Purdue is #4

[punaj]

4th beat public university according to the WSJ, that is. Works for me.

http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/purd...put-purdue-among-top-public-institutions.html

 

[Purdue Grad in Texas]

4th beat public university according to the WSJ, that is. Works for me.

http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/purd...put-purdue-among-top-public-institutions.html

Thanks, punaj. Also from the article under "Pleasant Surprises:"

"Purdue University’s main campus in West Lafayette, Ind., tied for No. 37 overall, on par with the University of California, Berkeley and just behind the elite Middlebury College in Vermont. It was tied with Berkeley as the fourth-best public institution, ahead of highly regarded names including the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (No. 48 overall), the Georgia Institute of Technology (tied for No. 51) and the University of Virginia (tied for No. 56).

Purdue was third among public schools in terms of resources, which covers per-student finances, faculty-student ratios and research output by faculty. Purdue President Mitch Daniels cites years of “careful stewardship” of the school’s finances, including incentivizing administrative cost cuts while investing in classroom programs and protecting a triple-A credit rating.

The school also revised tenure guidelines last spring, more heavily weighting student mentorship alongside research output in promotion decisions, and revamped a number of classes to center on team-based projects, both of which could boost future engagement scores."

 

[BoilerDaddy]

4th beat public university according to the WSJ, that is. Works for me.

http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/purd...put-purdue-among-top-public-institutions.html

The metrics in this ranking system make a lot more sense than metrics that are primarily driven by selectivity, as is the case with a number of ranking systems.

 

[Cevol03]

this should be the gold standard for college rankings not US News and Report