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[QUOTE="hank970, post: 4696827, member: 6349"]
UConn ranks higher than both Arizona schools in USN&WR, but may fall short in other areas.  Each of the four-corner schools, for example, is now AAU.  I'd imagine that administrators attach greater importance to the latter -- metrics like research activity, endowment, number of professional and doctoral programs, number of peer-reviewed publications, the number of PhDs granted, number of faculty elected to membership in national academies, and so on.  I believe that USN&WR rankings are more subjective and may be biased toward undergraduate reputation, which is why parents of high school kids dote on them, but the big dollar grants administrators seek are based on more objective measures of performance at the grad and post-grad levels.

It's one thing to claim that a school offers a great creative writing curriculum and another to acknowledge that a school's graduate aerospace engineering program or cancer research efforts garner tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in government grants each year.  Apples and oranges.
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