Posts Tagged ‘rankings’
Today’s paper: the fine print
Weather reports say it will be 2 degrees warmer today than yesterday, which will feel about 100 degrees better on our red noses. We’re sensitive to the details. Today we talk minutiae and make the fine print legible.
- The never-understood grocery store in JJ’s is making bank. [A&E]
- Fear not, job and internship obsessives: LionShare has 200% more employer postings than 2 years ago. [News]
- Barnard and Columbia are ranked differently in Newsweek lists. [News]
- We have a water polo team, and they’re going to nationals. [Sports]
- Say goodbye to speedy renovations if MoHi is dubbed a historical district. [News]
CU takes first in Trojan Sexual Health Report Card
Finally, we’re first in something. A survey performed by Trojan Condoms ranked us first amongst universities for sexual health resources and outreach. The report card ranks resources based on factors like availability and price of condoms, STD testing, anonymous advice, and outreach programs. Full results after the jump. More »
Fuzzy math from when Columbia was ranked #11
My fellow bloggers and columnists Neil FitzPatrick and James Dawson have each considered the question of college rankings in their columns this week.
And so did former Spectator opinion writer Marc Tracy on Sept. 8, 2003. “Fuzzy Math,” a diatribe against U.S. News and World Report rankings, was published in a year when “Columbia University slipped from spot 10 to spot 11.” It’s worth reading. More »
Some new college rankings are out, and, well, we just can’t win
Times Higher Education, “the UK’s most authoritative source of information about higher education” (this is serious stuff here, people!) just published their World University Rankings 2010. Harvard, Caltech and MIT top the list. Where does Columbia stand? Not where you’d think. More »
Oh look, two more dumb college rankings
While we’re making lists of colleges, we should point out that two new school rankings came out today, this time from Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal. Where did Columbia place? Where!? Oh God, where?!?! Shall I build the suspense more? Results after the jump! More »
Jewish mag ranks Columbia 10th among Chosen People
Columbia placed fourth in the infamous U.S. News rankings. But Jews are holding us to a higher standard.
The latest issue of Reform Judaism Magazine (yes, that’s a real magazine) has a ranking of the Jewiest schools (PDF).
“Oy!” you might say. We’ve got this in the bag. But on this list, Columbia is actually ranked lower than it is by U.S. News. What a religious revelation! More »
Columbia climbs to fourth on U.S. News & World Report list of best colleges
Our beloved alma mater, which for the past few years has proudly but longingly hovered near the #8 spot with Duke and the University of Chicago, has jumped up to #4 in U.S. News & World Report’s latest list of the best colleges in the country. Harvard took the top spot, followed by Princeton and Yale. Stanford and Penn tied for fifth.
Not that these lists matter. More »
MoHi ranked ‘Best College Town’
Congrats, kids. We’ve made it to the top of a Princeton Review Top College Rankings list. For best college town. Time to pat ourselves on the backs for fostering such a welcoming sense of community in Morningside Heights. By frequenting neighborhood-y places like Hungarian and Koronet, we’ve successfully made people believe that MoHi is a little less scary than big ol’ NYC and a little more like Ann Arbor, Mich. or something. [Suite101]
Another dick-measuring contest
August “journalism” outlet US News & World Report, in yet another quest for more money, has released yet another one of its college rankings. This time, we find out the “Most Popular Schools.”
A popularity contest? This isn’t high school!? Nos. 1, 4, and 6 are surprising, but the rest of the top 10 seems about right. Rankings after the jump. More »