Florida A&M University, staring down declining enrollment in recent years, refused to fill out the U.S. News survey, according to the magazine. Instead, editors relied on data FAMU submitted to the magazine in previous years and on numbers the school sent to federal agencies. Officials at FAMU could not be reached for comment Thursday.FAMU, which is listed among the best master's universities, fell from No. 58 in the southern region to the third tier of schools this year. It wasn't clear how its decision to withhold information from U.S. News affected its ranking. But few colleges are gutsy enough to do the same.
Here's the Tampa Tribune's story on the U.S. News Rankings
Thanks RN readers for the heads up on this.
Oh well!!!!!!!!!!
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many HBCUs do not report to US News survey. I don't know why officially, but I think they just don't want people to know how far back they are in the rankings based on hard numbers.
ReplyDeleteMany of our schools would be in the bottom percentile in most subject areas, which would mean we would have some explaining to do when you hear "The best, most outstanding, most sexy, most brilliant, most fantabulous school in the country" crap you hear at every black school.
Graduation rates alone would may turn many kids away.
You can have all the singular success stories you want, but if your 5 and 6 year grad rates are in the 20s or even below 50%, you gots problems. Serious problems. And you need to reevaluate your schools' paradigm before tricking anybody else's child from coming to your school.
But many of our peer institutions do. And, they are ahead of us in the ranking. Even schools we should be ahead of are ahead of us in the ranking and using to their advantage.
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Slowly fading from the print media into oblivion.
ReplyDeleteFAMU is NOT the only College/ University to rrefuse to return this survey! MANY white colleges did not reply to the survey in question!!!
ReplyDeleteNo one denies that FAMU was not the only institution that didn't return the survey. The simple question is: Did the administration's failure to return the suvery serve FAMU's best interests?
ReplyDeleteYes, there were many predominantly white institutions that did not return the survey. However, those are not the types of colleges that FAMU seeks to emulate. For years, FAMU faced off against Harvard for the National Achievement Scholar recruitment. Harvard returns the survey every year. FAMU did not.
If FAMU is serious about rising to the prestigious ranks of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and MIT, then it should complete and return the U.S. News Survey like all those institutions do.
You got a point there.
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