MAC USNWR Rankings
Miami University-66
Ohio University-109
University at Buffalo-115
Temple University-140
Bowling Green State-155
Western Michigan-170
Ball State-175
Kent State-189
Northern Illinios-189
Central Michigan-201
Toledo-201
Akron-220
Eastern Michigan-NR
CUSA USNWR Rankings
Rice-17
Tulane-43
Southern Methodist-71
Tulsa-93
UAB-151
East Carolina-180
Central Florida-180
Southern Miss.-198
Houston-201
Memphis-220
UTEP-240
Marshall-NR
CUSA is looking a lot better at the top than the MAC but worse on the bottom.
<a href='http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/rankindex_brief.php' target='_blank'>http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/r...index_brief.php</a>
Memphis is 220, not 240 (not that it makes much difference :rolleyes: ).
Not all is too bad. BG is listed as one of the top school's in the country for its learning communities! Along with Miami, Michigan among others.
Magazine gives BGSU good marks
University, 1st-year program cited in rankings
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Beth Wayton of Rossford, from left, and Anna Rust of Dayton, who are both residents of Kohl Hall at Bowling Green State University, help freshmen move into the dorm. The two women belong to Chapman Community, which is the original residential learning community on the campus and has been successful for the university. the blade/lisa dutton
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By KIM BATES
BLADE STAFF WRITER
BOWLING GREEN - First-year students at Bowling Green State University will gather this morning for their first glimpse at college life - and for some serious soul-searching with one another.
The youths, fresh from reading the assigned book The Kite Runner, will be talking values and more values over the next three days in a first-year program known as the BGeXperience - an offering that BGSU officials have been touting for years as unique among the nation's colleges.
Now entering its fourth year, the program has received its first national recognition as a program to look for in the annual U.S. News & World Report ranking of "America's Best Colleges," which is available online today and hits newsstands Monday.
"My guess is among the constellation of programs that we have, the BGeXperience has really experienced national attention," said director Don Nieman about the magazine's mention of the program. "I think we've been building at this."
For the third year, the magazine also mentioned BGSU in a listing for learning communities, which combine residential life with academics. Jodi Webb, who sits on BGSU's advisory board for the learning communities, said leaders are constantly evaluating and assessing the offerings to make them more innovative.
BGSU officials said they were thrilled about the dual special designations this year. No other area colleges or universities were highlighted in the magazine's list of outstanding academic programs, which includes those for internships, senior-year programs, service learning, study abroad, writing, and undergraduate research offerings for students.
For first-year programs, BGeXperience shared the spotlight with Ohio State University and the University of Michigan among a list of more than 40 institutions. Michigan and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, were ranked with BGSU in a list of 25 named learning communities.
BGSU was ranked in the third tier among the nation's best colleges again this year, while the University of Toledo was again in the magazine's fourth tier. Harvard and Princeton once again tied for first place as the nation's top universities.
Ohio Northern University was ranked No. 5 among comprehensive colleges in the Midwest. In that same category, Bluffton University was 34th; Defiance College tied for 47th, and Lourdes College was placed in the fourth tier.
Adrian College was in the fourth tier for liberal arts colleges. Heidelberg College tied for 34th place in the master's degree category for the Midwest region, while the University of Findlay was in the third tier of that category, and Tiffin University was recognized for its business program.
The magazine uses seven indicators to rank the colleges, including peer assessment, student retention, student selectivity, and alumni giving, among others.
At BGSU, officials this year are including all first-year students in their first-year program, which to date has attracted $2.5 million in outside donations. Sessions begin today and end Sunday afternoon with an address from President Sidney Ribeau. New this year will be presentations by Bowling Green city officials to promote "town and gown" cooperation.
Students will spend some time meeting with peer mentors and fall-semester instructors, who will incorpore the idea of values into upcoming teachings. The students will then break into small groups and explore their own value beliefs.
"These are very open-ended scenarios, where there's no right answer," Mr. Nieman said. "Our whole purpose is to get students thinking about 'What are my values?' and 'Why do I have that value?'
The methodology used is flawed. These are state schools with in general haphazardly developed (ie. not all well developed areas) for graduate study (Few med/law schools; Phd in enginering ,etc). They are also meant to service their respec tive areas and put service into that instead of pure snobbish academics. Most high ranked schools do not have service mandates and pick who they admit and have huge endowments. Most MAC schools do not have that luxury by design. It is to the Macs credit that almost all are national universities.
For a more balanced look at the MAC schools in the top 500 world universities. You might be surprised.
UABs rep largely rides on a rich and well funded med school for example. And note the rankings of the CUSA public schools (and Marshall not having stature as a national university).
Rice and Tulane are great schools. Are they public or private? The MAC is the best buy for a college education. Most people don't have that kind of money (or brains) to get into those elite schools. For the regular guy the MAC is an excellent choice for college. I choose Ohio because its had a small college town feel but with big school academics and resources. I think Miami, Bowling Green, and many other MAC schools offer that type of enviroment. I liked a school that you could see a girl on the college green and have a good chance of running into her at the bar later.
Rice and Tulane are private. Rice has a HUGE endowment and probably does not really need revenue from tuition. How many MAC schools can say that?
Rice's endowment is $3.3 Billion!!! The school in the MAC with the highest endowment is Buffalo at $537 million, which isn't too shabby either.
Buffalo also made it to #48 out of 115 ranked on Forbes' list of best business schools (MBA programs). It puts emphasis on 'return on investment' which is interesting.
<a href='http://www.forbes.com/lists/2005/95/Rank_3.html' target='_blank'>http://www.forbes.com/lists/2005/95/Rank_3.html</a>
<a href='http://www.forbes.com/lists/2005/08/16/best-business-schools-list-cz_05mba_land.html' target='_blank'>http://www.forbes.com/lists/2005/08/16/bes...05mba_land.html</a>
USNWR....whats that mean?
US News and World Reports....a major news magazine.
Karl Wrote:US News and World Reports....a major new magazine.
Nah, they've been around for a while.
What are the rankings for?
chris4rockets Wrote:What are the rankings for?
Academics, totally unrelated to athletics.
mossmaidi Wrote:Rice's endowment is $3.3 Billion!!! The school in the MAC with the highest endowment is Buffalo at $537 million, which isn't too shabby either.
Buffalo $537,185,501
Temple Endowment: $166,128,000
WMU Endowment: $136,786,000
Miami Endowment: $112,672,766
Bowling Green Endowment: $58,144,412
Kent $48,076,985
CMU $52,466,633
Akron $46,998,772
Toledo $35,299,878
NIU $1,838,010
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Ohio Endowment: N/A
Ball State Endowment: N/A
EMU N/A
bronco67 Wrote:mossmaidi Wrote:Rice's endowment is $3.3 Billion!!! The school in the MAC with the highest endowment is Buffalo at $537 million, which isn't too shabby either.
Buffalo $537,185,501
Temple Endowment: $166,128,000
WMU Endowment: $136,786,000
Miami Endowment: $112,672,766
Bowling Green Endowment: $58,144,412
Kent $48,076,985
CMU $52,466,633
Akron $46,998,772
Toledo $35,299,878
NIU $1,838,010
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Ohio Endowment: N/A
Ball State Endowment: N/A
EMU N/A
That looks so odd. Everybody in the 10's to 100's of millions and we sit at 1.8 Million. :eek:
Roudebush Rocket Wrote:chris4rockets Wrote:What are the rankings for?
Academics, totally unrelated to athletics.
Theres also an athletics ranking that should be coming out soon
BG 155 over WMU 170, this is proof that this report is a farce. :mad:
I think BG is a better school than WMU, so I don't think it is a farce! We have some nationally ranked programs. I don't know a single program that WMU is known for.
