(11-07-2019 05:25 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  highest ranked schools not in AAU (ranked by research $ in 2017, the most recent year):
Arizona State (44)-AAU rank 87
Virginia Tech (46)-AAU rank 91
NC State (47)-AAU rank 91
Cincinnati (54)-AAU rank 61
U. of Maryland at Baltimore (56)-AAU rank 43
Kentucky (62)-AAU rank 94 (tied with lowest current AAU member)
U. of Illinois at Chicago (63)-AAU rank 60
Miami (64)-AAU rank 59
Washington State (66)-AAU rank 112
Colorado State (70)-AAU rank 64

In ranking the schools, the AAU normalizes the numbers. They used 7 factors including research, faculty awards, citations and faculty memberships. This was based on data from 2005-7, so things could have changed.

Highest non AAU members from that list-UAB 40, UMBC 43, Tufts (Medical) 43, RPI 55, Wake Forest 57, Miami (FL) 59, Illinois-Chicago 60, Cincinnati 61, Colorado St. 64, Oregon St. 67, George Washington 68, New Mexico 69, Wayne St. 72, UC-Riverside 72, Alaska-Fairbanks 76, VCU 76, Vermont 79, Hawaii 79, UConn 81, Georgetown 83, Delaware 83, SUNY-Albany 86, ASU 87, USF 87, UMass 90, VPI 91, NCSU 91, Oklahoma 91, FSU 94, UK 94, Louisville 94. Some of these are obviously there because of the medical schools. Bottom 5 AAU schools (not counting the two who left) were #76, #81, #83, #87 and #94. (edit I didn't list #1 Rockefeller U., #2 UC-SF and #31 Yeshiva U.-all specialty schools)

Also rated ahead of former member #109 Nebraska were, in order, New Mexico St., Notre Dame, Ole Miss, Dayton, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Houston, Utah St., Nevada-Reno and Howard.