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Subject: Re: undergraduate rankings
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Date: Mon, 7-Sep-87 02:43:49 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  7 02:43:49 1987
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In article <10158@duke.cs.duke.edu> jbd@duke.cs.duke.edu (Joanne Bechta Dugan) writes:
>The following is a list of the top 60 undergraduate institutions
>on a combination of three measures:  the number of graduates who went on 
>to receive PhD's in science or mathematics from 1971 to 1980; the number
>of students who received national Science Foundation fellowships from
>1973 to 1984; and the percentage of freshmen with math SAT scores above 600.

[list deleted]

Ranking by number instead of percentage seems more bogus than necessary
to me; it penalizes small schools.  Furthermore, the schools I recognize
on the list are undergraduate ONLY.  If the list is the best undergraduate
only schools, it isn't that useful; there are good places to get undergrad
degrees that have grad students as well.

The big public schools, Berkeley, U-Mich Ann Arbor, Ohio State, UTexas,
and U-Minn are so big that they would have been on the list if it really
ranked by numbers instead of percentage (and they were eligible).  I
suspect that the list used percentages but didn't consider schools with
grads; I think that at least two of the biggies would have made it otherwise.

-andy
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