San Antonio's Trinity University is the best college in Texas, according to new rankings from a site called 'College Consensus,' News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.
Editor Jeremy Alder says he mixes rankings from magazines and other sites which study colleges from the outside, along with ranking from students themselves, who are in a position to judge from the classroom and from the dorm room.
"Then together you would have a kind of inside-outside perspective on a college," he told News Radio 1200 WOAI.
Alder compares it to the rankings system used by the movie review site 'Rotten Tomatoes,' which is regularly considered the best gauge of movie quality and frequently predicts Academy Award nominees.
"Some people will give a movie a really high rating, and others will give it a very low rating," he said. "So they combine them all, to get a better sense of the overall accuracy of the movie."
Trinity ranks 49th in the nation in terms of college quality, but tops in Texas.
College Consensus cites the campus' 'vibrant, active, and friendly atmosphere' with more than 220 active clubs for Trinity's 2500 students from 45 states and more than forty foreign countries.
41% of all applicants to Trinity are admitted, according to College Consensus, and 72% of those graduate in four years.
College Consensus also cites Trinity's 8:1 faculty to student ratio.
Rice University in Houston is the second best university in Texas, according to the site, followed by Texas Lutheran University in Seguin, the University of Texas at Austin, and Texas A&M University.
The best university in the country is Harvard, followed by Stanford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Amherst College.
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