All Posts Tagged With: "College rankings"
Best College Rankings: No. 50 – 100
If you hadn’t already noticed, this is college rankings month. US News & World Report, the big college rankings gorilla, released its latest lists of the best liberal arts colleges and best universities earlier in August. Forbes Magazine rolled out its best college list this month too and the Washington Monthly unveiled its picks for [...]
29Aug2010 | Lynn | 1 comment | Continued
The Problem With Graduate School and Rankings
With the economy still floundering, more Americans are considering attending graduate school. But how do you shop for the best graduate school programs? Writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Thomas A. Benton, an English professor at Hope College made a stab at answering that question. He observed that the universities receiving the highest graduate [...]
27Aug2010 | Lynn | 0 comments | Continued
Attending a School With a Lousy College Ranking
Some of you already know that I write a weekly college blog post for US News & World Report. While the magazine’s website contains a treasure trove of valuable information about college, I hate it’s college rankings. This put me in an uncomfortable position when the 2011 college rankings were released with tremendous fanfare last [...]
22Aug2010 | Lynn | 5 comments | Continued
How I Ended Up Writing Three College Blogs!
How many college blogs is too many? I am sheepishly asking this question because I’ve just started writing for my third college blog. You can find my newest college blog at US News & World Report. My first post, The 10 Best College Websites, went live on the site this afternoon. I launched my first [...]
15Jun2010 | Lynn | 0 comments | Continued
Graduate School Programs? Shopping for the Right One
How do you shop for graduate school programs? With the economy still floundering, more Americans are considering attending graduate school. But how do you find the best ones? Writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Thomas A. Benton, an English professor at Hope College made a stab at answering that question. He observed that the [...]
19Apr2010 | Lynn | 1 comment | Continued
Finding Great Colleges: A Handy Cheat Sheet
I am in Paris this week — at the tail end of a family vacation visiting my daughter, who is studying this year at the University of Barcelona. I’d rather be out exploring Paris and eating chocolate so I’m rerunning one of my favorite posts that explains how students can find wonderful colleges that might [...]
5Apr2010 | Lynn | 3 comments | Continued
What’s Wrong with Princeton Review’s Best Value College Rankings
Beware of The Princeton Review’s latest college rankings of the 100 Best Value Colleges for 2010. Here’s why I’m not a fan of Princeton Review’s generous college rankings: Some parents who use this list on their college search could up spending more than $200,000 for a college degree. Some deal, huh? Kiplinger’s best value college [...]
17Jan2010 | Lynn | 2 comments | Continued
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 [...]
2Oct2009 | 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 [...]
24Sep2009 | Lynn | 1 comment | Continued
