Universities Weblog

With March Madness upon us once again, we're all busy filling out tournament brackets for office pools and online contests. The tournament begins this week, likely bringing with it the usual fare of blowouts, buzzer-beaters and Cinderellas.

Of course, only a relative handful of teams actually have a shot at winning. But what if the rules were different? What if the teams competed based on graduation rates? That's what Inside Higher Ed had in mind when it created this bracket. Note that my team, Pennsylvania, loses in the first round, even though Penn has one of the highest graduation rates in the nation. But the university doesn't make those figures public, so it forfeits its game to Texas. Oh well.

On the topic of Inside Higher Ed, check out the piece I wrote for them last year around this time.

Good luck with your picks.

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