Forbes Magazine's Top 650 Colleges

[Scarlet]

Re: Forbes Magazine's Top 650 Colleges

Apparently, Northeastern was hurt by the fact that one of the factors was % of students that graduate in four years. Well duh. What's the percentage of the student body that's in the co-op program, which they know going in is probably more than a four year program for most of them?

Northeastern takes offense to ranking.

 

[LynahFan]

Re: Forbes Magazine's Top 650 Colleges

It's rather stupid to factor cost (student debt) into the rankings. If my car goes 0-60 in 5 seconds and yours does it in 4.8, yours is still a "better" car than mine even if it costs twice as much. At the edges, there will *always* be diminishing returns for increased cost - squeezing out that last 2% of performance can incur 20% (or more) of the cost.