Hi Annette - Unless things have changed recently, my understanding is that some, but not all, of the rankings are available online (I know that in the recent past, I haven't been able to access full rankings for top clinical psychology graduate programs - an obvious interest of mine - online)...e.g., see:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/store/best_grad_school.php ....Scott Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D. Professor Editor, Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice Department of Psychology, Room 473 Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences (PAIS) Emory University 36 Eagle Row Atlanta, Georgia 30322 [email protected] (404) 727-1125 Psychology Today Blog: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-skeptical-psychologist 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-140513111X.html Scientific American Mind: Facts and Fictions in Mental Health Column: http://www.scientificamerican.com/sciammind/ The Master in the Art of Living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his intellectual passions. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him - he is always doing both. - Zen Buddhist text (slightly modified) -----Original Message----- From: Annette Taylor [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 10:45 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] WOOHOO!! The New U.S. News College Rankings Are Here! Just in terms of financial gain: Since the rankings are freely available on line--and you can pick and select schools to compare directly--then I think this financial gain issue will now become a nonissue. I just did a nice comparison of UCSD and USD that I will use in class with my freshmen as a nice screen shot embedded in a ppt slide--our students need a reminder that although they picked a smaller school with more individualized attention this comes at a cost of fewer choices and less exposure to cutting edge work, etc. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 [email protected] ________________________________________ From: Lilienfeld, Scott O [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 7:00 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] WOOHOO!! The New U.S. News College Rankings Are Here! Hi Mike et al. - I'd long heard "through the grapevine" from university folks in the know that US News and World Report likes to change the criteria for its rankings each year so that it can sell magazines (apparently, they make a lot of their revenue from sales of these rankings, both in magazine form and online). If the criteria remained the same each year, the rankings probably wouldn't change much - so by altering the variable weights a bit each year (and occasionally introducing new variables into the equation, like high school counselors' ratings of reputation this year), the rankings bounce around and hence generate more interest. But I don't know if this view is too cynical; I'd be curious to hear others' thoughts. ....Scott Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D. Professor Editor, Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice Department of Psychology, Room 473 Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences (PAIS) Emory University 36 Eagle Row Atlanta, Georgia 30322 [email protected] (404) 727-1125 Psychology Today Blog: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-skeptical-psychologist 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-140513111X.html Scientific American Mind: Facts and Fictions in Mental Health Column: http://www.scientificamerican.com/sciammind/ The Master in the Art of Living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his intellectual passions. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him - he is always doing both. - Zen Buddhist text (slightly modified) -----Original Message----- From: Mike Palij [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 9:38 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Mike Palij Subject: [tips] WOOHOO!! The New U.S. News College Rankings Are Here! Actually, they are here: http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges So, let the comparisons of the schools with the biggest di.., er, highest ranks begin! A description of the U.S. News methodology is provided here (though this is probably not a complete account): http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/best-colleges/2010/08/17/how-us-news-calculates-the-college-rankings_print.htm Note that graduation rate constitutes 7.5% of the final score, up from 5% in previous years. -Mike Palij New York University (How'd we get to #33????) [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. 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