Ole Miss makes Money's top 500 list

[DudyDog]

in their best value for your tuition dollar. They listed 736 universities. Meanwhile Miss. State came in behind schools such as Tenn. Tech and Mount Holyoke College.


https://best-colleges.time.com/money/full-ranking#/list

Started to not put this sentence in, but before clicking link turn sarcasm meters to the on position.

 

[thatsbaseball]

For those that don`t want to look at the whole damn list like I just did we`re 216. Which is pretty damn good.

 

[00Dawg]

#Flagship.

 

[DudyDog]

I linked this and made the comments I did to emphasize the fact that we need to be tooting our own horn when things like this come out. This is why Ole Miss and Oxford are perceived to be the way they are outside the state of Miss.

Every time a publication put Oxford in a "top 100" list, which couldn't be measured like one such as this and was only an opinion piece, they shouted it from the rooftops. After looking at an existing "list", the next scribe who decided to make his own "list", used some of the same information he had seen elsewhere to make his. Next thing you know Oxford is the mecca of the universe!

Unfortunately this has spilled over to the sports world as well, as we have seen "list after list" this off-season ranking everything from who has the best QB to who has the largest troughs in their stadium bathrooms.

I remember someone asking why does everyone perceive that Ole Miss is going to be so good this year. It's simple...they continuously told everyone they were and the lazy sports writers ran with it. We need to do the same.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

Great. Now we're going to have to hear every year how we were barely beaten by Valpo.

 

[coach66]

You are correct sir, they bury us when it comes to self promotion. They are

over the top but we are too conservative.

 

[archdog]

Great. Now we're going to have to hear every year how we were barely beaten by Valpo.

I believe my entire degree cost somewhere around 55k total cost including room and board and an additional year in 2006. Too bad for today's students.

 

[randystewart]

As someone who works with several companies who do this sort of thing, let me clue you all into a little secret. Almost any award, top whatever list, fastest growing, best places to live, best places to work list, etc... that you see online or in print is a paid spot. It is sickening but the way things are now days. Different tiers of the list have different price points.
You'd all live much less stressful lives if you acknowledge that reality of the day and move forward.

Now, the list in question may be a little different since they put some actual quantifiable metrics in it, but I assure you there is some paid placement in there because they left themselves the unquantifiable out of "Special Value Measure"

 

[was21]

Since Mississippi is always dead last in every list we must not be paying much

 

[CochiseCowbell]

over the top but we are too conservative.

"Yeah, I kinda think of them more along the lines of that kid back in high school that wants so desperately to have a seat at the cool kids table, but rather than spending his time on things like trying to make friends or god forbid... actually talking to a girl, he focuses all his energy on buying the latest pair of name brand jeans and making sure that everyone knows that he too was at all the hottest parties last weekend. In his eyes, as long as he looks the part and can stay just close enough to the cool guys so that he can trick people into thinking that he's associated with them, then by his standards... he too will be cool

That, my friends, is the Ole Miss fanbase in a nutshell" -Seinfeld just yesterday.

 

[Sutterkane]

I can certainly vouch for this. Nashville's work market for example. One company up here was recently listed as a top workplace by a newspaper. Being in IT, it's well known by many that it's basically an IT sweat shop. Whenever you ask someone in Nashville about places they shouldn't work, that company comes up first in everyone's list or at least a top 3.

Another organization is listed on another site as a best place to work by average review rating, and many ex employees have written that they purposely pad the reviews on that specific site so they can get pub as a good place to work, when in reality the expectations are ridiculous and they pay sucks.

If you want to know what the best places to work for are, go talk to headhunters and ask them who their best clients are, and then avoid those places like the plague since it means they have a revolving door there.