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on November 28, 2012 in Academic quality, Academics, Evaluating Schools, Research

In my last college blog post I wrote about how some colleges and universities are exploiting their nontenured professors. If you missed it, here it is: The Dangers of Being Taught by Part-Time Professors This is such an important subject for families with college-bound teenagers that I’m sharing more information courtesy of Josh Boldt, an [...]

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The Dangers of Being Taught by Part Timers

on November 26, 2012 in Academic quality, Academics, Evaluating Schools, Graduate degrees, Research

When your teenagers reach college, who will be teaching them? Chances are excellent that many of your children’s professors will be part-timers or full-time professors without any chance of getting tenured. The number of adjunct professors on college campuses has soared in the past decade. Today only thirty percent of college professors have tenure or [...]

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A Great New Tool to Pinpoint Financial Aid Awards

on October 24, 2012 in Admissions, Applying, College Costs, Evaluating Schools, Financial aid, Money, Research, Scholarships

Earlier this year, I wrote a college blog post after hearing from an affluent mom in Washington state named Lynne, who used 66 net price calculators (!!) to determine which schools would offer the best awards to her bright daughter. Making Cost Comparisons a Snap It can take a long time to using these invaluable [...]

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Where to Find the Best College Professors

on October 19, 2012 in Academic quality, Academics, Admissions, Applying, Evaluating Schools, Research

How do you know if the college or university that your child ultimately attends will provide him or her with an excellent education? You won’t. College pricing is inching closer to transparency thanks to net price calculators, but it’s largely impossible to form an educated opinion about the strength of a school’s learning environment beyond [...]

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Surprise: Where Harvard Law Students Got Their Undergrad Degrees

on October 10, 2012 in Academic quality, Academics, California universities, College rankings, Evaluating Schools, Graduate degrees, Ivy League, Liberal Arts Colleges, Research, Universities

Today I’m passing along a fascinating list that comes from Harvard Law School. The list you see below includes the 261 colleges and universities where members of the Class of 2013 law school students come from. Michelle Kretzschmur, the creator of Do-It-Yourself College Rankings sent me the link to the list because she knows how [...]

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50 Schools That Produce the Most Science and Engineering PhD’s

on October 3, 2012 in Academic majors, Academics, College rankings, Colleges, Liberal Arts Colleges, Research, Universities

Note: I ran this college blog post last year, but it’s equally relevant today… I got an email this week from a California mother who was happy that her child would be a attending St. Mary’s College of Maryland, a wonderful public liberal arts college, in the fall. Her husband, however, remained skeptical. He worried [...]

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