This morning, The Today Show reported on the Princeton Review’s list of 100 Best Value Colleges for 2010. You can see the video of the report as well as read about the criteria used in determining the list at: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/34810203/ns/today-today_technology_and_money/
Katherine Price
Educational Consultant
A new book written by three Chinese undergraduates now attending liberal arts degrees at American colleges highlights the many advantages of smaller colleges for Chinese students and their families who hope to study in the United States.
The book, written in Chinese, aims to educate Chinese families about schools beyond the Ivy League and the large [...]
I recently wrote about Playboy Magazine’s rankings of the top 25 party schools in America.
Today, Inside Higher Ed carries a very thoughtful piece about party school rankings, including those published by the Princeton Review.
The fact is that these rankings are sometimes manipulated by students on campuses. For example, there is some indication that Penn [...]
Doug Lederer and the folks at Inside Higher Ed bring us a story today of Clemson University and how it manipulates data to help move itself up in the US News & World Report annual rankings.
These ranking bug me. As an educational consultant, I am constantly having to explain that these rankings are at best [...]
I’ve written elsewhere (see below) that student-to-faculty ratios are misleading statistics, and that they really don’t tell you much about the quality of teaching going on at an American college or university.
It turns out that the American Federation of Teachers agrees with me.
In a report entitled, “American Academic: The State of the Higher Education Workforce, [...]
What’s the Number One Party School? Most likely, it’s whatever college or university your student attends.
Sometimes my clients (or rather, the parents of my clients) beseech me to find a school for their student that is not a “party school.” However, with few exceptions, nearly every school is a party school. Young people between the [...]
Theresa, a dear friend whom I haven’t seen in ages, called me the other day. We talked for a long time. Her son is a sophomore in high school. As his doting mother, Theresa is in a lather about his prospects for college admission.
As we hadn’t spoken in quite a while, Theresa asked me about [...]
Bloomberg reports that some selective colleges have seen a decline in applications this year, as more and more students and parents fret about the freakish economy.
The article focuses on Williams College’s 20% drop in applications. Swarthmore dropped by 10%, while Middlebury dropped by 12%.
Other colleges have seen declines, but more around 1 or 2 [...]
I’ve been enjoying getting to know the Daily Beast. Kathleen Kingsbury writes quite a bit about college admissions.
A recent article highlighted some colleges and universities that are somewhat under the radar screen as far as US News & World Report is concerned, but that are offering innovative programs suited to a variety of students…often at [...]
Today a reader called me out on my decision to focus in a recent post on the Top 10 Value Colleges as identified by the Princeton Review (Kiplinger’s has a similar list, about which I also wrote about).
My reader made the point that public universities can be a better deal, and that the list of [...]