Monday, March 4, 2013

Which Universities Are Ranked Highest by College Officials?


The temperament ranks of UC—Berkeley and UT—capital of Texas far exceed their overall U.S. news show bes.

Have you ever wondered which universities have the best compositions among college officials? To answer that question, U.S. News is publishing the report card ranks for schools in the National Universities rankings category that placed highest in call of undergraduate donnishian account in our Best Colleges 2013 rankings.

 

Reputation is rattling essential to prospective students. In a survey of freshmen by the University of California—Los Angeles, students rated whether a college has a solid donnish reputation as the No. 1 factor that influenced their school choice, indicating their unfaltering belief that reputation matters to a significant degree.

These results also put up a key premise in the U.S. News Best Colleges rankings methodology, which gives undergraduate academic reputation a weight of 15 part in our National Universities and National Liberal Arts Colleges ranking categories. The academic peer sound judgment survey allows top academics—presidents, provosts, and deans of admissions—to cover for intangibles at peer institutions such as faculty dedication to teaching. Peer assessments are subjective, but they are also important because a diploma from a distinguished college helps graduates get good jobs or gain admission to top- nonch graduate programs.

For the Best Colleges 2013 rankings in the National Universities category, 842 top college officials were surveyed in the spring of 2012 and 53 percentage of those surveyed responded. Each individual was asked to rate peer schools' undergraduate academic programs on a scale from 1 (marginal) to 5 (distinguished).

Those individuals who did non know enough about a school to adjudicate it fairly were asked to mark "don't know." A school's draw is the average score of all the respondents who rated it. Responses of "don't know" counted neither for nor against a school. The higher a school's reputation, the better it scores on that one factor in the ranking model.

How should these results be interpreted? For the top-ranked private universities like Harvard University, Yale University,  mamma Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and Princeton University, there is a very strong correlation coefficient between their overall rank in the Best Colleges 2013 rankings and their academic reputation rank.

However, for top-ranked public universities like the University of California—Berkeley, the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor, the University of Virginia, the University of Wisconsin—Madison, and the University of Texas—Austin there is a divergence between their academic reputation rank and their overall rank in the Best Colleges 2013 rankings. This ranking divergence shows that their reputation ranks are somewhat stronger than their overall ranks, which promoter the other academic data used to compute the rankings is not quite as strong as their reputations.

Universities with the highest academic reputation

The carry over below shows the schools in the National Universities ranking category with highest academic reputation rankings.

 

School name (state)U.S. News National Universities rankUndergraduate academic peer assessment score Undergraduate academic peer assessment rank
Harvard University (MA)14.91
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 64.91
Stanford University (CA) 64.91
Princeton University (NJ) 14.84
Yale University (CT) 34.84
University of California--Berkeley 214.76
Columbia University (NY) 44.67
University of Chicago44.67
California Institute of Technology104.67
Johns Hopkins University (MD) 134.67
Cornell University (NY)154.67
Duke University (NC)84.512
University of Pennsylvania84.413
Dartmouth College (NH)104.413
Northwestern University (IL)124.413
Brown University (RI)154.413
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor294.413
University of Virginia244.318
Carnegie Mellon University (PA)234.219
University of California--Los Angeles244.219
University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill304.219
Washington University in St. Louis144.122
Vanderbilt University (TN)174.122
Georgetown University (DC)214.122
Georgia Institute of Technology364.122
University of Wisconsin--Madison414.122
University of Texas--Austin464.122

 

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Materials taken from US News

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