A solid
reputation attracts the best students
and professors--and givesgraduates
an enviable calling card. Maclean's measures
a school's reputationwith
its own graduates through alumni donations.
In addition, editorssolicited
the opinion of 4,697 high-school guidance
counsellors, universityacademics
and chief executive officers across Canada.
Which universities
get top marks for going the distance with
their students?
In this
attempt to find an output measure, consulting
statistician Rose AnneLeonard
juxtaposed two sets of figures. The first
includes measures relatedto
the incoming student: average entering
grade and the percentage of theentering
students with averages of 75 per cent
or higher. The second examinestwo
measures of student achievement: proportion
who graduate and studentawards.
Finally, Leonard identified those schools
with the greatestdifference
between the two figures.
Comprehensive
universities are those with a significant
amount of researchactivity
and a wide range of programs -- including
professional degrees -- atthe
graduate and undergraduate levels.
