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  • Which Colleges Consider UC a Peer?

    Each year colleges submit to the federal Department of Education a list of other colleges that they consider their "peers." As the Chronicle's article says, "The groups sometimes represent a college's actual peers but more often reveal their aspirations... The typical college selected a comparison group of 16 colleges with a higher average SAT score and graduation rate than its own, lower acceptance rate, and larger endowment, budget, and enrollment." So it's an interesting way to "rank" colleges, while at the same time revealing which other schools consider UC to be either a "peer" or who aspire to be a peer of UC's.

    The data, and the rankings

    UC ranked as the 103rd most desired "peer" school in the country. Not bad at all, especially because the top of the list is dominated by small liberal arts schools (there's more schools trying to *become* great small liberal arts schools than trying to *become* giant public research schools).

    Schools that list UC as a peer:
    Argosy U/Atlanta
    CUNY Queens C
    California State Polytechnic U, Pomona
    Florida International U
    Florida State U
    George Mason U
    Indiana U-Purdue U, Indianapolis
    Iowa State U
    Rutgers U, New Brunswick
    Rutgers U, Newark
    Shenandoah U
    U of Alabama, Birmingham
    U of Central Florida
    U of Colorado, Denver and Health Sciences Ctr
    U of Dayton
    U of Houston main campus
    U of Illinois, Chicago
    U of Louisville
    U of Memphis
    U of Missouri, Kansas City
    U of North Texas
    U of Phoenix - Cleveland Campus
    U of South Florida
    U of Texas, Dallas
    U of Toledo main campus
    U of Utah
    U of Washington
    U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
    Virginia Commonwealth U
    Wayne State U

    For some reason, that website didn't include the institutions that UC listed as peers. So I went to the federal website and looked it up myself:

    Schools that UC lists as a peer
    Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)
    Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL)
    Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA)
    Indiana University-Bloomington (Bloomington, IN)
    Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI)
    North Carolina State University at Raleigh (Raleigh, NC)
    Ohio State University-Main Campus (Columbus, OH)
    Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus (University Park, PA)
    Purdue University-Main Campus (West Lafayette, IN)
    Rutgers University-New Brunswick (New Brunswick, NJ)
    Texas A & M University-College Station (College Station, TX)
    The University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN)
    The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)
    University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
    University of California-Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
    University of California-Davis (Davis, CA)
    University of California-Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
    University of California-San Diego (La Jolla, CA)
    University of Central Florida (Orlando, FL)
    University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder, CO)
    University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)
    University of Georgia (Athens, GA)
    University of Houston (Houston, TX)
    University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, IL)
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, IL)
    University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY)
    University of Louisville (Louisville, KY)
    University of Maryland-College Park (College Park, MD)
    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI)
    University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (Minneapolis, MN)
    University of Missouri-Columbia (Columbia, MO)
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
    University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus (Pittsburgh, PA)
    University of South Carolina-Columbia (Columbia, SC)
    University of South Florida-Main Campus (Tampa, FL)
    University of Washington-Seattle Campus (Seattle, WA)
    University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI)
    Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA)
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, VA)

    So, the institutions that were on both lists are:
    Florida State
    Rutgers (main campus)
    U. of Central Florida
    U. of Houston
    U. of Illinois, Chicago
    U. of Louisville
    U. of South Florida
    U. of Washington
    Virginia Commonwealth U
    UC MBA '08
    Purdue '15

  • #2
    Conclusion? Looks like we have a higher opinion of ourselves than others have of us.

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    • #3
      This is great information. I would conclude we know a lot more about ourselves than the other universities.

      Who does Kentucky list as peers....Cavs, Pacers, Celtics?

      Does tBlow$u list the browns and steelers as peers?

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      • #4
        I'd be interested in why we chose who we did as peers and also why we were chosen by other schools. I'm betting UNT chose us because of CCM for example. Both schools have top music programs but otherwise have little in common.
        Brent Wyrick
        92 Final Four Front Row
        @LobotC2DFW

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        • #5
          Originally posted by RedDog View Post
          Conclusion? Looks like we have a higher opinion of ourselves than others have of us.
          Not necessarily. As the article states, schools list their "aspirational" peers more often than their real peers. So the fact that the list of schools we pick is better than the list of schools that pick us is normal.
          UC MBA '08
          Purdue '15

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          • #6
            What really gets me is that schools like Iowa State, Washington, Rutgers, and Utah pick us as peers, but not a single pre-2013 Big 10 school does. Even though each of those schools are picked as peers by multiple Big 10 schools.

            Another observation - we consider a lot of AAC schools to be peers - USF, UCF, Louisville, Houston - but not Memphis or Temple. Temple didn't pick us as a peer, but they did pick Ohio U, Kent, and Miami.
            UC MBA '08
            Purdue '15

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