Forbes has Michigan as No. 7 Public School
"Those who graduate from UMich are among some of America's greatest including: former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, Google Cofounder Larry Page, former U.S. President Gerald Ford, singer Madonna, and NFL player Tom Brady."
http://www3.forbes.com/business/top-25-public-colleges-2016/?utm_campai…
January 29th, 2018 at 1:13 PM ^
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January 29th, 2018 at 1:32 PM ^
that's okay!
January 29th, 2018 at 1:41 PM ^
January 29th, 2018 at 1:54 PM ^
They went super hard with the service acadamies. Take them out along with W&M and Michigan is sitting third.
January 29th, 2018 at 2:05 PM ^
January 29th, 2018 at 2:18 PM ^
Most college rankings are pretty stupid, but it makes no sense to include the service academies in this list.
January 29th, 2018 at 2:25 PM ^
or is Florida being in the top 15 a surprise (and ahead of Texas)?
January 29th, 2018 at 4:44 PM ^
Yeah, Texas and Georgia Tech are way too low.
Assuming its a ranking based on research output, faculty prestige and alumni network and where alums are employed, etc. then U of M, Texas and Georgia Tech are way too low.
January 29th, 2018 at 3:05 PM ^
Good company. I've always heard Michigan-Virginia-Berkeley-UCLA-UNC as the top publics, and that is true certainly insofar as academic reputation is concerned. W&M and the service academies aren't doing nearly the same thing (research, PhDs, ass-kicking).
January 29th, 2018 at 3:08 PM ^
Utterly worthless information.
Complete and utter clickbait with no redeeming qualities.
January 29th, 2018 at 3:15 PM ^
Hey, some sweet, sweet validation for yours truly. Feels good man.
I loved my undergrad time at W&M, and I've really liked my grad school experience at Michigan, but there's certainly some major differences between the two.
W&M not having engineering or med programs definitely hindered the academics. But I feel like I wouldn't have done as well socially or academically as an undergrad here as I did at W&M because UM is such a big school, I think I would have been too overwhelmed.
It was a massive change for me, going from a place with ~7,000 total students and a quaint campus you can walk across in 15 minutes to somewhere with ~40,000 students with multiple campuses and multiple schools of study. To me, it's a completely different sense of community and identity here vs. at W&M, not necessarily worse or better, but I think it can affect people in varied ways.
January 29th, 2018 at 9:43 PM ^
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