UConn #60 in US News Rankings

[shizzle787]

Listed under Liberal Arts Colleges w/ US Military Academy and US Naval Academy

Actually we are also a sea grant and an air grant.

 

[MountainMan]

Everyone who scoffs at Rice, Tulane, and SMU getting a final interview needs to look at this list. TV partners would be much different but from a president's perspective those are top shelf along with UConn.

 

[Kolumbo]

UConn Smarter Than Big 12 Competitors
"That’s bad news for Cincinnati (135th), though it did take the top spot in the Ruining Spaghetti and Chili Simultaneously category."

 

[Slasher]

UConn Smarter Than Big 12 Competitors
"That’s bad news for Cincinnati (135th), though it did take the top spot in the Ruining Spaghetti and Chili Simultaneously category."

That post is rather short-sighted. UC/USF are premier research institutions which is not at all reflected in the US News & World Reports propaganda. UCF is neither good in research or undergrad so they are probably close to falling off the list for academic reasons. Rice/SMU for athletic reasons.

 

[WestCoastHusky]

UConn Smarter Than Big 12 Competitors
"That’s bad news for Cincinnati (135th), though it did take the top spot in the Ruining Spaghetti and Chili Simultaneously category."

The only positive for Houston is if B12 does invite them, WVU will finally have someone they can feel surperior to when it comes to academics.

 

[huskymedic]

That post is rather short-sighted. UC/USF are premier research institutions which is not at all reflected in the US News & World Reports propaganda. UCF is neither good in research or undergrad so they are probably close to falling off the list for academic reasons. Rice/SMU for athletic reasons.

You would rather this Academic Rankings of World Universities propaganda instead? ? Maybe they can average them.

 

[Slasher]

You would rather this Academic Rankings of World Universities propaganda instead? ? Maybe they can average them.

No I think they're all mostly propaganda. But I think academic rankings should factor research activity as a significant component of overall ranking. The world rankings are almost entirely on research, and the US News are almost entirely on undergrad (and made up metrics.) There's no balance.

 

[Pudge]

OUR AAU exclusion ... and there seems to have been very little ingress or egress since 1995 ... is that we are in the same state as Yale. It's hard to weigh what that sucking of research dollars does to UConn; but, that is not what Kansas nor Purdue nor Illinois face.

 

[LoyalFanCT]

OUR AAU exclusion ... and there seems to have been very little ingress or egress since 1995 ... is that we are in the same state as Yale. It's hard to weigh what that sucking of research dollars does to UConn; but, that is not what Kansas nor Purdue nor Illinois face.

Is it not true that many of the grants going to UConn are also split with Yale. We get the grants because Yale is getting some of the money.

 

[Jerry1714]

I can't believe no one is complaining about Georgia being #56.
Georgia?

Vanderbilt and Florida, fine. But Georgia?

UGA is, and has been, a really good school. Their Grad programs are even better.

What an odd comment

 

[Pudge]

Is it not true that many of the grants going to UConn are also split with Yale. We get the grants because Yale is getting some of the money.

Maybe.

But this AAU "club", like the Power 5 in Football, is a Cartel like operation. And it locked the door in the mid 1990s ... and we have grown significantly since then. OR ... some schools have exploded since then. Therefore, this little thing is something to hate.

 

[DarthGrumpy]

UGA is, and has been, a really good school. Their Grad programs are even better.

What an odd comment

Ditto U Florida at #50. A very good school with a lot of research dollars; but, the shenanigans within the football program makes it look like kindergarten cops.

 

[Redding Husky]

Totally. 1950s kicked ass as long as you weren't black, Latino, gay, a woman, poor or basically anyone but a upper, to upper middle class white dude.

I don't know if the 1950's were better or if today is better. But I do know that we spend waaaaay too much on income redistribution today.

America is all about equal opportunity, not equal results.

 

[upstater]

I don't know if the 1950's were better or if today is better. But I do know that we spend waaaaay too much on income redistribution today.

America is all about equal opportunity, not equal results.

This is not the right place for this, but there is less redistribution than ever before. We are at a low point. Back then, tax rates were much higher. We are under 20% tax to GDP at this point, but the military budget hasn't shrunk. Less on education since the GI Bill.