FBS Academics & Athletics

• Con_Alma

  When it comes to both academics and athletics who is the best? Amongst FBS schools NCSA Athletic Recruiting created a "power ranking". The power rankings were developed to help prospective student athletes and their families evaluate the particular strengths of the top colleges and universities at the Division I, II and III levels. Fewer than 6% of colleges and universities earn a spot in NCSA Athletic Recruiting Top 100 for 2011.
  
  The power rankings are calculated by averaging student-athlete graduation rates, academic rankings provided by U.S. News & World Report, and the strength of athletic departments as determined by the Learfield Sports Directors' Cup.
  
  
  
  http://www.ncsasports.org
  
  Here's their top 10 amongst FBS schools.
  
  Top 10
  1 Duke
  2 Stanford
  3 Notre Dame
  4. Northwestern
  5 Vanderbilt
  6 Boston College
  7 Naval Academy
  8 Wake Forest
  9 Penn State
  10 North Carolina
• GOONx19

  

  Why is Navy in bold?
• Falcons53

  Nittany Lions coming in at #9...sweet!
• ernest_t_bass

  

  I never realized Northwestern was that great academically. I knew they were decent, but didn't realize they would be that high.
• Con_Alma

  GOONx19;906404 wrote:Why is Navy in bold?

  The list was copied from a Navy press release.
• Dr Winston O'Boogie

  

  ernest_t_bass;906494 wrote:I never realized Northwestern was that great academically. I knew they were decent, but didn't realize they would be that high.

  Northwestern is one of the elite schools in the country. It's on par with schools like Rice, Vanderbilt, Emory, Georgetown, etc. It's a great school.
• FatHobbit

  

  ernest_t_bass;906494 wrote:I never realized Northwestern was that great academically. I knew they were decent, but didn't realize they would be that high.

  I'm more surprised by Penn State than Northwestern.
• bigkahuna

  FatHobbit;906573 wrote:I'm more surprised by Penn State than Northwestern.

  This. I'll throw UNC in there as well
• gorocks99

  

  The US News rankings of all those schools:
  
  1 Duke (10)
  2 Stanford (5)
  3 Notre Dame (19)
  4 Northwestern (12)
  5 Vanderbilt (17)
  6 Boston College (31)
  7 Naval Academy (14 - National Liberal Arts Colleges)
  8 Wake Forest (25)
  9 Penn State (45)
  10 North Carolina (29)
  
  So yeah, they're all pretty good schools by that measure.
• sleeper

  

  This list is a joke. Its just ranking good schools academically as none of those schools are any good on the field.
• FatHobbit

  

  Con_Alma;906373 wrote:The power rankings are calculated by averaging student-athlete graduation rates, academic rankings provided by U.S. News & World Report, and the strength of athletic departments as determined by the Learfield Sports Directors' Cup.

  
  
  

  sleeper;906634 wrote:This list is a joke. Its just ranking good schools academically as none of those schools are any good on the field.

  it's not about football. it's about all sports.
• sleeper

  

  FatHobbit;906644 wrote:
  
  
  
  
  it's not about football. it's about all sports.

  Good point. If it was about revenue generating sports, there's no doubt OSU would be #1.
• Tobias Fünke

  

  sleeper;906867 wrote:Good point. If it was about revenue generating sports, there's no doubt OSU would be #1.

  In tattoos per capita?