(Image from the BYU website)
“U.S. News Rankings: BYU one of best values in America”
“BYU gets nod as website’s ‘Best College’ in Utah in state-by-state rankings”
And an interesting item from 2013:
“BYU #21 in an academic ranking of colleges”
So it seems, on the whole, that the Church’s university is doing pretty well, but that there’s still room for improvement. (Ideally, we should be ranked — and should deserve to be ranked — Number One.)
And, despite the sometimes intemperate responses I received to a related post two or three weeks back, I still believe that faithful members of the Church should wish BYU well — since it’s clearly a major focus of the Church’s budget and of the attention of the prophets and apostles who lead the Church and, thus, a significant part of the Church’s overall effort. We should, if we wish the Church to succeed, wish all aspects of the Church to succeed. It’s a matter of simple consistency and logic, which, I readily grant, often seem to go out the window when sports rivalries enter the picture.
Once again, I’m at pains to explain (in terms that I hope nobody will choose to misunderstand yet again), that this doesn’t mean that I believe that people who attend or cheer for other schools are second-class Latter-day Saints. It doesn’t mean that I applaud bad behavior by BYU athletes. It doesn’t mean — given my personal history, how could it mean — that I regard BYU administrators as inerrant, or BYU faculty as flawless.
It surely doesn’t mean that I fear and loathe the University of Utah. I am, for example, perfectly delighted at the honor recently won by University of Utah Health Care:
It neither harms me nor upsets me that the University of Utah is doing well. Why on earth should it?
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