The big east is a pretty large conference with a variety of schools. Overall, very strong academically and athletically. Just curious how people would rank these schools? I'd say Notre Dame is definitely first. Fantastic tradition and top notch academics.
If you had to rank the Big East schools and possibly separate them into tiers, what would you say?
For which major?
If we're going academics I'd kind of have to go with Georgetown over Notre Dame...
No specific major. I guess overall strength? Which schools are particularly strong in certain areas?
GT is a fair argument. Definitely ND and GT at the top tier of the Big East. Plus great running on both teams
1- Georgetown University
2- University of Pittsburgh
3- University of Notre Dame
4- Villanova University
5- University of Connecticut
6- Rutgers University
7- Syracuse University
8- Marquette University
9- Seton Hall University
10- University of Cincinnati
11- University of Louisville
12- Providence College
13- West Virginia University
14- St. John's University
15- DePaul University
16- University of South Florida
Big e wrote:
No specific major. I guess overall strength? Which schools are particularly strong in certain areas?
GT is a fair argument. Definitely ND and GT at the top tier of the Big East. Plus great running on both teams
Why "definitely"?
Tier 11) Notre Dame2) GeorgetownTier 23) University of Pittsburgh4) Connecticut5) Syracuse6) Rutgers7)MarquetteTier 38) Villanova9) Seton Hall10) DePaul11) Cincinnati12) St. John's13) Providence14) Louisville15) West VirginiaTier 416) South Florida
Cave Johnson wrote:
1- Georgetown University
2- University of Pittsburgh
3- University of Notre Dame
4- Villanova University
5- University of Connecticut
6- Rutgers University
7- Syracuse University
8- Marquette University
9- Seton Hall University
10- University of Cincinnati
11- University of Louisville
12- Providence College
13- West Virginia University
14- St. John's University
15- DePaul University
16- University of South Florida
Georgetown, Pitt, and Rutgers are known for having a few good grad programs. The others are all university of bumF nowhere as far as academics are concerned.
On a scale of 1-5, with 1's being Ivy leagues and 5's being online 4 year schools, those schools are 3s and 4s
#57 Pittsburg
#59 Rutgers
The rest are not ranked in the Top 100.
Pretty dumb list. No Liberal Arts colleges?
I also have a hard time believing U of Hawaii, Iowa, Delaware, and Oregon State are all "better" schools than University of Virginia.
Oh, and you have Lehigh between Montana State and Kent State.
Riiiiight.
Cave Johnson wrote:
1- Georgetown University
2- University of Pittsburgh
3- University of Notre Dame
4- Villanova University
5- University of Connecticut
6- Rutgers University
7- Syracuse University
8- Marquette University
9- Seton Hall University
10- University of Cincinnati
11- University of Louisville
12- Providence College
13- West Virginia University
14- St. John's University
15- DePaul University
25- University of South Florida
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www.shanghairanking.com wrote:
http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2011.html#57 Pittsburg
#59 Rutgers
The rest are not ranked in the Top 100.
Interesting that in the Big East, only Pitt & Rutgers have enough citations to earn a world rating.
I'd say Marquette and Depaul are underrated and very fine jesuit universities with solid academics
Doesnt it sound lovely wrote:
Pretty dumb list. No Liberal Arts colleges?
I also have a hard time believing U of Hawaii, Iowa, Delaware, and Oregon State are all "better" schools than University of Virginia.
They are not......by any means. UVa is one of the stongest public universities in the country and certainly on the East Coast. Their graduate business school is renowned for being the toughest among the elite graduate business schools.
catholicism ftw wrote:
I'd say Marquette and Depaul are underrated and very fine jesuit universities with solid academics
DePaul (the country's largest Catholic university) is not Jesuit--it's the Vincentians.
DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Virgina, etc. are unranked on http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2011.html.
Fixed:
Tier 1
1) Notre Dame
2) Georgetown
Tier 2
3) University of Pittsburgh
4) Marquette
5) Connecticut
6) Syracuse
7) Rutgers
Tier 3
8) Villanova
9) St. John's
10) DePaul
11) Seton Hall
12) Cincinnati
13) Providence
14) Louisville
15) West Virginia
Tier 4
16) South Florida
This is pretty close.
It's more like:
Tier 1: ND, Georgetown
Tier 2: Pitt, Syracuse, Marquette
Tier 3: Rutgers, UConn, Villanova
Tier 4: St. Johns, DePaul, Seton Hall
Tier 5: Cincinnati, Providence, Louisville
Tier 6: West Virginia, South Florida
Start at the top with a 3.9/1400. Each tier down, drop .2 and 75 SAT points on the old scale.
From the U.S. News Rankings:
#19: Notre Dame
#22: Georgetown
#58: UConn
#58: Pitt
#62: Syracuse
#68: Rutgers
#82: Marquette
#132: Depaul
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And the others....
I know Villanova isn't listed among the Universities, but rather is the #1 college in the Regional University North rankings, whatever that means.