Time put together this tool to compare schools by the alumni influence. ISU doesn't match up too well. We really need to get wikipedia fixed up to show off our distinguished alumni. I'm sure we are missing plenty of alumni who are movers and shakers. For those on the list already, they should be more than just a simple description. It's embarrassing how low we rank.
http://time.com/27821/us-college-rankings/
"....we rounded up the 107,408 living people whose Wikipedia profiles list at least one alma mater in the U.S., and scored each according to the length and breadth of his or her page on the site—the bigger the number, the greater the influence (more on that below). Then, we added up each school’s alumni scores to get its overall influence factor."
"For each person in the “Living People†category, TIME used the MediaWiki API to gather four data points: The number of words in the text, the number of internal links to other Wikipedia pages, the number of external links, and the number of categories to which the page belonged."
Here is the ISU alumni list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Iowa_State_University_people
http://time.com/27821/us-college-rankings/
"....we rounded up the 107,408 living people whose Wikipedia profiles list at least one alma mater in the U.S., and scored each according to the length and breadth of his or her page on the site—the bigger the number, the greater the influence (more on that below). Then, we added up each school’s alumni scores to get its overall influence factor."
"For each person in the “Living People†category, TIME used the MediaWiki API to gather four data points: The number of words in the text, the number of internal links to other Wikipedia pages, the number of external links, and the number of categories to which the page belonged."
Here is the ISU alumni list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Iowa_State_University_people
