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RE: University of Cincinnati Expects Record Enrollment in Fall 2017
(07-12-2017 03:08 PM)BearcatMan Wrote: (07-12-2017 03:01 PM)bearcatmark Wrote: (07-12-2017 02:52 PM)DownOnRohs Wrote: How do they rank the schools? The six metrics shown seemingly don't matter at all.
They show UC with better SAT/ACT scores than Xavier, better starting salary, half the cost of attendance, but somehow X is 9 schools better than UC in Ohio. Lol.
I can't believe people get paid to make these lists...I want in on that action.
Yea...their methodology seems very sketchy. UC costs less, has better students and its students make more out of school than Xavier students... who cares the percentage who get grants if the grants are just used to get it closer to UC's costs?
Many rankings use 4-year graduation rate as a metric, which immediately discounts the education value at schools with extended curriculum...such as the one that about half of our students are a part of (w/ Engineering, DAAP, Nursing, and Business). That drastically skews towards liberal arts schools who, by and large, do not offer extended programs.
Also skews things heavily to schools that pull a huge percentage of their students from families with incomes over 150K and conversely a tiny percentage of first generation college students. Schools, particularly public schools, shouldn't be penalized for being engines of social mobility, which is why a 6 year rate is a much better barometer.
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