Best Universities: RateMyProfessors.com List

According to RateMyProfessors.com's analysis of professor and college rankings, Brigham Young University is the best place to go to college in the country.

BYU is followed by Florida State University and the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

To compile their list, the ranking site averaged each school's professor ratings with its campus ratings. Only schools with at least 30 reviews in each category were considered.

RateMyProfessors.com also ranked the best junior colleges according to the same criteria. That list was topped by Fullerton College, Santa Rosa Junior College and Valencia Community College.

Below, check out the top twelve of the universities that ranked.

RateMyProfessors.com has the full list, plus more on methodology.

Did your school make the cut? Let us know in the comments section.

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[Ted Tillery]

08:15 AM on 06/22/2011

Wow! Wabash College consistently wins this category on the Forbes Best Colleges list. A large percentage of profs there matriculated Ivy League. Wonder why it was neglected here? Perhaps because it's a small, private college?

[benji85]

09:55 PM on 05/14/2011

Are you absolutely sure we can be using the rating from ratemyprofessor? I mean I went to a school where there were a handful of professors intentionally rating themselves high, under fake accounts.

[75thRanger]

02:32 PM on 05/12/2011

I'm sure I would rate my professors high if I attended UGA and the toughest classes offered were Playdough 102 and LEGO'S 301.

Suck it UGA!

[J GRAYBOSCH]

05:45 PM on 05/10/2011

I'd rather go to a school that is highly thought of by employers than one where the students like their teachers a lot.

[ivanalkilovic]

12:50 PM on 05/09/2011

Hmm, a lot of party schools on this list...no wonder their "ratings" are so high.

[jtabs]

10:57 AM on 05/09/2011

If you only attend one school how can you rate your professors against others who you have never met?

[SilentSolidarity]

10:14 PM on 05/01/2011

College education is a service. A very expensive one. It only makes sense that you can compare professors so that you get the best education your money can buy. The whole rating is based on how students rate their professors. those ratings solely depend on how many students participate and WHAT kind of students participate. -------------- If  US News and friends are like reviews, RateMyProfessor is more equivalent to consumer ratings.

[Moravecglobal]

10:16 PM on 04/28/2011

Here is a rate the campus chancellor's leadership for $50,000 out of state and foreign student tuition University of California Berkeley. (The author who has 35 years’ consulting experience, has taught at University of California Berkeley, where he was able to observe the culture & the way senior management work). Chancellor’s gross over spending, inept decisions: recruits (using California tax $) out of state $50,000 tuition students that displace qualified Californians; spends $7,000,000 for consultants to do his & many vice chancellors jobs (prominent East Coast university accomplishing same at 0 cost); pays ex Michigan governor $300,000 for lectures; Latino enrollment drops while out of state jumps 2010; tuition to Return on Investment (ROI) drops below top 10; NCAA places basketball program on probation.

Faculty & staff raised issues with Birgeneau & Breslauer ($400,000 salary), but when they failed to see relevant action taken, they stopped. Finally, Birgeneau engaged some expensive ($7,000,000) consultants to tell him & the Provost what they should have known as leaders or been able to find out from the bright, engaged people. (Prominent east-coast University accomplishing same at 0 costs)

Cal. and Californians have been badly damaged by Chancellor Birgeneau. Good people are loosing their jobs. Cal’s leadership is either incompetent or culpable. Merely cutting out inefficiencies does not have the effect desired. But you never want a crisis to go to waste.

Increasing Cal’s budget is not enough; we believe the best course of action for University of California is to honorably retire Cal

[ABACADABRA RABBIT]

03:52 AM on 05/09/2011

Retire UC Berkeley? Are you serious!?

[Matthew Behunin]

02:29 PM on 04/28/2011

Woo! BYU times 2. Go Cougars!

[palindrom]

09:55 PM on 04/26/2011

At my school, RateMyProfessor is considered to be a complete joke --- almost no one uses it. I've looked on it -- I've taught something like 1000 undergrads over the last decade, and I'm not even rated. Meanwhile, some long-departed TAs are rated as "professors", and other people I've never even heard of (!) are listed as being in my smallish department.

By all other ratings, my school is considered to be among the best in the country for undergraduate education.

My conclusion: ratemyprofessor can be disregarded. It's a joke, at best.

[abbienormal]

12:14 AM on 04/27/2011

It is a joke. Talk about small samples of evidence.

[jackstpaul]

02:01 AM on 04/27/2011

It is a joke, but I don't think having TA's listed is a problem. To the extent that they are instructors--as TA's teaching sections or teaching their own courses--they are "teachers." Since they're short-term, I don't think including their ratings is helpful for evaluating at the school level, but at the "teacher" level, that sort of info could be meaningful for undergrads. I know I would have made use of ratings like those--were there many more ratings made--in picking which section to enroll in, and I know the undergrads I knew when I was a TA tried to select which sections they signed-up for based on what they'd heard about available TAs.

[JustAWiseCrackingGuy]

09:48 PM on 04/26/2011

Summarizing the methodology as explained in the links shared above, professor quality (apparently based solely on clarity and helpfulness, see below) and student reviews of campuses (as in the quality of facilities, social life, etc.) are factored equally in determining ranking.

One thing that bothers me is that while it states that rankings for clarity and helpfulness are the only rankings considered, they also go into some detail on how 'hotness' rankings are awarded, so I'm left confused as to whether or not they're actually factored into the score.

[JustAWiseCrackingGuy]

09:42 PM on 04/26/2011

As a current Northeastern student, I can't say I'm upset with its inclusion on this list. However, I'm going to look into the ranking methodology that was used in this lists creation. I'm going to guess that its emphasis is somewhat skewed, and hardly a fair 'overall' (whatever that means) picture, but it certainly reflects well on certain aspects of this group of institutions (now to figure out what those aspects are).

[Leonid]

07:06 PM on 04/26/2011

You can't be serious! A few years ago Brigham Young University hosted a traveling exhibit of the works of Auguste Rodin, one of history's greatest sculptors.But the administration actually censored a number of his works, feeling they were too risque or subversive to be viewed by young viewers and the surrounding LDS community. Could this actually be the best, or even one of the best schools in the country????

[Matthew Behunin]

02:39 PM on 04/28/2011

We're serious Leonid. Top accounting, Jimmer, business & law programs. PR is in the top 5. 3D animation wins "Student Emmys regularly, it's one of the least expensive private educations in the country, the ballroom dance team wins international competitions and Jimmer. The list goes on and on. . .Go BYU!

[OneFish]

03:04 PM on 04/29/2011

I would never send my kids there because of the religious baggage. The religious affiliation implies a certain narrowness but I'm sure they have some smart people there.

[paulwl]

01:47 PM on 04/26/2011

Two from Florida and two from Utah? You people are liars!

[bswell]

04:37 PM on 04/26/2011

Obviously, with the exception of Wisconsin, they were ranked by weather.

[GraphicMatt]

09:56 AM on 04/28/2011

I sort of figured that BYU Idaho was in......Idaho?

[sekim06]

01:45 PM on 04/26/2011

what a moronic ranking list and methodology.
with the exception of Berkeley and a couple other schools, all the schools on this list are sub-par. i mean come on... BYU and Florida? what a joke.