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AGAIN: UAB ranked among the world's top 150 universities. - WesternBlazer - 07-21-2016 12:14 PM
http://www.uab.edu/news/student-experience/item/7470
RE: AGAIN: UAB ranked among the world's top 150 universities. - hooverblazer - 07-21-2016 12:32 PM
This needs to be shown to school presidents in other conferences as expansion unfolds.
RE: AGAIN: UAB ranked among the world's top 150 universities. - panama - 07-21-2016 12:56 PM
I am sure its part of the presntation
RE: AGAIN: UAB ranked among the world's top 150 universities. - Big Dee - 07-21-2016 03:05 PM
location, academics, reputation all thats here at the moment
RE: AGAIN: UAB ranked among the world's top 150 universities. - CourtsideBlazer - 07-21-2016 05:43 PM
other C-USA schools ranked:
114: Rice
603: Florida Int'l
643: ODU
667: La Tech
696: UTSA
748: North Texas
765: Charlotte
864: Florida Atlantic
880 Southern Miss
967: UTEP
not ranked in Top 1000 in the world: MTSU, Marshall, WKU
other schools of interest:
387: Alabama
497: Auburn
723: UA-Huntsville
792: Memphis
862: South Alabama
RE: AGAIN: UAB ranked among the world's top 150 universities. - blazers9911 - 07-21-2016 08:12 PM
(07-21-2016 12:56 PM)panama Wrote: I am sure its part of the presntation
What presentation?
RE: AGAIN: UAB ranked among the world's top 150 universities. - panama - 07-21-2016 08:23 PM
I am sure every school on the eastern seaboard is currently calling Aresco's office daily
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RE: AGAIN: UAB ranked among the world's top 150 universities. - Memphis Blazer - 07-26-2016 05:45 PM
I guess you just need to pick your source to have the best college in state. Forbes lists Auburn as the best college in Alabama.
http://www3.forbes.com/business/the-best-college-in-every-state/2/
RE: AGAIN: UAB ranked among the world's top 150 universities. - blazerjay - 07-26-2016 11:46 PM
Really? You never seem to be content unless you're peeing on someone's parade.
Here's how each calculated their rankings. Forbes takes into account Rate My Professor, Entertainment Award winners and Debt statistics in addition to standard academic measures, while CWUR is strictly business success, academics and research stats.
CWUR World University Rankings:
1) Quality of Education, measured by the number of a university's alumni who have won major international awards, prizes, and medals relative to the university's size [25%]
2) Alumni Employment, measured by the number of a university's alumni who have held CEO positions at the world's top companies relative to the university's size [25%]
3) Quality of Faculty, measured by the number of academics who have won major international awards, prizes, and medals [25%]
4) Publications, measured by the number of research papers appearing in reputable journals [5%]
5) Influence, measured by the number of research papers appearing in highly-influential journals [5%]
6) Citations, measured by the number of highly-cited research papers [5%]
7) Broad Impact, measured by the university's h-index [5%]
8) Patents, measured by the number of international patent filings [5%]
FORBES America's Top Colleges:
1) Alumni on America's Leaders list (Power Women, 30 Under 30, CEO's on Global 2000, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, Guggenheim and MacArthur fellows, those elected to the National Academy of Sciences, Academy, Emmy, Tony and Grammy Award winners) (22.5%)
2) Student Transfer Rate (12.5%)
3) Student Loan Default Rates (12.5%)
4) Academic Success (10%)
5) Average Federal Student Debt Load (10%)
6) Student Evaluations on Rate My Professor (10%)
7) Salary of Alumni (Payscale.com) (10%)
8) Graduation Rate (5%)
9) Freshman to Sophomore Retention Rate (2.5%)
10) Predicted vs. actual percent of students taking federal loans (2.5%)
11) Predicted vs. actual graduation rate (2.5%)
RE: AGAIN: UAB ranked among the world's top 150 universities. - UAB Band Dad - 07-27-2016 01:07 AM
"4) Academic Success (10%)" ~ That pretty well explains AU being rated higher.
RE: AGAIN: UAB ranked among the world's top 150 universities. - uabblazer2012 - 07-27-2016 11:36 AM
I would think the Forbes criteria would be a better indicator of how well a school is performing. I would think UAB faculty would easily have a higher score based on what CWUR is looking at.
RE: AGAIN: UAB ranked among the world's top 150 universities. - mixduptransistor - 07-27-2016 04:07 PM
Rankings are worthless, there is a ranking methodology and group that has every school in it's top whatever.
RE: AGAIN: UAB ranked among the world's top 150 universities. - BlazerFromMD - 07-27-2016 04:11 PM
#89 in patents is a huge indicator. It shows that there is a high degree of innovation at UAB.
RE: AGAIN: UAB ranked among the world's top 150 universities. - biglizard - 07-27-2016 04:27 PM
If they would just add a category for self doubt or loathing we could move up. Really guys....
RE: AGAIN: UAB ranked among the world's top 150 universities. - Memphis Blazer - 07-27-2016 06:21 PM
(07-27-2016 04:07 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote: Rankings are worthless, there is a ranking methodology and group that has every school in it's top whatever.
That was my point but it was called parade peeing.
RE: AGAIN: UAB ranked among the world's top 150 universities. - the_blazerman - 07-27-2016 06:43 PM
I think it is apparent that the main question some would have would be - will this help us get into a better conference for athletics?
Well, hasn't helped us yet.
RE: AGAIN: UAB ranked among the world's top 150 universities. - ATTALLABLAZE - 07-27-2016 09:23 PM
It has not been utilized due to lack of leadership.
RE: AGAIN: UAB ranked among the world's top 150 universities. - the_blazerman - 07-28-2016 08:52 AM
Certainly so. Being ranked alone wouldn't get us an invite.
That combined with leadership & vision would give us a better chance.
RE: AGAIN: UAB ranked among the world's top 150 universities. - ATTALLABLAZE - 07-28-2016 09:17 AM
To be fair HCBC uses them in recruiting and I feel certain the foundation will use them. ;-)
RE: AGAIN: UAB ranked among the world's top 150 universities. - UABslant - 07-29-2016 11:36 AM
Bill Clark keeps using the line, "We're a top-30 university." At first I thought this was a bit disingenuous. But the reality is that football isn't competing against every university in the US; it's competing against the 120+ schools in FBS. We make the numbers work to our advantage.