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Post by monty on Aug 17, 2010 7:57:20 GMT -8
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Post by Fishn'Aztec on Aug 17, 2010 8:03:01 GMT -8
If this is truly a large upward move, someone should let the UC snobs down the road & up State Highway 5 know!  |
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Post by AlwaysAnAztec on Aug 17, 2010 8:03:36 GMT -8
Beat me to it by two minutes.
I'll leave mine, I included the entire list for the MWC. ;D
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Post by Old School on Aug 17, 2010 8:10:23 GMT -8
No more "State" jokes from the UC kids.
You don't always get what you pay for.
Oldie Out
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Post by OfficialAztecINSIDER on Aug 17, 2010 8:43:05 GMT -8
We're #183! Start printing up the t-shirts and get that on some billboards!!!!!!
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Post by FULL_MONTY on Aug 17, 2010 8:45:29 GMT -8
What is the definition of tier1?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2010 8:51:56 GMT -8
It looks like they changed Tier 1 to include the top 75% instead of the top 50%. Presumably, you're referring to this: www.usnews.com/articles/education/best-colleges/2010/08/17/how-us-news-calculates-the-college-rankings.htmlI'll leave it to others to go through SDSU's ranking to discern whether they actually now like us better or whether, instead, they've merely changed their methodology. Edit: I should add this. One thing that IS clear is that is these ranking are for 2011 and USNWR ranks SDSU as being superior to UNM, UNLV and Boise State in our athletics conference for that year. So with AFA being a comparison of apples and oranges, we will essentially be fifth among eight academically. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2010 8:55:20 GMT -8
Not to rain on anyone's parade but when Northridge beats us by more than 100 spots, I'm not real excited.
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Post by aztecjames on Aug 17, 2010 8:56:52 GMT -8
Am I the only one that thinks #183 is not anything special? Didn't we use to be in the top 100 back in the 80's or 90's? I know that was a long time ago, but unless you are in the top 100, I do not think it is much to brag about.
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Post by laaztec on Aug 17, 2010 9:00:37 GMT -8
I don't care how it happened this is the first time SDSU has been Tier 1 and that is a positive.
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Post by longtimebooster on Aug 17, 2010 9:00:48 GMT -8
If this is truly a large upward move, someone should let the UC snobs down the road & up State Highway 5 know! Not sure they'd be impressed. UCSD is ranked #35 nationally; UCLA is ranked #25. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2010 9:04:14 GMT -8
Not to rain on anyone's parade but when Northridge beats us by more than 100 spots, I'm not real excited. CSUN's rank is "Regional." Ours is "National." |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2010 9:05:17 GMT -8
Am I the only one that thinks #183 is not anything special? Didn't we use to be in the top 100 back in the 80's or 90's? "Regionally," not "nationally." Big difference. |
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Post by ziggy on Aug 17, 2010 9:18:40 GMT -8
Not to rain on anyone's parade but when Northridge beats us by more than 100 spots, I'm not real excited. Northridge is not ranked as a National University. They are a Regional University (West). Can't compare the two. |
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Post by dbauer on Aug 17, 2010 9:35:40 GMT -8
Arizona State is #143...yuck!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2010 9:49:51 GMT -8
Cool.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2010 9:50:33 GMT -8
Not to rain on anyone's parade but when Northridge beats us by more than 100 spots, I'm not real excited. Northridge is not ranked as a National University. They are a Regional University (West). Can't compare the two. In essence, CSUN is rated the 77th best university in the West. SDSU, OTOH, is rated the 183rd best university in the entire country. BTW, I don't think we should pooh-pooh the rankings of other CSU schools. Cal. St. Northridge is the 77th best school in its quarter of the country? CSUN which has only been in existence since 1959 and doesn't offer any PhD degrees? That's not too shabby in my book and it's presumably based on such facts as that CSUN has an excellent engineering school and is one of the top 100 schools in the country for having its graduates go on to become an attorney. Fact is the academic reputation of schools like Northridge suffers because such CSU schools are compelled to take so many kids whose HS grades weren't impressive. I know because I was one of them before I got motivated and then transferred to SDSU. Many others are kids whose HS grades weren't that great because they grew up in a family where the primary language was Spanish, Chinese or some other foreign tongue. That kind of stuff doesn't show up in the USNews ratings and props to the CSU schools for educating those kinds of kids, I say. (Of course, the likes of SDSU and Cal Poly SLO are doing less and less of it.) |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2010 9:51:52 GMT -8
I mean this in all sincerity. You're still a student, correct? If so, MAJOR props to you. I highly doubt that with the lousy HS grades I had that I could ever get into SDSU today. |
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Post by theMesa on Aug 17, 2010 10:13:17 GMT -8
I attended Northridge for two semesters before transferring to SDSU. It is a nice place with small class sizes, good prof's and this was back in the 70's.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2010 10:19:12 GMT -8
I only poo poo Northridge because my wife went there. ;
And thanks for the clarification.. didn't see regional when I looked.
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