Article from Nov 2023
Wall St Journal
Yeah, these rankings are about as useful as a preseason football poll in March but, so sorry UTjr (TX).
According to the Journal's 2024 Best Colleges in the U.S., Texas A&M University - College Station is the state's only top-50 school, ranking 38th overall. A&M earned its high rank despite a national scandal surrounding the school's botched hiring of an esteemed journalism professor earlier this summer.
Houston's Rice University also cracked the top 100 at 64th. Notably, the University of Texas at Austin did not make the top 100, coming in at No. 118.
To generate the rankings, the Journal partnered with research groups College Pulse and Statista to analyze a mountain of data, measuring everything from expected student salaries and years needed to pay for attendance to the quality of the school's "learning-related facilities" and on-campus diversity.
The Journal then generated both an overall score and a ranking for each school by comparing their results on several key data points. "Salary impact versus similar colleges," or how much attending the school boosted graduates' salaries above an expected average for similar colleges, was most the most important factor in determining the school's ranking and overall score, the Journal explained. Years needed to pay off the net cost of attending the school and graduation rate compared to similar colleges were also heavily weighted, per the Journal. Lower-ranked factors included students' reported satisfaction with learning facilities and ethnic and socioeconomic diversity.
Wall St Journal
Yeah, these rankings are about as useful as a preseason football poll in March but, so sorry UTjr (TX).
According to the Journal's 2024 Best Colleges in the U.S., Texas A&M University - College Station is the state's only top-50 school, ranking 38th overall. A&M earned its high rank despite a national scandal surrounding the school's botched hiring of an esteemed journalism professor earlier this summer.
Houston's Rice University also cracked the top 100 at 64th. Notably, the University of Texas at Austin did not make the top 100, coming in at No. 118.
To generate the rankings, the Journal partnered with research groups College Pulse and Statista to analyze a mountain of data, measuring everything from expected student salaries and years needed to pay for attendance to the quality of the school's "learning-related facilities" and on-campus diversity.
The Journal then generated both an overall score and a ranking for each school by comparing their results on several key data points. "Salary impact versus similar colleges," or how much attending the school boosted graduates' salaries above an expected average for similar colleges, was most the most important factor in determining the school's ranking and overall score, the Journal explained. Years needed to pay off the net cost of attending the school and graduation rate compared to similar colleges were also heavily weighted, per the Journal. Lower-ranked factors included students' reported satisfaction with learning facilities and ethnic and socioeconomic diversity.
