12 Colleges With The Best Professors

Ever wondered how your professors would measure up in a national ranking? CBS Money Watch has the answer with their tally of the 25 colleges with the best professors.

This year, Oklahoma Wesleyan nabbed the No. 1 spot, with the United States Military Academy coming in second. Of the top twelve, five have religious affiliations and two are single-sex institutions.

To compile the list CBS relied on data from the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, which used information from Rate My Professors. The rating site is the most comprehensive online source of student feedback on instructors, with millions of professor reviews.

Below, check out the twelve colleges that topped the list. CBS has all 25.

Did your school make the cut? Should it have? Let us know what you think in the comments section.

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[AcademicFreedom]

04:25 PM on 02/03/2011

I thought UIC had the best university professors - Willie Ayers tipping the scale so dramatically that others just could not compete.

[bruinlover09]

12:36 AM on 12/21/2010

One of the my best professor was E. Victor Wolfenstein who recently passed. I am glad that I ignored Rate my professor. I learned a lot about life, myself, and political science in his class.

[martiniandabotoxchaser]

09:51 AM on 12/14/2010

Rate My Professor is a joke.

[Demarcus Jackson]

01:28 AM on 12/12/2010

What?! RateMyProfessors.com, seriously?

[Mitch Kachun]

09:27 AM on 12/10/2010

This is one of the most ridiculous "news" stories I have seen in the "college" section of Huffpost. I mean, really, treating RateMyProfessor as the sole assessment tool? RMP is almost completely worthless as an indicator of effective teaching.

[Social Shrink]

06:13 PM on 12/08/2010

I love my professor! He gave me an A without having to go to class or do any work!

www.thesocialshrink.blogspot.com

[katmeyster]

01:55 PM on 12/07/2010

If my rating is too high as a professor, I know I'm doing something wrong. I want to be known as tough, as requiring a lot of work, and that a grade of A from me means you did excellent work -- not that you showed up and did the most minimal level of work you could muster.

Students are not less intelligent these days, they just don't have much training in high school to learn analytical skills nor do they come from a culture of working hard for a grade. But if they are required to work harder in order to pass the class (or get an A if that is what they want), they will. It does no good for professors to lower their standards as most students will quickly find that level and meet it. Students are very clever in knowing the exact minimum level of work that is required of them.

Given all that, I always get a few cards or e-mails at the end of the semester thanking me for making them actually read the book, for making them understand the importance of being educated and aware of the world, and for making them work hard.

Many students do appreciate a good education. But that will usually not be reflected in Internet ratings -- they are not the type of student that will go out of their way to rate a professor -- they're too busy studying.

[Flyingfro]

06:47 PM on 12/18/2010

As a high school student, I disagree with your general statement about the work ethic of high school students. I spend 5 hours on homework alone, and I am considered to be better at time management than my peers.

[bruinlover09]

12:41 AM on 12/21/2010

You are the exception to the rule. Teaching Assistants at my university are spending a lot of time, teaching freshman things that they should have learned in high school.
Rate my Professor is for students who want the degree without the hard work or thinking required.

[MsMassachusetts]

11:25 AM on 12/07/2010

Who on this site has the job of coming up with these lists? I'm beginning to think THAT person is a high school drop out.

[Crash Barbosa]

11:35 AM on 12/07/2010

Typical radical left wing Massachusetts pretentiousness right there. That's why I only visit Boston when it's absolutely necessary for business.

[TrotskyMemo]

12:50 PM on 12/07/2010

I don't even like the Red Sox.

[MsMassachusetts]

01:39 PM on 12/07/2010

And on behalf of everyone in Massachusetts I thank you for that.

[GunnisonVern]

12:03 PM on 12/07/2010

The United States Millitary Acadamy has a 100% placement rate.

[JeDR]

11:03 AM on 12/07/2010

I don't know who the guy in the photo is, but Marlboro College had some fantastic professors while I was there.

[MBLynch]

11:30 AM on 12/07/2010

His name is Amer Latif, he's in charge of the Religion Department. And for all the haters, you can be a nice, likeable person and a difficult teacher. Amer is a prime example, as I would say most Marlboro profs are.

[soodoenim]

08:26 PM on 12/23/2010

"In charge of the Religion Department." C'mon Lynch, don't you mean, 'He is the Religion Department.'

There's a big difference between being 'tough' on your students, and challenging them. Any schmuck with a PHD can put together a syllabus and assign an insane amount of reading , but it takes inspired teaching to really challenge students, and to help them grow and, dare I say, learn? Sure, it's pretty expensive to go to Marlboro, but if you can make it work, and if you can manage to graduate, you'll leave school with more than a piece of paper; you'll actually have an education.

[tonewheel]

10:50 AM on 12/07/2010

The results are skewed. Most of these kids misread the poll as DATE My Professor, and responded accordingly. Interesting way to view the results, with that in mind. :)

[Ravi Abunijad]

09:21 PM on 12/07/2010

Eek. And most of them are religious institutions, too! Uh-oh. Maybe you're onto something?

I'd actually have more respect for the "study" if it didn't admit to getting its information from ratemyprofessor.com. That isn't a study. That's a review of a third-party website where you can make up professors, rate them, and then get 5 of your friends to do the same thing so that it thinks there is actually a person named Dr. Seymour Butts.

[Arthur L]

10:30 AM on 12/07/2010

Not to be confused with Drank - University of the Dirty South

[tortillaj]

10:03 AM on 12/07/2010

lulz

[Jeff Gunn]

09:52 AM on 12/07/2010

For fun I went to most of these schools websites and searched; atheist, agnostic, free thinker. Apparently, skepticism is not welcome at many of these 'Christian' liberal arts schools. Which is interesting, because recent studies have found that professors(Ph'd) are most likely to be free thinkers. The Huff post rankings seem to be more in line with reality.

[logicallylogical]

01:22 PM on 12/07/2010

If you don't think like me what you are saying isn't real!!!!!

you need to get more in line with reality.

the reality that noone care what you have to say. You are honestly complaining because some opinion poll done somewhere had 5 religious colleges on it. pshhhhh get a life

[ColeMikeL]

08:21 PM on 12/07/2010

As an atheist that has attended Oklahoma Wesleyan University for the last 4 years I have to say that they may not seem open minded but I have yet to have a professor or fellow student that hasn't completely respected me. There are several professors that have even sought my opinion on some subjects to allow the students to get different perspectives.

[RJB Boston]

09:35 AM on 12/07/2010

these lists are becoming increasingly more bizarre

[PTAOfficerforObama]

09:32 AM on 12/07/2010

Rate my Professor is a bit of a joke. For one thing, one of the critera is "hotness". I got my 2nd BA as an adult learner and discovered that a lot of today's students take it out on profs that *gasp* make them read and do work.

[logicallylogical]

01:23 PM on 12/07/2010

the site barely even works. trying to use it yester to pick out a law professor, took about 30 min to get done with searching through 3.

[Ravi Abunijad]

09:23 PM on 12/07/2010

My buddy and I are grad students/TAs. We added ourselves as professors, and we're currently getting hot ratings. I like this. In other words, I think "bit of a joke" is putting it lightly.