By demand, we have analyzed the searches students have run on StudentsReview, and have ranked the schools by the size of their reputation. The schools with the largest reputations are the most well-known, and whos degree awards will not only be regionally recognized, but nationally and internationally as well.
Biggest Reputations:
1 Harvard University
2 Stanford University
3 Cornell University
4 Boston University
5 New York University
6 Princeton University
7 Yale University
Duke University
9 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Pennsylvania
11 Indiana University Bloomington
12 University of California -- Los Angeles
13 Brown University
14 University of Washington
15 University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Boston College
17 Northwestern University
18 University of Virginia
19 University of Chicago
20 University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities
Georgetown University
22 University of Southern California
University of Florida
24 York University
25 American University
26 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Purdue University
University of Illinois -- Urbana Champaign
29 University of Toronto
Auburn University
Syracuse University
32 University of Arizona
University of Texas -- Austin
34 Vanderbilt University
Rice University
Ohio University
Emory University
38 Miami University
Michigan State University
40 Tufts University
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Having a large reputation isn't always a good thing, and considering you don't know what this huge reputation IS, I wouldn't be pulling your flagship stuff again. And btw, I don't remember a thread asking what the most reputable school is anyways.
momtartin(BG) Wrote:Having a large reputation isn't always a good thing, and considering you don't know what this huge reputation IS, I wouldn't be pulling your flagship stuff again. And btw, I don't remember a thread asking what the most reputable school is anyways.
If its not an indicator of a good university, then why are we tied with Emory, Vanderbilt, and Rice in the Rankings? Those 3 schools along with Duke are considered the Ivy league of the south.
I'm just tired of the disrespect of my school on this board and the athletic association with commuter schools in the MAC.
I give talks to HS Seniors interested in OU from out-of-state and I'll get questions like "Is this a commuter school?". To me thats an absurd question because OU is the classic example of a residential campus, but it must be coming from the perception of our MAC affiliation.
Poor little Kit-Cat. Tell you what - why don't you guys take your little flagship selves and find yourselves another conference - better than the MAC - that would want you.
Perception is reality, KC. In the state of Ohio, it's OSU, with the rest of us doing a very solid job. And being an Akron fan, I'll ask you what in the sam heck does it matter if you're a commuter school?? There are hundreds of non-commuter schools that don't offer what many "commuter" schools, such as Akron do. I'm all for the on-campus experience, but as a predictor of lifetime success, there is no relationship.
Ohio U is a nice, quiet, rural university in the midwest. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Kit-Cat Wrote:If its not an indicator of a good university, then why are we tied with Emory, Vanderbilt, and Rice in the Rankings?
Because people left out the word "State."
Dude, Indiana was 10th.
Indi-freakin'-ana.
Quote:I'm just tired of the disrespect of my school on this board and the athletic association with commuter schools in the MAC.
And we are all tired of you circle jerking in front of us.
Quote:I give talks to HS Seniors interested in OU from out-of-state and I'll get questions like "Is this a commuter school?". To me thats an absurd question because OU is the classic example of a residential campus,
But to them, its an honest question. "Are you sure you don't mean Ohio State?"
Quote:but it must be coming from the perception of our MAC affiliation.
Yeah. That's it. We're draggin' you down.
*******.
Kit-Cat Wrote:I'm just tired of the disrespect of my school on this board and the athletic association with commuter schools in the MAC.
Tired of the disrespect? Maybe people like myself who applied to Ohio and had in my top 3 final choices and actually like your school are tired of having how great it is shoved up our asses for no apparent reason. Your trying to help your school is doing NOTHING but making people on this board sick and tired of hearing about it.
I'll say it again. Ohio University is a beautiful school in a nice college town in the middle of nowhere.
momtartin(BG) Wrote:Having a large reputation isn't always a good thing, and considering you don't know what this huge reputation IS, I wouldn't be pulling your flagship stuff again.
You are right. It must be a reputation of smoking doobs because it's not a reputation of being a great place to receive an education. Here is that list. A couple things to note: it looks like they remembered to add the "state" this time and it looks like Western Michigan is rolling in at #8 on this list.
Quote:SR Monthly Undergraduate College Rankings
Top "Learning" Schools - Best Education
Warning: Data is not statistically reliable, nor is it complete.
It is heavily biased based upon the number of surveys.
# School #Svys Score
1 Rice University (compare) 38 24.1
2 University of Chicago (compare) 52 23.8
3 Colgate University (compare) 52 23.6
4 Brown University (compare) 101 23.6
5 Emory University (compare) 35 23.5
6 Texas A&M University at College Station (compare) 82 23.1
7 Mount Holyoke College (compare) 32 22.9
8 Kalamazoo College (compare) 41 22.9
9 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (compare) 91 22.7
10 Brandeis University (compare) 47 22.7
11 Johns Hopkins University (compare) 65 22.6
12 University of Notre Dame (compare) 38 22.5
13 Cornell University (compare) 77 22.4
14 Southwestern Assemblies of God University (compare) 122 22.3
15 Fordham University (compare) 50 22.3
16 Carnegie Mellon University (compare) 39 22.2
17 University of Virginia (compare) 63 22.2
18 Ohio Wesleyan University (compare) 88 22.2
19 University of Houston (compare) 85 22.1
20 Harvey Mudd College (compare) 34 22.1
21 Vanderbilt University (compare) 51 22.1
22 College of William and Mary (compare) 93 22.0
23 Washington University in St. Louis (compare) 45 21.9
24 Yale University (compare) 36 21.9
25 Northwestern University (compare) 62 21.8
26 University of Pennsylvania (compare) 48 21.8
27 University of Texas -- Austin (compare) 69 21.7
28 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (compare) 66 21.7
29 Brigham Young University (compare) 32 21.7
30 Northeastern University (compare) 33 21.6
31 Georgetown University (compare) 48 21.6
32 University of California -- Santa Barbara (compare) 37 21.6
33 Dartmouth College (compare) 37 21.5
34 Tufts University (compare) 33 21.3
35 University of California -- Berkeley (compare) 87 21.2
36 University of Southern California (compare) 84 21.2
37 University of California -- Los Angeles (compare) 56 21.1
38 Purdue University (compare) 38 21.1
39 Princeton University (compare) 37 21.1
40 American University (compare) 32 21.0
41 Bob Jones University (compare) 82 21.0
42 Ohio State University Columbus (compare) 31 20.9
43 New York University (compare) 96 20.9
44 Florida State University (compare) 74 20.8
45 Boston College (compare) 57 20.8
46 Tulane University (compare) 45 20.8
47 Columbia University in the City of New York (compare) 36 20.7
48 James Madison University (compare) 45 20.7
49 University of Delaware (compare) 78 20.7
50 Villanova University (compare) 65 20.6
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By the way, it looks like the bobkittie left a little something out of his post about reputation. Here is the
whole disclaimer.
Quote:Purpose
By demand, we have analyzed the searches students have run on StudentsReview, and have ranked the schools by the size of their reputation. The schools with the largest reputations are the most well-known, and whos degree awards will not only be regionally recognized, but nationally and internationally as well. We caution that reputation does not necessarily imply anything about academics or educational quality, though it is an important factor in valuing the degree from any particular school.
That is one of the largest fallacies of logic I have ever encountered… by your calculation Ohio U., which pretty much has no reputation outside of a 200 mile radius from Athens, has a bigger reputation than say Cal or Notre Dame… (Just to name two… the list of silliness could go on and on…)....
If Auburn is on the list it has nothing to do with academics
Kit-Cat, you're not getting anywhere with posting stuff like this. People are gonna think what they wanna think. This is a sports board, I don't think anyone wants to hear this kinda stuff. You might as well just stop bashing other MAC schools and trying to build up OU because no one is even taking your posts seriously.
GO CATS BEAT BUGS!
Blitz Wrote:That is one of the largest fallacies of logic I have ever encountered… by your calculation Ohio U., which pretty much has no reputation outside of a 200 mile radius from Athens, has a bigger reputation than say Cal or Notre Dame… (Just to name two… the list of silliness could go on and on…)....
Or say Carnegie Mellon, Dartmouth, BC, UNC at Chapel Hill or Tulane...just to add a few more.
GoCats Wrote:Kit-Cat, you're not getting anywhere with posting stuff like this. People are gonna think what they wanna think. This is a sports board, I don't think anyone wants to hear this kinda stuff. You might as well just stop bashing other MAC schools and trying to build up OU because no one is even taking your posts seriously.
GO CATS BEAT BUGS!
People have pretty much been telling him this for a VERY long time now.
We ALL know that Toledo and academics should not be mentioned in the same breath!!
Schadenfreude Wrote:Quote:I'm just tired of the disrespect of my school on this board and the athletic association with commuter schools in the MAC.
And we are all tired of you circle jerking in front of us.
Quote:I give talks to HS Seniors interested in OU from out-of-state and I'll get questions like "Is this a commuter school?". To me thats an absurd question because OU is the classic example of a residential campus,
But to them, its an honest question. "Are you sure you don't mean Ohio State?"
Quote:but it must be coming from the perception of our MAC affiliation.
Yeah. That's it. We're draggin' you down.
*******.
If you can't plainly tell that OHIO is better school in any perceptible way of quantifying it, your an idiot. The difference between OHIO and BG is the same kind of difference between UNC and ECU.
Yes, the MAC holds the image of my university back. No doubt about it.
And don't give me that OSU first bull crap. The top two public universities in Ohio are Miami not Ohio State. Findlay is 20 miles from BG. Out of the top 10 graduating seniors in 2004, two decided on public schools. One went to Ohio University and the other went to Miami University. Face it BG is a commuter school it its own backyard. Ohio is three hours from Findlay yet, students would prefer to go there than BG. Its time to wake up.
I'm sick of being stuck in a league with Marshall-type athletics at all costs schools with snarky attitudes. Can you blame me for laughing at your bogus schools? I don't even think that highly of my own school but for peat sakes it is and was designed to be a flagship level university. And by any measure from selectivity, academic offerings, endowment, graduation rates, competitive awards its comparable to a flagship level institution.
As long as you think BG or UT is a better school than Ohio I'm going to be offended. Or the knowing that you suck, OU must because it plays in the MAC line of thinking.
BG is a top 10 public university in Ohio. OU has its sights set on being a top 10 public university in the country. You're not an institutional peer of my school, so why don't you give up trying to talk us down to your level.
Touchdown Rrrrrooockets! Wrote:By the way, it looks like the bobkittie left a little something out of his post about reputation. Here is the whole disclaimer.
Quote:Purpose
By demand, we have analyzed the searches students have run on StudentsReview, and have ranked the schools by the size of their reputation. The schools with the largest reputations are the most well-known, and whos degree awards will not only be regionally recognized, but nationally and internationally as well. We caution that reputation does not necessarily imply anything about academics or educational quality, though it is an important factor in valuing the degree from any particular school.
HAHAHAH TR that is the funniest thing I have ever seen. KC as u can see, so far hasn't commented on what he omitted to make his alma mater stand out above the rest. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
factman Wrote:We ALL know that Toledo and academics should not be mentioned in the same breath!!
how ironic coming from someone named factman that spews nothing but factless garbage