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Well, right, and it's so difficult to put things into perspective in any other way. Honestly, I could go on a college tour and think a school looked fantastic, and then find out that it accepts 99% of applicants, or that only 2% of professors have Ph.D.s.
I mean, I might find that out if I asked the right questions on the tour, but without quantification, rankings, lists, where would anyone start?
Why is the U.S. so obsessed with college rankings?
Because companies are concerned about college rankings when they seek new hires. If you do not go to a 1st tier school you will not be accepted as a new employee of a top company. Of course mileage varies, but this holds true most of the time and I would say increasingly. It's a filtering mechanism.
Why is the U.S. so obsessed with college rankings?
Because the people who interview college graduates and offer them jobs are obsessed with rankings. Law firms for instance pay big money ($200K to start) to graduates of top law schools like Yale. Companies like IBM or Google look to people who went to high-ranked Stanford or MIT to determine who to give a great job to. The post-graduate market demands the rankings, making them a priority.
I'm also guessing that the number of higher education institutions in the US out number those in other countries (notice I said more, not better)? Thus it may help to have a way to rank them?
Its all marketing. (1) Marketing by the colleges to find some category to get ranked in and (2) Marketing by the ranking companies that sell their lists and market the books.
Its all marketing. (1) Marketing by the colleges to find some category to get ranked in and (2) Marketing by the ranking companies that sell their lists and market the books.
The better schools are accredited in specialties (business, nursing, engineering, architecture, etc.) in addition to having a "regional" accreditation. Some online schools and second-rate "for-profit" institutions brag about their "regional" accreditations, but they are dead silent on accreditation of individual programs. Caveat emptor!
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