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[QUOTE="DPCuse, post: 41360, member: 1309"]
The rankings are a bit of a crock.  For one, several things like expenses per student are factored in.  So when your student enrollment rises like SU's has, it hurts this particular ratio and makes it look like the students are being jipped on resources.  Schools are rewarded for overspending which in turn increases tuition.  It is a viscious circle.  The increased enrollment also hurts the student/faculty ratio.  When you have a spike on your enrollment numbers in a given year, you aren't going to hire a bunch of full time faculty members because when that large class leaves, you don't need the faculty any more.  They also count alumni participation that give back to the school.  Schools try to get their alumns to give just $1 so they can say we have xx% contributing back to our school.  It doesn't measure the amount they are giving back.  There are so many of these little nuances that skew these rankings.  They really should get rid of these rankings because they drive up the cost of higher education at the end of the day.
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