Love ’em or hate ’em, you can hardly miss them: College rankings are proliferating. The phenomenon is fueled by families’ growing interest in getting the most out of their investment in college, and magazines’ and companies’ responses to that anxiety.
The tool below is a tongue-in-cheek take on the ubiquitous college-ranking industry. Use it to build your own personal college-ranking list, mixing and matching results from our decidedly unscientific selection of real college rankings produced in 2014-15. (The descriptions of each ranking are ours.)
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College Rankings Mash-Up Machine
Methodology: We factor in the top 50 colleges in each college-ranking list (and the top 20 in the case of The Princeton Review’s party-school ranking). If a college is in first place in a list that you’ve included in your personal ranking, it receives 50 points. If it’s in second, it receives 49 points, and so on. The final result is generated after taking all selected lists into account.
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