Jan
26
While the cumulative rankings compiled by U.S. News are practically useless in choosing a college, some of the individual numbers are useful, as you will read in this new whitepaper. One useful number, used to rank National Research Universities, big …
Jan
23
In this, the last of our four whitepapers on Loren Pope’s Colleges That Change Lives, we look at six schools from the Southwest and the West Coast: Austin College (TX), Evergreen State College (WA), Reed College (OR), St. John’s College …
Jan
19
In the third of our series of whitepapers on Loren Pope’s Colleges That Change Lives we look at 14 liberal arts colleges in the Midwest. These include Beloit (WI), College of Wooster (OH), Cornell (IA), Denison (OH), Earlham (IN), Hiram …
Jan
13
In today’ whitepaper, we looked at the Southern schools that appear in Loren Pope’s Colleges That Change Lives and compare them to their flagship state schools in their states based on graduation rates, retention rates and debt-to-degree ratios. Our subject …
Jan
11
One useful nugget that the Kiplinger’s Public College ranking provides that few rankings do not is the four-year graduation rate. We thought that it would be useful to list those public colleges and universities that graduate at least half of …
Jan
10
Sixteen years ago, former New York Times education editor Loren Pope wrote Colleges That Change Lives, a book about 40 liberal arts schools, mostly private, that were transformational in the lives of adequate to very good students. Some of these …
Jan
09
Today on this College Football Monday, we took at look at the schools of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), since only they will be represented in tonight’s contest to determine a national champion. To data, we have not visited any of …
Jan
05
The Big Ten Conference has not made a great showing during the football bowl season, but its member schools are quite respected for their academics reputations. Among the public institutions in the conference, nine are the flagship schools for their …
Jan
04
One of the things we have learned while visiting schools is that the most selective schools, the ones that are exceptionally hard to get into, do not always have the strongest name recognition. Nor do they always come through with …
Jan
03
Each year the Princeton Review provides a list of the nation’s top “party schools.” But what does this mean? In the case of the Princeton Review it means that students cast a vote for their school. They might also vote …