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I could write a blog post every day about the disconnect between selectivity, prestige, cost and quality of an undergraduate education. The media and college marketing have successfully created a wide-ranging perception that somehow those colleges that have created tiny admissions rates are somehow better.
The reality is that neither the rankings (such a misguided notion designed to make money for a failing news magazine) nor the admit rate of a college will tell you anything about the quality of undergraduate instruction, preparation for work or graduate school, or the amount of learning and mentorship that take place over four years.
In a recent survey asking respondents what makes the “best” college or university, the most popular answer was “it has professors who are excellent teachers” — far ahead of high graduation rates or good-paying jobs after college. Yet students and their families deciding where to shell out thousands of dollars have no way to determine which schools meet that standard. Their only resort may be anonymous posters on forums like College Confidential or Reddit. That needs to change.
Research bears out that rigor and active learning lead to improved student knowledge and understanding. And Campbell found that these practices were more likely to occur at regional state universities than at flagship state institutions or private research universities, which both tend to get higher rankings from U.S. News and World Report
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