U.S. colleges ranked by number of affiliated Congressmembers
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Re: U.S. colleges ranked by number of affiliated Congressmembers
#2The title is incorrect. This is a ranking of the US news top-25 universities, with an additional tag noting the number of congressmembers associated with the school.
If actually ordered by congressional representation the top-3 would be:
1) Harvard
2) Yale
3) Georgetown
Re: U.S. colleges ranked by number of affiliated Congressmembers
#3The title is incorrect. This is a ranking of the US news top-25 universities, with an additional tag noting the number of congressmembers associated with the school. If actually ordered by congressional representation the top-3 would be: 1) Harvard 2) Yale 3) Georgetown
That sounds about exactly what one would expect. The best and the brightest of Stanford run into tech (mostly based in the Bay Area), and the best and the brightest from Princeton stream into finance and consulting firms (mostly based in New York.)
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#4I think it's interesting (and somewhat saddening) how the engineering schools on the list tend to be outliers in their rank to legislator ratio.
I would assume it's due to the general breakdown of majors at those schools, but it's still unfortunate that STEM majors don't seem to have a good pathway into political activism.
Re: U.S. colleges ranked by number of affiliated Congressmembers
#5The title is incorrect. This is a ranking of the US news top-25 universities, with an additional tag noting the number of congressmembers associated with the school. If actually ordered by congressional representation the top-3 would be: 1) Harvard 2) Yale 3) Georgetown
That's true, the priority of U.S. News and World Report reflects not just the popularity of that particular list, but that most of those schools have fairly canonical names that are easy to text-mine against ("text-mine" in the most crudest form, string matching and some regexing)...this project started out as an attempt to find out how many Congressmembers had reached various levels of higher education (e.g. B.A.,B.S.,MBA, etc) but the descriptions of educational events is too inconsistent in the Congress bioguide (that's even before considering how school names changed over the centuries).
So I decided to make the text-mining easier by just searching for well-known schools. It's possible that a few of the big public prestigious schools, such as University of Michigan, would be near the top. The raw text from each Congressmember's biography can be found in the repo:
https://github.com/dannguyen/congress-colleges/tree/master/d...
It's probably possible to (easily) automate the classification of how many Congressmembers served in the military or passed the bar...but I can save that for another day.
Re: U.S. colleges ranked by number of affiliated Congressmembers
#6The title is incorrect. This is a ranking of the US news top-25 universities, with an additional tag noting the number of congressmembers associated with the school. If actually ordered by congressional representation the top-3 would be: 1) Harvard 2) Yale 3) Georgetown
That sounds about exactly what one would expect. The best and the brightest of Stanford run into tech (mostly based in the Bay Area), and the best and the brightest from Princeton stream into finance and consulting firms (mostly based in New York.)
Princeton has the Wilson school for MPPs, so it's actually pretty big in Government and policy circles. I'm surprised the number isn't higher.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
That sounds about exactly what one would expect. The best and the brightest of Stanford run into tech (mostly based in the Bay Area), and the best and the brightest from Princeton stream into finance and consulting firms (mostly based in New York.)
Princeton has the Wilson school for MPPs, so it's actually pretty big in Government and policy circles. I'm surprised the number isn't higher.
Princeton doesn't have any professional schools so no law degrees, medical degrees, or MBA's to fill the ranks with...
Re: U.S. colleges ranked by number of affiliated Congressmembers
#8The title is incorrect. This is a ranking of the US news top-25 universities, with an additional tag noting the number of congressmembers associated with the school. If actually ordered by congressional representation the top-3 would be: 1) Harvard 2) Yale 3) Georgetown
Even that is flawed because it is not Congressioanl Representation Per Capita.
Not having it be per-capita overvalues high population schools like Harvard.
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#9I think it's interesting (and somewhat saddening) how the engineering schools on the list tend to be outliers in their rank to legislator ratio. I would assume it's due to the general breakdown of majors at those schools, but it's still unfortunate that STEM majors don't seem to have a good pathway into political activism.
> it's still unfortunate that STEM majors don't seem to have a good pathway into political activism.
How many STEM majors want to be involved in politics? That's a complete field/industry change (not the case for law majors).
Re: U.S. colleges ranked by number of affiliated Congressmembers
#10I can think of reasons for a lot of the colleges that produce many more congress members than their rank might lead one to guess (Georgetown is in DC, the military academies seem to make sense).
But why is Wesleyan such an outlier? It is a fine school, of course, but so are many of the others. Do they have some powerhouse poli sci program I am unaware of?