{"id":5497,"date":"2015-05-06T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/?p=5497"},"modified":"2015-05-04T20:32:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T00:32:53","slug":"a-new-model-for-college-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/a-new-model-for-college-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"A new model for college rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"brookingslogo\"<\/a>Doug Lederman at Inside Higher Ed has written an interesting piece about a new Brookings Institution model for college evaluation.<\/p>\n

The new model attempts to rank colleges in a \u201cvalue-added\u201d fashion that determines how much the college helped a given student improve toward career success. Many currently existing college rankings focus on elite colleges and on admissions statistics. Because of this, many of the students who go on to do well in career and pay are students who may have gone on to do well more or less regardless of where they went to college. The new Brookings model includes thousands of colleges and uses more statistics from after graduation in an attempt to isolate how much each college actually helps typical students achieve career success.<\/p>\n

The creators of the model acknowledge that many will dispute the types of statistics that they gather, such as the supposed value of the skills listed on graduates\u2019 LinkedIn profiles, and that many will dispute the model simply because it focuses so much on the economic benefits of college. However, they still argue that their model is a step in the right direction toward helping students find colleges with various elements in place to help them succeed in the workplace.<\/p>\n

Following is an excerpt from the press release:<\/p>\n

Using a blend of government and private data (from LinkedIn and Payscale), the report\u2019s analysis shows: <\/em><\/p>\n