Or in other words, what makes a college “good”? I’m aware it may change according to the discipline, and that a college with an excellent law or business school might be lacking in the engineering part, but still…
Is it the number of papers published per year? Or the amount of ground-breaking discoveries made in there (perhaps that would be why the highest ranked colleges are quite old), or something else?
It just seem a bit odd to me that over the years, the top 10, 20 universities worldwide seem to be the same ones
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Great question! The answer is… It depends on who is ranking. Some folks rank based on stuff like public perception polling, entrance exam performance (e.g. SAT, ACT, MKAT, LSAT, etc…) and number of applicants, but if you are wondering what really matters, look at the rubric for regional accreditation.
Graduation rate, employment rate, salary once employed, career advancement, funding, research programs, affiliations like health systems, and a lot more go into it! There are usually also rankings for individual programs like Engineering, Nursing, Law, etc… as well since they usually operate as their own academic unit and can get endorsements and accreditation on a college/program level.
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