Over the last ten years,
the business of ranking colleges and universities has become a big business. We
might easily use this space to simply manipulate the standings - to tell you
where we've come out ahead, and ignore the places where we appear to be behind
in the game - but to do so would be to perpetuate a game that has quite frankly
stopped making sense. Academic institutions cannot be assessed as though they
are athletic teams. We join Gerhard Casper, the president of Stanford
University, in his call
for greater honesty in ranking procedures variables. In this section, we
will address our status in the rankings honestly: you will see where we've done
well and where we have done less well - and in both cases, we'll show you why.
Where we've done well... and why
Where we did less
well... and why
Critical
Statistics
In this segment,
you'll find basic statistics on class size, faculty awards, and alumni
achievements, following the Stanford model for institutional descriptors.