Best Colleges 2010 Pt 1: Make the Most of the Rankings

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The US News and World Reports Best Colleges 2010 list is now on the newsstands. The editors of the magazine do an enormous amount of work creating a valuable repository of information on all of the colleges and universities you care about most. Join us as we demystify the methodology behind and describe the factors used to construct the rankings. More importantly, go beyond the numbers to find out the implications they have as you make your decisions about where to apply. * Which is more important: Faculty to student ratio or average class size? * How does the peer assessment influence the rankings and whos doing the assessing? * How is student selectivity calculated? Grades? Test scores? Which ones?

Get the answers to these questions and many more so that you can make the most of this years rankings.

Part 1 of 3, By Ned Johnson and Leah W. Adams
Originally aired 8/26/2009

Category:

Education

Tags:

• College Admissions
• SAT
• ACT
• testing
• getting into college
• applications
• college rankings

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Here are some ideas of how Best Colleges/Universities should be ranked. 1. By Campus Design 2. By Campus Life 3. Courses Offered 4. By Teachers 5. By Administration.