Forbes magazine ranked Duke 104 of America’s top 600 colleges in its second year of rankings, released Wednesday.
The placement puts Duke between Wheaton College at 103 and Cornell College at 105. Neighboring University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was ranked 68.
Topping the list is the United States Military Academy, followed by Princeton University and the California Institute of Technology in second and third, respectively. Duke’s placement this year dropped from 80th on Forbes’ list last year.
The magazine based its ratings on a set of criteria, including student satisfaction with courses based on ratemyprofessor.com, alumni salaries, graduation rates, professors receiving awards and student debt load.
Traditionally ranked in the top 10 of American colleges, Duke has been at the top of college rankings for years but has recently seen fluctuations. In its annual ratings, U.S. News & World Report placed Duke 8th in the nation for 2009 and 13th in the world in its first rankings of world colleges last November.
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Duke was ranked No.13 in the U.S. News and World Report’s “World’s Best Colleges” rankings, which was released last Thursday. The University came behind No.1 Harvard, No.2 Yale, No.5 Caltech, No.8 University of Chicago, No.9 MIT, No.10 Columbia, No.11 University of Pennsylvania, and No.12 Princeton.
It shares the No.13 spot with Johns Hopkin University, and is ahead of No.15 Cornell, and No.17 Stanford.
These rankings differ from the U.S. News National University rankings, released annually in late August. Duke was ranked No.8 in the national rankings last year, sharing the spot with University of Chicago and Columbia.
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Even the slightest shift in higher education rankings provokes many questions on campus: Why did Duke’s position change? How far ahead is the Harvard-Yale-Princeton triumvirate? What can Duke do to stay on the upswing?
These and other questions came to mind when the Fuqua School of Business leapt to No. 22 in the Financial Times’ list of best full-time business schools in the world, a six-spot improvement from last year.
It is probably too soon for Fuqua’s five-site global network, announced last August, to be giving Duke a boost in the curent rankings, Elizabeth Hogan, Fuqua’s assistant dean for marketing and communications, told The Chronicle when Fuqua rose to eighth place in BusinessWeek’s Best B-Schools of 2008 issue.
But Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for government relations and public affairs, hinted that the Multinational Growth Plan could give Duke a boost in future rankings.
“As Fuqua’s global programs continue to expand, we expect that Duke’s stature will only grow among international leaders,” Schoenfeld wrote in an e-mail to The Chronicle when Fuqua’s position in the Financial Times’ rankings was announced.
Even so, Dan LeClair, vice president and chief knowledge officer of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, said he doubts Fuqua is launching the global outposts to best its competitors in the rankings.
“I know that Fuqua is not doing this to increase their rankings,” he said. “This is part of their mission, an important part of their strategy. [Improved rankings] may be an outcome–it’s certainly a reasonable thing that could come out of this. But I think it’s important to note that business schools like Duke don’t let the rankings drive their strategy…. I know [Fuqua Dean Blair Sheppard] well enough to know that [rankings] are not the key driver.”
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