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    Time Magazine's Best Colleges for your Money

    http://time.com/money/collection/moneys-best-colleges/

    Tech come's in at 154;

    Other Louisiana Schools:

    95 - lsu
    154 - Tech
    555 - Tulane
    604 - Loyola
    637 - Grambling

    That's it, ULL/ULM didn't even get ranked...

    In fact if you search "University of Louisiana" it comes up with Tulane University of Louisiana

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    Re: Time Magazine's Best Colleges for your Money

    From our region (Southeast) we are ranked above:

    Auburn, Mississippi State, Tennesse, Arkansas, Ole Miss, UL (Louisville), Kentuck, WVU, Alabama, UAB, Southern MIss,

    Also, found it interesting that our acceptance rate is less than lsu (80% vs. 71%) and we have a higher avg h.s. GPA (3.44 vs. 3.4)

    Trying to figure out how we have a higher annual salary within 5 years and lower net price but are ranked lower than lsu... need to look into this value grade/ranking score methodology...

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    Re: Time Magazine's Best Colleges for your Money

    http://time.com/money/3020573/method...best-colleges/

    Interesting, I like their method for making the first cut;

    To make our initial cut, a college had to have an above-average six-year graduation rate in its institutional category (public or private) or if the rate was below the median, we required a graduation rate at least 25% above what would be expected given the incomes and test scores of its students to be included. We then screened out schools with a speculative bond rating from Moody’s (indicating financial difficulties) or for which there wasn’t sufficient data available. We also did not include military schools that require a commitment of service in exchange for free tuition.

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    Re: Time Magazine's Best Colleges for your Money

    Quote Originally Posted by GermDawg View Post
    http://time.com/money/collection/moneys-best-colleges/

    Tech come's in at 154;

    Other Louisiana Schools:

    95 - lsu
    154 - Tech
    555 - Tulane
    604 - Loyola
    637 - Grambling

    That's it, ULL/ULM didn't even get ranked...

    In fact if you search "University of Louisiana" it comes up with Tulane University of Louisiana
    Growing up in South Arkansas (El Dorado), Tech had a great reputation. My folks pushed me to go there. Germ, whats the overall feel from people in south Louisiana about Tech? Do they think it's just another university that's on par with ULL?

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    Re: Time Magazine's Best Colleges for your Money

    Quote Originally Posted by qng001 View Post
    Growing up in South Arkansas (El Dorado), Tech had a great reputation. My folks pushed me to go there. Germ, whats the overall feel from people in south Louisiana about Tech? Do they think it's just another university that's on par with ULL?
    Depends on who you ask, ULLer's obviously think they are on par with us, lsu folks don't really think of anyone other than lsu. But I would say that their is a fair amount of respect in industry for the type of grad's Tech produces and that they are at least as good as lsu's, if not better.

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    Re: Time Magazine's Best Colleges for your Money

    Quote Originally Posted by GermDawg View Post
    From our region (Southeast) we are ranked above:

    Auburn, Mississippi State, Tennesse, Arkansas, Ole Miss, UL (Louisville), Kentuck, WVU, Alabama, UAB, Southern MIss,

    Also, found it interesting that our acceptance rate is less than lsu (80% vs. 71%) and we have a higher avg h.s. GPA (3.44 vs. 3.4)

    Trying to figure out how we have a higher annual salary within 5 years and lower net price but are ranked lower than lsu... need to look into this value grade/ranking score methodology...
    Probably reputation figures in.

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    Re: Time Magazine's Best Colleges for your Money

    Quote Originally Posted by GermDawg View Post
    http://time.com/money/collection/moneys-best-colleges/

    Tech come's in at 154;

    Other Louisiana Schools:

    95 - lsu
    154 - Tech
    555 - Tulane
    604 - Loyola
    637 - Grambling

    That's it, ULL/ULM didn't even get ranked...

    In fact if you search "University of Louisiana" it comes up with Tulane University of Louisiana
    Excellent news!

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    Re: Time Magazine's Best Colleges for your Money

    This is great! OK I'll ask since nobody else has. How the hell did Grambling get in? Higher than average graduation rate?
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    Re: Time Magazine's Best Colleges for your Money

    Quote Originally Posted by WWDog View Post
    This is great! OK I'll ask since nobody else has. How the hell did Grambling get in? Higher than average graduation rate?
    I have no idea. I don't have any clue why LSU is higher than us, either.

    Tulane and Loyola have pretty high GPAs but fall on the list because they are so expensive with no real ROI. We blow everyone else's 5-year salary out of the water, including LSU. The only *listed* category they out-perform us in is attendance.

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    Re: Time Magazine's Best Colleges for your Money

    Quote Originally Posted by WWDog View Post
    This is great! OK I'll ask since nobody else has. How the hell did Grambling get in? Higher than average graduation rate?
    We required a graduation rate at least 25% above what would be expected given the incomes and test scores of its students to be included.

    In other words, Grambling is graduating more than they should if you based your graduation rates on the incoming freshmen socio-economic standings and test scores. It's actually quite a smart way to go about it, cause it's easy to graduate a high percentage of wealthy, affluent, and well educated incoming freshmen.

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    Re: Time Magazine's Best Colleges for your Money

    Quote Originally Posted by GermDawg View Post
    Depends on who you ask, ULLer's obviously think they are on par with us, lsu folks don't really think of anyone other than lsu. But I would say that their is a fair amount of respect in industry for the type of grad's Tech produces and that they are at least as good as lsu's, if not better.
    Tech is thought very well of by the people that I know in Baton Rouge. I'd say that we're the best thought of by far of all the schools in the U of L system.

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    Re: Time Magazine's Best Colleges for your Money

    Found this interesting while I was on LinkedIn looking at the Louisiana Tech University Group page on the right side they had this:

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    Re: Time Magazine's Best Colleges for your Money

    Well, time changes it all. It can even go unnoticed how an institution loses its points, whereas folks are still fond of it and push their kids into it, totally ignoring the fact that the situation changed and it's not as good as it used to be in the times of their youth.

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    Re: Time Magazine's Best Colleges for your Money

    Quote Originally Posted by hudsonmarc View Post
    Well, time changes it all. It can even go unnoticed how an institution loses its points, whereas folks are still fond of it and push their kids into it, totally ignoring the fact that the situation changed and it's not as good as it used to be in the times of their youth.
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