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<blockquote data-quote="Buckaineer" data-source="post: 131786156" data-attributes="member: 1428007"><p>Here's a just as valid article discussing problems with US News phony rankings</p><p></p><p>excerpt:</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://blog.prepscholar.com/why-you-shouldnt-trust-us-news-college-rankings[/URL]</p><p></p><p>While US News rankings of colleges purport to be highly accurate, they can be misleading in certain important respects. If you make decisions based purely on the US News college rankings, you might end up being miserable.</p><p></p><p>US News divides its college rankings into four different categories. The categories are based on the 2010 <a href="https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/ranking-category-definitions">Basic Classification</a> system developed by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. <strong>This system has 12 categories of schools, but US News condenses them into four.</strong> ......</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><h3>Schools Must Meet Their Criteria to Be Ranked</h3><p>In fact, <strong>there are roughly 150 colleges that are "unranked"</strong> within the four categories listed above. These schools may be unranked for a variety of reasons—these include:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lack of regional accreditation</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fewer than 200 students enrolled</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Do not use the SAT or ACT in admissions decisions</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Not enough responses on the US News peer assessment survey........</li> </ul><p>On the website for US News, it states, "over time, the ranking model has put less emphasis on input measures of quality—which look at characteristics of the students, faculty and other resources going into the educational process—and more emphasis on output measures, which look at the results of the educational process, such as graduation and freshman retention rates."</p><p>There is no doubt that graduation rates are important, and they do say a lot about the quality of a college. However, they will tell you very little about whether a school is a nice place to spend four years, especially if the school is very academically rigorous and prestigious. Most students will graduate because they're very driven, but that doesn't tell you whether or not they enjoyed their time there.</p><p>The US News rankings are based on hard statistics and information gleaned from academic peer reviews about the quality of the school. While this is very useful in determining how favorably the school is viewed from the heights of the academic Ivory Tower, it isn't always the best metric for conducting your search process.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buckaineer, post: 131786156, member: 1428007"] Here's a just as valid article discussing problems with US News phony rankings excerpt: [URL unfurl="true"]https://blog.prepscholar.com/why-you-shouldnt-trust-us-news-college-rankings[/URL] While US News rankings of colleges purport to be highly accurate, they can be misleading in certain important respects. If you make decisions based purely on the US News college rankings, you might end up being miserable. US News divides its college rankings into four different categories. The categories are based on the 2010 [URL='https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/ranking-category-definitions']Basic Classification[/URL] system developed by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. [B]This system has 12 categories of schools, but US News condenses them into four.[/B] ...... [HEADING=2]Schools Must Meet Their Criteria to Be Ranked[/HEADING] In fact, [B]there are roughly 150 colleges that are "unranked"[/B] within the four categories listed above. These schools may be unranked for a variety of reasons—these include: [LIST] [*]Lack of regional accreditation [*]Fewer than 200 students enrolled [*]Do not use the SAT or ACT in admissions decisions [*]Not enough responses on the US News peer assessment survey........ [/LIST] On the website for US News, it states, "over time, the ranking model has put less emphasis on input measures of quality—which look at characteristics of the students, faculty and other resources going into the educational process—and more emphasis on output measures, which look at the results of the educational process, such as graduation and freshman retention rates." There is no doubt that graduation rates are important, and they do say a lot about the quality of a college. However, they will tell you very little about whether a school is a nice place to spend four years, especially if the school is very academically rigorous and prestigious. Most students will graduate because they're very driven, but that doesn't tell you whether or not they enjoyed their time there. The US News rankings are based on hard statistics and information gleaned from academic peer reviews about the quality of the school. While this is very useful in determining how favorably the school is viewed from the heights of the academic Ivory Tower, it isn't always the best metric for conducting your search process. [/QUOTE]
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