Above, The Cornell basketball team celebrates during the 2009 NCAA Tournament Selection Show on CBS as the Big Red earned their second consecutive bid to "The Big Dance." Not only is Cornell winning basketball championships and playing on the largest stage of Division I college basketball, but Cornell is also receiving recognition as one of the best collegiate educations in America. This month, U.S. News & World Report released its annual issue of America's Best Colleges. The issue reveals that Cornell once again led the Ivy League in application popularity having received more than 34,000 applications from prospective students for the class of 2013. No other Ivy League school received more than 28,000 applications.
In the issue, Cornell was also ranked overall 15th in in the country among national universities. The magazine's overall rankings are determined by several categories of criteria.[FN 1]
The peer assessment category of the ranking is given the most weight as it is worth 25% of the total score. The peer assessment score is an academic reputation ranking based on surveys filled out by college administrators, presidents, provosts and deans of admissions at other universities. In this category, Cornell was ranked 9th overall in the country with a score of 4.5 out of 5.
Cornell was also ranked 5th in the country in the magazine's survey of guidance counselors from around the United States.
In other rankings released in the magazine, Cornell was also rated as the nation's 10th-best undergraduate business program and the 9th best undergraduate engineering program. Cornell and Penn are the only Ivies which offer undergraduate business programs. Cornell was also the only Ivy which made the ranking in engineering.
In the issue, Cornell was also ranked overall 15th in in the country among national universities. The magazine's overall rankings are determined by several categories of criteria.[FN 1]
The peer assessment category of the ranking is given the most weight as it is worth 25% of the total score. The peer assessment score is an academic reputation ranking based on surveys filled out by college administrators, presidents, provosts and deans of admissions at other universities. In this category, Cornell was ranked 9th overall in the country with a score of 4.5 out of 5.
Cornell was also ranked 5th in the country in the magazine's survey of guidance counselors from around the United States.
In other rankings released in the magazine, Cornell was also rated as the nation's 10th-best undergraduate business program and the 9th best undergraduate engineering program. Cornell and Penn are the only Ivies which offer undergraduate business programs. Cornell was also the only Ivy which made the ranking in engineering.
Cornell was also ranked 15th among great value schools and ranked 6th among economic diversity of its students.
Cornell was also placed on lists of roughly twenty colleges and universities noted for their emphasis on writing programs and in undergraduate research and independent study.
[FN 1] We note that U.S. News' overall ranking is determined by several categories of criteria, each subjectively defined and calculated by the magazine's editors. For example, 5 percent of the final overall ranking is determined by the category, "Alumni giving rate." This five percent of the overall ranking score reflects the average percentage of alumni who gave donations to their school during 2006-07 and 2007-08. U.S. News contends that such a percentage is "an indirect measure of student satisfaction." U.S. News does not however take into account the actual total dollars given from alumni. This omission can negatively impact large public/land-grant universities such as Cornell in the magazine's overall rankings. Nevertheless, U.S. News' college rankings are widely cited in popular culture.
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