Posted by Todd Zywicki:
New Rankings of Educational Quality in Higher Education:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_05_04-2008_05_10.shtml#1210193706
[1]Rich Vedder at the Center for College Affordability & Productivity
has a new effort to measure the educational quality at institutions of
higher learning. He admits it is imperfect, but it certainly is more
relevant than the sorts of stuff measured by US News:
But just below the top there are some surprises. Duke, MIT and the
University of Pennsylvania make the top 10 list at U.S. News but
not at CCAP. Duke students don't rate their professors high enough.
At the University of Pennsylvania not enough grads made it into
Who's Who. Brown and Northwestern, both ranked 14 by U.S. News, and
Dartmouth College, ranked 11 by U.S. News, all make it onto our top
10. The University of Alabama, which got great reviews from
students, came in a number 7 on our national public university
ranking; it's at position 42 on U.S. News' list.
The biggest surprises come in our list of liberal arts colleges.
Wabash doesn't make the top 50 on U.S. News' list but ranks tenth
with CCAP because of the awards its students won and its showing in
Who's Who. Several other schools not high on the U.S. News list,
including Whitman, Washington & Lee, Barnard and the U.S. Military
Academy (a.k.a. West Point), are in our top 10. A number of
excellent smaller liberal arts colleges do poorly on the U.S. News
list but fare very well on the CCAP list, including Reed (twelfth)
and Knox (sixteenth). Like other consumers, students want
satisfaction and results, which is what CCAP measures.
The rankings for national universities is [2]here.
References
1. http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.27946/pub_detail.asp
2. http://www.forbes.com/opinions/forbes/2008/0519/030_2.html
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