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Wednesday, November 09, 2005

How the Globe ranked UW

From the Waterloo Website:

How the Globe ranked UWWaterloo has an A-plus academic reputation, and lots of high marks on other criteria, according to the "University Report Card" published this week by the Globe and Mail.
The grades are based on comments by students who are "members of the studentawards.com database", the Globe said. Students gave rankings to their own universities for technology, food, community spirit and other topics. The paper said 26,000 students nationwide took part in the survey, but didn't say how many were from any one university.
The "Report Card" also included articles elaborating on each major area, with a lead story on "e-classrooms" and texts about online library resources, tuition costs, residences and so on.
UW was ranked with other "medium" universities with an enrolment between 12,500 and 25,000. Here are the marks the Globe gave Waterloo:

Education overall
A
Teaching quality
B+
Class sizes
B+
Faculty-student interaction
B
Faculty availability outside classroom hours
A-
Student residences
B
Off-campus housing availability
B
Off-campus housing affordability
C+
Technology overall
A-
On-line library resources
A-
On-line teaching materials
A-
Classroom technology
B+
Reputation among employers
A+
Academic reputation
A+
Finance
C-
Student services overall
B+
Health services
B+
Food services
C+
Recreation and sports
B+
Atmosphere overall
B+
Extra-curricular activities
B+
Sense of community
B-
Attractiveness of campus
C+
Waterloo scored "top marks" among the universities in 24 of 67 sub-categories, according to an analysis by the marketing and undergraduate and recruitment office.

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