(06-10-2013 12:55 PM)emu steve Wrote:  Another way to look at the issue of rankings is to highlight schools which get certain national recognition by groups which rank universities:

1). UB - Association of American Universities (the elite membership group).

2). WMU - Doctoral Research designation by CMU (Carnegie Mellon's widely used, widely respected ranking system)

I don't have a list of the Doctoral Research universities so I don't know if UB and others made that classification.

They also rank other classification levels lower than Doctoral Research. There are four Doctoral Research universities in MI - UofM, MSU, Wayne State and WMU.

Doctoral Research is a highly coveted designation.

I believe you mean the Carnegie Foundation, not Carnegie Mellon. Anyway, Doctoral Research is their lowest rating for research universities. WMU is rated a Research University-High.

http://classifications.carnegiefoundatio.../basic.php