WSJ - Texas A&M Is the No. 1 College in the State

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Texas A&M Is the No. 1 College in the State

Rice comes next, then the University of Texas at Austin, in the WSJ/College Pulse ranking

Oct. 30, 2024 at 10:00 am

Two of the state’s top four colleges are in Houston—Rice and the University of St. Thomas, fourth in Texas and 210th nationwide. And the University of Texas has two schools in the state’s top 10—Austin and Arlington, sixth in the state and 216th in the country.

Our ranking measures how well each college sets graduates up for financial success. We look at how much a school improves students’ chances of graduating and their future earnings, balancing these outcomes with feedback from students on college life. We don’t measure reputation, nor the college’s own finances.

You can also see the top colleges in New York state, Pennsylvania, Florida and California. In the weeks ahead we’ll look at the highest-ranked public and private colleges in the South as well as the Northeast, Midwest and West, and the top small, midsize and large schools, and leading liberal-arts colleges, in each region.

Gerard Yates

aggy above Rice and UT. LOLOLOLOL. The methodology that they use to rate a diploma mill over the 2 best universities in this state is absolute horseshit:

“Our ranking measures how well each college sets graduates up for financial success. We look at how much a school improves students’ chances of graduating and their future earnings, balancing these outcomes with feedback from students on college life. We don’t measure reputation, nor the college’s own finances.”

WSJ embarrassing itself with these rankings.

aggy above Rice and UT. LOLOLOLOL. The methodology that they use to rate a diploma mill over the 2 best universities in this state is absolute horseshit:

“Our ranking measures how well each college sets graduates up for financial success. We look at how much a school improves students’ chances of graduating and their future earnings, balancing these outcomes with feedback from students on college life. We don’t measure reputation, nor the college’s own finances.”

WSJ embarrassing itself with these rankings.

Edited 16 hours ago by Macklemore

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[jimmyjazz 45018]

Well, that's one way to do it.  The number of UT and Rice grads who care?  Zero.

Edited 15 hours ago by jimmyjazz

[Mother mopar 3260]

Ok, cool Hookem 

[kevwun 15131]

Their top 2 criteria were sheep rape and being a diploma mill.

[TexasBeta 1253]

Not the mandate of The University - "how much a school improves students’ chances of graduating and their future earnings" I would go so far as to say UT gives two shits about chances to graduate.. at least when I was there. Future earnings? Like how much you can make as an insurance salesman in Katy? What a load of shit.. I guess any opportunity for aggy to make a cup is good for their local economy. 

UT Mandate - "a world-class institution of higher education"... a university of the first class if you will.. 

[fattyflattie 4630]

Here’s another way to look at it.  There’s two I’d love for my kids to attend. There’s a third where I’d rather them become a  fucking lawn technician than attend.   

[Deej 76052]

WSJ is a liberal rag to aggy until they publish something like this, then it's the most respectable newspaper in history. 

[General Specific 3148]

When an aggy tells you who they are, believe em!

Respectfully,
aggy

[ClubWhatever 12063]

Did the WSJ reporter say how friendly the fans were when he got lost on the way to the stadiu?

[Gatorubet 29363]

[Foosters 17598]

Rupert Murdoch rag in love with aggy?

sounds about right.

[BabaYaga 15108]

Didn't their enrollment size spike from thousands upon thousands of new engineering spots?  Regardless of the school, it's a degree that has a much higher earning potential compared to many other degrees?  All I can think of, them producing so many STEM kids that are making money right out of school.

[atomheartbevo 88724]

3 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Well, that's one way to do it.  The number of UT and Rice grads who care?  Zero.

And the number of companies who care.

And aggy probably lowered their standards to bring in all the online students.

[mchookem 15407]

[Captainant 26853]

I wonder how much their "post-graduation earnings" are goosed by the aggy Qatar campus

[ztejas 42730]

3 hours ago, TexasBeta said:

I would go so far as to say UT gives two shits about chances to graduate..

Um. Texas definitely wants it's students to graduate. Every university does. Texas has a higher rate than aggy...

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[ztejas 42730]

2 hours ago, BabaYaga said:

Didn't their enrollment size spike from thousands upon thousands of new engineering spots?  Regardless of the school, it's a degree that has a much higher earning potential compared to many other degrees?  All I can think of, them producing so many STEM kids that are making money right out of school.

Yeah this was my first thought. A ton of kids going into O&G, too.

[Whitewater Horn 953]

How long until aggy puts this “achievement” on I-35 billboards?

[Armybrat 40454]

3 hours ago, ClubWhatever said:

Did the WSJ reporter say how friendly the fans were when he got lost on the way to the stadiu?

No, he’s still looking for their journalism school….and nobody knows where it is.

[fattyflattie 4630]

37 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Yeah this was my first thought. A ton of kids going into O&G, too.

This drives a lot of it.  But I’ve yet to meet a Rice grad that wasn’t doing very well.  

[Blotto 23221]

3 hours ago, BabaYaga said:

Didn't their enrollment size spike from thousands upon thousands of new engineering spots?  Regardless of the school, it's a degree that has a much higher earning potential compared to many other degrees?  All I can think of, them producing so many STEM kids that are making money right out of school.

Thats probably it....they claim 25K engineering students (about 3X what we have enrolled)

https://engineering.tamu.edu/about/facts-and-figures/index.html

I had no idea it would take that many dudes to figure out how to replicate a lifelike yet durable sheep's anus. Maybe getting the maroon color just right is more challenging than I thought. 

[Bookman 4548]

Back in the 90's US News had A&M better than UT for one year, and Texas Monthly had a big article about it. I knew one Aggie who bought like 100 copies of that magazine. 

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Here are the top ten schools nationally:

1. Princeton University (New Jersey)
2. Babson College (Massachusetts) 😂
3. Stanford University (California)
4. Yale University (Connecticut)
5. Claremont McKenna College (California)
6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts)
7. Harvard University (Massachusetts)
8. University of California, Berkeley (California)
9. Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia)
10. Davidson College (North Carolina) 😜

 

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1 hour ago, Blotto said:

Thats probably it....they claim 25K engineering students (about 3X what we have enrolled)

https://engineering.tamu.edu/about/facts-and-figures/index.html

I had no idea it would take that many dudes to figure out how to replicate a lifelike yet durable sheep's anus. Maybe getting the maroon color just right is more challenging than I thought. 

Get back to me when an aggy engineer builds something that doesn't fail catastrophically.

[Wally Fairway 5463]

I'm sure they will put up banner, next to their football national championship banners

[HornOnTheBayou 8811]

1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:

 

Looks like Steph Curry is skewing the alumni future earnings. 

[WBT 20128]

The prospective students who'll believe that are better off at aggy.  Win win.

[General Specific 3148]

I'm sure they will put up banner, next to their football national championship banners

Don’t forget the billboards on every major interstate!