The best college in the country isn’t Ivy League, according to Forbes — it’s West Point. It doesn’t surprise me. It’s the Ivy Leaguers who have been running the country into the ground for the past several decades.
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I am not surprised. I remember the day when Malcom brought his yacht to the River Courts, and a decent number of firsties got to hang out for the afternoon with Mr. Forbes.
Regrettably, I was not a firstie.
Well looking at one thing have a feeling the WHO WHO part of the rank slightly skews the ranking. Since WHO WHO as far as I understand is very much a Washington /political centric. With some spattering of CEOS, Top lawyers, doctors, scientist and professors, and popular board of director choices. I am assuming a good portion of Army generals make it to who whos, and there a lot more army generals that national politicians. And pretty much all army generals are west pointers.
Also assuming military officers probably make a good % of the Politicians clearly not lawyer/Ivy school levels. Especially with recent years and not counting military officers that get ambassadorship and put on boards of defense contractors.
Though not taking away from the military academies, they instill a work ethic and provide good education that lot of the public/private unis are lacking. Know pure ancedotial evidence but high school friend who was slacking in high school and did not seem like a lazy/slacking smart (meaning dosen’t do work but tests very well). He got in to air force academy on a sports scholarship spent 2 years got injured and left before he have to serve and came to the engineering university (top 20 engineering uni) I was in and was a A student, with what seem relatively ease from being a lack luster b/c student in high school.
I am not surprised, given the socially promoted chuckleheads who are teaching at the Ivies these days. Political correctness will be the death of this civilization.
Both Annapolis and West Point are known to have excellent engineering programs (I’m not so sure about Colorado Springs, however). One of our high school valedictorians got an engineering degree at Annapolis. Later, again through the Navy, he got an MD. He is still in the Navy today.
He considered West Point, but chose Annapolis because of their nuclear engineering program (this is actually one of the best nuclear engineering schools anywhere in the world). The navy has lots of nuclear powered ships and submarines. So, they have an engineering program to train the engineers and technicians to run those ships and subs.
The ratings also include cost as a significant component, which makes expensive private schools like the Ivies drop relative to less expensive institutions (e.g. the academies). There’s some justification for this; while I’m convinced my Ivy engineering degree is worth more than one from Podunk Community College was it worth all of the added cost? That’s really hard to measure and probably varies from person to person.