Booyah.

Straight from The Gazette:

An upcoming issue of Forbes magazine ranks five Iowa colleges and universities among the top national schools of higher education.

The new rankings will be included in the May 19 issue of the magazine, which is available online at forbes.com. The article presents rankings from the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, which it calls "a 2-year-old research organization in Washington, D.C. with a free market bent."

Among the 94 top liberal arts schools, Cornell College in Mount Vernon ranks 21st, Grinnell College ranks 55th, and Luther College in Decorah ranks 87th.

Among the 127 top national universities, the University of Iowa in Iowa City ranks 75th, Iowa State University in Ames ranks 120th.

Those two schools were also listed among the top 65 national public universities. On that list, UI ranked 29th, and ISU ranked 61st.

The study purports to "review the meal" as opposed to the "ingredients"-based rankings from U.S. News & World Report, according to the article. It uses student rankings of professors, graduation rates, student awards, and vocational success.

Cornell boasted the greatest increase in ranking over U.S. News of any school that made the liberal arts school list, improving 76 places. The top four schools in the U.S. News rankings — Williams, Amherst, Wellesley, and Swarthmore Colleges — stayed in the top four in the new rankings.

Although UI and ISU landed on two of the lists, the Center for College Affordability and Productivity ranked them lower than the U.S. News rankings.

Comments

[the sister]

thank you for posting about this... since my blog isn't exactly the proper forum for such things.