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BillyTheCat
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New Forbes college rankings

Posted: 7/25/2013 8:25:15 AM

OHIO did not fair very well! Coming in nationally at #348, and in the middle of the Ohio Schools.

Business_Cat
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RE: New Forbes college rankings

Posted: 7/25/2013 11:09:50 AM

Ranking Criteria

..they're using ratemyprofessor.com as 17.5% of their weight.

Payscale.com is 15% of their weight. Any Ohio Alums here ever heard of it? Probably not many.

My main point is this:

The sources they use to gather data are likely inaccurate. I will concede that surveys can be useful if conducted properly, but looking at their criteria I believe this list is flawed. In no academic setting can you use ratemyprofessor.com as a source. In addition, the fact that I analyze these lists before drawing a conclusion is testament to an Ohio education. I would have not done that prior to attending Ohio.

-BBA 2013

Last Edited: 7/25/2013 11:10:23 AM by Business_Cat

You know what Frank Solich likes most about coaching in the MAC? While he gets older, his coaching competition stays the same age, man.

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Alan Swank
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RE: New Forbes college rankings

Posted: 7/25/2013 4:26:00 PM

Business_Cat wrote:

Check out the bios on many of these folks. See the common connection?

http://centerforcollegeaffordability.org/about/staff-directory

bobcat72
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RE: New Forbes college rankings

Posted: 7/25/2013 5:37:09 PM

Alan Swank wrote:

Check out the bios on many of these folks. See the common connection?

http://centerforcollegeaffordability.org/about/staff-directory

Kind of odd. If they're measuring "outcomes", I guess they're saying that their degrees from Ohio haven't done too much?? Kind of biting the hand that feeds you.

However, I don't think we're ranked too badly. Better than most of the MAC and above most of our Ohio counterparts. It's quite apparent that the rankings seem to heavily favor small private colleges.

Fiami - 155
Buffalo - 300
Ohio - 348
Ball State - 558
NIU - 561
BGSU - 580
WMU - 581
Akron - 585
Toledo - 592
CMU - 604
Kent State - 605
EMU - 610

Other public schools of note...
O$U - 138
Cincinnati - 368
Cleveland State - 612
Wright State - 621
Youngstown State - 638

So we're ranked #3 in Ohio...not bad.

Last Edited: 7/25/2013 5:38:29 PM by bobcat72

The Situation
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RE: New Forbes college rankings

Posted: 7/25/2013 5:38:25 PM

I'm not really sure how I would objectively rate universities. Probably a 5-star system and leave it at that (basically a tier system, lots of ties). But one could imagine if the intellectual body entrusted with such a task was so thoroughly represented by one school, that school (Ohio University) should fair better than #348. If for no other reason than to ensure the academic integrity of the process.

(I know we're better than #348, not just in my heart either. Heck I work in an office where the only other new college grad in my department within the last few years is an OSU grad. I don't know how you could objectively tell me I would have been better prepared at his university and 209 others, but still get the same job.)

BillyTheCat
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RE: New Forbes college rankings

Posted: 7/25/2013 11:15:04 PM

bobcat72 wrote:

We were 15th in Ohio overall, not good.

Business_Cat
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RE: New Forbes college rankings

Posted: 7/25/2013 11:50:13 PM

People..

Forbes is not an expert on education. No one can actually quantify how much a student learns at a university. This list is useless. People are so obsessed with status and look for anything to reaffirm that they are special. Even if Ohio were a top 100 I would still not take this list seriously.

You know what Frank Solich likes most about coaching in the MAC? While he gets older, his coaching competition stays the same age, man.

The real O-H-I-O

DelBobcat
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RE: New Forbes college rankings

Posted: 7/26/2013 12:36:56 PM

Post deleted.

I rethought putting my rant on a public forum.

Continue on with the conversation...

Last Edited: 7/27/2013 1:58:02 PM by DelBobcat

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TWT
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RE: New Forbes college rankings

Posted: 7/26/2013 5:15:38 PM

Its always been a subject of debate on what characteristics automatically make a college good. It was thought that it was all about admission standards but what was realized is while its generally true the best schools are the most difficult to get into, often schools benefit from where they're located and smaller class sizes are going to be more selective. Then there are schools out there that bought students with a big endowment or gerrymandered the admission numbers by accepting a large number of transfer students (Ohio State in both regards). Go beyond the Ivy League schools, the MIT/Cal Tech's and the next tier consists of major research private and public universities. Schools that have the serious academics have the serious researchers. You can look at total research dollars if you want but one mark of serious research university is the ability to project its research statewide. Ohio has expanded its medical school with its research to a campus in Dublin over 2 hours away. Ohio is no longer just another residential campus state school that it was in the 60's. Its now a major research university that is statewide in scope with OSU as the only other public in-state with mission on that scale. Does that make Ohio a great university? No, but how do you argue its not a good university because all major research universities are "good" universities when compared alongside your average state school or private college.

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bobcat72
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RE: New Forbes college rankings

Posted: 7/26/2013 5:29:49 PM

BillyTheCat wrote:

We were 15th in Ohio overall, not good.

Most college rankings subdivide the colleges. US News has a category for "national" universities. To be ahead of 75% of the MAC and all but 2 Ohio public schools is a pretty good achievement.

Realistically, we don't compete against Otterbein, Kenyon, Case Western, Marietta, etc. for students very often. O$U, Fiami, Cincinnati, Kent State, etc. is who we need to be concerned about.

UpSan Bobcat
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RE: New Forbes college rankings

Posted: 7/26/2013 11:40:40 PM

bobcat72 wrote:

It's quite apparent that the rankings seem to heavily favor small private colleges.

That's the thing that stands out to me.

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