(Photo: Stuart Seeger)Coming in at #1, it’s (of course) Texas A&M University. That makes perfect sense, for the soul is naturally Aggie.The Daily Beast used statistics from the National Center for Educational S...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/02/The-20-Happiest-Colleges-in-America/Peter Jacobs of Business Insider rounded up some of the strangest essay questions that colleges have asked applicants to write about. Here are a couple of oddies from the list:University of Chicago:Have you ever walked t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/07/17/The-15-Most-Ridiculous-College-Application-Essay-Questions/State governments have a lot of people on the payr... ...ucational system, from elementary school to state universities . Deadspin looked at the records and determined th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/10/Your-States-Highest-Paid-Employee/Dr. Peter Fröhlich of Johns Hopkins University grades exams so that the highest scoring exam receives a 100% grade and all others fall below on a curve. It wasn't a Kobayashi Maru scenario, but his exams are hard. F...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/19/Clever-Students-Use-Game-Theory-to-Get-Perfect-Scores-on-an-Exam/That combination dairy science/dance degree didn't actually help you when interviewing in either field. Grant Snider of Incidental Comics notes some other poor choices.Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/03/Double-Majors/Tyler Cowen is a professor of economics at George Mason University and general Renaissance man (seriously, read his blog--he's interested in everything). Alex Tabarrok, also a professor at GMU, shares this fascinating st...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/21/Write-Your-Own-Final-Exam/Junior, an agency in Australia, made a brochure for a criminology course at Griffith University that goes way beyond a trifold flyer. It's like an ad for CSI! Link via Super Punch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/28/brochure-for-a-university-criminology-course/The University of Florida is now offering a three-credit course on the computer game StarCraft in its graduate school on business management. The doctoral student behind the idea says that the game teaches players how t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/29/university-now-offering-course-on-starcraft/University libraries are sometimes the beneficiary of someone's collect works, or collected obsessions. After all, when a relative doesn't have use for 400-year-old glass eyeballs, wouldn't the local college take them? M...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/03/12/11-extra-special-collections-in-university-libraries/Everyone is familiar with the fact that grades in... ...ith the fact that grades in American colleges and universities are prone to "inflation" over time, but the data... ...at contemporary grades from over 160 colleges and universities in the United States with a combined enrollment o... ...are links to the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/03/12/70-years-of-collegiate-grade-inflation/
