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No 3 on WSJ’s best colleges list - TrumpCard - 09-04-2024

I would place more value on that ranking if Babson were not No 2. Not that I know of anything wrong with Babson. I just never heard of it.

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RE: No 3 on WSJ’s best colleges list - CowboyIndian - 09-04-2024

(09-04-2024, 09:04 PM)TrumpCard Wrote:  I would place more value on that ranking if Babson were not No 2. Not that I know of anything wrong with Babson. I just never heard of it.

One of Murdoch's kids went there. (JK)

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RE: No 3 on WSJ’s best colleges list - TonyLima - 09-04-2024

(09-04-2024, 09:45 PM)CowboyIndian Wrote:  

(09-04-2024, 09:04 PM)TrumpCard Wrote:  I would place more value on that ranking if Babson were not No 2. Not that I know of anything wrong with Babson. I just never heard of it.

One of Murdoch's kids went there. (JK)

As likely an explanation as any. The last time I ran across the college, it was a small, third-rate school in the Boston area. I cannot imagine them being ranked in the top 100 US colleges. I will add that the WSJ news division has recently gone woke. The new editor is … way outside the WSJ audience. Details available on request when I’m not so tired.

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RE: No 3 on WSJ’s best colleges list - Mick - 09-05-2024

It's an odd list, basing the rankings on outcomes; e.g., income, social mobility, value.

The University of Florida and the New Jersey Institute of Technology are the highest-ranking public schools—both cracked the top 20 overall, at No. 15 and No. 19, respectively. And Babson College, Lehigh University and the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology sit at Nos. 10, 14 and 17

The top ten I saw were Princeton, MIT, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Harvard, Penn, Amherst, Claremont-McKenna, and Babson. Friend of mine's son attended Babson because they have a business-heavy undergrad curriculum. Apparently everything is through an entrepreneur's lens.

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