The Big Business of College- you have heard me and Marla www.marlabrady.com discuss how the business of college affects your college experience. Here is a great article supporting our key points. It is Forbes List of America’s top 200 Colleges.
What’s of great interest to me are the 5 critieria they use to rank colleges, click here-
http://money.msn.com/college-savings/americas-top-colleges-for-2011-forbes.aspx?GT1=33029
The 5 criteria used for the Forbes College Ranking-
1) Postgraduate success, weighted 30%, evaluates alumni pay and prominence
2) Student satisfaction, weighted 27.5%, evaluates professors and freshman-to-sophomore retention rates
3) Student-debt, weighted 17.5%, evaluates and penalizes schools for high student debt loads and default rates
4) Four-year graduation rates, weighted 17.5%, evaluates schools average term for graduations
5) Competitive awards, evaluates prestigious awards won by the school’s students
