Haha. See, Phil Knight (UO) can't buy professors because that would be another possible NCAA violation ! I'm glad Oregon State didn't make this list!
I'm open to stuff like this, but having trouble understanding how they arrived at the list. What measurement was used? Is it a standardized ranking? It seems arbitrary. No question, there are bad professors at Oregon. There are bad professors everywhere. But, there are also excellent ones. But, it's difficult to be open minded with for-profit companies publish a list like this with limited data.
Sorry, there are too many areas to list where UO scores in the top 20 in specific (not arbitrary) education fields in the entire nation. Here are just a few: Oregon Educational Research Faculty Still Nation’s Top According to U.S. News & World Report's annual survey of top graduate schools, the University of Oregon College of Education faculty again leads the nation's education researchers in productivity as measured by research award expenditures per tenured faculty member, topping all 50 ranked graduate schools of education in the country with $804,300 earned per faculty member. The college also boasts a number three ranking among public graduate programs of education for 2011–12 and is ranked eighth among all schools of education based at either public or private universities. This is the fourth year running for the college in the top ten premiere graduate schools of education. “The numbers are indicative of something yet more impressive in terms of consistent productivity,” said Michael Bullis, dean of the college. “What’s remarkable is the number of entities we help to do important community and educational service every day, each year: All 50 states, 10 federal jurisdictions, 18 countries world-wide, 14,000 schools, every school district in Oregon, and every Head Start agency nationally use the research or outreach technical assistance of UO College of Education faculty," said Bullis. At just slightly less than a million dollars per faculty member in the applied measure for annual use of external awards designated for educational research and related activities, UO education faculty research activity as of January 2011 represented 125 externally funded grants and contracts with federal, state, and local agencies, with a lifetime value of $140 million, contributing funding streams to public and private education and human services agencies at the federal, state and local levels. In 10 of the last 11 years, the COE has been awarded over $20 million a year in external funding, including 8 years in which awards totaled between $25 million and $35 million annually. U.S. Top Ten* Public and Private Graduate Schools of Education Nationwide 1. Vanderbilt University (Peabody) (TN) 2. Harvard University (MA) 2. University of Texas–Austin 4. Stanford University (CA) 4. Teachers College, Columbia University (NY) 6. University of California–Los Angeles* 7. Northwestern University (IL) 8. University of Oregon* 9. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor 9. University of Washington 9. University of Wisconsin–Madison 12. University of California–Berkeley (* Tied results for three positions alter the "top ten" designation) A Summary of Current Rankings: Compared with other graduate schools of education in the nation, the UO College of Education is ranked: • #1 overall for faculty productivity in funded research per faculty member in the top 50 schools surveyed • #3 public graduate school of education nationally • #3 in the nation for its special education program for 12 years in a row • #8 nationally among all graduate education programs • The only top-tier ranked college of education in Oregon and the best in the Northwest NRC rankings place UO Economics doctoral program first The most recent rankings by the National Research Council place the University of Oregon’s doctoral program in economics first among all 117 Economics doctoral programs in placing Ph.D. graduates in tenure-related university careers. The UO ranking comes despite a traditional dominance of economics doctoral programs at private universities such as Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Chicago, Yale, and Stanford. UO architecture and interior architecture programs score high in national ranking EUGENE, Ore. -- (Jan. 20, 2011) - The University of Oregon's architecture program stayed atop the national rankings for sustainable design education and its interior architecture program reached the top - also for sustainable design education - in the latest ranking of the nation's architecture schools. A special edition of the journal DesignIntelligence placed both the UO's department of architecture and its interior architecture program among the top tier of at least 150 programs nationwide for their commitment to sustainable design education. It also cited Frances Bronet, dean of the UO's School of Architecture and Allied Arts, as one of the nation's most admired educators in 2011. http://www.uoregon.edu/search/googl...719ad1a8226&form_id=google_cse_searchbox_form
Sorry Targus, but you're talking about Grad school. Something that 99% of the students there will never see.
Ok, but the ranking wasn't specific to undergrad professors - I think?? It's so vague. I know this is some good ribbing, but you can do better than this! There's several great articles on the link I sent you proving UO as a respectable and excellent university. All time high enrollment and higher avg GPA and SAT scores than OSU. Let's talk football!
