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Post by Rogobob77 on Sept 18, 2020 17:45:00 GMT -5
“Detroit Mercy ranks among top U.S. universities in U.S. News & World Report’s 2021 rankings of Best Colleges” sites.udmercy.edu/campusconnect ... st-college Ranked 187th, last year was #179.
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Post by nctitan on Sept 18, 2020 18:18:57 GMT -5
Last year Detroit Mercy moved from being listed as a regional college to a national college. (The year before the University was ranked #25 for regional universities.)
This latest ranking includes:
• Best Value Schools, National Universities – No. 34 • Best School for Veterans, National Universities – No.136 • Top Performers on Social Mobility – No. 129
Much to be proud of there.
Georgetown (top Jesuit school on the list) is #12. UofM is #24. MSU is #80. Michigan Tech is #153.
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Post by Rogobob77 on Sept 18, 2020 21:31:25 GMT -5
I think the fact that Detroit Mercy has dental and law schools is what pushed the University into the National category under the new criteria. We are tied at #187 with big state schools Oklahoma State and University of New Mexico, and ranked ahead of the University of Wyoming (#196), Mississippi St. (#206), and University of Memphis (#256). In reality, I think Detroit Mercy is best characterized as a Regional University despite meeting the definition of “National” under the revised criteria. So with that said, I think it is impressive that the school ranks in the top half of National universities, the vast majority of institutions in that group have significantly larger enrollments, bigger endowments, and generally more other resources to work with.
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Post by nctitan on Sept 19, 2020 8:30:04 GMT -5
Rogo -- We had the dental and law schools all this time, so I'm still curious what pushed us up into the National category. I'd suspect that the tuition reset, which raised the dollar-based "value" of the school and the resulting increase in applicants, had something to do with it. Add in the high-profile successes in Architecture (placing graduates) and C&F (CPA pass rate) and the $114 million campaign.....
The University is better now than it was five years ago.
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Post by nctitan on Sept 19, 2020 9:48:59 GMT -5
We beat Oakland!!!
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Post by Rogobob77 on Sept 19, 2020 11:43:39 GMT -5
Rogo -- We had the dental and law schools all this time, so I'm still curious what pushed us up into the National category. I'd suspect that the tuition reset, which raised the dollar-based "value" of the school and the resulting increase in applicants, had something to do with it. Add in the high-profile successes in Architecture (placing graduates) and C&F (CPA pass rate) and the $114 million campaign..... The University is better now than it was five years ago. It wasn’t that a variable specific to Detroit Mercy changed, rather the classification criteria applied to all schools underwent revision. Tuition factors are not the cause. The following is something I cut and pasted from U.S. News & World Report: National Universities offer a full range of undergraduate majors, plus master's and doctoral programs, and emphasize faculty research or award professional practice doctorates. Regional Universities offer a broad scope of undergraduate degrees and some master's degree programs but few, if any, doctoral programs. We ranked them in four geographical groups: North, South, Midwest and West. To place each school in its ranking, U.S. News strictly maps its categories to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education's Basic Classification system. The U.S. Department of Education and many higher education associations use the Carnegie system to organize or label their data, among other uses. In short, the Carnegie categories are the accepted standard in U.S. higher education. In February 2019, Carnegie released official updates – called the "2018 Update" – including the Basic system. U.S. News first used this 2018 Update in the 2020 Best Colleges rankings. Carnegie's 2018 Update reclassified many institutions. Most significantly, it added a professional practice doctoral category into its universe of doctoral universities. Consequently, even though U.S. News' mapping between its ranking categories and Carnegie Classifications was unchanged, many schools are categorized in different U.S. News rankings for the 2020 edition compared with the previous edition. This underscores that the total number of schools ranked in our National Universities ranking increased by more than 25% year-to-year while total ranked Regional Universities decreased by approximately 10% year-to-year.
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Post by motorcitysam on Mar 31, 2021 12:34:50 GMT -5
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