Once again, it's ranking season. US News & World Report rankings will come out shortly and I feel compelled
to once again point out that success isn't only found at a top ranked school. This year's methodology hasn't come out, but I imagine that, once again, US News did not take student satisfaction, student services, study abroad options, graduate school admission, or job placement as criteria. Aside from the average SAT scores, no student information seems to be included in their calculation.
That being said, I guess I have to write about
UVa's ranking...tomorrow. I can't believe I had to do this, but the rankings are "
embargoed" and aren't supposed to be released, though someone at another school sent them to me before the numbers sent to
UVa directly made it to my inbox.
With
UVa's hiring of some very prominent researchers, we might see our ranking shift in the coming years because the methodology used by US News puts a high value on faculty resources.
Update:
UVa has crept up one spot on the national list to #23 (tied with Georgetown and ahead of Michigan, which shared the #24 spot last year with UVa). The public school list hasn't changed since last year with Berkeley at the top the list and UVa coming in 2nd.
