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Director of Data Research Robert Morse said that while Harvard and Princeton tied overall, the scale tipped slightly in Harvard’s favor in individual category rankings. The report ranks such measures as financial aid, academic quality, student retention, faculty resources, and peer assessment.
Another criticism you often hear is that the rankings encourage schools to add unnecessary perks, such as climbing walls. Is that fair? Some schools or college presidents or boards have used wanting to improve in the rankings as an administrative goal. Some schools are targeting their academic policies toward improving...
What tells you how heavily to weight each factor? Our accumulated judgment. Our rankings aren't social science in the sense that we're not doing peer-reviewed rankings; we're not submitting our conclusions and our weighting system to a group of academics and letting them decide if they...
What keeps you guys from measuring that? There just isn't any data available. The schools themselves aren't measuring learning. What's the difference between your knowledge when you start as a first-year student and when you graduate? What do you feel about the teachers? What's the...
A couple of months ago, it was reported that Clemson University was trying to manipulate the rankings through strategic voting - giving competitors a below-average rating. The university denied the claim. Is that something you try to police? We definitely do. We throw out the two highest ratings and the...