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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 3970215, member: 153"] The professional schools are different from all the other colleges. But students in those schools have to take courses in other colleges too. My undergrad degree was in a professional school largely taught by working pros, not tenured faculty. There are a lot of studies that have recently been done on information retention and skills building in the professional schools versus sciences, engineering and humanities. The problem with the studies is that students are paid to take those exams, and though there are checks to make sure they do it in earnest, it is a self-selecting group. But so far, the studies are not good for business schools. You are absolutely right about USNews. If anything, schools try to game USNews in ways that badly hurt the college while INCREASING its reputation. For instance, keeping open seats at a minimum when we have demographic pressures requiring us to open MORE seats for worthy students. What good is it driving up your SAT score by keeping out students who are just as worthy? Or even worse, you don't want to hire clinical faculty or non-tenure track faculty because it hurts your % of tenure track faculty score, so what do you do? Load up on adjuncts which is the worst possible strategy for students. The truly weird thing is that USNews is done with a survey. The Carnegie Foundation spends millions of dollars sending their researchers to campuses to gather this information. AND they also review departments and give them metrics to assess where a dept. is weak compared to their cohort. [/QUOTE]

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