College Rankings
Graduation Rates for Four Year Schools
Notice anything about the following sentence? Graduation Rates Over Time: Private Research Institutions – Students – The Chronicle of Higher Education We compare here the graduation rates at four-year colleges for the six years ending in 2008 with the rates for the six years ending in 2003. This is showing the six year graduation rate [...]
Numbers that matter: college graduation rates
Another ranking system. the College Grid After helping numerous students with their college applications, we noticed a lack of useful tools to help manage the school selection process. We decided to build a website with a “top-down” approach to researching colleges. Within a week, the College Grid was born. It is improvement over the Princeton [...]
Because bigger is better…
I recently stumbled across this blog from the Fiske Guide website. He has an interesting link to report by Rice justifying why it needs to increase in size by 30%. Fiske Guide Blog But as one undergrad quoted in the report explains, “I feel that we are too small and that increasing by 30 percent [...]
Randolph-Macon College
Randolph-Macon College is a small liberal arts of less than 1,200 students just north of Richmond, Virginia. The college has two programs that I find appealing. It has a First-Year Experience that goes beyond freshman seminars. Undergraduate research appears to be prominent with it’s Schapiro Undergraduate Research Fellowship. And for those who ranking is important, [...]
College Admissions Selectivity Equals Quality?
The Princeton Review is one the sites I’ve been frequenting in my search for colleges that might accept my son and that he might accept. One interesting feature is its list of rankings. The New 2008 “Best 366 Colleges” Rankings on The Princeton Review We’ve created 62 rankings lists across 8 categories, based on feedback [...]
Albion College
From my basic list of liberal arts colleges I love Albion’s “Prospective Student” page. It starts with “do you believe that your first 18 years of life can be accurately and completely reflected in one admissions applications?” Well, of course not which is why you should visit Albion. Like most small, liberal arts colleges, it’s [...]
Yale decides it can afford to spend a little more from its endowment
Another attempt to head off government regulation of college endowments. Yale Plans to Increase Spending From Its Endowment – New York Times Facing pressure from Congress and some donors to use more of its multibillion-dollar investment gains, Yale University announced Monday that it would increase the amount of money it spent from its endowment next [...]
Gustavus Adolphus College
Gustavus Adolphus College is a liberal arts college in Minnesota with a relatively high graduation rate, high admittance rate, and a large endowment. I didn’t see anything especially compelling about the school from available public information. My overall impression, which could be totally wrong, is a school that provides lots of individual attention to students but that the students aren’t necessarily challenged and haven’t really come together as a community.
The College Search: Colby-Sawyer College
Just in case anyone is wondering what I’ve been doing instead of blogging, I’ve started the college search for my sophomore son. Notice, I didn’t say “assisting” him or “guiding” him, I’m the one doing it. He has absolutely no interest at this point. So why bother? Why not just let him reach the point [...]
Washington Monthly College Rankings are out
The Washington Monthly BACK TO SCHOOL….U.S. News & World Report publishes its university rankings every year, and every year people complain about them. So starting in 2005 we decided to do more than just complain, and instead came out with our own rankings — based not on reputation or endowment size, but rather on how [...]