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6/11/2008 5:50:12 PM

General Endowment is a big fucking bank account that pretty much just acrues interest. That interest goes toward paying professors, building new facilities, and reinvesting in the endowment.

The Achieve! campaign for State that raised over $1billion is pretty much going to be blown immediately on new facilities. It'd be nice to raise that much, put it in the general endowment, and draw interest on it every year. That seems to be about 50% of what USN&WR uses to "rank" their universities. Another 50% is graduation rate (because graduating sub-par students is better than failing them. or maybe just not letting them in in the first place is better). The last 50% is other peoples' perceptions of the school. The rankings are so fucking retarded. (But a lot of people look at them, so it's a good thing to be at the top.)

There are also plenty of other endowments in the university. Athletics has their own one. Each college has their own one. etc



[Edited on June 11, 2008 at 6:03 PM. Reason : ]

6/11/2008 6:02:35 PM

granted, i'm sure when UNC finishes their new expansion of Kenan stadium it will take a chunk out of that 2 billion

6/11/2008 6:14:50 PM

And the 4th 50% is ability of the students to do basic math

6/11/2008 6:21:11 PM

^ no no there's only three

6/11/2008 6:23:22 PM

6/11/2008 6:23:50 PM

There's always three halves.

^^^^ Chances are that the Kenan expansion isn't taking any money from their general endowment. Nothing at Carter Finley took away from ours. It was all money raised by the Wolfpack Club (and on loan, but the WPC will be the ones to repay it)

[Edited on June 11, 2008 at 6:33 PM. Reason : ]

6/11/2008 6:30:34 PM

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"I'd be suprised to see that there are 63 better universities in the country"

WTF? I am not even American, and I can bet big money that I can name at least half of those 63 right off the bat, and the other half after a couple of hours of recalling/looking at a US map.

Are you that uneducated?

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"what? i never heard of university of chicago"

Jesus dude, are you that stupid/ignnorant???

Who hasn't heard of it? It is literally world famous, right behind Harvard/Stanford/MIT/etc. Yeah, understandably, it doesn't have the name recognition of Harvard et al, but it definitely has like 10x the name recognition of NCSU.

6/11/2008 6:33:14 PM

^ $10

6/11/2008 6:35:59 PM

Start with UC... You can come up with 6 just right there (at least)
Then do all the Ivies
Then the schools that are like Ivies
Then do what's left of the ACC

6/11/2008 6:40:00 PM

I mean I could probably name 30-40 of them at least


And I agree, I have no idea how you didn't know there was a university of chicago. Even if you didn't know it was a great school.

In fact, you can pretty much guarentee that "University of [insert city with over 1,000,000 ppl]" exists and is fairly large.

[Edited on June 11, 2008 at 6:41 PM. Reason : ]

6/11/2008 6:40:55 PM

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"WTF? I am not even American, and I can bet big money "

6/11/2008 6:46:37 PM

This is in response to our school striving for the goal to be a top 5 engineering school. We have a long way to go. I cut the list where we finished as of 2006. Oh, and fuck Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst

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"Best Universities Top Engineering Colleges Ranking by graduateshotline.com 2006 S.No University/College 1 Massachusetts Inst of Technology 2 Stanford University 3 University of California-Berkeley 4 California Institute Technology 5 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 6 Georgia Institute of Technology 7 University of Michigan 8 Cornell University 9 Carnegie Mellon University 10 University of Texas at Austin 11 Purdue University 12 University of California- San Diego 13 University of California- Los Angeles 14 Texas A&M University 15 Princeton University 16 Pennsylvania State University 17 University of Wisconsin-Madison 18 University of Maryland College Park 19 Harvard University 20 University of California-Santa Barbara 21 University of Southern California 22 University of Minnesota 23 Northwestern University 24 Johns Hopkins University 25 Virginia Polytech Inst & State University 26 Ohio State University 27 University of Virginia 28 Columbia University (FU) 29 University of Pennsylvania 30 Duke University 31 Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst 32 North Carolina State University"

On a second note, number 7 in Nuclear Engineering. Oh yeah! Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst is number 12, suck it.

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"Nuclear Engineering School Ranking in USA Home >> University Ranking >> USA >> Nuclear Engineering U.S. News Rank 1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2 University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign 3 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor 4 University of California–Berkeley 5 University of Wisconsin–Madison 6 Penn State University–University Park 7 North Carolina State University 8 Purdue University–West Lafayette (IN) 9 Texas A&M University–College Station 10 University of Florida 11 Georgia Institute of Technology 12 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY) 12 University of Tennesse 14 Ohio State University"

[Edited on June 11, 2008 at 6:56 PM. Reason : sdg]

6/11/2008 6:53:05 PM

speaking of nuclear power

University of Chicago was also the site of the first sustained man-made nuclear reaction

6/11/2008 8:46:31 PM

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"the university wants to be in the top 5 for engineering within 10 years"

rofl good luck with that shit


i'd rank ncsu out of the world prolly like 150 all things considered

6/11/2008 8:51:46 PM

You just entered a world of pain (I'm predicting).

6/11/2008 9:08:57 PM

I didn't really enjoy NCSU

it was "intellectual suicide"

I put that in quotes because I'm quoting a faculty member

6/11/2008 9:09:58 PM