Faculties with the Best and Worst Professors

• Professor interesting rating: 67
• Professor accessible rating: 65

• Professor interesting rating: 90
• Professor accessible rating: 91

Personal research universities typically have more resources — and presumably smaller class sizes — compared to state universities which can make the undergrads more satisfied.

• Professor interesting rating: 95
• Professor accessible rating: 97

University of Dallas
These evaluations are hardly scientific, but one reason why I   believe they are worth consulting is due to the pronounced pattern that I notice annually when I review the scores of many schools in the manual.

James Madison University

1. Professor interesting rating: 71
2. Professor accesible rating: 72

State Universities with Top Scores

Grinnell College

• Professor interesting rating: 67
• Professor accessible rating: 66

• Professor interesting rating: 99
• Professor accessible rating: 98

• Professor interesting rating: 91
• Professor accessible rating: 97

Bottom Line:

Carleton College

As I’ve mentioned many times, you ought not be impressed simply by a school’s brand name.
Randolph College

• Professor interesting rating: 95
• Professor accessible rating:  92

• Professor interesting rating: 77
• Professor accessible rating: 77

Here’s What I’ve seen in general:

• Professor interesting rating: 65
• Professor accessible rating: 66

Read these posts to learn more about assessing academic offerings at universities and colleges:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Here is a sampling of scores:

• Professor interesting rating: 98
• Professor accessible rating: 96

The majority of the state universities that I saw hovered in the 60’s and/or 70’s in both professor categories.
To get a feeling of whether professors at a particular school are doing a fantastic job of educating undergraduates, you should check out two statistics in the big, thick yearly best college guide that the Princeton Review publishes.

University of Puget Sound
I also wanted to point out that unheralded public liberal arts schools (hidden jewels) fared far better than the brand name public research universities within their own states.

• Professor interesting rating: 82
• Professor accessible rating: 80

Drexel University

• Professor interesting rating: 75
• Professor accessible rating: 71

• Professor interesting rating: 98
• Professor accessible rating: 99

• Professor interesting rating: 97
• Professor accessible rating: 99

• Professor interesting rating: 93
• Professor accessible evaluation: 88

Master’s level universities offer bachelor’s and master’s degree programs, but few if any doctoral programs. The dearth of PhD programs can be an advantage  for undergraduates if a university puts more of its institutional focus on educating students pursuing bachelor’s degrees. It is important to determine precisely how important undergrads are at these schools — the answer will be different!
These trends make sense to me due to the significantly different missions of these institutions. Here is a snapshot of each type:
University of North Carolina at Asheville (public liberal arts school)

If you’re thinking about how to identify master’s level universities, they are identified as regional universities in U.S. News’ college positions.

At research universities, it’s the graduate students primarily stuck with dealing with undergrads. At Harvard, for instance, almost 1,200 of the teachers are graduate students. And as a fact, how much access is a student going to get to professors when there might be hundreds attending their assignments.
University of Dayton
It was almost impossible finding state schools with decent scores. The ones I found were all located in Virginia! A special shout from the College of William and Mary!!!

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Published at Mon, 14 Aug 2017 18:40:37 +0000
Research universities
Mount Holyoke College
Earlham College