First Is The Worst, Second Is The Best, Eighty-Third Is Us
August 7, 2009 at 8:59 pm
As a blog, we tend to generally ignore rankings, because a) we have no competitors, and b) we're the best. As a university, however, we used to kind of care. We used to care, that is, until we read Forbes' college rankings, which were released this week. Brace yourselves. Penn is ranked #83.
Yes, you heard us right: EIGHTY-THREE. Fortunately, the criteria for the rankings are nonsense, basically, but we're still slightly shaken by our apparent fall from the top (okay, we were only at #61 on the 2008 list).
Although Penn is seriously slammed in the main list, Forbes also published another list: "The Billionaire Universities," ranking those schools that have the highest number of billionaire alumni, on which Penn is ranked #3.