CSULB AMONG TOP PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN THE WEST... California State University, Long Beach (my alma mater) has been ranked one of the top three public master’s universities in the west by U.S. News and World Report in its 2005 America’s Best Colleges Guide. CSULB also is among Princeton Review’s Best in the West.
U.S. News ranked Cal State Long Beach among the top 32 colleges and universities of all 129 private and public master’s institutions in the western United States, placing it in the first tier of rankings (the top 25 percent) for the first time in the university’s history.
As defined by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, institutions in the universities-master’s category provide a full range of undergraduate programs, some master’s level programs and few, if any, doctoral programs. Cal State Long Beach offers two doctorate degrees.
In U.S. New’s survey methodology, colleges provide data for up to 15 indicators of academic excellence. Each factor is assigned a weight that reflects publication officials’ judgment regarding how much a measure matters. Finally, the colleges in each category are ranked against their peers, based on their composite weighted score.
Among the indicators used to measure the academic quality of the colleges and universities were peer assessment (weighted by 25 percent), retention (25 percent in master’s colleges), faculty resources (20 percent), student selectivity (15 percent), financial resources (10 percent) and alumni giving rate (5 percent).
CSULB also ranked first in the west among universities-master’s institutions in least dept load, meaning graduates from the university’s Class of 2003 [“Yenny-Pooh” (Remember her? Haven’t talked about her in a while!) graduated from CSULB that year] graduated with the lightest dept load in the west. Some 29 percent of CSULB students graduating in 2003 had a debt load of $6,319 to top the list. By way of comparison, some 89 percent of 2003 graduates from the University of Great Falls in Montana graduated with a debt load of $29,483, placing them among the “most debt” list.
Finally, Cal State Long Beach was also mentioned as one of the west’s top universities-master’s institutions in student body diversity, ranking seventh.
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This Blog is quite a departure from the hot blonde and Titanic parody pics shown in the previous journal entries, eh? GO BEACH!
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