U.S. News (SLU)

[courtside]

For those that care, U.S. News and World Report has their 2021 Rankings out, and, SLU checks in at #103.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/slideshows/us-news-best-national-universities?utm_source=usn_tw

[SLU_Lax]

Marquette at #88

Creighton at #112

Mizzou at #124

Dayton at #133

Maryville at #196

SIU-Carbondale at #258

Memphis at #258

UMSL at #258

UMKC at #272

 

 

[courtside]

Some Jesuit Schools:

Georgetown 23

Boston College 35

Santa Clara 53

Fordham 66

Loyola Marymount 66

Gonzaga 80

[almaman]

A Jesuit bubble might be fun

[Billikenbooster]

Where was DePaul?

[Billiken Rich]

if it isn't bball related who gives any feces.......

[Cowboy]

-what was the highest ranking in this SLU has had? I thought 75 or so, I don't like to see the other schools passing us, especially other Catholic and Jesuit institutions 

-BAB, what is going on at Santa Clara? they get a boatload of tech money?

[Bay Area Billiken]

5 hours ago, Cowboy said:

-what was the highest ranking in this SLU has had? I thought 75 or so, I don't like to see the other schools passing us, especially other Catholic and Jesuit institutions 

-BAB, what is going on at Santa Clara? they get a boatload of tech money?

Santa Clara previously was ranked in the Regional category, has moved up to National University in these US News & World Report rankings, as apparently have Loyola Marymount and Gonzaga.  Yes, Santa Clara has significant high tech money from its alumni base.  FWIW the current California Governor is a Santa Clara alumnus.

 

[Compton]

10 hours ago, Cowboy said:

-BAB, what is going on at Santa Clara? they get a boatload of tech money?

There are some other weird/surprising ones in Cali. For instance, UC-Merced is a commuter school out in the middle of nowhere (it's not really in Merced, but the Sierra Nevada foothills) that is still in the process of building out their campus after being founded in 2005 and has a $55 million endowment. They're now ranked #97. UC-Riverside has also risen up 36 spots into the top 100 in the last 3 years. 

[Box and Won]

[cgeldmacher]

Seeing these rankings always makes me wonder what weird criteria they use, or that changes from year to year, that causes changes to the rankings.  I sometimes think that social pressures cause US News to add considerations that aren't truly indicative of how good a school is.

[brianstl]

 

1 hour ago, Box and Won said:

This is a project that you @slufanskip should handle personally.

[Spoon-Balls]

Fordham and Loyola Marymount at 66? I feel like Gonzaga really had nothing special going for it prior to their basketball program taking off.

[philliken]

On 9/14/2020 at 10:55 PM, Cowboy said:

-what was the highest ranking in this SLU has had? I thought 75 or so, I don't like to see the other schools passing us, especially other Catholic and Jesuit institutions 

-BAB, what is going on at Santa Clara? they get a boatload of tech money?

I thought we had been in the 50s or 60s at one point.  In the 1990s, I watched the SLU recruitment video in my guidance counselors office in Chicago (Featuring Bob Costas), and I could've sworn he mentioned a higher ranking and my counselor being surprised SLU was that high.  I could be wrong.  Wouldn't be the first time.  But IT WILL be the last.

[Box and Won]

The 2022 rankings are out.  We're No. 103.  Again.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/st-louis-university-2506

[juniorbill76]

40 minutes ago, Box and Won said:

The 2022 rankings are out.  We're No. 103.  Again.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/st-louis-university-2506

Clearly USNWR is discounting the impact of Nesbitt.

[slu72]

On 9/15/2020 at 5:48 AM, Bay Area Billiken said:FWIW the current California Governor is a Santa Clara alumnus.

 

Not a plus in my mind. 

[Old guy]

We may not have gone up, but at least we did not go down in the rankings. That is, if you are looking at it from the glass half full point of view.

[almaman]

8 minutes ago, Old guy said:

We may not have gone up, but at least we did not go down in the rankings. That is, if you are looking at it from the glass half full point of view.

50/50

[Cowboy II]

-went back 10 pages, best thread I saw for this, WashU and other schools getting press about the sizeable increase in their endowment funds in the last year, I hope SLU is in this boat, any ideas on when we would know this? 

[Crewsorlose]

Endowment is up to 1.5 billion per recent message from Pestello. 

[willie]

13 minutes ago, Crewsorlose said:

Endowment is up to 1.5 billion per recent message from Pestello. 

Not very impressive. It was almost a billion back when they sold the hospital to Tenent. 

[Bay Area Billiken]

On 9/14/2020 at 8:55 PM, Cowboy said:

-what was the highest ranking in this SLU has had? I thought 75 or so, I don't like to see the other schools passing us, especially other Catholic and Jesuit institutions 

-BAB, what is going on at Santa Clara? they get a boatload of tech money?

Santa Clara, Loyola Marymount, and Gonzaga, along with Villanova used to be ranked in the Regional Universities category, as opposed to the National Universities category.  Yes, Santa Clara has a bevy of Silicon Valley, High Tech money.

[thatskablamo]

10 hours ago, Bay Area Billiken said:

Santa Clara, Loyola Marymount, and Gonzaga, along with Villanova used to be ranked in the Regional Universities category, as opposed to the National Universities category.  Yes, Santa Clara has a bevy of Silicon Valley, High Tech money.

Don’t forget Steve Nash, either. Bronco Ball.

[Compton]

11 hours ago, willie said:

Not very impressive. It was almost a billion back when they sold the hospital to Tenent. 

If the SLU endowment is at $1.5b, that's a 25% increase from the $1.2b reported for 2020, which seems pretty good (if not transformational) and is consistent with an average of the S&P and Dow over the last year.