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How Big Ten schools of comparable size to Ohio State compare in graduate school prices.
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The inner workings of graduate school rankings LILY MASLIA Outreach & Engagement Editor maslia.2@osu.edu Teacher-student ratio, job placement after graduation and course offerings are just a few of the factors that play a part in ranking graduate schools. Graduate school rankings provide a guide for students to compare programs across the country and examine the factors that contribute to a school or program’s overall score. The U.S. News & World Report education rankings annually rank high schools, colleges and grad-
uate schools in a variety of categories. The U.S. News Best Grad Schools methodologies reflect “the current higher education landscape and what outside experts, such as deans, admissions experts, etc., view as indicators of academic quality,” Robert Morse, chief data strategist for U.S. News, said in an email. “U.S. News recommends that students research course offerings and weigh schools’ intangible attributes, while using the information on the U.S. News website to compare concrete factors, such as student-faculty ratio and job placement success upon gradua-
“For researching schools, I used U.S. News, some Reddit blogs of students at the schools — which offered a unique perspective of the program from actual students — and GradCafe.” ALYSSA HOPKINS Ohio State alumna
tion,” Morse said. Each year, U.S. News ranks programs in business, education, engineering, law, medicine and nursing, including specialties in each area, according to its website. The rankings are based on expert opinions about each program and statistical evidence on the quality of faculty, research and students. The methodologies and data that go into creating college rankings differ for varying graduate degrees, Morse said. “In business, U.S. News uses starting salaries and new MBAs’ ability to find jobs upon gradua-
tion or three months later,” Morse said. “In law, U.S. News looks at state bar exam passage rates and employment rates.” Poets and Quants, a news resource for business education, ranks online and in-person Master of Business Administration programs, as well as entrepreneurship programs, by surveying participating programs and recent graduates to obtain their data for their ranking, Nathan Allen, an author for Poets and Quants, said. “The survey is about 40 questions, and they range from anything that is asking about the
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