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...This rule is especially true in higher level courses or cores where you’re assigned whole batches of academic papers or books to read each week. You almost certainly do not need to slog through it all. Narrow your focus to that which is necessary for the final/midterm/paper sweet spot, and you’ll do fine...
...ranking first among liberal-arts colleges. TIME spoke to Robert Morse, director of data research at U.S. News and a two-decade veteran of the controversial rankings, about how the list is put together and how it could be better, plus a look at this year's rising stars. (Read about the backlash against college rankings...
...retention rates. We're not comparing all 1,400 schools. We're dividing them up into 10 categories, like national universities and liberal arts. We assign a weight to each of the variables. The peer survey, or the academic reputation, is the highest-weighted variable - it's 25%. (Read about a new college-rankings system...
...enough respondent base, enough people have some knowledge of enough schools that we get a statistically significant number of respondents for each school. There are subjective parts of education, parts that can't be measured by just quantitative data. The peer survey tries to capture that part of it. (Read "Google and Microsoft: The Battle Over College E-Mail...
...giving credit for somebody's salary for their undergraduate vs. their graduate degree. That's a problem with using it. But obviously people care. It's important how much money people make and the value of degrees. Students are graduating with debts, and they have to pay them back. (Read about ranking your alma mater by how much you make...