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West Valley College Western Piedmont Community College Visit the link above to view the final ranking order, find top schools by state, and see additional schools outside the top 50. "In rankings on other sites, students typically see only the largest community colleges. We believe we take a smarter and more comprehensive approach," says Dr. Jed Macosko, academic director of AcademicInfluence.com and professor of physics at Wake Forest University. "We look at how influential the school's faculty is and then factor in the student body size. We call this metric 'Concentrated Influence.' Thos...

Yeshiva University Visit the link above to view the final ranking order, find top schools by state, and see additional schools outside the top 50. "A tighter-knit college community, personalized studies, better student-to-faculty ratios, and greater access to professors and staff—these are just a few of the advantages of a smaller school," adds Macosko. "Students looking for colleges and universities that offer those elements, along with superior scholarship and influential academics, will find them in our ranking." Founded in October 2016, with funding assistance from the Defense Advanced...

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/PRNewswire/ -- Prospective college students face a tough decision: choose to attend a private college or a public one. The advantages of private colleges and...

We measured the influence of these books using ranking analysis powered by machine learning and collected from a comprehensive online data repository. Each book was assigned an objective measure of influence within its subfield based on the number of references it has received in both the academic literature and the popular media. The result is a more unbiased, manipulation-resistant, and usable ranking. "We've moved beyond impact conjecture to a more objective, data-driven view of books that are changing the world," says Dr. Jed Macosko, academic director of AcademicInfluence.com and profess...