OT: US News Rankings

[Fightingscot82]

US News rankings are the most promoted and most criticized rankings (mostly because they heavily weight reputation survey results from high school guidance counselors and college admissions directors). Nearly all PSAC members are considered "regional master's universities".

Regional Universities in the North (really meaning Norheast):
38. Mercyhurst
43. Seton Hill
50. West Chester
83. Slippery Rock
88. Shippensburg
96. Millersville
111. Lock Haven
113. Clarion
121. Bloomsburg
125. Kutztown
131. Edinboro
Unranked: California, East Stroudsburg, Mansfield.

Regional Colleges in the North:
31. University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown

National Liberal Arts Colleges: Cheyney is unranked.

National Universities:
227. Gannon
284. IUP

[IUPbigINDIANS]

US News rankings are the most promoted and most criticized rankings (mostly because they heavily weight reputation survey results from high school guidance counselors and college admissions directors). Nearly all PSAC members are considered "regional master's universities":

38. Mercyhurst
43. Seton Hill
50. West Chester
83. Slippery Rock
88. Shippensburg
96. Millersville
111. Lock Haven
113. Clarion
121. Bloomsburg
125. Kutztown
131. Edinboro

Unranked: California, East Stroudsburg, Mansfield.

National Liberal Arts Colleges: Cheyney is unranked.

National Universities:
227. Gannon
284. IUP

Where does UPJ (the often forgotten PSAC member) get classified?

[Fightingscot82]

Where does UPJ (the often forgotten PSAC member) get classified?

Thanks - forgot them since they're not ranked in the same lists.

Regional Colleges in the North
15. Pennsylvania Technical College (red headed step child of Penn State)
19. Pitt at Bradford
31. Pitt at Johnstown

All other branch campuses are unranked or don't qualify for not having enough autonomy. This surprised me because the Altoona and Erie campuses of Penn State are pretty autonomous. They're nowhere to be found in these rankings for overall school rankings. Behrend has some good rankings for individual programs.

[iupgroundhog]

Thanks - forgot them since they're not ranked in the same lists.

Regional Colleges in the North
15. Pennsylvania Technical College (red headed step child of Penn State)
19. Pitt at Bradford
31. Pitt at Johnstown

All other branch campuses are unranked or don't qualify for not having enough autonomy. This surprised me because the Altoona and Erie campuses of Penn State are pretty autonomous. They're nowhere to be found in these rankings for overall school rankings. Behrend has some good rankings for individual programs.

I don't see that Penn Tech is a "red-headed stepchild." My perception of it is that it's a great school that really meets the demands of today's labor market. It's good for PA. Very innovative even if it did come from Penn State.

[Fightingscot82]

I don't see that Penn Tech is a "red-headed stepchild." My perception of it is that it's a great school that really meets the demands of today's labor market. It's good for PA. Very innovative even if it did come from Penn State.

Its the red-headed step child of the Penn State system according to people who work there. I have nothing against them - they're just in a weird position as being part of Penn State but not considered by Penn State to be a "commonwealth" campus.