Texas A&M Moves Up In Kiplinger’s ‘Best Values’ Public College National Rankings
Texas A&M has moved up Kiplinger's list of "best values" in public colleges and is the top Texas institution.
Texas A&M University continues to move up in Kiplinger’s annual listing of “best values” among the nation’s top 100 public colleges, now ranking 21st — and tops in Texas.
The widely circulated personal finance magazine has just released its 2011-12 rankings, which are based on a combination of academic quality and affordability, note the publication’s editors.
Texas A&M ranked 23rd on Kiplinger’s “best values” public college list last year and 30th the previous year. It is one of only three Texas universities to be included on that list this year, followed by the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Texas at Dallas.
The 2011-12 public college list is again headed by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The Kiplinger’s rankings are the latest in a host of such assessments in which Texas A&M fares well, university officials note. Last month, for example, a new online organization, TheBestColleges.org, ranked Texas A&M sixth nationally among public universities and first in Texas, basing its ratings on weighted factors that focus on economic value, quality of life, academic quality and student satisfaction. The university also historically ranks high in national ratings by such publications as U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, Washington Monthly and Princeton Review.
Additionally, the university fared well in a recent New York Times listing of what business leaders worldwide say are the top institutions from which they recruit, with Texas A&M placing eighth among public U. S. universities and first among all public or private universities in the Southwest or deep South. It also ranked second nationally in a Wall Street Journal study in which large U.S. companies, non-profits and governmental agencies rated schools on the basis of whose graduates were best prepared and most able to succeed. Smart Money magazine placed Texas A&M first nationally for “payback ratio” — the earning levels of an institution’s graduates compared to what they paid in tuition, fees and related costs for their undergraduate educations.
In a related study last year, Texas A&M ranked first among public universities in Texas in “return on investment” (ROI) — what a graduate earns compared to typical college costs incurred, according to listings posted online by PayScale, Inc. In another PayScale posting, Texas A&M ranked first among public institutions in Texas in earnings of graduates at the midpoint of their careers.
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What’s going on at the University of California Berkeley? University of California Berkeley (Cal) picks the pockets of Californian students and their parents clean. (The author has 35 years’ consulting experience, has taught at Cal where he observed the culture, way senior management work and was not fired)
University of California Berkeley Chancellor Birgeneau ($450,000 salary) has forgotten that he is a public servant, steward of the public money, not overseer of his own fiefdom. Stunning misguided waste: Tuition fee increases exceed national average rate of increase; Recruits (using California tax $) out of state $50,600 students who displace qualified Californians from Cal; Spends $7,000,000 + for consultants to do his senior management work (prominent East Coast university accomplishing same 0 cost); Pays ex Michigan governor $300,000 for lectures; Procuring $3,000,000 consulting firm failed to receive proposals from others; Latino enrollment drops while out of state jumps 2010-11 (M Krupnick Contra Costa Times); Ranked # 70 USA best universities Forbes; Tuition to Return on Investment drops below top 10; QS academic ranking falls below top 10; Only 50 attend Birgeneau all employees meeting; Campus visits down 20%; Absence Cal. senior management control NCAA places basketball on probation.
It’s all shameful. There is no justification for violations by a steward of the public trust. Absolutely none!
Governor Brown, UC Board of Regents Chair Lansing must oust Chancellor Birgeneau who uses Cal. as his fiefdom.
Email opinion to marsha.kelman@ucop.edu