MDZip Posted August 24, 2009 Report Posted August 24, 2009 Forbes released their list of the top 600 colleges and named Akron at 560. There are lots of reasons that these lists are pretty meaningless (although I'm happy we finally made one somewhere - one of those Princeton review books that I've seen lately lists just about every school in the country but not Akron) and the MAC did pretty poorly overall (everyone made the list but NIU but I could have overlooked them), with Miami at the highest at 331 at no one else above 450. The MAC always gets viewed as a second tier set of schools despite some really great things going on at many of the schools. This stuff annoys me. Top of the List Quote
zip-O-matic Posted August 24, 2009 Report Posted August 24, 2009 Forbes released their list of the top 600 colleges and named Akron at 560. There are lots of reasons that these lists are pretty meaningless (although I'm happy we finally made one somewhere - one of those Princeton review books that I've seen lately lists just about every school in the country but not Akron) and the MAC did pretty poorly overall (everyone made the list but NIU but I could have overlooked them), with Miami at the highest at 331 at no one else above 450. The MAC always gets viewed as a second tier set of schools despite some really great things going on at many of the schools. This stuff annoys me. Top of the ListDon't worry about that ranking. 25% of a school's score is based upon reviews at ratemyprofessor.com Apparently, the people who put it together hate public universities and came up with a ranking that totally downgrades them. Michigan is ranked as the 200th university in the country far below little no-name private colleges that I never heard of.US News has its problems, but it seems to be a lot more relevant and respected than Forbes' (me too) effort. Quote
Sergeant Zip Posted August 24, 2009 Report Posted August 24, 2009 Akron has the 93rd best business program per BusinessWeek. Quote
UA Fan Posted August 24, 2009 Report Posted August 24, 2009 There are well over 2400 colleges and universities in the US so this puts us squarely in the top 25%. Does jupitertoo know about this? Quote
UADavid Posted August 25, 2009 Report Posted August 25, 2009 There are well over 2400 colleges and universities in the US so this puts us squarely in the top 25%. Does jupitertoo know about this? Must still be trying to justify the cheating plagued engineering school. Quote
johnnyzip84 Posted August 25, 2009 Report Posted August 25, 2009 There are well over 2400 colleges and universities in the US so this puts us squarely in the top 25%. Does jupitertoo know about this? He's apparently..... Quote
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