(12-27-2008 07:06 PM)omnicarrier Wrote: Georgia, Alabama, and Auburn are all ranked higher than FSU in US News and South Carolina and UT are just below.
But if the ACC as a conference can't smack talk in terms of on the field performance, there is always your academic ranking. Maybe we should start a separate board to discuss that?
Cheers,
Neil
I thought we have already covered, numerous times, how US News & World Report rankings are garbage?
- Doesn't do "per capita" ratings
- Ignores program certifications
- Based partially on a SURVEY sent to each school
- Based partially on a SURVEY sent to faculty/staff not belonging to the schools
- Based partially on alumni giving rate (How is this relevant to degree quality, especially since alot of that giving goes to the AD at places like Auburn?)
- Based partially on per-student spending (So if you simply jack the prices way up on tuition ... congrats! You're better in their rankings!)
- Based partially on the difference between expected and actual graduation rate. What the hell does this have to do with the quality of the education? This sounds more like penalizing people on Wall Street because their earnings do or do not meet projections of "analysts".
They don't even completely publish their ranking methodologies, likely because they're too embarrised at how much of a sham it is.
Here's some mathmaticians tearing apart USN&WR's ranking system. By just slightly tweaking priorities in the formula they can greatly shake up the generated results:
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/...e_rankings
In case you haven't gotten the point yet:
USN&WR's collegiate rankings are complete and utter joke, sham, failure, laughing stock, pile of manure, etc.