College rankings
Top 10 College Websites for Finding Great Schools
Want to research colleges, but not sure where to start?
It’s no surprise. When I just typed “college” into Google, I got 634 million college websites. To make your job easier, I’m sharing wonderful websites that can help you assemble a great list of colleges.
If you want to research specific colleges, here are my Top 10 [...]
Favorite College Blog Posts of 2009
Every weekend I share the college blog posts that I wrote during the past week for CBSMoneyWatch. Since it was the last week of 2009, I used the posts as a way to highlight what I’ve written since CBSMoneyWatch launched during past summer.
Favorite Blog Posts for 2009
In this post, you’ll find some of my favorite [...]
College Rankings Guest Post
A guest commentary that I wrote for the Center for College Affordability and Productivity on college rankings got posted today. In my post, I shared why I think the college ranking system developed by the center for Forbes Magazine is superior to the more popular and older college rankings that US News & World Report [...]
5Oct2009 | Lynn | 0 comments | Continued
Finding A Great College in Your Region
Where do you find a great college?
I hear that question all the time.
You can pour through the big fat college guides from folks like the Princeton Review and Fiske, but they ignore most schools. For instance, Princeton Review’s latest guide covers 371 schools, but there are more than 2,200 four-year colleges and universities in this [...]
Elite Schools Looking for Diversity
I spent some time yesterday afternoon listening to Peter Johnson, the dean of admissions at Columbia University, talk to a dozen or so attentive students at High Tech High in San Diego. The visit from an Ivy League admission dean at my son’s school isn’t as unusual as you might think. During the fall, it’s [...]
30Sep2009 | Lynn | 1 comment | Continued
The Real Best Colleges
College rankings are sexy and fun to read, but have you ever wondered if they are really legitimate?
If you have, I urge you to check out my latest story for CBSMoneyWatch.com that explores a variety of college rankings. In my article, I take a look at the methodology of various college rankings and then rate [...]
A New College Blog Worth Reading
I wanted to let you know about a new college blog that you should check out. Washington Monthly just launched its own college blog, which I consider to be great news.
While US News & World Report hogs most of the press attention when it comes to college coverage, I’ve always admired Washington Monthly’s thoughtful higher-ed [...]
Hold Your Nose: US News & World Reports Releases Its Latest College Rankings
U.S. News & World Report released its 2010 college rankings in the wee hours this morning. For those who couldn’t wait to see the latest results, the magazine had posted a clock on its website that informed rankings enthusiasts of how many days, hours and minutes were left until the unveiling.
In the university rankings competition, [...]
America’s Best Schools: A College Rankings Duel
If you look at the just-released college rankings from Forbes Magazine, you’ll notice some peculiar numbers.
Forbes ranks Cornell as the 105th best school in the country, but U.S. News & World Report ranks it as the 14th best national university. Forbes rates Dartmouth and the University of Pennslyvania as the 98th and 83rd best schools, [...]
What’s the Matter With Harvard?
I had lunch this week with a professor of medicine at Stanford University. Mercifully, the conversation didn’t dwell on his specialty (urology), but the professor did feel the need to gripe about Stanford’s endowment, which has cratered.
In an attempt to cheer him up, I mentioned that Stanford’s endowment problem looks like a mosquito bite compared [...]
