Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!hooner
From: hooner@athena.mit.edu (Hoon D Ko)
Newsgroups: comp.edu,soc.college
Subject: Re: Silly survey season
Message-ID: <1775@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 10-Nov-87 13:08:15 EST
Article-I.D.: bloom-be.1775
Posted: Tue Nov 10 13:08:15 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Nov-87 21:28:06 EST
References: <706@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> <492@mit-caf.UUCP> <724@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> <9247@sri-unix.ARPA>
Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: hooner@athena.mit.edu (Hoon D Ko)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lines: 16
Xref: mnetor comp.edu:788 soc.college:983

In article <9247@sri-unix.ARPA> maslak@sri-unix.UUCP (Valerie Maslak) writes:
>Be careful of the Gorman report: my understanding is that he is
>listing things by MAJOR, not by department, at least in the
>undergraduate book, so if a school calls its
>major by an unorthodox name, it may not be listed where you would
>think it would be.
>
>Valerie Maslak

Well actually, the Gourman report lists several different "names"
in a department with footnotes- for example, MIT's version of
aerospace engineering is actually called "aeronautical and astronomical
engineering" (something like that, we just call it "aero/astro").
If a school chooses to call its CS program Information Systems, for
example, then it would still be listed in the CS rankings with a 
footnote giving the actual name for the program at the institution.