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If you’re looking to go to a school for political science, you are probably looking to go to the best. Unlike most other majors, a political science degree usually either leads to grad school or a career in government or law. Because of this, it is especially important to come out of a top program.

College Crunch has just unveiled it’s rankings list for the best political science programs. We’ve included the top 5.

1. Harvard University
2. University of California Berkeley
3. Yale University
4. University of Michigan
5. Stanford University

See the rest of College Crunch’s list of Top 15 Colleges for Political Science Majors In 2009

College Crunch has released it’s annual list of the best online colleges. If you are considering an online education, you should definitely check this list out. It’s the best list we’ve seen online.

Here are there top 3 online colleges of 2009:

1. Devry University
2. University of Phoenix
3. Capella University

To see the rest of the rankings, click here.

In this post we asked Are College Rankings Reliable? and while people disagree on the answer to that question, there is no disputing that college students find such rankings reliable. Sure, the difference between and 1-10 might be indiscernible in actuality and thus the choice might be better left to some campus visits. Nonetheless, the schools in 1-10 are going to be great schools.

Anyway, we say this only because we like rankings. We think rankings cause colleges to strive for excellence. And while rankings aren’t perfect, they are useful. They serve a purpose.

UCSD’s Guardian newspaper makes the argument the most of the college rankings systems aren’t thorough enough and they often skimp on being scientific about their metrics.

As it can seem unnecessarily expensive and exhaustive to visit college campuses or do in-depth research outside of pamphlets and Web sites, rankings systems such as U.S. News and World Report’s annual “America’s Best Colleges” carry dangerous weight. But any prospective college kid — not to mention the general public — should take care to evaluate a publication’s methodology before letting those rankings affect their own opinion.

Notice that last sentence. How many students are really going to evaluate a publications methodology? Instead of doing that, we propose that there should be a watchdog group that independently evaluates the ranking systems for quality. That way students will know which publications to trust.

From: Top-College Rankings Oversimplify Research

When looking for a college or university to go to in order to receive your business degree, it is always nice to have some resources that rank the top schools.   We went around the net collecting many different lists of the best business schools to help you make your decision.

Forbes: The Best Business Schools

Business Week:  Best Bang For Your Buck

College Crunch:  Top Business School Rankings

Yahoo:  The Best Business Schools of 2008

BSJ:  The Top 10 Business Schools

If you ask any random person what the best colleges in the United States are and they will probably start with the typical premier Ivy League schools like Harvard, Yale and Princeton.  Once they are done with those schools, they will move on to other prestigious schools like Stanford and MIT.

The perception of prestige is rooted deep within our culture.  Ask any early teen kid where he wants to go to college and he’s likely to name one of the few with high prestige.

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