I think what shocked me the most in the article was the ability to have schools rating other schools no different than friends rate restaurants. Among the many points the article raises, that seems so dodgy.
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Garbage in, garbage out.
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I agree. There has to be a better way.
Here’s the best nuanced look at the rankings that’s come across my news feed. It addresses the negatives and gaming that schools attempt, but it also looks at their influence and the benefits to schools for doing well.
I don’t think rankings (USNWR or any others are perfect). I do think two things. First, they do measure important metrics of how well a college is doing. Second, they’re influential and schools ignore them at their own peril. Maybe Yale Law can pull out, but Miami University can not. I also question the Miami administration’s sincerity in discounting them because if we were 56 spots above OSU, don’t you think that we’d make sure that every high school counselor in the state was well aware of that?
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I’ll read this as long as you read the link I sent. It’s eye opening. And vomit inducing. But mainly eye opening.
This is the biggest reason we have tumbled down the rankings so dramatically over these past 4 or 5 years:
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Very telling.
I’ll leave this here
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How is UNC not in discussion? Or Duke? I can’t see Duke as an SEC school but the academics of the Big 10 could actually work. Same with UVA.
To me, this is all bluster for the ACC as the media deal goes through 2036! Would cost hundreds of millions for a school to leave.
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Including branches?
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Nope. Those numbers match up exactly with the common data set for the Oxford campus. People can demonize rankings all they want, but those numbers aren’t lying.