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...Finland's rank in an index rating corruption among politicians in 133 countries, with No. 1 being the "cleanest...
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Holding the top rank in the Eastern Association of Women’s Rowing Colleges (EAWRC), Radcliffe started off the weekend in top form, with the varsity eight boat beating Yale by 2 seconds to reclaim the Case Cup, with UVA one second behind further off the pace...
While less helpful at drawing comparisons between schools, the rankings can, however, provide a compendium of useful information when comparing different schools as it provides a summary of information about the colleges that might be difficult to deduce from glossy institutional brochures. While the rankings can be useful sources of information, it is meaningless to rank all colleges together. It would be more informative for comparative purposes to group together similar colleges. Liberal arts colleges are significantly different from engineering and science colleges that comparing both types using the same criteria is quite inadequate. Creating separate groups for state universities...
...better or worse, applicants and alumni donors use rankings to indicate college quality—a powerful incentive for colleges to improve along the criteria selected by the rankings. But the rankings only lead to improvements for students and colleges if their criteria are meaningful. Often they are to the detriment of educational quality. It is unfortunate when colleges pump resources into football programs at the expense of educational quality in an effort to boost alumni giving rates—a ranking criterion for U.S. News & World Reports. An excessive focus on standard testing scores such...