From the New York Times:
Washington Monthly has recently released its new college ranking. It’s based on several factors, one of which is a comparison between a college’s graduation rate and the makeup of its student body.
… Toward the bottom of the ranking, the University of Louisville has an expected graduation rate of 59 percent and an actual rate of 44 percent.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:20AM
Hmm..
Veblen has posted on mistakes – in the opposite direction – of Washington Monthly in the over/under performance metric. This had to do with under prediction of expected graduation rates at Penn State.
See: http://thorsteinveblen.blogspot.com/
"We cleaned their clocks on a worthless ranking and we couldn’t be prouder."
I also note that in the latest USNews under/over performance numbers Louisville is 56/46 (-10), as opposed to the -15 of Washington Monthly.
cum grano salis…
September 9th, 2009 at 4:25PM
*The* University of Lousiville? The one that acts as a labor contractor for United Parcel Service’s Louisville hub?
January 5th, 2010 at 9:29AM
[…] There’s the graduation rate. […]