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I don't think the Economist's ranking can be used for choosing which school to attend. It tells you how good a job schools do at boosting the earnings of the p
by tpudlik 11y ago
I don't think the Economist's ranking can be used for choosing which school to attend. It tells you how good a job schools do at boosting the earnings of the people who attend there---conditioned on who attends. In other words, they tell you how much the school does for a typical member of its student body. But if you're not representative of that student body (and you certainly won't be representative at many of the schools, especially the outliers!), this will not tell you how much the school would do for you.
- alistairSH 11y agoI guess I just find it extremely hard to believe almost all of the nations "top" state schools have a negative impact (actual earnings less than expected) on the students that attend. Maybe I need to dig into the source of the expected earning figures. I'm definitely biased to some degree, being a graduate of one of the state schools with a poor ranking - I'm sitting here wondering where else I could have gone to get a better value.