OU Students at Work on Alterna-Rankings

Posted on July 30, 2008
Filed Under News, The Daily Prereq | By Jessica Dye

While U.S. News and World Report staffers are currently throwing highly-scientific darts at a higher-ed map to compile their annual college rankings, a group of Ohio University undergrads are spending their summer helping college-ranking outlaw Richard Vedder develop a whole new system for determining college winners and losers. According to the Ohio U Post, the new system will focus more on students’ post-college experience–using measurements like alumni success, debt load, graduation rates, and classroom experience data from sites like RateMyProfessor–rather than crunching pre-college stats like SAT scores and class rank.

The full list will rank 570 schools, and the findings will be published in a special issue of Forbes magazine set to hit newsstands one week before U.S. News’s annual college issue is released. Oh snap, college enthusiasts, how will you decide how to spend your hard-earned $3.99 now? Says recent OU grad and member of Vedder’s think-tank Gordy Ruchti, “We’re challenging the country club campus, the endowed chair professor and the well-funded football team that doesn’t bring anything back.” And yet, in the first run of results published by Vedder in Forbes last May, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton still swept the top three national university spots. I guess you still can’t underestimate the charm of a well-manicured (Ivy League) lawn.

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2 Responses to “OU Students at Work on Alterna-Rankings”

  1. Nikki Martinez on July 30th, 2008 5:44 pm

    Spoken like a true Ivy Leaguer…

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