The Public University Rankings Are Here

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citrus college???

Where are the rankings for Citrus College???

Michigan State University

Why is MSU ranked so low?? Michigan State University is one of the most productive universities in the world and academically diverse. Also, why the overall school is ranked so low when each college, respectively, ranks higher? Well, we will se next year.

Percentage of Part-Time Faculty Considered?

As a young college freshman (in 1993) I was deeply influenced by your rankings and, indeed, began to see the problems of my own school I attended at the time because of them. I had thought your ranking considered percentage of classes taught by full-time faculty (although I have often questioned the accuracy of the statistics as presented there). This year, and I'm not sure when this change happened, I realized that your rankings don't take into account the percentage of classes taught by full-time faculty, that is, really taught by full-time faculty (universities will say that the instructor of record is a full-time professor but often, at least half the time, that instructor is not teaching the class or only teaching a small part of it in a large lecture room).

At a school like NYU, for instance, in 2005 50 to 60 percent of classes were taught by part-timers (Washburn 200), and yet this has no effect on actual rankings. This is troubling, because such part-timers cannot put as much time into their teaching as full-timers (see Washburn's "Paying More for Less" chapter in *University Inc.*), because they're cobbling together often five or six jobs just to eat. Further, part-time faculty's classes often become fairly easy in order to get good student evaluations (which, usually are given to professors who are less than very rigorous--for more on this see Peter Sacks *Generation X Goes to College* and also Washburn 203-204) which, in a part-time culture, are much more important than whether students actually learned a lot. Frequently, part-time faculty are seen as simply a “warm body,” without a concern for whether their students learn deeply in the classes (Washburn 201).

Finally, perhaps most seriously, if schools can hire a majority part-time faculty and still get a very high US News ranking, then this discourages students from entering the professoriate, because they know their job prospects are incredibly dismal. Those that do go into the professoriate know they must be popular at all costs instead of a goal of the students learning as much as possible.

Sob, sob, sob (just kidding), but do you see how this is amazingly important? Without such a change, one must assume that the US News rankings only rank the veneer of a college without what actually happens inside of it.

True blessings upon you (especially if you realize how many people's lives in the United States you could improve moving toward intellectual integrity and true quality--but blessings otherwise and anyway as well).

Dr. Mark Hamilton

Assistant Professor of English

Liberty University

mhamilton@liberty.edu

Brown

I think it discriminatory how Brown gets a bad reputation because of the way grades are calculated. Brown students are very well rounded and I have never seen an unhappy Alum. I can't see how its ranked as it is

Masters West?

Where are your rankings for Masters West?

There is no school greater, than Cal Berkley

In terms of their academic scholarship, their Research, their Nobel Prize winning faculty, there is no University greater than Cal Berkley.

Why not world ranking

i think that there should be provided the world ranking aswell so we can compare the universities with the whole world aswell. Its not difficult to move to other countries these days if they are offering a better programe.

Accounting and media course

am from Fiji and next year may be may i would like to enroll in your school i have done diploma in accounting in Fiji and the same time i would like to do journalism course.

What are thesteps to follow. whether i will get the scholl and how may year i will take to complete my course.