Weird College Ranking Stir Up Controversy at Universities Nationwide.

When it comes to your friends, it is not hard to think of the one who dresses the best, or works the hardest, or even smells the worst. However, consider trying to rank whose hair looks the best in the entire School of Communications or who in the School of Business wears the nicest suits.

Not so easy, is it?

Websites like USnews.com and CampusSplash.com have found it easy to rank colleges on the weirdest things.

Washington D.C. is home to the nation's "Most Hipster" college (Georgetown). The District also hosts two of the best dorms in the U.S., Catholic University's Opus Hall and Unanue House.

While Rutgers University in New Jersey was branded the "Hairiest" university in the nation, John Hopkins was unbelievably named one of 25 schools where you can get a well-respected degree for the least amount of work.

College Rankings are often thought of as a fun way for students to get excited about their school.

"If I see Howard ranked as the best of anything, I brag to my friends at other universities for weeks," said sophomore human development major, Nicole Diljohn.

Many college rankings can hurt a school's reputation. For example in 2010, The Daily Beast deemed Tufts University in Massachusetts, the most dangerous college in the nation. The university was listed on the site to have had 36 forcible rapes, 174 burglaries and more than 100 aggravated assaults. Seeing such staggering numbers poses questions.

The problem is that these rankings are not very reliable. Even if a person has never attended or even visited a college, he or she can vote in the survey's most sites use to rank the colleges.

Some companies conduct these rankings to boost sales. Schick Hydro Razors conducted the ranking that calls Rutgers University the "Hairiest" school in the U.S sites like Campus Splash and The Daily Beast get an increase in site hits because they know that buzz spreads quickly on a college campus.

Howard University is not the "Greenest" like California's Pitzer College, or the "Cheapest" like Kansas' Haskell Indian Nations University, and thankfully not the "Druggiest" like the University of Colorado at Boulder.  However, in 2011 the Huffington Post named Howard the second "Best Dressed" College in the nation, after New York University. According to Women's Wear Daily, Howard students dress in a way that portrays "an air of confidence, a sense of where they are going." Let's see where HU matches up college rankings for 2012.