dbackjon said:indian-outlaw said:It's one variable in judgeing. I would think job placement, salary, research dollars and national scholorships not sure what else. But we are a liberal arts school so we don't do well in any of those categories. Even eastern Washington has an engineering program that places students with pretty good jobs. Journalism and forestry have kind of fallen out of favor for the time being. We are not on par with the PAC 12 schools or mountain west.EverettGriz said:I'm still confused why anyone gives a f*** what the enrollment is when considering peer institutions.
Endowment is an another measuring stick. NAU, Montana and Idaho are the only Big Sky schools with endowments greater than $175M, with Idaho the highest in the 230's and Montana and NAU at 190 and 180.
MSU and WSU are in the low 110's, the rest below $100M (and most well below, EWU is at 18M)
Research: MSU, Idaho and Montana lead the way, Portland State and NAU next tier, ISU well back, and UNC/EWU/Weber/SUU far, far back.
Of course UC-Davis is top tier nationally.
Montana, Idaho, Montana State and NAU are the top academic schools, pretty big gap between those four and the rest of the conference.
Cal Poly and Davis are the top academic schools. Don't think it's even close.