How do you define what is considered a "good school"?

• justincredible

  

  Any school other than Marietta College is a good school.
• j_crazy

  

  justincredible;1055816 wrote:Any school other than Marietta College is a good school.

  
  This is false.
• sleeper

  

  justincredible;1055816 wrote:Any school other than Marietta College is a good school.

  That's really the issue too. No one is going to say they went to a shitty school unless they have some irrational vendetta against it. I had someone on here try telling that Akron was a good place to go for an MBA. Sorry, nothing against Akron, but no one is changing the world with a MBA from Akron.
  
  It's all marketing, and marketing is bullshit.
• DeyDurkie5

  

  I went to Capital, and it's a shitty school. I have no personal vendetta against it.
• sleeper

  

  DeyDurkie5;1056077 wrote:I went to Capital, and it's a ****ty school. I have no personal vendetta against it.

  I probably should have noted you'll find very few people willing to admit that pubicly. This statement will be only the second time I've ever heard anyone bash their alma mater. This does not include the "Oh Ohio U is a shitty school but they have a good journalism program and that's what I majored in" :rolleyes: Right.
  
  Also, journalism is a terrible degree.
• DeyDurkie5

  

  sleeper;1056082 wrote:I probably should have noted you'll find very few people willing to admit that pubicly. This statement will be only the second time I've ever heard anyone bash their alma mater. This does not include the "Oh Ohio U is a shitty school but they have a good journalism program and that's what I majored in" :rolleyes: Right.
  
  Also, journalism is a terrible degree.

  Well that's the whole issue with your argument. It's a subjective thing. If someone went to akron, and their life is going great for them, why wouldn't that be the best choice for their college? Why wouldn't they like that school?
• sleeper

  

  DeyDurkie5;1056086 wrote:Well that's the whole issue with your argument. It's a subjective thing. If someone went to akron, and their life is going great for them, why wouldn't that be the best choice for their college? Why wouldn't they like that school?

  No, its subjective right now. I'm saying there needs to be a way to make it objective. Subjectivity brings about too much bias in archaic institutions that have no incentive to do any better because they already have the preconceived notion that they are a top 10 or whatever Uni.
• Heretic

  

  Ohio U is awesome because I went there. This is according to LAWS OF HERETIC v4, ch545 -- which states that anything I do and anywhere I go has to be considered better than anything and anywhere else in the multiverse at any given time.
  
  EDIT: However, since I'm no longer at Ohio U, it could have declined greatly in its time A.H. (After Heretic). It's hard to tell, because if I went to Athens to investigate, the place would immediately get awesome again due to my arrival.
• sleeper

  

  And chances are they don't really like Akron, they just couldn't get in anywhere else. They will tell you otherwise, but its all bullshit and is just a deflection from having to face the mediocrity of their life.
• DeyDurkie5

  

  Eh, I personally don't give a shit where someone goes. Nor do I care what makes a university great. Why does it even matter? I think OU is better than OSU for the fact that a. the campus looks a lot better b. i'd rather deal with athen's crack heads than thug ass ghetto douchebags at OSU and c. the drinking life/party life is way better than OSU.
• sleeper

  

  DeyDurkie5;1056092 wrote:Eh, I personally don't give a **** where someone goes. Nor do I care what makes a university great. Why does it even matter? I think OU is better than OSU for the fact that a. the campus looks a lot better b. i'd rather deal with athen's crack heads than thug ass ghetto douchebags at OSU and c. the drinking life/party life is way better than OSU.

  None of those things matter to me. I only care about academics.
• DeyDurkie5

  

  sleeper;1056107 wrote:None of those things matter to me. I only care about academics.

  Well then go to an ivy league school...if you can't get in there, you aren't smart.
• sleeper

  

  DeyDurkie5;1056110 wrote:Well then go to an ivy league school...if you can't get in there, you aren't smart.

  I honestly didn't even apply. There's a lot more to getting into those schools than just raw intelligence.
• like_that

  

  sleeper;1055680 wrote:If there is a way, it'll be a B1G grad who figures it out and you can take that to the bank.

  [video=youtube;3Jji78uEW14][/video]
• I Wear Pants

  This would be hard to do as the ranking would have to be done by what program the student is in, school they chose to go to, as well as what kind of student/worker/person they are as all those things can very much change how much someone earns or how successful they are.
  
  Say a school focuses on music and a large percentage of their students end up playing in great orchestras. They would probably still have a lower average salary than a business focused school that puts out middling executives.
  
  And sleeper, I know this is probably just an attempt for your to quantify your opinion that OSU is the greatest school ever so you probably will ignore anything that would suggest that may not be true. It's a school that like many others has some excellent programs and some not so great ones. YSU has some good programs and some that aren't good. One of my good friends is actually doing graduate school through Cambridge and working at M&G Investments and he went to YSU. It's all about who you are and what you do while in school.
  
  But it still holds that a student that barely graduates from OSU or YSU or pretty much anywhere will likely not make as much as a person just scrapping by at Harvard. Does that have to do with the academic quality or the prestige involved with such a degree? I don't think you can prove that objectively.
• Jughead

  

  sleeper;1055583 wrote:I figured most people on here wouldn't read/understand the underlying message.
  
  tl;dr version: The current ranking system for Universities is flawed. Mainly because its based on an 'easy' system rather than a true value added approach to ranking schools.

  tl;dr
• Sonofanump

  fan_from_texas;1055581 wrote:Plenty of academic literature points out that the prestige of a school largely serves as a signaling function for employers.

  Does this really exist? I'd think if you could get an interview, you have just as much chance at the job as a Kent, Toledo or Akron grad as you would as a OSU, UM or Northwestern grad if you impress with the interview. It's not where you go, it's what you get out of it.
• sleeper

  

  Sonofanump;1056492 wrote:Does this really exist? I'd think if you could get an interview, you have just as much chance at the job as a Kent, Toledo or Akron grad as you would as a OSU, UM or Northwestern grad if you impress with the interview. It's not where you go, it's what you get out of it.

  That's the way it should work, but it doesn't work like that.
• Sonofanump

  sleeper;1056533 wrote:That's the way it should work, but it doesn't work like that.

  Then is that really the type of employer that you (collective) want to work for?
• sleeper

  

  Sonofanump;1056555 wrote:Then is that really the type of employer that you (collective) want to work for?

  I'd like a good paying job. So yes.
• rmolin73

  

  sleeper;1056557 wrote:I'd like a good paying job. So yes.

  I thought you owned a McDonalds? Or was it McDaniels?
• sleeper

  

  rmolin73;1056577 wrote:I thought you owned a McDonalds? Or was it McDaniels?

  Yes I do own a McDonalds franchise. It takes very little work on my end and generates a little cash on the side.
  
  I have another, much higher paying job at the moment.
• rmolin73

  

  sleeper;1056586 wrote:Yes I do own a McDonalds franchise. It takes very little work on my end and generates a little cash on the side.
  
  I have another, much higher paying job at the moment.

  I believe in unicorns, the easter bunny, and santa.
• sleeper

  

  rmolin73;1056600 wrote:I believe in unicorns, the easter bunny, and santa.

  Doesn't surprise me.
• DeyDurkie5

  

  sleeper;1056586 wrote:Yes I do own a McDonalds franchise. It takes very little work on my end and generates a little cash on the side.
  
  I have another, much higher paying job at the moment.

  My question would be why do you care about the ranking's of schools?