Forbes: College Rankings for Idiots?
Posted on August 14th, 2008
College Admissions Counseling has an astute review of the new Forbes ranking of America's Best Colleges 2008 and, quite frankly, you'd expect better from a company like Forbes…
The writer at College Admissions Counseling complains justifiably that half of the Forbes rankings are based on measures that are "absurd" (their word, not mine). A quarter of the score is based on the anonymous feedback at RankMyProfessor where anyone can enter anything; another 25% is based on alumni rankings in Who's Who (a somewhat subjective measure, unless your primary goal after graduation is just to make it into Who's Who…).
The other half of the ranking criteria isn't much better, but I'll let you read about it at College Admissions Counseling.
Princeton University ranks number one in the Forbes ranking.
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