On Rankings

Standing ovation for Lynn O’Shaughnessy, whose blog I love.  Here are her thoughts on the US News rankings, which came out today.  (Full disclosure: Stony Brook comes in at #92 on the list of top national universities this year.)

Lynn also posted a link a few weeks ago to a new tool for college searching from the Chronicle that I found fascinating: College Completion.

It takes the data set information that all colleges release and allows you to play with it a bit to match your needs, because YOUR criteria for school probably don’t match any known “ranking” system out there.  The chart above compares Stony Brook’s data across the spectrum of four-year public schools across the country.

If you’re going to use stats and rankings, make sure you’re using them the right way!

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