FORT WORTH, Texas, April 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Summer is
coming, and many prospective college students will be making their
list and checking it twice—for the university campuses they want to
visit. With more campuses reopening after a year of COVID-related
closures, visits should be booming.
But which schools to consider?
Selecting the right college or university remains a challenging
process for many students. In addition, the trauma of the pandemic
has only heightened concerns for students in search of a
comfortable academic and cultural fit.
AcademicInfluence.com understands the stress
students face. That's why its team of academics, data scientists,
and higher education experts developed an advanced approach to
college and university selection:
Custom College Rankings
AcademicInfluence.com uses its InfluenceRanking Engine to
generate unbiased college and university rankings that resist
manipulation. This innovative machine-learning technology scours
the web's leading data repositories to map and measure the
influence of a school's thought leadership through its faculty,
staff, and alumni. Students can now access a superior, trustworthy
ranking resource found at no other site. (See the
AcademicInfluence.com About page for further details on the
unique capabilities and advantages of this ranking technology.)
Through Custom College Rankings, students can customize 26
different criteria and create their own rankings based on such
factors as
- state,
- miles from a location,
- net cost by household income,
- min/max tuition cost,
- min/max median ACT or SAT score,
- average acceptance rate,
- school type,
- public or private status,
- religious affiliation,
- degree level,
- discipline and subdiscipline rank,
- percent of students who graduate,
- min/max on-campus student population,
- and more.
And rather than get a ranking based mostly on the biggest
schools with the largest endowments and most alumni, students can
use Concentrated Influence™ in order to adjust for the number of
faculty and students. This reveals those schools that "pound for
pound" pack a big academic punch for their size but which might
otherwise go unconsidered among larger schools.
"In my role as a university professor, I've talked with students
about the stress of the search for the right school, both for high
school students researching colleges and for
soon-to-be-college-graduates investigating grad school options,"
says Dr. Jed Macosko, academic
director of AcademicInfluence.com and professor of physics at
Wake Forest University.
"Our team at AcademicInfluence.com is actively responding to the
needs of students who are frustrated with the typical
'one-size-fits-all' rankings by developing a tool that cuts through
marketing hype and data dumps to deliver customized results. Now,
students get a clearer picture of how the schools that fit them
stack up against one another."
Students can use the Custom College Ranking tool's filtering
capability to engage in a multi-point criteria selection process,
one which ultimately distills a ranking of only schools that fit
their personal specifications. In addition to contact information
and statistics about each school, the resulting list of school
profiles also ranks the specific disciplines for which these
schools are most influential, along with the alumni who have made
the most of their educational experience and credentials.
"We've all been through a lot in the past year or so," says
Macosko. "AcademicInfluence.com can ease the stress of a college
search—while providing the most informative tools and articles on
the web. Students who take advantage of our advanced Custom College
Rankings get results that help them narrow their attention to the
schools that deliver on both academics and experience."
AcademicInfluence.com is the preeminent
technology-driven rankings site dedicated to students, researchers,
and inquirers from high school through college and beyond, offering
resources that connect learners to leaders. AcademicInfluence.com
is a part of the EducationAccess group, a family of sites dedicated
to lifelong learning and personal growth.
Contact:
Jed Macosko, Ph.D.
Academic Director
AcademicInfluence.com
307931@email4pr.com
(682) 302-4945
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