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Old 09-21-2023, 08:43 AM
 
Location: North Carolina
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Some believe rankings are hogwash, others swear by them, but either way NC State was made tremendous strides in those rankings. There was a time when NC State was in the upper 80s , low 90s of national universities, which still isn’t bad considering most of these ranking lists have nearly 400-500 schools making the cut for a “national” school. But now NC State is ranked 60th and is really starting to nip at UNC’s heels. Pun, initially, not intended.

The question is how did that kinda leap happen?!!!

I know folks like to rag on NC State athletics, but making that sort of jump beats a national championship in the big 3 sports any day of the week.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2023/09/nc-sta...news-rankings/
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Old 09-21-2023, 08:47 AM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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The question is how did that kinda leap happen?!!! [/url]
The metrics completely changed this year favoring NC State.

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Each year, U.S. News makes changes to its Best Colleges methodology by adjusting weights or adding/removing indicators. U.S. News made significant changes to its methodology for 2024 by omitting five indicators that had previously constituted 18% of an institution’s score, adjusting indicator weights and adding seven new indicators that now account for 14% of an institution’s score.
Not to discount anything from NC State - it's a great public university but it doesn't need rankings to justify that.
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Old 09-21-2023, 08:49 AM
 
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Yeah I literally just saw the other thread about Duke/UNC rankings after I made this thread.

I don’t really place much stock in the rankings but I will say Forbes has NC State making a leap around 60ish too. Fwiw.
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Old 09-21-2023, 01:20 PM
 
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The question is how did that kinda leap happen?!!!

State's goalposts were moved.
State's basket was lowered.
State's hitters got 4 strikes.
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Old 09-28-2023, 09:07 AM
 
Location: Beautiful and sanitary DC
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USN knows that movement makes news, and that colleges game their system, so they're constantly tweaking the dials. But given that this is a big jump over several years, there's something underlying the change.
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Old 09-28-2023, 07:50 PM
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Better leadership maybe? I have family and friends who graduated in the 80s/90s/00s who love the school but would complain the higher ups back then never strived for better, just to remain status quo. They all seem to like the current chancellor.
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Old 09-29-2023, 01:57 PM
 
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well, several discussion forums (mainly sports) claim, without proof, that the list was totally written by AI.
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