Hey my recent post about my written comprehensive exams gave me another idea for a post.
How does your A-SUN school's academics rank? Like what are it's strengths and weaknesses?
I know I pissed all over Stetson's MBA program but the school has an excellent reputation for demanding a lot from their undergraduates. I know one of their bright spots is their music program and law school.
Care to share what seperates your school from the rest of the pack?
Booyah!
Royce
In the 2006 US News and World Report rankings of colleges, we were ranked for the 16th consecutive year. We are ranked #9 in the South among "Best Universities – Master's," (schools that don't offer many doctoral programs, but a full range of undergrad and masters programs) and #6 in the South for "Great Schools, Great Prices."
Mercer is the only school of our size to offer as many programs as we do. We have 10 colleges/schools:
College of Liberal Arts
Walter F. George School of Law
Southern School of Pharmacy
School of Medicine
Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics
School of Enginnering
James & Carolyn McAfee School of Theology
Tift College of Education
Georgia Baptist College of Nursing
College of Continuing and Professional Studies
We are the 2nd largest Baptist affiliated college in the world (after Baylor). As for the Princeton Review rankings, Mercer came in:
#2 - "Election, What Election?"
#5 - "Most Beautiful Campus"
#15 - "Students Most Nostalgic for Reagan"
BELMOT Leads the Way.
I believe that Belmont has won 4 consecutive Academic A-Sun awards with the best GPA in the conference. The baseball team had 22 of 30 some players named Academic All A-Sun Conference and the volley ball team was in the top 5 in three in the nation.
Wow, I'm really impressed. I had no idea Mercer had a med and pharmacy school. I was campus once and it did look really nice.
Well good to have Mercer in the league.
All that means is belmont's athletes are smart. and much kudos to you for that. i think they were talking about the reputation of the school. i give your coaches much credit for recruiting kids that are unbelievably smart while still winning.
I'm sure others can add more but ETSU is heavy in the healthcare professions. Doctorates in the following:
1. Nursing
2. Physical Therapy
3. Biomedical Science (heavy in pharm research)
4. Pharmacy
5. Medicine
6. Audiology
7. Public Health (coming).
The second largest doctoral program on campus (after Medicine) with approximately 200 students is Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis with emphasis in either Post-Secondary and Private Sector Leadership, Classroom Leadership, Administrative Endorsement, and School Leadership.
ETSU offers 4 additional terminal degrees, MSW (advanced standing), MSW (traditional entrance) and MFA (studio art), MFA (fine arts).
ETSU ranks SECOND in Tennessee's public schools in grant funded research.
The ETSU Med School (James H. Quillen College of Medicine) ranks 3rd in the nation in rural and community health.
I think it is still true that more ETSU Public Health graduates work at CDC and NIH than any other university in the nation.
The College of Business is AACSB accredited (fewer than 15% of the business schools in the world are AACSB accredited and the last figures I saw were that approximately 20% of US schools were AACSB accredited.)
Campbell is probably best known for its law school. Of the law schools in N.C. (Campbell, Duke, UNC, Wake Forest, NCCU), CU has had the top bar exam passage rate 10 of the last 15 years and the 2nd highest rate 4 of the remaining 5 years. Campbell finished second behind Wake this year by 2 % pts.
CU also has schools of pharmacy, divinity, business, and education.
Campbell is N.C.'s 2nd largest private university behind Duke. Like Mercer, CU claims to the the world's 2nd largest Baptist university behind Baylor with the Buies Creek campus with 6,982 and all campuses combined with 10,471. I find both numbers to be hard to believe!
I don't think there's any bad schools in the A-Sun, and Mercer's already been taken care of in this thread so I'll leave it at that.