Couple of days ago, my neighbor’s son informed me that he was confused about the selection of good Colleges for Higher Studies in US.
Different Agencies award different ratings.
I am providing the List of such sites at the end of this blog.
The best way is to go the College site.
Go to Alumni.
Find out people who have passed out from the Institution between 5-10 years earlier and know where and how they are placed.
If necessary you may contact them by email.
You go to Faculty.
Check the qualification of Faculty members,their published works, their reputation, their Academic standing in the subject.If required you may also check with their previous employer.
You may also get a List of good schools in US from the US embassy.
Collate all the details and decide for yourself.
Never go to an Education Consultant for they have their own interests.
Rankings of universities in the United States.
U.S. News & World Report College and University rankings
Top 40 “National Universities” according to US News & World Report, 2007
Referred to as the “granddaddy of the college rankings”,America’s best–known American college and university rankings have been compiled since 1983 by U.S. News & World Reportand are widely regarded as the most influential of all college rankings.
The US News rankings are based upon data which U.S. News collects from each educational institution either from an annual survey or from the school’s website. It also considers opinion surveys of university faculty and administrators outside the school. The college rankings were published in all years thereafter, except 1984.
United States National Research Council Rankings
The National Research Council ranks the doctoral research programmes of US universities, most recently in 1995.Data collection for an updated ranking began in 2006.
Faculty Scholarly Productivity rankings
The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index by Academic Analytics ranks 354 institutions based on faculty publications, citations, research grants and awards.
The Top American Research Universities
The Center for Measuring University Performance has ranked American research universities in the Top American Research Universities since 2000. The methodology is based on data such as research publications, citations, recognitions and funding, as well as undergraduate quality such as SAT scores. The information used can be found in public–accessible materials, reducing possibilities for manipulation. The methodology is generally consistent from year to year and changes are explained in the publication along with references from other studies.
sue. It offers American university and college rankings based upon how well it enhances social mobility, fosters scientific and humanistic research and promotes an ethic of service.
Forbes College rankings
In 2008, Forbes.com began publishing an annual list of “America’s Best Colleges. “The Forbes rankings use the list of alumni published in Who’s Who in America, student evaluations from ratemyprofessors.com, self-reported salaries of alumni from payscale.com, four-year graduation rates, numbers of students and faculty receiving “nationally competitive awards,” and four-year accumulated student debt to calculate the rankings.[94][95] The 2009 rankings included less familiar colleges and higher rankings of US military academies. They were criticized due to reliance on subjective sources (50% of the rankings depend on Who’s Who in America and ratemyprofessor.com)[96] as well as for the lower rankings of many nationally recognized institutions, including Ivy League schools.[citation needed]
Forbes also published “Top Colleges For Getting Rich”, partly based upon anonymous readers’ votes.[citation needed] It ranks schools based on figures obtained by payscale.com, which in turn collects data through self-reported earnings.
American Council of Trustees and Alumni
In 2009, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) began grading colleges and universities based on the strength of their general education requirements. They assign a letter grade ranging from “A” to “F” to more than 700 four-year colleges and universities based on how many of seven subjects are required of students: composition, mathematics, intermediate-level foreign language, science, economics, literature and American government or history.This rating has been endorsed by Mel Elfin, founding editor of U.S. News & World Report’s rankings. New York Times higher education blogger Stanley Fish, while agreeing that universities ought to have a strong core curriculum, disagreed with some of the subjects ACTA includes in the core. As of 2010, only 16 universities had earned an “A”.
Revealed preference rankings
Avery et al. pioneered the use of choice modelling to rank colleges. Their methodology used a statistical analysis of the decisions of 3,240 students who applied to college in 1999. MyChances.net adopted a similar approach starting in 2009, stating that its method is based on this approach. The study analysed students admitted to multiple colleges. The college they attended became the winner, and the others became the losers. An Elo rating system was used to assign points based on each win or loss, and the colleges were ranked based on their Elo points. A useful consequence of the use of Elo points is that they can be used to estimate the frequency with which students, upon being admitted to two schools, will choose one over the other.
Other rankings of US universities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_and_university_rankings#United_States
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