Forbes Best COlleges in America (SMU #186)

[RednBlue11]

Pay your Fees, Get your Degrees

this should be added to ur signature

[RednBlue11]

i have already found one pretty big error in this list

DePauw Univ. is listed as in Illinois when it is in fact located in Indiana

also DePaul University in chicago is not even on the list but it has several top 25 programs and was rated #1 for having the best college town by the Princeton Review

something is not adding up

[SmooBoy]

something is not adding up

I agree. I've always thought of tcu as a top 450 school. This list just doesn't make sense.

[Ponedogs]

Hmmm, Forbes came out with this exact same formula to rank schools in May, right?

SMU was #13... and in 4 months we dropped approx 170 spots...

May 14, 2008

SMU No. 13 in latest university rankings

Forbes Magazine's May 19 edition features the Center for College Affordability & Productivity (CCAP) rankings. Among national universities, SMU ranks 13th, ahead of such schools as Duke, MIT and Rice. CCAP uses several factors in determining its rankings that include student evaluations, college graduation rates and the percentage of students winning awards such as Fulbright grants or Rhodes scholarships.

Richard Vedder, who wrote the article for Forbes, said, "At the Center for College Affordability & Productivity, a two-year-old research organization in Washington, D.C., with a free-market bent, we evaluate colleges on results. Do students like their courses? How successful are they once they graduate?"

Vedder, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and a distinguished professor of economics at Ohio University, studies higher education financing, labor economics and income inequality and is the author of several books, including Going Broke by Degree, and The Wal-Mart Revolution: How Big Box Stores Benefit Consumers, Workers, and the Economy.

SMU even advertises this ranking on the home page... might want consider taking that down now.