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Old 08-14-2006, 02:40 PM   #8
JayP
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
It is just too tough to rank the institutions straight up like that. Saying that an institution is 1 or 2 is misleading; the only way to evaluate would possibly be program by program; and even than many programs distinguish themselves in different ways via traditional vs co-op, lecture vs group learning, and so on.

Think it was valuable to have things like class sizes, tuition fees, available spots and so on listed like MacLeans did; but to use them for an absolute ranking is disengenuous at best.
Exactly.

It's just ignorant to rate a university as a whole. The difference in quality from program-to-program within a university is huge. Even factors like class size and available spots are much different between programs.

Good on these universities for withdrawing from that ridiculous poll.
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