Marshall makes US News list of top universities

[RhinoD]

Academics gets talked about a lot on this board, as it should, so here is some good news...

https://www.marshall.edu/ucomm/2019...lvaUaE5G_EvrD-_Mwgxe0Q2cYFK0Kl80_Ja6BYtIl-44Y

 

[mlblack16.]

Just saw that!

 

[GoHerdMarshallYes]

The publication also ranked Marshall’s Brad D. Smith Schools of Business among the country’s “Best Undergraduate Business Programs.”

That guy's been doing so much for MU. I'm very happy we have him supporting MU.

 

[From Ashes To Glory 2]

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/marshall-university-3815/overall-rankings

 

[RhinoD]

Glad to see you made a new username Rifle... Welcome back...

No way to know if Marshall is #295 or #381 since the rankings list all those schools as "tied."

 

[mlblack16.]

Glad to see you made a new username Rifle... Welcome back...

No way to know if Marshall is #295 or #381 since the rankings list all those schools as "tied."

We're going to have to start quoting him since his posts are being deleted just as fast as he can type them out

 

[The Real SamC]

We're going to have to start quoting him since his posts are being deleted just as fast as he can type them out

As they should be.

 

[johns1124]

"For the first time, U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges” rankings have recognized Marshall University among the nation’s top higher education institutions."

That's not true. It was ranked highly in the 90's, when I was there. I remember holding on to the US News magazine issue for the longest time because of it.

 

[Chris McLaughlin]

"For the first time, U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges” rankings have recognized Marshall University among the nation’s top higher education institutions."

That's not true. It was ranked highly in the 90's, when I was there. I remember holding on to the US News magazine issue for the longest time because of it.

Marshall has received different kudos from US News over the years but has never been ranked as a national university. MU always been considered a regional college and been ranked with schools (Longwood, Morehead, Radford, etc) with the same designation.

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

U.S. News & World Report also recognized Marshall with the #147 position in the country in the “Social Mobility” category—a measure of how successful a school is at enrolling and graduating students who come from low-income households. Marshall is West Virginia’s only research university to be ranked in this category.

THAT is something to crow about, given the economic status of the state.

 

[The Real SamC]

U.S. News & World Report also recognized Marshall with the #147 position in the country in the “Social Mobility” category—a measure of how successful a school is at enrolling and graduating students who come from low-income households. Marshall is West Virginia’s only research university to be ranked in this category.

THAT is something to crow about, given the economic status of the state.

Yes. That is what Marshall is all about. Always has been. Marshall and a few of the rural state colleges pick up the heavy burden of helping the products of our state's mediocre to awful, depending on your political view, public schools. A job the two institutions containing the name of the state long ago turned their backs upon.

In some alternate universe, where WV does not waste 60 to 70% of its higher ed budget, this state is not last in everything good and first in everything bad.

At graduation they used to ask the graduates who were the first in their families to graduate college to stand, it was usually like a third of the class. It is one of my favorite Marshall things.

 

[GoHerdMarshallYes]

U.S. News & World Report also recognized Marshall with the #147 position in the country in the “Social Mobility” category—a measure of how successful a school is at enrolling and graduating students who come from low-income households. Marshall is West Virginia’s only research university to be ranked in this category.

THAT is something to crow about, given the economic status of the state.

Put that on a billboard around the capitol.

Seriously, that's not only a true statement, its an absolute burn to wvu.

 

[ohio herd]

Yes. That is what Marshall is all about. Always has been. Marshall and a few of the rural state colleges pick up the heavy burden of helping the products of our state's mediocre to awful, depending on your political view, public schools. A job the two institutions containing the name of the state long ago turned their backs upon.

In some alternate universe, where WV does not waste 60 to 70% of its higher ed budget, this state is not last in everything good and first in everything bad.

At graduation they used to ask the graduates who were the first in their families to graduate college to stand, it was usually like a third of the class. It is one of my favorite Marshall things.

I was one of those in 1984

 

[murox]

Why is the University of Charleston designated a "national" university. What research is being done there?

 

[GreenDuke]

Honestly, when you go below the top 50 it doesn’t really matter.