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Re: Academic Rankings
By: Chairman of the Board Date: September 4, 2018, 7:26 pm
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[quote]Continuing that national rise!...SBU named 34th best US
College by Money Magazine
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Re: Academic Rankings
By: Wolffan Date: September 10, 2018, 8:15 am
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USN&WR rankings came out today. SBU tied with Binghamton for
80th nationally among National Universities.
HTML https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities
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Re: Academic Rankings
By: NoVA_Seawolf Date: September 10, 2018, 10:23 am
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USN&WR rankings came out today. SBU tied with Binghamton for
80th nationally among National Universities.
HTML https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities
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These are important rankings and I believe we moved up 17 spots.
That is a BIG jump and is I believe our highest ranking on
record. This is great news for us and everyone at the university
should be shouting these rankings from the rooftops since we're
closer to where we should be now. Note how we're ahead of UB,
and tied with Binghamton who many people say is "better" than we
are. Fantastic news ;D ;D
Other notable universities this puts us ahead of are Michigan
State, Indiana, Iowa, Colorado, RIT, Delaware, and Arizona.
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Re: Academic Rankings
By: Seawolf97 Date: September 10, 2018, 10:43 am
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This is great news and should be plastered all the Island for
everyone to see . We are one of the top schools in the country
and getting better .
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Re: Academic Rankings
By: Chairman of the Board Date: September 10, 2018, 11:30 am
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agreed. even though i question the utility of these rankings
(can you really say with any authority that #26 is better than
#27? nonsense), the fact is that kids use them. we just love to
put things in order add a value.
especially given that large universities have separate colleges,
etc. that would be better in my mind if you ranked colleges.
this is where our math/sciences shine of course.
VA you made an excellent but subtle point- where we should be.
i think most reasonable people, even subjective alums, would
agree we arent in the ranks of princeton, duke, stanford, yale,
and the like. so it's realistic to say that we belong more in
the 70-ish range at best, i think.
but if you factor in my comment above- how silly it is to try to
rank these- i think in buckets is better. with that said, i
dont see why we couldnt be as high as 50-something (uconn, smu,
miami?).
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Re: Academic Rankings
By: NoVA_Seawolf Date: September 10, 2018, 11:56 am
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The top 20 is pretty much all private schools, and the top 50 is
littered with privates. I don't think it's realistic to expect
to be public Ivy level with Berkley, UCLA, UVA, Georgia Tech,
Michigan, etc., but I think it's a good goal, and a fairly
realistic one to someday be in that next tier down with schools
like Wisconsin, Ohio State, Washington (severely underrated in
these rankings I think), Texas, the other UC campuses (Davis,
Santa Barbara, etc.). It's hard to really be compared to/compete
with private schools as most have such a long history, but the
public schools are good ones to aspire towards.
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Re: Academic Rankings
By: Chairman of the Board Date: September 10, 2018, 12:34 pm
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agreed on all points; we may not be berkeley, UVa, michigan,
etc. But it's a good aim.
im glad you brought up Ga Tech. i happen to think SB is built
much more like a Va Tech, Ga Tech and other large tech schools.
we are more known for hard sciences and engineering, large
campus, etc. our liberal arts are just catching up but perhaps
those should be our targets.
i do agree that wiscy an washington are both underrated.
since we dont have a bona fide "national" appeal, the way UCLA
or Michigan has- perhaps we should look more to the more
regional schools as something to aspire to? perhaps... i dunno.
rutgers, penn state, umass, uconn, etc. just a thought, i dont
necessarily agree with it.
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Re: Academic Rankings
By: ecasadoSBU Date: September 10, 2018, 6:07 pm
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What a great day for the Brook and the alumni family!
USNWR Rankings are the most viewed and valued by prospective
students
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Re: Academic Rankings
By: NoVA_Seawolf Date: September 11, 2018, 10:57 pm
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Here's a fun little tid-bit for the anti-FBS football crowd. Of
all the pubic schools with football programs ranked ahead of us
the latest US News rankings, only two of them have football in
the FCS. UC Davis, and William and Mary. Everyone else is FBS
and most of those are in P5 conferences. How good you are on the
field doesn't matter. It's about how you do in the classroom
first and foremost. If it was all about on-field performance,
Boise State would be in the Pac-12, North Dakota State would be
in the Big 10, and Rutgers would be in the NAIA.
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Re: Academic Rankings
By: Chairman of the Board Date: September 12, 2018, 8:16 am
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just for ease of reading- i think you meant to write "ranked
ahead of us", right?
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