parents, and counselors easy access to information on colleges and universities throughout the United States, free college scholarship and financial aid searches, SAT and ACT test preparation tips.
	www3.dist214.k12.il.us /guidance/postsec.htm (2647 words)

	Peterson's College Rankings
		College Rankings Exposed ™: The Art of Getting a Quality Education in the 21st Century is the much-needed arm of our mission, offering the truest route to quality education.
		Explains how college rankings create false assumptions about higher education and create unnecessary pressure for students and their parents.
		Educators who are aware of the college rankings game and are working toward finding alternatives to better educate the public about their institution.
	www.petersons.com /about/ranking.html (563 words)

	"The Other College Rankings" by Joshua Green
		Chances are that if you attended college in the last 35 years and didn't come from a wealthy family, you received financial aid that included a work-study job.
		In the 1970s colleges saw their costs soar during the energy crisis; state schools in particular were left to operate with much smaller budgets.
		College financial aid officers are so flush with work-study dollars that they're awarding grants to middle- and upper-middle-class students simply by process of elimination.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /features/2001/0201.green.html (3430 words)

	Study examines impact of college rankings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The researchers said that one of their main concerns with the rankings is that they seem to serve only a small group of college-bound students and not the broadest population possible.
		Because the rankings tend to be based simply on easily quantified information, such as SAT scores and GPAs, and do not address other important issues such as what the student population is like and other basic information, many students may be misled into choosing a school that is not right for them, the study concluded.
		This is very upsetting because many prospective college students judge colleges and base their decisions on which college to attend on these kind of false reports and don't consider certain aspects of individual colleges," said Si-WaiYan, a first-year international economics student who did not use the rankings in deciding to enroll at UCLA.
	www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /DB/issues/97/04.11/news.rankings.html (1264 words)

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		My aim has been to make it inclusive for colleges that are selective to an appreciable degree, but I have eked it out with the addition of schools whose middling SAT rank is misleading.
		The most selective colleges are in a position to be idiosyncratic about test scores, preferring a class of all the talents to a class of all the swots.
		Berkeley obtains class rank from 100% of its applicants, nine tenths of whom are California residents.
	collegeadmissions.tripod.com /sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/laissez-faire-1999-2000.txt (10081 words)

	College Rankings
		Increasingly, the importance and validity of college rankings is a hotly debated issue.
		Many universities, including highly ranked ones, are beginning to question both the data and methods used by some ranking services.
		Of special concern are the aspects of the rankings which deal with the difficult to measure concept of institutional reputation.
	www.library.uiuc.edu /edx/rankings.htm (334 words)

	Boston.com / Sports / College / Football / BCS rankings still rankling
		If you had taken the wisdom of the two human polls, the first Bowl Championship Series rankings that were released yesterday should have been a no-brainer.
		USC was No. 1 and Miami, ranked No. 4 in the writers poll and No. 3 in the coaches, was No. 2 in the BCS rankings,.0026 points ahead of Oklahoma.
		But it does re-open an issue that the BCS hoped to correct last season, when USC was ranked No. 1 in both human polls, but No. 3 in the final BCS rankings, which projected LSU and Oklahoma into the BCS title game in New Orleans.
	www.boston.com /sports/colleges/football/articles/2004/10/19/bcs_rankings_still_rankling (354 words)

	College Rankings
		Although many college administrators are reluctant to admit it, ratings of colleges can indeed serve a useful purpose for parents and students trying to select schools.
		For instance, a student might find that a school she is interested in has an unusually low percentage of freshmen who return for sophomore year compared to similar schools; she might wish to find out more about this issue during visits or other research.
		This is particularly true of rankings that list schools geographically, by department, etc. Scanning the list might suggest a school or two that the family had not considered, or perhaps even heard of.
	www.collegeconfidential.com /college_rankings (454 words)

	California College Tours - California College Rankings
		They are based on academic reputation (based on surveys of college administrators), graduation and retention rank, faculty resources, class size, student/faculty ratio, percent of full-time faculty, selectivity, acceptance rate, financial resources, graduation rate performance, and alumni giving rate.
		For freshmen, graduate school rankings may not seem important, but it can indicate the quality of the faculty, the research, and the graduate students (who are usually teaching assistants) at the college.
		Note: liberal arts colleges emphasize undergraduate education and award at least 40% of their degrees in the liberal arts.
	www.geocities.com /rhorii/Rankings.html (666 words)

	Meriam Library -- College and University Rankings
		Some of the criteria commonly used to measure an institution's academic quality, especially for undergraduate education, are average SAT scores of incoming freshmen, acceptance rates, number of students continuing with postgraduate study, size of the library, and number of PhD's on the faculty.
		These rankings are in addition to annual rankings of business, law, medicine, engineering and education schools.
		Enter keywords like: colleges directories, undergraduate rankings, graduate rankings, universities rankings, graduate education biology, social sciences graduate evaluation, etc. If you are a current CSU Chico student, faculty or staff member, try these same search strategies in PHAROS, the California State Universities library catalog search engine.
	www.csuchico.edu /lref/guides/misc/colran.html (1941 words)

	Colley's Bias Free Matrix Rankings
		In other words, a typical ranking difference between my poll and either press poll would be around 1 place at a ranking of #4, and around 5 places at #20.
		Since we don't really know the "true" rankings of the teams, we, in fact, are not able to say whether the media polls or my rankings are better, but the fact that the agreement is, in practice, quite good provides reason to believe that neither is totally out to lunch.
		So, here we have a scheme to rank college football teams that is absolutely free from human influence or opinion, accounts for schedule strength, ignores runaway scores, and yet produces common sense results, which at the end of the season compare favorably with the press poll rankings.
	www.colleyrankings.com (1056 words)

	MSN Encarta - Campus Antics: What's Going On At the Nation's Best Colleges?
		But The Princeton Review finds them each year when they survey thousands of current college students who aren't afraid to come clean about exactly what's happening on their campuses.
		Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, ranks in the top 10 for all but one of these:
		Sure--at one of these colleges, students from different backgrounds interact in peace and harmony.
	encarta.msn.com /quiz_126/Campus_Antics_College_Rankings_Quiz.html (204 words)

	College Search: Colleges and Universities - Admission
		Before searching for colleges by the majors they offer, take the time to learn about some of the over 700 majors and careers profiled here.
		Experts are predicting the ten hottest careers for college grads.
		Use our college search engine now to find colleges and universities with specific characteristics and to research college admissions requirements.
	cbweb1.collegeboard.org /csearch (112 words)

	CollegeNight and the Dunce's Cap
		The purpose of eCollegebid is to simplify the process colleges and prospective students use to arrive at a valid cost for a college education.
		After 32 years as a college enrollment management consultant, Kelly decided to take advantage of a growing trend of colleges and universities to discount substantially their cost for an education.
		At the top 33 Regional Liberal Arts Colleges, 55.6% of their students receive grants based on need that average 49.7% of the total cost.
	www.collegenight.com (734 words)

	Criticism of College Rankings - September 23, 1996
		As the president of a university that is among the top-ranked universities, I hope I have the standing to persuade you that much about these rankings - particularly their specious formulas and spurious precision - is utterly misleading.
		Yet, the people behind the U.S. News rankings lead readers to believe either that university quality pops up and down like politicians in polls, or that last year's rankings were wrong but this year's are right (until, of course, next year's prove them wrong).
		I fear, however, that these rankings and their byproducts have become too attention-catching for that to happen.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/pres-provost/president/speeches/961206gcfallow.html (1171 words)

	Seattle Times: Scores & Stats
		Jeff Anderson, one-half of the team that produces these rankings, offers analysis and commentary on college football and other sports on his Web site: http://www.andersonsports.com.
		Using these schedule ratings, teams are ranked solely upon their success in defeating quality opponents, rather than upon margin of victory.
		These rankings provide the most accurate and informative conference ratings -- each conference is rated according to its out-of-conference record and the difficulty of its out-of-conference schedule.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /sports/collegefb/STpoll.html (167 words)

	The NORC Report on U.S. News and World Report
		One important finding is that students' satisfaction with their college experience is strongly related to their "immersion" in their environment such as nonclassroom and extracurricular activity.
		A common technique for smoothing out such "noise" in the ratings is to use threeyear moving averages in which the ratings for the current and past two years are averaged and this average is reported as the score of the institution.
		A related criticism is that the weights continue to change, in part as colleges and university officers complain about their rating and suggest alternative formulations, which, not coincidentally, play into their own strengths.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /features/2000/norc.html (4001 words)

	College Rankings Exposed Books Non Fiction Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		College rankings appear like clockwork each fall, letting us know who`s #1.
		But rankings create a false impression that the college experience can be reduced to a single number, encouraging students to scramble up a nonexistent ladder.
		Colleges Rankings Exposed helps students find the right fit for them.
	www.1-online-stores.com /books_non_fiction/College_Rankings_Exposed (126 words)

	Top College \| Best School Rankings
		While they are fully aware that these rankings are inherently problematic and serve as publicity and sales revenue for their publishers, they also know that if their school improves its ranking, it will almost certainly translate into increased applications.
		All of the rankings are much better at generating publicity and revenue for their publishers than they are at ranking the colleges and universities.
		College applicants, and future college applicants, should be seeking their best fit schools.
	www.topcollegerankings.com (319 words)

	TheCenter Research Universities Ranking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The twenty-first century shows no lessening of interest among researchers, institutions, donors, boards of trustees, and governments in using various university rankings to the performance of higher education institutions.
		Institutions that have more than $20 million in annual federal research expenditures and that rank within the top 25 on at least one of the nine measures fall into our definition of a top research university.
		In this study, we also present a second group of institutions--those ranking 26-50 on the same nine measures.
	thecenter.ufl.edu /research2002.html (767 words)

	usnews.com: Education: College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Use our sortable ranking tables, searchable directory, comparison worksheet, and more to find the right school for you.
		Use our step-by-step guide to find the articles, experts and peers, interactive tools, and yes, rankings, to master the entire admissions process.
		In your search for the perfect college, there's a lot to consider, from location and cost to academic reputation and sports.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/edu/college/cohome.htm (163 words)

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