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[CajunFun]

…..We must be proactive in keeping our rankings by trying to add the different qualifying numbers each year……also Doc Fun might know some other ranking agencies for UL to be represented in yearly….US News?

USN&WR is somewhat of a joke... some schools have stopped sending them info. Remember, La Tech gamed the system by just getting a lot of alums to give $1 each. And they keep watering down the rankings. I think they're trying to keep the big schools happy.

There's a lot of evidence that the big schools put forth effort to hide any real comparisons that might show them to be underproductive.

One example: a couple of decades back, a UL administrator told me that for every available comparison of performance on exit exams -- GRE, LSAT, MCAT, nursing, architecture, etc. -- UL led the state, surpassing even LSU & Tulane.

I'm guessing the same situation was happening in a number of other states, because within a very few years those comparisons were no longer available. In fact, the testing companies began asking universities not to publish their performance and pass rates.

The same is true with the NSF research numbers. About 3 years ago, the NSF stopped publishing the number of researchers on a campus. When that data is included, the 'inferior' schools like UL can be shown to surpass the supposedly 'superior' schools.

[R1Letterman]

Great points! Thanks again.
Also on tests, USL had a long run of 100% pass rate for CPA exam in the 1990s

[Boomer]

Great points! Thanks again.
Also on tests, USL had a long run of 100% pass rate for CPA exam in the 1990s

...only one student took it a year and he was the top GPA grad…..KIDDING!!!……but you know Doc Fun and his stats!

[CajunVic]

And probably also in the 80’s . . . One year in the early 80’s we had the highest grade on the CPA exam come from a Louisiana accounting grad . . .

[R1Letterman]

Thought so but wasn't sure. Thanks for confirming.
Looking back it is hard to believe that any of that was possible without NIL

[CajunEXPRESS]

And probably also in the 80’s . . . One year in the early 80’s we had the highest grade on the CPA exam come from a Louisiana accounting grad . . .

Baton Rouge says we can’t have that sort of thing and claim superiority. Let’s just kill the stats until LSUA&M is the leader in a category.

[CajunVic]

Louisiana’s accounting department has always been pretty good no matter what Baton Rouge says . . .

[CajunEXPRESS]

Louisiana’s accounting department has always been pretty good no matter what Baton Rouge says . . .

Baton Rouge just says no ranking until LSUA&M is first

[ZoomZoom]

Baton Rouge just says no ranking until LSUA&M is first

Does UL participate in this?

https://www.pwc.com/us/en/careers/en...challenge.html

TSAB uses this, or least use to, for recruiting accounting students.

[R1Letterman]

I remember an accounting student at USL that totally flunked out the. Went to TSAB accounting and got a 4.p, not sure of he was recruited though