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Forbes magazine ranks Brandeis 30th
by Nashrah Rahman
Editorial assistant
News | 9/16/08
Posted online at 3:46 AM EST on 9/16/08
/ Last updated at 3:27 AM EST on 9/16/08
Forbes magazine's recent college ranking places Brandeis University 30th out of 569 undergraduate institutions based on student "satisfaction and results," from online evaluations and data on postgraduate success, stated in an article published by the magazine May 19.
This is the first time Forbes magazine has published a ranking of America's best colleges.
The methodology used takes into account online student evaluations from ratemyprofessors.com, percentage of prestigious awards won by students and postgraduate success based on the data in Who's Who in America, a directory that provides short biographies of influential people.
Dean of Admissions Gil Villanueva wrote in an e-mail to the Justice, "Personally, I find this to be a testimony to the University's commitment to undergraduate education and to having a student-centered community."
Ratemyprofessors.com, a nine-year- old-Web site with 6.8 million student-generated evaluations, allows users to score professors from one to five on helpfulness and clarity. An "overall quality" score is then calculated from the average of the two scores. Profs. Marc Weinberg (ENG) and James Mandrell (HIST) are some of Brandeis' professors with nearly perfect scores.
Brandeis alumni who have won renowned awards include Roderick MacKinnon '78, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2003. In 2007, Monisophorn Noun (GRAD) and Luis Gomez (GRAD) from Brandeis International Business School were both selected for the competitive Fulbright Lehman Brothers Scholars program.
In an article published in Forbes May 19, Dr. Richard Vedder, an economist at Ohio University who helped the magazine with the ranking process, wrote that the method of measuring postgraduate success from the listing in Who's Who in America is "imperfect," but is the only mean of connecting "professional" achievement with undergraduate affiliations. He implied that the achievements are distinguished simply based on the individual's notoriety . Forbes also enlisted the help of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, a two-year-old research organization.
This is the first time Forbes magazine has published a ranking of America's best colleges.
The methodology used takes into account online student evaluations from ratemyprofessors.com, percentage of prestigious awards won by students and postgraduate success based on the data in Who's Who in America, a directory that provides short biographies of influential people.
Dean of Admissions Gil Villanueva wrote in an e-mail to the Justice, "Personally, I find this to be a testimony to the University's commitment to undergraduate education and to having a student-centered community."
Ratemyprofessors.com, a nine-year- old-Web site with 6.8 million student-generated evaluations, allows users to score professors from one to five on helpfulness and clarity. An "overall quality" score is then calculated from the average of the two scores. Profs. Marc Weinberg (ENG) and James Mandrell (HIST) are some of Brandeis' professors with nearly perfect scores.
Brandeis alumni who have won renowned awards include Roderick MacKinnon '78, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2003. In 2007, Monisophorn Noun (GRAD) and Luis Gomez (GRAD) from Brandeis International Business School were both selected for the competitive Fulbright Lehman Brothers Scholars program.
In an article published in Forbes May 19, Dr. Richard Vedder, an economist at Ohio University who helped the magazine with the ranking process, wrote that the method of measuring postgraduate success from the listing in Who's Who in America is "imperfect," but is the only mean of connecting "professional" achievement with undergraduate affiliations. He implied that the achievements are distinguished simply based on the individual's notoriety . Forbes also enlisted the help of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, a two-year-old research organization.
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Stuart Young '77
posted 9/16/08 @ 2:26 PM EST
Forbes Survey Clarifies that Brandeis Ranks among Top 15"
National Research Universities
Just a point of clarification. It is true that Brandeis ranked 30 in the "all undergraduate institutions" category. (Continued…)
Matt
posted 9/17/08 @ 9:24 PM EST
Marc Weinberg has a near perfect score? He really deserves it, although he'll say that all he cares about is the hot pepper next to his name. Also, I know he's listed as part of the english department on the website but he really teaches film. (Continued…)
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