The 2014 US News & World Report College rankings are in . . .

The 2014 US News & World Report College rankings are in . . .

National University Rankings | Top National Universities | US News Best Colleges

 

The online college rankings are very shocking . . .

Best Online Bachelors Programs | Online Bachelors Rankings | US News

 

The rankings only go as far as # 160. After that they say RNP and even later they say UR. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say UR probably means unranked. But what the bleep does RNP mean?

 

Rank Not Published.

 

Like I've said many times before, I don't think anyone will take the online degree rankings seriously. When someone sees Rutgers on your resume, they aren't going to see a school that is ranked so low among online degrees that its rank is unpublished. They are going to see a school that is ranked #69 among national universities and has name recognition. On the other hand, no one is going to be falling all over you because you got your degree online from the #9 ranked Bellevue University. In most cases, nothing on your resume or transcript will indicate that you got your degree online.

 

It surprise me that Northeastern University is moving to position #49.

 

Is that lower or higher than you thought?

 

Wow! Fort Hays ranked well.

 

The rank that surprised me was the rank for Liberty University since I have never heard anything negative about this school; yet it ranked really low. Charter Oak scored way higher than I expected. Again I haven't heard anything bad about them either, but I also haven't heard anyone say they were the best thing since sliced bread. . .

 

High! Northeastern University had been ranking between #70 to #90 for a whole decade. GWU is back to the ranking again opposes last year, the ranking was not qualified.

 

Liberty University is ranked regional south tier 1, #89 as the same time my Troy University at the position #80. Do you think Liberty University should be in the national tier 2 ranking? Villanova University does not make national tier 1 or 2 this year.

 

These rankings mean extremely little to me but I enjoy reading through some of them to see where the colleges that I am most familiar with rank, if they are ranked.

I suppose if all other criteria of a school were equal and they offered a very similar, desired degree program for a similar cost with similar convenience and other personal considerations, I might then go to the rating and choose the one higher on the list.

But I do admit to getting some satisfaction out of being able to say, year after year, that I am the parent of a child that graduated from the #1 ranked university in the USA.