Aerospace Engineering rankings by Students Review

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Q. Everybody either loves or hate college rankings. Some like me can't do with them as a guide for comparing colleges. I went to the http://www.studentsreview.com/ website and feeling bored, happened to stumble upon its SR Rankins facility. I selected 'Program/Education Quality' as the Dynamic Ranking factor and 'Aerospace Engineering' as an Additional Optional Ranking Restriction, without selecting any other variable. Lo and behold! The list below was obtained. To my great joy, I realized I had obtained an aerospace engineering college ranking for 26 U.S. colleges; a list impossible to obtain from U.S. News & World Report for free. So for once, Ann Arbor is able to triumph over GA Tech. If the data says the U.S. Naval Academy is superior to the U.S. Air Force Academy in aerospace engineering, alright, I can believe that. After all, too much flying may make one light-headed. Caltech no. 8, Stanford no. 10, MIT no. 14, UCLA no. 24, well, who am I to doubt such strange figures? For the benefit of everyone in this newsgroup, especially those who may wish to try a similar approach in order to obtain other lists for other disciplines, I thought it would be nice to make everyone here aware of such a wonderful source of information. However, there may be a catch. As they like to say, beware of Greeks bearing gifts. I have to confess I find the explanation of what the rankings actually mean too challenging to understand. Would someone care to try? Prof. Darcity, perhaps? # School 1 University of Michigan Ann Arbor 2 Georgia Institute of Technology 3 Purdue University 4 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University 5 United States Naval Academy 6 University of Maryland College Park 7 United States Air Force Academy 8 California Institute of Technology 9 Molloy College 10 Stanford University 11 University of Alabama -- Tuscaloosa 12 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 13 Illinois Institute of Technology 14 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 15 Boston University 16 Rochester Institute of Technology 17 Cornell University 18 LeTourneau University 19 Iowa State University 20 North Carolina State University 21 University of Central Florida 22 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 23 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 24 University of California -- Los Angeles 25 University of Southern California 26 Rutgers The State University of New Jersey -- New Brunswick

A. -It's a very interesting tool but I'm not as impressed with the results. I plugged in a bunch of different criteria, always looking for the highest academic quality and faculty involvement, and received some very strange results -- including many schools I had never heard of and several very fundamentalist religious schools I know could not possibly be tops in the programs inquired about. Anyone else? -You hit the nail on the head regarding this tool. It can only rank based on the number of surveys filled out be students. It skews the results toward schools with more data. I find www.studentsreview.com good only for fleshing out a school's good and bad points, as a way of raising caution flags. The rankings are as bogus as US News', which is a college president's beauty contest. studentsreview may get better as more students from more schools find the site and make their opinions known. -After a good day's rest, I re-read my posting and realized to my horror I may have done Students Review an injustice. If that is so, I sincerely apologise! Please note that my phrase of "beware of Greeks bearing gifts" refers to me, not Students Review! I have totally no intention to hurt their reputation, and in fact find Students Review extremely helpful in college selection with the freely available resources on its website. Once again, a million apologies to Students Review. -I tend to agree with you; did felt a bit strange about some items in the list. For example, Molloy what? And where's The University of Texas at Austin? Where's Texas A&M U, which I understand is the equivalent "Texas Institute of Technology" for the state of Texas, just like Purdue U is the equivalent "Indiana Institute of Technology" for Indiana? Where's Ohio State U? After all, they're in the top 17 aerospace engineering schools 2003 list of US News & World Report (I think only, not sure - can't afford to pay for the full report). But to be fair, many of the colleges/universities are on both the Students Review (SR)list and the US News & World Report lists. The bonus from the SR list is that it is possible to have a common ranking of all institutions, unlike the US News & World Report lists which keep engineering schools for those with Ph.D. programs separate from those offering only first degree programs.

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