Comments on: Carolina, Clemson Stink Up Forbes’ Rankings

By: RD

RD — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:13:42 +0000

I am ashamed to be a Clemson Grad. I regret the day I ever went there. It is bad when the question, “what college did you attend?” comes up at work. It is very difficult to dodge the question. The degree I think is somewhere buried in the basement of my parents house (it can stay there too until the worms start to complain). I don’t understand people who grad Clemson and leave with all starry eyed worshipping the school for life. (Scratches head)

By: Upstate

Upstate — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:37:18 +0000

Both of the Palmetto State’s top institutions of higher learning….”

This statement should read ” Both of the Palmetto State’s LARGEST institutions of higher learning”. Bigger does not necessarily mean better.

By: CL Kennedy

CL Kennedy — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:35:12 +0000

“Both of the Palmetto State’s top institutions of higher learning….”

This statement should read ” Both of the Palmetto State’s LARGEST institutions of higher learning”. Bigger does not necessarily mean better.

By: nocheapthing

nocheapthing — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:14:47 +0000

Rate (or is it Hate) my Professor is junk. Most times, students jump to that site when they earn a grade they deserve but don’t like or for some other highly subjective reason. Other than that, you have to wonder how many students go to that site when they are absolutely wasted. Others tend to be groupies, loving the prof who lets them slide, gives easy grades and so forth. Forbes is a money magazine……………… We shouldn’t “buy” a degree.

By: K Trane

K Trane — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:52:16 +0000

While I agree with the idea that Clemson and USC have abandoned undergraduate education altogether, I don’t agree that they are in the bottom 400 schools in the nation. Ratemyprofessor.com is not a credible source for rankings.

Clemson needs to get their shit together. There’s not many Americans (much less South Carolinians) in the Ph.D. programs, wtf? They also make it nearly impossible to get an engineering degree in four years, but then again who wants to graduate in four years. Don’t even get me started on how Clemson circumvented the tuition increase caps imposed by Governor Sanford. Lab fees, parking fees, etc.

Regardless, I’d put up a Clemson engineering student up with a Georgia Tech student any day.

By: itsallaboutthegirth

itsallaboutthegirth — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:06:36 +0000

this is ridiculous. they based their rankings on RateMyProfessor.com and a bunch of other hackjob websites? what are they going to do next year? go on facebook and look at what students post the best pictures and have the most eloquent status updates? it’s kinda like basing rankings of the best steaks on opinions of mcdonald’s customers. come on will, you’re too intelligent to put any stock in this farce.

By: Don Johnson

Don Johnson — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:56:20 +0000

If we’re all saying the Forbes “rankings” are subjective, the “benchmark” US News rankings are based off of surveys, the amount of money a college has, and the test scores of the incoming students. Doesn’t say squat about how smart those kids are when they leave. Surveys are pretty subjective, if you asked me.

Every ranking is flawed. It just depends on where your school ranks.

Oh, and US News is on their last legs as a magazine. Maybe we shouldn’t think so much of their business school rankings.

And as someone paying off student loans for the past 15 years, I’d gladly change colleges to not have student loans today – that’s a major plus to a college.

By: confused

confused — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:56:54 +0000

this list lost it for me when it put hamden sydney–aka the reform school for rich white men who couldn’t get in to w & l, ahead of davidson. student debt as a factor is idiotic. you reward a) places that don’t charge tuition and 2) places that attract the very wealthy, whose parents fund their education. flawed and simplistic ranking.

By: bob bearden

bob bearden — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:05:07 +0000

“It is important to note that if a school appears on this list at all, that indicates it meets a certain level of quality. The last school on our ranking is by no means the worst school in the nation. According to the U.S. Department of Education, there are more than 4,000 college campuses in the U.S., and the CCAP ranks only the top 15% or so of all undergraduate institutions.”

By: CNSYD

CNSYD — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:45:55 +0000

Having spent many years hiring engineering graduates from Eastern universities I can tell you that Clemson and USC are on a par with any of them as far as engineering is concerned.