You have to read couple of interesting comments on Top 100 Universities in USA blog post. There are various websites that provide list of Top Universities and Colleges ( Public, Private) in USA. US News usually provides US Universities Rankings and Top Universities in USA every year. Students follow University rankings to select colleges they plan to attend.
Top 100 Universities in USA
Top 100 Universities in USA list started like this when the article was published
- Harvard University
- University of Virginia
- University of Michigan
- Cornell University
- University of Washington
- Stanford University
- …….
There are couple of comment to that article
this is the stupidest ranking i’ve ever seen.
Misleading Article.
Most students when following University and College rankings, have no clue on how the rankings are calculated and factors considered to calculate rankings. Lets think about what students typically look while selecting universities by searching for Top 100 Universities in USA.
- Most International students have no clue on how to select universities
- Students don’t check if factors that are important to them is included in ranking
- International students typically look at
- Low Tuition Fees
- Low cost of living
- 100% chances to get Financial Aid
- Easy to get job after graduation.
- University reputation
- Best University for their profile
US News Rankings Indicators
Indicators used by US News to Rank Universities include
- Peer Assessment 25%,
- Student Retention 20%
- Faculty resources 20%
- Student selectivity 15 %
- Financial resources 10 %
- Graduation rate performance 5 %
- Alumni giving rate 5 %
Now compare above 7 indicators used by US News to above 6 factors considered by an International Student while selecting a university based on another dimension ( GRE Exam, TOEFL Exam Score, …). There is absolutely no match. Does that mean US News ranking is not good, no not at all. they have their methodology, but that doesn’t apply to you.
Almost everyone uses Google to find information on the web. Readers who wrote above 2 comments should have located this article by searching in google. But, they do not know how google search process works and how search results are displayed. If you search for a term, you can see there are thousands of webpages that contains the words you searched, but why you see certain pages in first page of search result?
You depend 100% on google to find information, but if we list top 100 universities in USA based on google results, you call it as “stupidest ranking”.
We definetly like to know what do you think about this ranking methodology and how Top 100 Universities were listed.
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this is the one of the best information i got on the college rankings
Hello
Can anyone tell me the ranking of Indiana University? I’m on the look out for universities for graduate programs in Biotechnology.
sir,
i got 1200 in gre& 92 in toel…i’m an indian. can plz suggest me the list of colleges which are offering ms in mechanical related stream?
My gre score is 1000
tofel score 92
im planing for spring in 2011
can u suggest me few good colleges in which i can find indian students
This is a really interesting and enlightening article.
I think most of us Indians would love to know about the Universities with maximum placement opportunities.
Thank You
i am enlightened by the level of information provided by this blog it has been a great support . I am currently pursuing my PGDM from a IGSM which is both approved by aicte and AIU so can i apply for phd directly in USA… if i wish to do something related to do with economics, finance or production management course wat can i look forward to in USA
Sir,
I have got admit from
NCSU for Masters in civil engineering for fall 2010 in transportation engineering.
Purdue for masters in civil engineering for fall 2010 in Construction engineering
Well fees at Purdue are bit higher which one will you suggest me to join.
NCSU has laready told me there is no funding fro next 1 year.
So please help me decide
i need to know the university where i can learn holographic technology or specialize in that (it should fall in electronics category, i guess).
i know of one- university of michigan
thanks for the useful info. good work, keep up
My gre score is 1240
im planing for spring in 2011
can u suggest me few good colleges which has campus recruitment
hey can ya tell me what the typical gre score and academic percentage should be to get into embry riddle aeronautical university?
What you say makes a lot of sense. but you haven’t mentioned anything on how to search based on the “international students’ factors”?
i am planning to apply for an ms course in us universities. i did a month’s internship in a telenetworking company. do u think this will do any good to my profile or my chances?
hi im an engineering student and applying for my gre in next month, can you please help me to find some good colleges dat offers telecom courses in united states…ie MS in telecommunications…..please kindly refer me some good websites to search my programme.
hello,
i’m looking to apply in a couple of top american engineering universities. but some say colleges like purdue-west lafayette and univ of illinois- urbana champaign are very iit and nit centric. can anyone plz tell me if its worth trying to apply to them, or is it a waste of money for i’m neither an iitian nor an nitian?
Hema,
If you have a profile which is as good as an IITian or any REC’s profile then I see no reason why you shouldn’t apply to those schools you just named.
Not every IITian is a topper (you have an advantage here if you are in your peer group), IITians have a few projects under their belt and a few paper presentations and publications in important conferences (if not publications, they’re atleast being considered by the jury of those conferences).
Hi,
Can anyone let me know about the funds at Illinois Institute of Technology-Chicago for Computer Science Department. Also, the job prospects after graduation of MS in CS.
Regards,
Hema
You depend 100% on google to find information, but if we list top 100 universities in USA based on google results, you call it as “stupidest ranking”.
What kind of an imbecile statement is this?? If we wanted to create top 100 unis using google, then we would have googled it ourselves.. People come to this blog to find some decent info, not read some useless posts like this with moronic explanation..
Your comments are well taken, I’m going to write what I feel is useful, definitely not what you think will be useful. It’s my blog and I can write what I feel is right, if you feel that’s moronic, I don’t; care about that. You can feel and write what you think is right or wrong and good or bad.
Infact it’s good to have few people like you around this blog, so it will be good entertainment for others.
HSB, you’re actually true
This is good wholesome entertainment ! The guy seems to be preparing for the GRE. I noticed he’s been using some ‘archaic’ words which only appear in the GRE 
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