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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...
According to Morse, Princeton’s rankings increased slightly this year in the peer assessment category, while Harvard had a slight decrease, of about 1 percent, in alumni donations...
After years of declining participation by universities in US News’ “peer reputation” surveys, response increased this year from 46 percent to 48 percent. Morse said that he believes the impact of the 2007 boycott on the peer reputation survey by advocacy group The Education Conservancy might be waning...
...Maybe the schools, given tough economic times, thought it was in their best interest to respond because they know we are going to do peer surveys anyway and fighting over a principle that the public doesn’t understand makes no sense for them as institutions,” Morse said...
...premise that since we have a big enough respondent base, enough people have some knowledge of enough schools that we get a statistically significant number of respondents for each school. There are subjective parts of education, parts that can't be measured by just quantitative data. The peer survey tries to capture that part of it. (Read "Google and Microsoft: The Battle Over College E-Mail...