May I beg your collective indulgence for a minute and do a little horn-tooting for my alma mater and place of employment for 35 years, the University of Florida? The Wall Street Journal now ranks it as the no. 1 public university in the country.
Write-up:
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/633107-wall-street-journal-ranks-uf-no-1-public-university-in-the-country/Okay, I have to admit that these university rankings, often annual, often by prominent publications (U.S. News and World Report does one, too) are largely subjective, and as much for fun as anything else.
There are so many fine colleges and universities out there, many with nationally noted strengths, that it becomes a questionable undertaking to claim that one of them is so much better than all the others, so much so that it deserves a "number one" ranking.
It's a thing that's more impression than substance, anyway.
But even so, in the case of UF, maybe there is actually a prostate-related reason, believe it or not, and a contributing factor, as to why the Wall Street Journal ranked UF in its number one spot.
This may be due to the fact that, along with its other strengths, UF is also home to a Prostate Disease Center as part of its Department of Urology, College of Medicine.
Its website (take a look) :
https://ufpdc.urology.ufl.edu/Not every university college of medicine has one of those.
So maybe that really did score some points with the WSJ selection committee, and did indeed help vault UF to no. 1 university in its poll.
Or maybe not. A review of the WSJ's selection criteria (mentioned on some websites) would seem to indicate that there were certainly other factors at play.
But it couldn't have hurt, that UF's College of Medicine has such a center. It's great that it does, whether or not it impacted UF's position in some ranking poll.
Anyway, it's nice to see the local school do good, the attention is flattering, and it makes for some fun conversation locally.