Doug Lederer and the folks at Inside Higher Ed bring us a story today of Clemson University and how it manipulates data to help move itself up in the US News & World Report annual rankings.
These ranking bug me. As an educational consultant, I am constantly having to explain that these rankings are at best [...]
I’ve been enjoying getting to know the Daily Beast. Kathleen Kingsbury writes quite a bit about college admissions.
A recent article highlighted some colleges and universities that are somewhat under the radar screen as far as US News & World Report is concerned, but that are offering innovative programs suited to a variety of students…often at [...]
I recently wrote a post in response to a US News & World Report video explaining that boys have an advantage in the admissions process. Most campuses seek an even balance in genders, even though 60% of all college applicants are women. For more about this phenomenon, see the full US News article on the [...]
Read full post...Sixty percent of college students in America are women; men go to college in fewer numbers. Some campuses are content to reflect this gender gap, but many are not. Most strive for a balance of men and women on their campuses.
The result: boys are favored in the admissions process, sometimes with a 10-20% better admit [...]
Read full post...Today’s issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education features a commentary by John F. Burness, a former administrator at Duke, Cornell, and the University of Illinois. Burness critiques the rankings created by US News & World Report–and by newcomer, Forbes. While the rankings titillate and sell oodles of magazines, they do little to [...]
Read full post...Inside Higher Ed reports in an article today that many colleges–especially liberal arts colleges–are not participating in at least some aspects of the infamous US News & World Report rankings.
The reasons are difficult to discern with certainty, but here are some likely explanations:
According to Robert Morse, who leads the rankings project at US News, it [...]
Read full post...US News & World Report’s infamous rankings system may include new sorts of data, according to an article today in Inside Higher Ed.
They may add survey data collected from 1600 high school counselors, who are being asked to rate colleges on a scale of 1 to 5. This data may–or may not–be used in calculating [...]