Guide ranks Harvard No.1 snob
By United Press International
A new guide to college tells all the usual things, and then rates the schools according to snob appeal and social achievement. It also blazes about teachers' salaries.
Thursday, September 21, 1978
The social prestige or snob appeal is based on the number of social register type of people who studied at a college. The social achievement? It's figured on the number of graduates who made it to "Who's Who."
When it comes out at the end of the month, the "Hawes Comprehensive Guide to Colleges" New American Library will cause readers to go back. In New Haven, Cem., and Princeton, N.J.
The three towns are the homes of Harvard, Yale and Princeton, for centuries
Harvard comes in No. 1 in snob appeal, having the top count on links to the social register. Yale is second and Princeton, third.
The ranking is the same on social achievement.
FOLLOWING PRINCETON in the "top social prestige" category are the University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, University of Alabama, University of California at Berkeley, and Stanford University.
And in the top social achievement category, after Princeton are listed Columbia University, University of Michigan, University of California at Berkeley, Northwestern University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and University of Minnesota of Minneapolis-St. Paul.
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Also in the listing are: University of Wichita and Indiana University Davis campus College College Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, University and University of Texas at Austin
After that, in descending order, the big salaries include: California Institute of Technology, $2,700; City University of New York—City College, $2,800; University of Alaska, $2,100; University of Alaska, Anchorage, $2,140; Cali Zone Cane College, Canal Zone $2,800.
The rankings in mean salaries list puts in the No. 1 spot the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, $27,800. Harvard is second with $27,200.
YALE COMES in at $20,000 and Princeton,
$19,800.
"Most often veiled behind the question is another: 'How does college X rate in social
Hawes, who has been compiling guides to schools for 25 years, said he's put in all his new information to help prospective teachers answer the question: How good is college X?
"THEY WHY he went to "Who's Who in America," 1978-77, Thirty-ninth Edition, for information on schools attended by the 70,000 listed in "Social Register."
However, in America, he said, many persons attain high social position on the strength of their own abilities, without being born into social register status.
information about individuals of power,
influence and accomplishment," he said.
"This has long been recognized as the country's foremost source of biographical
Faculty salaries also are something to consider when selecting a college, as Hawes
"As a general rule, the higher the pay, the better qualified the employee," he said.
"A college with professors who are better qualified than those of another college is also likely to be a college of better academic quality."
Hawes said people who are shopping around for colleges can get more information on salaries from the Salary Report, American Association of University Professors Circle, Washington, D.C. 20038. The report, which costs $2.50, details fringe benefits.
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