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Thought I'd ought to leave this here as well.. especially since it's peak application season.
As football season hits it's peak, I thought I'd drop this here. I'm a big football fan, but it seems these tables are new to Wikipidea. I checked the sources, and they're good - very helpful resource. Many parents denounce "football" schools due to uneducated rumors, assumptions or flat out incorrect data.
Glad to see these tables up. Click on the averages to be routed to academic tables for other conferences.
Measures include: 6-year graduation rate, freshman retention rate, SAT score, rank, endowment and research expenditure - also included is the national average
Not a huge surprise to me, but interesting information no less. The Big Ten is the best overall collection of large (i.e. national university) postsecondary institutions outside of the Ivy League (duh!) and the lesser-known University Athletic Association (including the likes of University of Chicago, Carnegie-Mellon, Washington University, etc.)
Not a huge surprise to me, but interesting information no less. The Big Ten is the best overall collection of large (i.e. national university) postsecondary institutions outside of the Ivy League (duh!) and the lesser-known University Athletic Association (including the likes of University of Chicago, Carnegie-Mellon, Washington University, etc.)
University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, University of Georgia and Penn State are way underrated.
^^Actually, the first two are very highly regarded out here in the west. The other two, not so much. Frankly, how Penn State gets so highly is a mystery to me. They obviously rank highly in the things US News is looking for.
i find it interesting that only 1 of 3 kids from nebraska come back for their second year. also at kentucky only half of the incoming class graduates in fewer than 6 years. 6 years!!!! are you kidding me? !!!
i find it interesting that only 1 of 3 kids from nebraska come back for their second year. also at kentucky only half of the incoming class graduates in fewer than 6 years. 6 years!!!! are you kidding me? !!!
Various states have different standards that they aim for in this respect. States widely vary in the number of community colleges that are available as options. Some states admit virtually everybody as freshmen, and relatively few of them make the grade to advance to second year. The upside is that it maximized the number of HS graduates who get a shot at higher education.
For example, when I went to LSU, I think there was only one 2-year college in Louisiana, so LSU admitted almost everyone who graduated from high school, and flunked most of them out after one year.
I think the Nebraska figure was 2 out of 3 coming back. Nebraska has only one (non-Indian) community college and two public four-year colleges in the 400 mile expanse west of Columbus, and the second largest number of school districts in the USA (some with less than 100 students K-12), so not many options for freshmen from small schools to make a start in higher education. You can't compare that to the circumstances in Ohio or Indiana.
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