- Balance Sheet Health (40%)
- Operational Soundness (35%)
- Admissions Yield (10%)
- Freshmen Receiving Institutional Grants (7.5%)
- Instructional Expenses (7.5)
As explained in the article, the resultant rankings had something to do with how well universities would do if they were on the stock market and people could invest in them. That is, where would you put your money if you wanted a higher value in the future?
Nice to see Stanford at #1. When I was there more than half a century ago, the "mascot" was an Indian. Now, best as I can tell, it is a tree.
Anyway , the top ten were:
- # 1 Stanford $58,846 19,945 A+
- # 2 Pomona College $57,014 1,586 A+
- # 3 Princeton $54,780 7,813 A+
- # 4 Yale $59,320 11,875 A+
- # 5 Columbia $61,540 26,050 A+
- # 6 Swarthmore $58,481 1,545 A+
- # 7 West Point ? 4,624 ?
- # 8 Harvard $57,050 27,392 A+
- # 9 Williams $59,412 2,126 A+
- # 10 MIT $57,010 10,894 A+
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- # 26 Georgetown B
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- #106 Purdue C
The money column is the annual cost of attendance, while the next is the student enrollment. But those grades seemed to have no connection to rankings, as for example:
- # 76 Colorado College A+
- #276 Hanover College A
One explanation is that Grinnell College is #64 with an A+, but that is because Warren Buffet gave them $1.5 billion (he was on their board of trustees). Also, Bard College at #166 got an A- because George Soros donated $60 million in 2011, the year of the evaluation.
Why Pomona College is #2 is a mystery. Pomona is in an alliance with four other colleges as the Claremont Colleges in Southern California. Pomona was last year ranked by Kiplinger as the second best value of liberal arts colleges. In 2010 it was ranked by The Princeton Review as #1 in classroom experience.
I searched and searched and could not find the University of Hawaii . Either they left us out or we did not make the top 925. Hawaii Pacific University was #383 with a C+ grade, so not being on that list must have most to do with my reading ability. Urbana University of Ohio came in last at 925 with a D grade, and #924 was Regis College of Massachusetts, also with a D. Maybe out of courtesy they left out the F grades.
Why the U.S. Military Academy (West Point) is in the top ten, but the U.S. Naval Academy is #28 and U.S. Air Force Academy is #31 also does not make much sense. Aren't they all funded by the same U.S. Federal Government?
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Interestingly enough, Tropical Storm Pewa just formed south of Hawaii. Pewa will become a hurricane, but continue moving west then northwest, but completely miss our state.
The intriguing situation is around Taiwan. Tropical Depression 12 at 35 MPH is southwest of the island, will move further east, then make a U-turn and become a typhoon just at the northern tip on Thursday:
What's so unusual about that? Well, Tropical Depression 13 has formed around Okinawa and will slowly head towards the northern tip of Taiwan and become a typhoon.
While the current arrival date is Wednesday, with a just a few hours delay, this storm will merge with #12 when it also becomes a typhoon. Keep watching these developments.
Here are the current ocean storms:
Tropical Storm Erin in the Atlantic will peter out.
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