News and Tips for Higher Ed Pros

A couple of weeks ago, I launched a new breed of college rankings: Higher Ed Experts’ College Rankings.

While I can’t reveal if my ultimate goal is to compete with US News & World Report ;-0, I can confirm that the HEE College Rankings will be published this Friday - the day the magazine’s list will be released.

You still have a few hours (about 30 or so) to try to bump up your institution’s rank before the final results are announced on this blog on August 17.

So, take the “I-can-get-my-institution-to-the-top” challenge: tell all your colleagues to sign up for a free HEE membership at www.higheredexperts.com/register and let’s have some fun for a change!

Need some help to rally your troops, just use the YouTube video I created for the challenge (viewed already more than 220 times).

Preliminary Higher Ed Experts’ College Rankings (Top 40 by number of HEE registered members)

A few institutions have improved their ranks since the list was first published on August 3rd and Yale has made it to the top 40 ;-)

1. Tidewater Community College - 18
2. Duke University - 10
3. Penn State University - 8
4. SUNY - 7
5. Georgetown University - 6
6. Clemson University - 5
7. Harvard University - 5
8. Rutgers University - 5
9. UNC-Chapel Hill - 5
10. Johnson & Wales University - 4
11. Oregon State University - 4
12. Texas A&M University - 4
13. Texas Tech University - 4
14. UC Davis - 4
15. University of Kentucky - 4
16. University of Michigan-Dearborn - 4
17. University of Nevada - 4
18. Wheaton College - 4
19. Alfred University - 3
20. American University - 3
21. Auburn University - 3
22. Concordia University - 3
23. DePaul University - 3
24. Georgian Court University - 3
25. HEC Montreal - 3
26. Ithaca College - 3
27. Louisiana State University - 3
28. Michigan State University - 3
29. Philadelphia University - 3
30. Rochester Institute of Technology - 3
31. Rollins College - 3
32. Tufts University - 3
33. University of Alberta - 3
34. University of Arkansas at Little Rock - 3
35. University of Florida - 3
36. University of Nebraska-Lincoln - 3
37. University of Sydney - 3
38. University of Washington - 3
39. Yale University - 3
40. York University - 3

• Take the Higher Ed Experts’ “I-can-get-my-institution-to-the-top” Challenge!
• Higher Ed Experts New (Preliminary) College Rankings
• 4 questions to U.S. News & World Report about Morse Code, Robert Morse’s new blog about the college rankings
• Forget about US News & World Report! Here are Higher Ed Experts’ College Rankings ;-)
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