Truth Revealed: US News Rankings Mean Nothing–and Everything
June 3, 2009
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
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
I recently wrote a post blasting the idea of student-to-faculty ratios as a bogus measure of educational quality. It turns out that universities themselves don’t
I ran across these hilarious mistakes on college admissions essays submitted to Vassar and Bates colleges. You can find them here at Beliefnet.com. I laughed.
During a recent trip to Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, I met a young man from Massachusetts who spoke beautiful Mandarin Chinese. I had lunch with him,
That’s right, folks. On some campuses, students actually want their universities to bill them more this year than last. It’s a matter of quality, they
QS has published its QS Top 200 Asian University Rankings. Turns out I used to teach at #4: The Hong Kong University of Science and
A recent article in the New York Times reports that many community colleges are morphing into four-year institutions offering Bachelor’s degrees. Part of this is
As an update to yesterday’s article in the New York Times about enrollment and yield trends this year at the most selective colleges, Scott Jaschick
The Wall Street Journal came up with a neat trick: asking college presidents to write essays from the application to their own college. Tough assignment!.
When I visit college and university campuses, I try to search for a few distinguishing features that will help me remember what makes this particular
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
I spend about 20% of my time touring around the country getting acquainted with colleges. Millsaps College had been on my list for quite some